Forest School is an opportunity for children to experience nature and the outdoor environment in a safe and secure setting.

In Forest School, children learn to success in areas of: confidence, team building, independence, speaking and language, through engaging tasks. Each session helps develop children's motor skills with hands on activities and helps develop numeracy skills.

Children learn best from first-hand experience. The children learn the rules of Forest School, as they do in the classroom, and recite them each week and agree to follow them:

• Stranger Danger
• Good Listening
• No picking things from the trees
• No putting fingers or other things in their mouths
• No leaving the site unsupervised
• Emergency procedures

Each academic school year, all children from EYFS attend a series of ten Forest School sessions in our onsite Forest School. These are planned to fit the seasons of the year.

In the winter months children will need:

• Woolly hat
• Gloves
• Wellies
• Waterproof coats and trousers (supplied by the school)

In the summer months children will need:

• Sun hat
• Long sleeved top
• Waterproof trousers (supplied by the school)
• Wellies (to protect children's ankles)