Are you setting up a Forest School area in your School Grounds? We hope our 5 tips for using school grounds for Forest School programmes can help you plan what you will need.
In an ideal world we’d all be able to take our groups offsite to a natural wild woodland, but unfortunately for many of us there may be barriers to this ideal. I’ve seen good quality Forest School happen within the more domestic environment of school grounds - Forest School is an ethos, not a place. It may take more creativity and resourcefulness from the practitioner to bring in natural materials and create play opportunities.
00:00 - Introduction
00:59 - Tip 1 - Set Up a Base Camp
03:49 - Tip 2 - Consider Shelter
06:17 - Tip 3- Provide Loose Parts
07:50 - Tip 4 - Think about Storage
09:53 - Tip 5 - Develop Your Grounds
14:14 - Outro
14:41 - Poem
A BIG THANK YOU TO:
= ) Little Brown Hare Pre-school - www.blueskyfederation.co.uk/er...
= ) Wild by Nature Forest School - www.wildbynaturenorfolk.co.uk/
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WHAT TO WATCH NEXT?
= ) How to Set up a Forest School - 7 Steps to Start a Forest School Programme - • How to set up a Forest...
= ) Outdoor Learning and Forest School - What’s the Difference? - • Outdoor Learning and F...
= ) Planning Your First Forest School Programme - 7 Tips fir Forest School Planning - • Planning your first Fo...
= ) Exploring Natures Playground - Little Lessons from Lily-Roe - Toddler Wisdom for Forest School - • # 12. Exploring Nature...
LINKS & RESOURCES:
= ) Claim a copy of the ‘Step Outside!’ pack I mention in Tip 5 (with info about how to develop your school grounds for wildlife) - www.buymeacoffee.com/forestsc...
= ) The Woodland Trust (for free trees and advice) - www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/
= ) Learning Through Landscapes (for support developing school grounds for outdoor learning) - ltl.org.uk/
= ) The Wildlife Trusts (have some guidance about gardening for wildlife) - www.wildlifetrusts.org/gardening
= ) Wildlife Watch (the education part of the Wildlife Trusts, has various ideas and activities) - www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/
= ) Blog Post about developing School Grounds by Juliet Robinson, Creative Star Learning - creativestarlearning.co.uk/de...
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All information shared within the Forest School Lou channel is provided in good faith, and based on my own experience of Forest School in the UK. It is not designed to be a replacement for quality, face to face, accredited Forest School training, rather as a resource to support Forest practitioners and those in training. I am a Forest School trainer, but not your Forest School trainer, therefore no training contract exists between us. Ensure you are appropriately qualified and undertake your own risk assessments before undertaking any activity with groups, which takes into account the learners age, ability and level of understanding.