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Welcome to St Clare’s Forest School!
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At St Clare’s RC Primary School, Forest School is a special place where faith and nature come together. Inspired by the teachings of Jesus, we provide a nurturing and inclusive outdoor environment where every child is valued, encouraged and supported.
Through hands-on exploration and purposeful play in nature, children will be supported in developing their confidence, resilience and independence. We foster a spirit of awe, stewardship and respect for all living things.
We guide the children to dream big, believe in themselves and achieve their full potential of the gifts they have been given.
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What is Forest School?
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Forest School is a child-centred educational approach that supports holistic growth through outdoor learning sessions. It encourages play, exploration and appropriate risk-tasking. Some of the activities that children will participate in whilst at Forest School include:
Understanding and using a variety of tools, den building, tent making, creating nature pictures and portraits, developing a deeper understanding of plant and animal types through cross-curricular learning, discovering gardening techniques as well as getting creative with natural resources!
We also support Laudato Si’ which allows St Clare’s to learn and support our Planet; being able to understand topics such as Climate Change and how we can take action to support our Planet.
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The Core Beliefs
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At Forest School, we have core beliefs that children should be able to experience:
- Everyone to be treated equally and find their uniqueness
- To be able to explore and discover
- To experience appropriate risk-taking and challenge
- To initiate and drive their own learning
- To be able to experience regular success
- To develop positive relationships with themselves, others and the natural world
Our Year So Far...
So far this year, Year 5 have been practising using handsaws and building tents! Year 1 created nature portraits of somebody that they loved! Year 3 built homes for gnomes they found living in our Forest School!
