Drake Primary School and Little Pirates Child Care
Forest School
We are an endorsed provider of Forest Schools and have received our Platinum Certificate from the Woodland Trust School Awards
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The wonder of our Forest School
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Forest Schools at Drake
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Children who take part in Forest Schools are seen as
- Equal, unique and valuable
- Competent to explore and discover
- Entitled to experience appropriate risk and challenge
- Entitled to choose, and to initiate and drive their own learning and development
- Entitled to experience regular success
- Entitled to develop positive relationships with themselves and other people
- Entitled to develop a strong, positive relationship with their natural world.
Forest Schools is an inspirational process that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees. At Drake we
- Develop personal and social skills
- Work through practical problems and challenges
- Use tools to create, build or manage
- Discover how they learn best
- Pursue knowledge that interests them
- Learn how to manage failures
- Build confidence in decision making and evaluating risk
- Develop practical skills
- Understand the benefits of a balanced and healthy lifestyle
- Explore connections between humans, wildlife and the earth
- Regularly experience achievement and success
- Reflect on learning and experiences
- Develop their language and communication skills
- Improve physical motor skills
- Become more motivated
- Improve their concentration skills
Ringing 7 Great Tit chicks with the BTO
Norfolk Forest Schools documents
Information leaflets
Our New Forest Schools Site April 2023
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 - How connecting with nature benefits our mental health
Quotes from parents and volunteers
An introduction to Forest Schools
Activities at Forest School
EYFS and Forest Schools
- EYFS Development Matters and Forest school.xlsx
- Seven key features of effective practice and Forest Schools.docx
Key stage 1 and 2 curriculum and Forest Schools
- Design and technology Curriculum.pdf
- PE Curriculum and Forest Schools.pdf
- Maths and Forest Schools
- Geography Curriculum
- Science curriculum
- English curriculum and Forest Schools
- History and Forest Schools
Forest School and the curriculum
Exploring mud
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Forest Schools and the curriculum - Child Led
Design Technology, food technology and the Arts at Forest Schools
DT and History Year 3 Autumn 2 2023
Science
History
Sir Frederick's Wood
- Sir Fredericks Wood parents info.pdf
- Management Plan Frederick's Wood.pdf
- Risk assessment - Local Woodland site.xlsx
- walk RA.docx.pdf
