Woodland Schools
This year the whole school is very lucky to spend time in the woods each week with Anna our peripatetic woodlands teacher.
During Woodland School children can:
- 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