About
In Nature Education has a strong passion to help tamariki connect with nature through play based learning and exploration. We want to offer a place for the tamaiti to be themselves and follow their interests. We follow several different teaching philosophies however we have ultimately created our own teaching theories and philosophies after having gained a number of qualifications, learning from some of the best and travelling through Europe and Canada to experience some amazing Forest Schools and Nature Education centres and programmes. We have put all of our knowledge and experience together to create and facilitate our unique programmes.
Anna Ormandy
Founder and Facilitator
Kia ora, my name is Anna Ormandy. I am a qualified Primary teacher with a background in environmental education and sustainability. I have a Graduate Diploma in Sustainability and Outdoor Education and a Masters of Education in Teaching and Learning amongst several other qualifications. I have been teaching in various forms for the last six years and am currently working in Early childhood education.
I started my education journey with a goal to work in environmental education however, once in the classroom I found that in order to make a sustainable change to our planet we must first make sustainable changes to human minds. From this, my goal and passion moved towards Social and Emotional Wellbeing. I now believe that in order to create a more sustainable planet we must have mentally healthy, resilient and competent children who have the confidence and capability to look after themselves, their whanau and the planet.
My personal passions are music, dance, yoga, mindfulness, mountain biking, the ocean and of course spending time in taiao.
Yasmin Barnett
Facilitator
Kia Ora I’m Yasmin. I’m originally from Switzerland and have moved with my husband and my lovely two Kids to New Zealand 3 years ago. Since 2013 I’ve been on the path of learning survival and awareness skills. I had the privilege to learn from many great teachers such as Tom Brown Jr from Tracker school, Jürgen Gerzabeck from Earth Living Mastery and Clara Schulke. In 2018 I started teaching children and adults In Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. It’s a great passion of mine to share the knowledge of the skills I’ve learned, which includes many handcraft skills such as leather tanning, fire making, building debris huts but also sensing presences and much more.
I’m looking forward to spending lots of time with you all in the nature and continuing to keep learning and sharing these important skills so that the knowledge won’t get lost and that the lineage of Stalking Wolf can live on.