Our goal is to encourage your children’s natural curiosity and fascination for exploration through play in the natural environment. This inspires opportunities for growth in self-belief and confidence as well as empowering the children to try new skills and develop their ability to manage risks.
The focus of Forest School is to experience the natural world through its ever changing cycles, stepping outside our comfort zones to develop resilience and a deeper understanding of the world around us.
Forest School values a child's ability to learn from the world around them. It gives children time to be free in a natural environment, to explore and discover their own interests. We support and encourage your child to develop a love and connection to our world and to feel valued and part of our kindergarten community.
Our kindergarten offers children regular opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in woodland.
There are huge benefits from being outdoors and the effect it has on our physical and mental well-being. Being outside is hands-on science! What better way to learn about our world than to smell, touch, and feel it all around them?
Being outdoors comes with a unique set of risks (from ticks to falling out of trees). Our forest school site has been assessed as being ‘as safe as is reasonable’. As part of their learning we encourage the children to assess risks; learning to manage risks and adventure has important cognitive benefits such as team-work, motivation, concentration, and perseverance. We all need to take risks to discover the consequences, ‘there can be no progress without risk’
- Roger Putnam.
We follow the 6 forest school principles. To learn more, check out the Forest School Association website.