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What is Forest School?

Forest School is long-term, structured outdoor education, based on a pupil centred philosophy of learning. The goal is to build confidence, resilience and curiosity alongside knowledge of the forest and forest-based skills. The Forest School ethos has six guiding principles:

    Long-term: Forest School is a long-term process of regular sessions, rather than one-off or infrequent visits; the cycle of planning, observation, adaptation and review links each session.


    Nature: Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of a lifelong relationship between the learner and the natural world.


    Community: Forest School uses a range of learner-centred processes to create a community for being, development and learning.


    Holistic: Forest School aims to promote the holistic development of all involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners.


    Risk: Forest School offers learners the opportunity to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.


    Leadership: Forest School is run by qualified Forest School practitioners, who continuously maintain and develop their professional practice.


Forest School offers learners an opportunity to participate in hands on learning experiences to develop confidence and self-esteem.

Wooden discs arranged on a stump, each with a different forest school principle written in pen.
Learning about the principles in the forest.

I was lucky enough to get involved in Level 2 Forest School training almost by chance. It has been a wonderful experience and this small website is a record of my time on the training.

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