Forest school
Forest School is a timetabled curriculum subject, up to and including, year 9. Thereafter, it is an option.
Activities take place in our Forest School area at the Surrey Wildlife Trust and in the adjourning woodland.
Currently the school has 3 trained Forest School practitioners.
“Young people are intensely curious and should be given the opportunity to explore the world around them.”
Forest School underpins our outdoor learning ethos, offering students an opportunity to develop their comfortable learning styles in a nurturing, process-driven education system.
Beyond the inevitable transference of these skills into the classroom and everyday life, the children cultivate a peaceful appreciation of nature and everything that depends upon it.
The harmony of an embedded system of respect, and the success the children derive from process learning - combined with the safety and sanctity of the forest, delivers the wellbeing and the motivation that our children need to continue their journey through the education system and out into the world beyond.
Within our Forest School program, children will develop an intuitive attitude to risk assessments, allowing them to access and safely operate within the forest. They will learn to work with a multitude of tools and manage campfires. Other activities that are commonplace within Forest School sessions include: rope work, making shelters and creating objects like swings, chairs etc.
Beyond this, sponsoring creativity plays an important part in every session. Students are encouraged to develop this mind-set through games and design, using forest materials.