The Heart of England Forest
Great Alne Primary School are very excited to be working with Elaine Skates from the Heart of England Forest to develop an outdoor learning programme . The staff share planning and ideas with Elaine to design outdoor learning sessions that will support and enhance the curriculum learning that we deliver in school and inspire pupils to love the great outdoors.
The sessions link to a range of subjects including Science, Design Technology, Geography, Maths and English. Each half-term the children spend a day at the Heart of England site at Middle Spernal.
'Our Forest learning programmes deliver significant benefits for our schools and their pupils – strengthening core knowledge, relationships, skills for learning and skills for life'. Heart of England Forest.
'The ethos of Forest School is based on a fundamental respect for children and for their capacity to instigate, test and maintain curiosity in the world around them. It believes in children's right to play; the right to access the outdoors (and in particular a woodland environment); the right to access risk and the vibrant reality of the natural world; and the right to experience a healthy range of emotions, through all the challenges of social interaction, to build a resilience that will enable continued and creative engagement with their peers and their potential' Forest School Training (FSTC).