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What’s in it for you?

**Hands-On Training**: Learn the essentials of outdoor learning, nature-based education, and child-led discovery from experienced leaders in the field.
**Practical Skills**: Gain the skills to create engaging, safe, and transformative outdoor experiences. Learn about fire-lighting, shelter-building, tool use, and environmental stewardship.
**Child Development Focus**: Understand how to support confidence, resilience, and teamwork in children, using nature as a powerful learning environment.
**Certification**: On completion, you’ll earn an accredited certification to lead Forest School sessions, opening doors to exciting opportunities in outdoor education.

Who Should Join?
This course is perfect for:
– Educators looking to expand their teaching methods
– Nature enthusiasts who want to share their passion
– Youth leaders and childcare professionals
– Anyone eager to foster a deeper connection between children and nature

Why Choose Us?
**Expert Trainer**: Learn from skilled Forest School professional. A Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer with 30 years outdoor experience.
**Community**: Join a network of like-minded individuals passionate about outdoor learning.
Ready to start your journey?
Explore, inspire, and lead with confidence. Join today to become a Forest School Leader and start changing lives—one forest at a time.

For more information and to register, visit https://coastandforest.co.uk/contact-us/

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Do you have a passion for nature and a calling to inspire young minds? Take the next step in your journey with our **Forest School Leader Course**—where education meets adventure!

What’s in it for you?

**Hands-On Training**: Learn the essentials of outdoor learning, nature-based education, and child-led discovery from experienced leaders in the field.
**Practical Skills**: Gain the skills to create engaging, safe, and transformative outdoor experiences. Learn about fire-lighting, shelter-building, tool use, and environmental stewardship.
**Child Development Focus**: Understand how to support confidence, resilience, and teamwork in children, using nature as a powerful learning environment.
**Certification**: On completion, you’ll earn an accredited certification to lead Forest School sessions, opening doors to exciting opportunities in outdoor education.

Who Should Join?
This course is perfect for:
– Educators looking to expand their teaching methods
– Nature enthusiasts who want to share their passion
– Youth leaders and childcare professionals
– Anyone eager to foster a deeper connection between children and nature

Why Choose Us?
**Expert Trainer**: Learn from skilled Forest School professional. A Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer with 30 years outdoor experience.
**Community**: Join a network of like-minded individuals passionate about outdoor learning.
Ready to start your journey?
Explore, inspire, and lead with confidence. Join today to become a Forest School Leader and start changing lives—one forest at a time.

For more information and to register, visit https://coastandforest.co.uk/contact-us/

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We are really pleased to announce spring Forest School training in Somerset hosted by the Somerset Earth Science Centre.

**Become a Certified Forest School Leader**

Do you have a passion for nature and a calling to inspire young minds? Take the next step in your journey with our **Forest School Leader Course**—where education meets adventure!

What’s in it for you?

**Hands-On Training**: Learn the essentials of outdoor learning, nature-based education, and child-led discovery from experienced leaders in the field.
**Practical Skills**: Gain the skills to create engaging, safe, and transformative outdoor experiences. Learn about fire-lighting, shelter-building, tool use, and environmental stewardship.
**Child Development Focus**: Understand how to support confidence, resilience, and teamwork in children, using nature as a powerful learning environment.
**Certification**: On completion, you’ll earn an accredited certification to lead Forest School sessions, opening doors to exciting opportunities in outdoor education.

Who Should Join?
This course is perfect for:
– Educators looking to expand their teaching methods
– Nature enthusiasts who want to share their passion
– Youth leaders and childcare professionals
– Anyone eager to foster a deeper connection between children and nature

Why Choose Us?
**Expert Trainer**: Learn from skilled Forest School professional. A Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer with 30 years outdoor experience.
**Community**: Join a network of like-minded individuals passionate about outdoor learning.
Ready to start your journey?
Explore, inspire, and lead with confidence. Join today to become a Forest School Leader and start changing lives—one forest at a time.

For more information and to register, visit https://coastandforest.co.uk/contact-us/

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We are really pleased to announce spring Forest School training in Somerset hosted by the Somerset Earth Science Centre.

**Become a Certified Forest School Leader**

Do you have a passion for nature and a calling to inspire young minds? Take the next step in your journey with our **Forest School Leader Course**—where education meets adventure!

What’s in it for you?

**Hands-On Training**: Learn the essentials of outdoor learning, nature-based education, and child-led discovery from experienced leaders in the field.
**Practical Skills**: Gain the skills to create engaging, safe, and transformative outdoor experiences. Learn about fire-lighting, shelter-building, tool use, and environmental stewardship.
**Child Development Focus**: Understand how to support confidence, resilience, and teamwork in children, using nature as a powerful learning environment.
**Certification**: On completion, you’ll earn an accredited certification to lead Forest School sessions, opening doors to exciting opportunities in outdoor education.

Who Should Join?
This course is perfect for:
– Educators looking to expand their teaching methods
– Nature enthusiasts who want to share their passion
– Youth leaders and childcare professionals
– Anyone eager to foster a deeper connection between children and nature

Why Choose Us?
**Expert Trainer**: Learn from skilled Forest School professional. A Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer with 30 years outdoor experience.
**Community**: Join a network of like-minded individuals passionate about outdoor learning.
Ready to start your journey?
Explore, inspire, and lead with confidence. Join today to become a Forest School Leader and start changing lives—one forest at a time.

For more information and to register, visit https://coastandforest.co.uk/contact-us/

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We are really pleased to announce spring Forest School training in Somerset hosted by the Somerset Earth Science Centre.

**Become a Certified Forest School Leader**

Do you have a passion for nature and a calling to inspire young minds? Take the next step in your journey with our **Forest School Leader Course**—where education meets adventure!

What’s in it for you?

**Hands-On Training**: Learn the essentials of outdoor learning, nature-based education, and child-led discovery from experienced leaders in the field.
**Practical Skills**: Gain the skills to create engaging, safe, and transformative outdoor experiences. Learn about fire-lighting, shelter-building, tool use, and environmental stewardship.
**Child Development Focus**: Understand how to support confidence, resilience, and teamwork in children, using nature as a powerful learning environment.
**Certification**: On completion, you’ll earn an accredited certification to lead Forest School sessions, opening doors to exciting opportunities in outdoor education.

Who Should Join?
This course is perfect for:
– Educators looking to expand their teaching methods
– Nature enthusiasts who want to share their passion
– Youth leaders and childcare professionals
– Anyone eager to foster a deeper connection between children and nature

Why Choose Us?
**Expert Trainer**: Learn from skilled Forest School professional. A Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer with 30 years outdoor experience.
**Community**: Join a network of like-minded individuals passionate about outdoor learning.
Ready to start your journey?
Explore, inspire, and lead with confidence. Join today to become a Forest School Leader and start changing lives—one forest at a time.

For more information and to register, visit https://coastandforest.co.uk/contact-us/

We are really pleased to announce spring Forest School training in Somerset hosted by the Somerset Earth Science Centre.

**Become a Certified Forest School Leader**

Do you have a passion for nature and a calling to inspire young minds? Take the next step in your journey with our **Forest School Leader Course**—where education meets adventure!

What’s in it for you?

**Hands-On Training**: Learn the essentials of outdoor learning, nature-based education, and child-led discovery from experienced leaders in the field.
**Practical Skills**: Gain the skills to create engaging, safe, and transformative outdoor experiences. Learn about fire-lighting, shelter-building, tool use, and environmental stewardship.
**Child Development Focus**: Understand how to support confidence, resilience, and teamwork in children, using nature as a powerful learning environment.
**Certification**: On completion, you’ll earn an accredited certification to lead Forest School sessions, opening doors to exciting opportunities in outdoor education.

Who Should Join?
This course is perfect for:
– Educators looking to expand their teaching methods
– Nature enthusiasts who want to share their passion
– Youth leaders and childcare professionals
– Anyone eager to foster a deeper connection between children and nature

Why Choose Us?
**Expert Trainer**: Learn from skilled Forest School professional. A Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer with 30 years outdoor experience.
**Community**: Join a network of like-minded individuals passionate about outdoor learning.
Ready to start your journey?
Explore, inspire, and lead with confidence. Join today to become a Forest School Leader and start changing lives—one forest at a time.

For more information and to register, visit https://coastandforest.co.uk/contact-us/

Ropes, Swings and Things- Physicality at Forest School

Ropes, Swings and Things- Physicality at Forest School

Mar 14, 2025 | Forest School Training

At Coast and Forest Education, we believe in the transformative power of physicality in the great outdoors, where every tree, rock, and stream becomes a part of our learning landscape.

Here, children engage their bodies and minds through playful exploration and hands-on activities that stimulate curiosity and foster resilience. Climbing, balancing, and running through the natural world not only enhance physical skills but also nurture essential social connections, encouraging teamwork and problem-solving in an unstructured environment.

Each experience is a stepping stone towards building confidence, as children discover their strengths and capabilities amid the wonders of the forest and coastline.

We use a number of simple knots and hitches to construct ladders, swings and the installation of hammocks and slacklines to enhance these spaces where maybe natural spaces and affordances are not available.

On our CPD sessions learn how construct these structures, how to increase the physical opportunities and affordances even with tool use, consider the risk benefit of getting participants off the floor and discuss the developmental benefits of wide ranging physical activities.

We have number of CPD session already booked in this year check out the opportunities here

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a collection of physicality options

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a net

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A Forest School Training review that validates your hardwork

A Forest School Training review that validates your hardwork

Feb 19, 2025 | Forest School Training

A Forest School Training review that validates your hardwork

A lovely piece of Forest School Leader Training feedback and reflection taken from a participant’s portfolio on a 2024 course.

 

“I really valued how Adrian modelled the Forest School ethos and approach by immersing us within it in terms of no pressure or time limits and incidental discussions around aspects that cropped up. This reduced the overwhelming anxious feeling and made me feel like I was just gently absorbing new knowledge. This continued throughout the training process with new skills being introduced at appropriate moments and being given multiple opportunities over subsequent sessions to practice and refine these, often working with the other participants as a learning community to find success and master these new skills.”

 

I have always strived to allow participants time to embed the knowledge learned. My Forest school courses are 10 days long for this reason. yes, you can find courses online, cheaper and shorter but ask yourself what are you missing if your course is only five days or submitting videos of practise?
Do you want to be part of the learn or part of the churn?

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