{"id":8866,"date":"2018-05-01T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2018-05-01T09:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T08:02:21","slug":"an-introduction-to-forest-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/an-introduction-to-forest-school\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to forest school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Creating forest school standards, benefits for children, and the future of the forest school movement \u2014 Sarah Lawfull provides a helpful introduction to forest school.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7982\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7982\" class=\"wp-image-7982 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Willowcroft-children_Sep2016-300x212.png\" alt=\"Willowcroft children at the Future Forest September 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willowcroft children at the Future Forest September 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Forest school has been growing steadily in the UK and abroad since staff from Bridgwater College headed out to see the excellent examples in Denmark in 2003. Building on a strong tradition of outdoor learning and holistic approaches to education, forest school has been a grass roots movement. The rich variety of woodland habitats in the UK is matched only by the wide variety of approaches offered by members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestschoolassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest School Association<\/a> (FSA).<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlandtrust.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/forest-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodland Trust&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sarah Lawfull, Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wherethefruitis.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Where the fruit is<\/em><\/a>, runs her environmental education business from the Sylva Wood Centre, making good use of our new forest school area to &#8216;train the trainers&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating forest school standards, benefits for children, and the future of the forest school movement \u2014 Sarah Lawfull provides a helpful introduction to forest school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Willowcroft-children_Sep2016.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}