The Sylva Foundation is working in partnership with the British Ecological Society to run a half-day CPD and consultation workshop to establish opportunities and constraints to teaching and learning forest ecology in secondary schools.
An important conference will take place on October 1st concerning the challenges facing our woodlands from environmental change. Organised jointly by the Royal Forestry Society and the Woodland Trust, we are pleased to have been invited to contribute.
We are pleased to announce the launch of myForest for education: the UK’s first ever woodland management planning tool specifically designed for education. Funded by the Patsy Wood Trust, myForest for education has been developed as part of the recently launched myForest Version 3.0.
We are pleased to announce that during Artweeks we will be opening the Sylva Wood Centre to the general public for the first time.
Join Sylva’s education manager Jen Hurst for a Woodland to Wood activity for families at the Oxfordshire Goes Wild! event:- this Saturday at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Join Sylva’s Jen Hurst and Master Craftsman Philip Koomen for a ‘forest to furniture’ talk and tour of the stunning wood craft exhibition on 21st March at the River and Rowing Museum.
Fifteen environmental educators, forest school leaders and teachers met with the Sylva team to develop an innovative follow-on project to OneOak – due to be launched nationally in September 2015.
We had lively and informative debates about management issues such as tree pests and diseases, woodland habitat enhancement, developing areas for children’s play and exploration and wood production. Jen Hurst signposted the trainees to the wealth of organisations and information that exist in the forestry sector for further support and information on woodland management.
Sylva’s education manager is taking an active role in bringing the worlds of education and forestry closer together to revive Britain’s wood culture by working with the Forest Education Network.
“I am not going to train the teachers how to use myForest … I will train the young people to use it so they can do their own woodland management plans!”