Exploring the Outside World

It’s an inspirational process, that offers children regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with  trees.

‘It is a feeling you can’t put into words.’

‘I don’t have ADHD when I`m out in the woods.’

Ensuring that all children experience the cumulative and lasting benefits that the quality of outdoor exploring offers.

Outdoor Exploring

  • takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world.
  • uses a range of learner-centred processes to create a community for being, development and learning.
  • aims to promote the holistic development of all those involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners.
  • offers learners the opportunity to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.
  • is run by qualified Forest School practitioners who continuously maintain and develop their professional practice.