Rewild your child — Wild for Words: the garden school where English comes alive

‘Count on your hand 5 things that can fly,’ says Willa Douglas.

The children scatter across the lawn — once a boggy field, now drained and brought into Willa’s magical garden. There’s a stream, a pond, bushes, thickets, woodland, and lots of long grass, tucked away behind the village of Middle Barton in Oxfordshire.

‘I’ve blended 3 essential elements: my wild and beautiful garden, my love of teaching children and my passion for language,’ says Willa Douglas.