Woodland Schools

This year the whole school is very lucky to spend time in the woods each week with Anna our peripatetic woodlands teacher. 

• Develop self-regulation skills.
• Cope with and learn from failure.
• Build resilience (the skill of coping with risk and failure).
• Gain a sense of achievement.
• Increase motivation and concentration.
• Improve problem solving.
• Expand their vocabulary and communication skills.
• Feel empowered and have new perspectives.
• Build positive relationships with adults and peers.
• Have overall improved wellbeing and mental health.

Woodland School can increase a child’s confidence and self-esteem through exploration, problem solving, and being encouraged to learn how to assess and take appropriate risks depending on their environment. Children also gain a respect for nature through many small interactions and noticing changes around them through the seasons. Providing the children with an opportunity to appreciate the wider, natural world encourages a responsibility for nature conservation in later life.

"I like creating things"- Eliza

"I like playing hide and seek" - Fern

"I like exploring the woods" - Annie

"I like that we get free time to build the things we want to build" - Ed