Dressing For Forest School Dressing for Forest School in North West England is all about ensuring children are comfortable, safe, and ready to explore the great outdoors. As the autumn and winter months usually bring unpredictable weather, it’s essential to dress in layers to maintain warmth and dryness. This guide will help parents and caregivers […]
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5 Reasons Phenology Is Great For Forest School. About Phenology I discovered phenology through a Facebook post a few months ago. It made sense straight away about things I was already doing. Both within my Forest School practice and with learners. Phenology is the study of seasonal and cyclical natural events, particularly as they relate
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Keep Popping Hands up if you love a good campfire? I definitely do. I am mesmerised by the dancing flames with crackling sparks flying up into the night sky on a clear night in the UK. One way to next level your campfire experience is to cook something. Want to turn your fire into an
Why we urgently need The Nature Premium Society’s relationship with nature requires immediate action and attention. We need to do this from the ground up. Starting with our young people, helping them to ‘grow up greener’. One way to address this is the swift implementation of the Nature Premium. Supported and driven by the
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Built To Remember It is important to remember. Recalling our life experiences, how to eat, get dressed, walk on a slackline and events from our recent past barely scratch the surface of our memory’s significance to the human race. Scientists tell us that neural connections (called synapses) in the brain are responsible for creating memories.
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Reasons Aplenty Without a doubt, I could definitely unearth more than five reasons Forest School is great for children. I may even write in the future about five more reasons. Maybe there’s a series in this? I am getting ahead of myself. Before we delve into the five reasons, here’s a brief snippet about the
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The Benefits Of Making A Woodland Necklace There are lots of good outcomes gained through learners making a woodland necklace. If they complete more of the steps, they gain more benefits. If time is against you, or you have a shorter session planned, adapting the stages still allows learners to finish a piece by the
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Small Achievable Steps To Success When I first learnt how to make a mallet, I no idea what to do or how to do it – this changed when I undertook my Forest School training. One of the best things I learnt during the initial training week was the process of taking small achievable steps
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Weaving It [Just A Little Bit] In Forest School On our first week back at Forest Club we tried some weaving with natural materials in Forest School. Weaving is one of the oldest craft humans have partaken in. Weaving has been practiced for millennia in decorative, material and practical uses. The materials for the session
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Connection I worked a professional photographer for over 12 years in a previous career. By chance one day while visiting Buxton, my wife and I visited the charity shop for the Thomas Theyer Foundation (TTF Website). This was the beginning of my connection to as a customer of the charity shop. I donated a framed
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