Bring the best outdoor education to your school - what will you choose?
WORKSHOPS FOR CLASS GROUPS
We can provide workshops run by Linda Symons - these can be booked as a one off experience for class groups or as a series curated so the whole school can benefit at age appropriate levels. We provide all tools and any specialist resources.
We'll work with you to meet the needs of your school and can link our sessions to the curriculum of the year group.
Please contact us to discuss pricing.
TRAINING FOR TEACHERS
If you are interested in bringing Forest School benefits to your school as a longer term strategy, we can offer you training for teacher to become Forest School leaders.
This sharing of skills and knowledge will empower teachers to expand the educational offer of the school and learn new skills for their own CPD.
AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS
We can provide after school clubs that will incorporate a lot of the activities we run on our Forest School Holiday Camps.
These are subject to availability and are available to primary schools in the following areas:
Muswell Hill, Highgate, Crouch End, Bounds Green, Southgate, Palmers Green, Friern Barnet, Woodside Park, Finchley, North Finchley, East Finchley, West Finchley.
So what can you expect in our workshops?
Engaging with nature has huge benefits to children’s physical and mental health. It improves their cognitive skills as well as teaching them to problem-solve, encourages use of imagination, teaches respect for the environment, and how to work as part of a team.
Children explore the environment using science, maths, art and communication to engage in new and exciting activities.
Forest school activities promote well being and confidence while teaching children important life skills as well as physically getting them moving around outside.
Some of the activities we offer in the workshops:
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Learning about the elder tree and making jewellery or other artefacts from elder sticks.
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Hapa Zome – this is the Japanese art of pounding leaves and flowers with stones to make beautiful designs on cloth.
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Clay ornaments – children will learn how to make pots and other woodland animals using clay and appropriate tools
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Making medals, leaf press, and more
Before using any tools, children will be provided with safety gloves and taught basic tool safety. We will provide all tools and specialist resources.
Children will be taught to use junior hacksaws, whittle with potato peelers, drill holes with palm drills, as well as other tools used at Forest School.
All activities are fully supervised and a risk assessment is provided.
Forest school workshops are led by Linda Symons. Linda is an Early Years teacher as well as a qualified Forest School Leader. She also runs Forest School holiday camps for primary school age children.
Shelter building
A stick hospital scene created while learning about health and people who help us
