Forest School Skills CPD
Help your learners build their resilience, confidence, mental wellbeing and curiosity through learning outdoors. Understanding more about forest school and outdoor learning will give you the mindset needed to bring these essential experiences into your setting.
Inspirations is a unique outdoors setting, utilising our rich environment and the neighbouring woodland, we have years of experience delivering quality outdoor learning opportunities to children.
Our Forest School Skills for Educational Professionals course offers you the chance to learn more about the forest school ethos and outdoor learning so you can develop your skills and take steps to bring the outdoors into your setting.
Spending one day in a beautiful woodland, the course will cover:
- Introduction to forest school ethos and benefits of outdoor learning
- Understand the importance of nature connection
- Examples of games and activities to use with a class outside
- Introduction to tool use, fires and risky play
- Introduction to reflective practice
Learning with us provides an open and calm learning environment that promotes discussion, conversation, and a relaxed learning pace. You will get to learn about the benefits of learning in nature whilst simultaneously gaining these benefits yourself!
This course is designed for anyone wanting to learn more about forest school and outdoor learning. Whether you are a teacher, TA, early years practitioner, student, or just want to learn more, we welcome you to the woodland.
Our courses may be tailored to your organisation’s needs. If you are wanting to make a group booking for one of our courses, please send an email to daisy@inspirationsnurseries.co.uk
About your trainer
Daisy is a Level 3 forest school leader and has worked within several outdoor education and forest school settings across the charity, public, and private sectors. The open-ended nature of forest school is what captures Daisy’s imagination and she loves how learners continually find new ways to use natural objects.
Daisy has a Masters degree in biodiversity and conservation and will use her detailed knowledge to enhance your learning experience. Through studying nature connection, she is aware of the importance of nature for human wellbeing and is a keen advocate for the role forest school can play in this process.
Inspirations core values are outdoor play, creativity, and self-directed learning. These values reflect forest school pedagogy and show how outdoor learning is at the heart of what we do here at Inspirations.
Want to become a Forest School Leader? Keep an eye on this space… we are in the process of setting up our accredited training programmes to be able to deliver Level 1, 2 and 3 Forest School qualifications.