In a report published today, educators and woodland owners from across the UK provide much-needed snapshot of how they are bringing children closer to nature through Forest School practice and outdoor learning. This report reveals how practitioners overcome significant barriers to bringing children closer to nature and how this can be sustained.
We want everyone with an interest in bringing children closer to nature to take part in an important national survey which will inform practice and policy.
We are pleased to offer two half-day workshops in the autumn, designed for Forest School Leaders and any educators interested in learning new skills with wood.
“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!”
As a direct outcome of our partnership with the FSA we have launched the myForest for Educators at the FSA National Conference in Essex.
Our joint fundraising campaign with the Forest School Association, via the crowdfunding portal Indiegogo, ended recently – raising a total of £1250.
Two charities promoting environmental education have formed a partnership to tackle ‘nature-deficit disorder’ in Britain’s children. Young people today often are disconnected from the natural world – a condition coined by American author Richard Louv[1] as ‘nature-deficit disorder’ – leading to multiple issues affecting physical and mental wellbeing, fear of the outdoors, and fundamentally…