Planting our own Forest
22/05/2021
Last Thursday (20.05.2021), was a very significant day for us as we start to become the Forest School that planted its own Forest. Our children began to plant one hundred and five trees that we have aquired from the Woodland Trust. We planted various species (all native) including dog rose, elder, hazel, rowan and crab apple. Our children will be learning much more about these in the future. We will be planting many more trees this year including oak, maple, alder and willow. We aim to plant up to one thousand five hundred trees in the near future as well as a large orchard.
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The benefits of outdoor learning
We passionately believe that children experience a huge range of benefits when they are playing and learning outside in natural environments. The natural world provides an infinite amount more learning resources and opportunities that can ever be provided in a single room or playground. This why we have purchased a completely secure and private nine acre field in Denholme, which it is in the process of developing into our own forest school facility, where children can be taken to enjoy playing and learning all day in a totally natural environment. We are not alone in believing this as a large number of studies show that children benefit from learning outdoors in many ways.