Forest School Library Membership

This Monthly Membership gives educators like you access to all my online forest school resources. Membership is paid monthly so you can stay as long as you like, cancel at any time.

 You’re a forest school trainee looking for inspiration for your portfolio, or a qualified level 3 practitioner wanting to top up your knowledge and build your confidence.

Perhaps you’re curious and want to discover the steps and skills you need to teach outside, without committing to a qualification.

If any of the above sound like you, this monthly membership is for you!

Monthly Membership includes:

  • Instant access to an in-depth, forest school library

  • 19 modules containing 300+ videos and additional written materials with more than a decade’s-worth of knowledge and experience behind it

  • Practical guidance on how to structure and deliver an outdoor learning programme

  • Advice on curriculum-linked sessions and how to record evidence

  • Done-for-you paperwork including outdoor policies and procedures, medical consent forms, photographic consent forms and example risk assessments

  • Documents you can use in your own programme such as risk assessment templates, Environmental Impact Assessments, daily site checks and more

  • Tips on decolonising education and how to honour black and Indigenous cultures in your sessions, wherever you are in the world

  • All you need to know about the health and safety element of running outdoor sessions, including in-depth risk assessment, risk-benefit and dynamic risk assessment training

  • Volunteering and working with volunteers

  • Ideas of activities and crafts that you can use in your sessions

  • Introduction to birdsong (UK & Europe)

  • Flora and fauna identification skills including modules specific to UK & Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America

  • Advice on how to minimise and manage animal encounters with dogs, snakes and spiders

  • Opportunity to learn practical skill such as tool use, spoon carving and fire skills

Please make sure that you have read my Terms and Conditions before you sign up to the membership. No refunds are given outside of your statutory rights. .

↟ Modules ↟

 

  • An Introduction to Forest School: The ethos of forest school and what it looks like in real life

  • Learning Theories for the Outdoors: Theories that work outside and how you can put the ideas behind them into practice so that you see results

  • Identifying Wildlife: A guide to how to identify flora and fauna as well as advice on how to minimise and manage animal encounters with dogs, snakes and spiders

  • Temperate Forests: Learn about what trees grow in the temperate zones of the world including modules specific to UK & Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America, along with the traditional and indigenous uses, names and stories of each tree

  • Environmental Stewardship: How to run a sustainable programme that has a positive impact on our environment

  • Managing Risk: in-depth risk assessment, risk-benefit and dynamic risk assessment training with examples and risk assessment templates

  • Paperwork & Planning: Important things to do before you venture outside with a group

  • Fire skills: Everything you need to know about the safe siting, lighting and management of a campfire

  • Play & Holistic Development: Learn about the importance of play and the positive effect it has on learning and development

  • Behaviour, Mental Health & SEN: Managing both positive and negative behaviours outdoors and how a green environment can be beneficial for mental health

  • Logistics of Outdoor Learning: How do you get a group of excited children outside? What happens when they need the toilet? What should you take with you? Who should you take with you?

  • Delivering a Session: How to deliver an outdoor session, the importance of ritual plus advice on working with volunteers

  • Activities Collection: Beautiful ideas of activities you can do with your groups

  • Dens & Shelter Building: How to build dens (AKA cubbies or forts) safely using found natural materials

  • Birdsong: A guide to 21 common birds ok UK & Europe (with interesting general introductions for people outside of those areas!)

  • Tools: How to use a variety of hand tools safely and with various groups

  • Spoon carving: How to whittle your very own spoon from a branch of wood

 Here's what happens when you become a member:

  1. You'll receive an excited email from me welcoming you and giving you your login details

  2. You get immediate access to all the materials so that you can get started right away

  3. Your membership will renew on the same day each month until you cancel