Every scraped knee, every wobbly log, every climb up a tree… comes with a lesson.
This guide helps you understand how supported risk teaches
confidence, problem-solving, and resilience in ways no classroom ever could.
Risk at Forest School
A practical, research-backed guide to encouraging safe, purposeful exploration outdoors.
What You’ll Learn:
- Risk vs. hazard: How to spot the difference
- How to guide children without hovering
- What science says about risky play and brain development
- A printable risk-assessment reflection sheet
Why Children Need Supported Risk
Risk doesn’t mean danger. It means growth. When children are trusted to try, fail, and try again (with the right support), they don’t just learn survival skills. They learn life skills.
This guide helps you support them with confidence, structure, and empathy.
Re-Assess Risk: Let Children Be Curious And Explore
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About Inspirations Nurseries
and Forest School
Inspirations Nurseries and Forest School offers childcare with a difference. As an organisation, we have developed and refined our practice over 20 years to create the most welcoming, inclusive, and beneficial space for children’s development.
Throughout our 20-year history, we have adapted our approach to align with our ethos, integrating themes from the Reggio Emilia approach with Forest School pedagogy.
Our role as a training provider is to deliver high quality accredited and non-accredited training to individuals wishing to invest in their role as an educator. Our focus is accredited level 3 forest school leader training.
We deliver our training as part of the Cambium Sustainable network of trainers and are members of the Early Years Alliance and NDMA.
We’ve inspired other parents and educators to adapt to the Forest School Lifestyle.
Ellie
“I attended the forest school training course with Daisy in May this year (2025). We endured two weeks of absolutely incredible training! The depth in which you go to, in order to understand the who, why, what, where, and when is eye-opening. I loved every minute of this training course and how ‘hands-on’ you really are. We were an intimate group of two with our trainer, which made it even better. We built dens, tree swings, and even cooked a three-course meal over the fire. These are memories I will never forget and have already started implementing at work, the children are besotted with forest school. By far the best training course I have been on in my nine years of early years training! worth every penny.”
I really appreciated the forest school training week – it was inspiring, practical, and gave me so many new ideas to bring back to our setting. The hands-on approach and supportive atmosphere made it such an enjoyable learning experience.
Ready to rethink risk?
Learn how to introduce healthy risk in Forest School environments, confidently and responsibly.