What we do
What is Forest School?
What we do
At The Wilderness Grove, our sessions provide a safe, secure way for children to explore nature and the way they learn through play.
Children, young people and adults are given real freedom to explore and discover in an exciting woodland environment.
Activities can include:
Discovering hidden woodland characters, chasing and capturing gam
At The Wilderness Grove, our sessions provide a safe, secure way for children to explore nature and the way they learn through play.
Children, young people and adults are given real freedom to explore and discover in an exciting woodland environment.
Activities can include:
Discovering hidden woodland characters, chasing and capturing games, role playing, den building, wild camping, creating mud faces and leaf art, storytelling, swinging and climbing trees, fire lighting, tree and wildlife identification, playing with the mud kitchen, bug hunting, exploring woodland habitats, tool work and knots, water and tree painting and stick play.
Older participants might want to learn survival skills, carve a spoon, create unique woodlands crafts or simple enjoy the surroundings.
We run a variety of sessions for children and adults throughout the week in our woodland.
We deliver bespoke educational packages and Alternative Provision to support learning and wellbeing.
Please come and see what we are all about.
Our Aims
What is Forest School?
What we do
- To support the social and emotional development of individuals through play in a natural outdoor environment.
- To support the physical and mental development of children through active games, tasks and problem solving activities.
- To build self-confidence and self-esteem in children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- To give people the skill
- To support the social and emotional development of individuals through play in a natural outdoor environment.
- To support the physical and mental development of children through active games, tasks and problem solving activities.
- To build self-confidence and self-esteem in children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- To give people the skills and tools to succeed and be happy.
- To encourage children and families to connect with nature through play and exploration, so that they might be the ones to protect it in the future.
- To create a haven for wildlife within our local community.
- To create a safe and engaging therapeutic environment for all.
What is Forest School?
What is Forest School?
What is Forest School?
Forest Schools are nature-based communities where trained practitioners nurture learner led exploration and discovery, nurturing meaningful experiences for positive lifelong impacts.
Wellbeing is the foundation of our practice and through recognising the social, emotional and physical needs of participants we provide the guidance and facil
Forest Schools are nature-based communities where trained practitioners nurture learner led exploration and discovery, nurturing meaningful experiences for positive lifelong impacts.
Wellbeing is the foundation of our practice and through recognising the social, emotional and physical needs of participants we provide the guidance and facilitation for our time in nature.
Through creating learner inspired experiences based on exploration and discovery, we recognise opportunities to mentor holistic growth over the course of long-term programmes.
In developing the community, we nurture a culture based on collaboration and of embracing challenge so that we can allow, over time, for the blossoming of character, resilience and empathy, and for a greater sense of connection, with nature and for our shared future.
Preventing the spread COVID 19
How we are stopping the spread
Transmission rates are known to be significantly lower outside.
The entire Forest School experience can happen outside.
Outdoor hand washing facilities are provided onsite in multiple locations.
Customers will be asked to bring individual hand towels to the site to dry hands. These will be taken home by the individuals and laundered please.
Any equipment used is quarantined or cleaned in line with national guidance.
There is maximum of 2 sessions per day in the woods to enable cleaning of equipment between groups.
Customers attending The Wilderness Grove will be asked to attend regular sessions to minimise contact between different groups.
Customers will be asked not to attend if they feel unwell with COVID 19 symptoms.
If at anytime, the Forest School leader starts to fell unwell, she will leave immediately, go home and monitor their condition.
If symptoms persist beyond 24 hours, they will get a COVID-19 test undertaken and inform the school and any other persons they has been in contact with, of the outcome.
Contact details will be asked for and used as part of "Track and Trace".
