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Forest School is a child-centred inspirational learning process, that offers
opportunities for holistic growth through regular sessions. It is a long-term
program that supports play, exploration and supported risk taking. It develops
confidence and self-esteem through learner inspired, hands-on experiences in a
natural setting. Forest School has a developmental ethos shared by thousands of
trained practitioners around the world, who are constantly developing their
learning styles and skills to support new and imaginative learners. Its roots
reach back to the open-air culture, friluftsliv, or free air life, seen as a way
of life in Scandinavia where Forest School began. It arrived in the UK in 1993
and has grown from strength to strength. The process helps and facilitates more
than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally,
spiritually, physically and intellectually. It creates a safe, non-judgemental
nurturing environment for learners to try stuff out and take risks. Forest
School inspires a deep and meaningful connection to the world and an
understanding of how a learner fits within it.
