Case Study - A field guide for taking the class outside
Rewyld for Schools is a teacher's field guide for leading weekly outdoor mindfulness with a class. Prompt-based, not step-by-step, following the actual seasons, with zero teacher prep. A Rewyld × Plantenvironment collaboration, now in pilot with London primary schools.
- Client
- Rewyld for Schools
- Year
- Service
- Product strategy, curriculum design, full-stack development
Overview
There is a teacher who knows their class would be calmer, more awake, more themselves after twenty minutes outside, and who never quite gets there, because planning it is one more thing on a list that is already too long. Rewyld for Schools is built for that teacher.
It is a field guide, not a student app. Each week is a single question the teacher takes outside, rather than a lesson plan to prepare. The weeks follow the real seasons and term time, so bulbs and soil come in autumn and blossoms and seeds come in spring.
The free version is one screen with no login. A teacher visits a URL and sees this week's prompt, the senses it draws on, and a play button. The premium school tool adds a four-step practice the teacher leads aloud, Arrive, Notice, Feel, Thank, along with seasonal notes on what is happening on the land outside the classroom window, reflection prompts for the circle back indoors, and a private teacher journal.
We built Rewyld for Schools with Plantenvironment for London primary classrooms. We designed the seasonal curriculum against the National Curriculum from Reception to Year 6, shaped it through a seven-week pilot in late 2025, and built the free prompt page and the premium tool on Next.js. It is in pilot with London primary schools now.
How we solved it
Zero prep is a real constraint, not a slogan. If a teacher has to choose the week or set anything up, we have already lost them. So the tool decides for them: it reads the date against both the season and the school term and lands the right prompt on its own, which meant designing a curriculum that stays coherent whether a class starts it in September or joins halfway through the year. The free page carries the same promise with no login at all, so a teacher who hears about it can open a link during break and be outside with their class the same afternoon. The seven-week pilot is what told us which prompts actually worked in a real playground, and we cut and reshaped from there.
What we built
- Product & curriculum strategy
- Next.js platform
- Free weekly prompt page
- Location-aware seasonal notes
- Guided audio practice
- In pilot with primary schools
- London
- Outdoor practice
- 10-15 min
- Minutes of teacher prep
- 0
- Seasons of prompts
- 4