Welcome to Forest School. We are really lucky to have a fully qualified Forest School practitioner at our school. All children will have the opportunity to have a number of forest school lessons each year, and also to use the outdoor resources during free play. We love learning outdoors!

1. Forest School is a long-term process of regular weekly sessions.
2. Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural environment to develop a lifelong relationship between the learner and the natural world.
3. Forest School encourages children to take risks.
4. Forest School aims to promote holistic development: resilience, confidence, independence and creativity.
5. Forest School has to be run by a qualified Forest School practitioner.   

Here at Lawrence View we use our woodland area within the school grounds. We are very fortunate to have a large green space with newly planted trees. We encourage children to be out in all weathers with the appropriate clothing.

This includes:

• Waterproofs
• Comfortable trousers(joggers)
• T-shirt, light and long sleeved
• Jumper
• Fleecy jacket
• One pair of socks
• Wellies
• Depending on what time of year, it can vary what the child may need, e.g. sun hat during summer and hat, gloves and scarves during winter.

We have many of these items in school as 'spares'  however we encourage children to bring their own for each session.

During the Forest School sessions, we will take part in a lot of different activities.

These may include:

As the children take part in the above activities, we hope to encourage the children to develop a range of skills:

• Independence
• Imagination
• Risk taking
• Initiate learning
• Develop lifelong skills
• Be healthy
• Encourage well-being
• To enjoy and achieve
• Be creative
• Gain confidence