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FOREST SCHOOL LEARNING
Like Montessori, Forest School learning is based around the interests of that individual child. The two methods of learning complement and support each other.
The idea of Forest School education originated in Scandinavia and is now being used all over the UK. It allows children to learn and develop in an outdoor environment independently and at their own pace. 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 can be applied to all ages and abilities and can be linked to the National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage at the same time providing an even further and richer learning experience.
We offer tailored forest school sessions during the afternoon (1.00pm - 3.00pm) to local primary Schools, We have delivered sessions for Southfield Primary School and Orchard House School. Please email katie.greentwigs@gmail.com if you would be interested in facilitating this for your School.
After School Clubs & Holiday camps
We currently operate after School clubs on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. We offer pick up from Southfield Primary School, but children are welcome to join from other Schools; parents will have to drop their child off at around 3.30pm.
Please click below to make a booking and for more information on our clubs and holiday camps.
“Why is the woodland locality as effective as it is? It comes down to the enormous diversity of natural materials (different shapes and sizes easily to hand), the nurturing ambience found beneath a canopy of trees, and a context which requires solutions that work rather than theories that have no grounding in actual experience. It is that actual experience that is the key to learning which sticks and stays, rather than that lost with time.” - Patrick Harrison, Forest School Teacher and Trainer