About Little Foresters 

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Little Foresters is a community Interest company. We run with the support of several funders. This allows us to keep our costs low and offer a two-tiered system of payment. Any profit we make is invested back into the business.

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The forest school approach and benefits:

 

• Forest School activities provide opportunities to promote physical, cognitive, social and emotional development at any age.

• We believe being in green spaces to be hugely beneficial to the well being of both adults and children. 

• Many children who find the confines of school a challenge, excel at Forest School. 

• Forest School gives young people the chance to see changing seasons and weather first hand. It teaches them life skills of preparation and planning and how to manage adversity. 

• Forest School teaches young people to manage risk. We enable young people to use tools safely, to make fires safely and cook over the fire.

• We also teach and foster problem solving skills, allow young people to make decisions and make choices.

• We believe that with correct clothing, we can be outside in all sorts of different weathers, with the exceptions of high winds, storms or extreme heat. 

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Sessions have a theme - like the seasons, or weather, using a particular tool, a game or particular skill. We believe in child led learning so will offer activities but also follow and build on the interests of the children.

 

Forest school can be a particular benefit to children:

 

• With additional needs or disabilities 

• Children With behavioural problems, social emotional difficulties, low self-esteem

• Those at risk of exclusion

• Those who would benefit from more physical activity

• Poor attenders

• And anyone who might otherwise have limited access to the outdoors

 

"We believe in the value of making or doing something, rather than an end product."

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