Forest School/Reggio Emilia
Forests School
The forest school approach embraces the outdoors as a learning environment for children to explore. It first originated in Denmark and was introduced to the UK in the 1950’s. This approach is important as it helps to raise a child’s self-esteem, confidence and also enable problem solving.
Forest school provides a challenging environment for children as it allows children to take risks and accomplish various tasks using their own inactive and problem solving skills. Whereas the natural world provides them with different opportunities that they may not have experienced before.
Forest school is an outdoor education for children where they are permitted to visit local forests and woodland areas where children are given a range of opportunities for learning from hands on experiences; increasing their understanding of the world. The outdoor environment of forest school helps to support children’s development and learning by helping children who struggle within a classroom environment, for example: some children who struggle with maths may find that numbers don’t make sense on paper therefore finding it hard to solve mathematical problems. However, by using an outdoor environment a practitioner may ask a child to go find ‘6 bugs and 8 leaves’ where a child could use those natural items as visual aids for interpreting, calculating and solving mathematical problems.
Forest school benefits children in a number of ways, for example: the outdoor environment of forest school, helps children build their self-esteem and independence as well as enhancing a child’s personal and social skills as it allows children the time and space to explore the outdoors in order to develop their own interests. On the other hand, some children don’t like the outdoor nature environment for example: some children don’t like to get dirty and generally may not like the great deal of exposure when it comes to the outdoors. Therefore a practitioner has to be careful how to
The forest school approach embraces the outdoors as a learning environment for children to explore. It first originated in Denmark and was introduced to the UK in the 1950’s. This approach is important as it helps to raise a child’s self-esteem, confidence and also enable problem solving.
Forest school provides a challenging environment for children as it allows children to take risks and accomplish various tasks using their own inactive and problem solving skills. Whereas the natural world provides them with different opportunities that they may not have experienced before.
Forest school is an outdoor education for children where they are permitted to visit local forests and woodland areas where children are given a range of opportunities for learning from hands on experiences; increasing their understanding of the world. The outdoor environment of forest school helps to support children’s development and learning by helping children who struggle within a classroom environment, for example: some children who struggle with maths may find that numbers don’t make sense on paper therefore finding it hard to solve mathematical problems. However, by using an outdoor environment a practitioner may ask a child to go find ‘6 bugs and 8 leaves’ where a child could use those natural items as visual aids for interpreting, calculating and solving mathematical problems.
Forest school benefits children in a number of ways, for example: the outdoor environment of forest school, helps children build their self-esteem and independence as well as enhancing a child’s personal and social skills as it allows children the time and space to explore the outdoors in order to develop their own interests. On the other hand, some children don’t like the outdoor nature environment for example: some children don’t like to get dirty and generally may not like the great deal of exposure when it comes to the outdoors. Therefore a practitioner has to be careful how to