Why we are moving away from being a 'Forest School'.
To drive a vision forward you have to believe in the concept you are promoting. When you start to lose that faith in that concept so does the passion and drive to promote it within your work. Whenever I find myself reminiscing about my childhood with people of a similar age, we reflect on the opportunities we had as children to wander off alone and explore with our friends. Not a grown up in sight. We would be out first thing with jam butties in our backpacks, and not come back until tea time. Our days were spent exploring woodlands, building sites; parks and playing out in the street, testing those boundaries and taking risks. Unfortunately today these opportunities are a rarity for children and I wonder what their memories of the outdoors will be when they are older? Therefore, my sessions are designed with this in mind, especially for my older children. I have created a space whereby children have the opportunity to engage with their peers, in a safe confined space withou