Skip to main content

Forest School

[widgetkit id="59" name="gallery forest school"] 

What is Forest School?

Forest School is an inspirational process, that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees.

Forest School is a specialised learning approach that sits within and compliments the wider context of outdoor and woodland education.

How does Forest School benefit learners?

At Forest School all participants are viewed as:

  • equal, unique and valuable
  • competent to explore & discover
  • entitled to experience appropriate risk and challenge
  • entitled to choose, and to initiate and drive their own learning and development
  • entitled to experience regular success
  • entitled to develop positive relationships with themselves and other people
  • entitled to develop a strong, positive relationship with their natural world

So, what is it all about?

Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world. It uses a range of learner-centred processes to create a community for being, development and learning.

Forest School aims to promote the holistic development of all those involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners by offering learners the opportunity to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.