How can you use the Forest School ethos for the benefit of all your students?
Forest School is now being used with a wide range of different age groups and in many different settings, and it can address issues such as obesity, public health and social wellbeing. This book includes case studies that will help to demonstrate how to run Forest School sessions with:
- children in older primary classes
- secondary schools
- children in urban environments
- special schools
- young people in residential homes
- school refusers
- young people who have been excluded
- adults with autistic-spectrum disorders
- family centres.
Anyone interested in how to implement the Forest School ethos in their learning environment will be enthused and inspired by this book.
Sara Knight is an experienced early years educator and Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University. She is a trained Forest School practitioner and author of Forest Schools and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years and Risk and Adventure in Early Years Outdoor Play (both published by SAGE).
Introduction: Setting the Scene - Sara Knight
PART ONE: NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL-BASED FOREST SCHOOL
Breaking through Concrete: The Emergence of Forest School in London - Katherine Milchem
Forest School: A Whole-School Approach - Clare Lamb
Developing Practice and Delivering a Forest School Programme for Children Identified as Gifted and Talented - Tracey Maciver
Using Forest School to Make the Transition to High School - Alisdair Horning
PART TWO: FOREST SCHOOL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS
Supporting Emotional and Social Development in Forest School with Adolescents - Clare Neenan with Sara Knight
Forest School: An Alternative Curriculum - Ross Evans
Learning from Working with Disaffected Year 10 Pupils - Rich Sylvester
Maintaining the Forest School Ethos while Working with 14 to 19-Year-Old Boys - Jon Cree
PART THREE: FOREST SCHOOL AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PARTICULAR NEEDS
Removing Barriers: Getting Children with Physical Challenges into the Woods - Fiona Hopkins
SEALs in the Woods! - Xavier Elonquin and Tina Hutchinson
Forest School and Looked-after Children - Rebecca Wicks
Autism, Art and Nature as Relational Aspects of Forest School - Kevin Burrows
PART FOUR: USING FOREST SCHOOL STRATEGICALLY
Addicts and Forest School - Mike Brady
Forest School for Families - Lucy Partridge and Wendy Taylor
Forest School Countywide: A Norfolk Perspective - Louise Ambrose
Edinburgh's Forest School Partnership Project 'Building Local Capacity' - Jenny Watters
Conclusion - Sara Knight
