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Forest schools benefit children
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
21 February 2007
Forest schools make a positive contribution to young children’s learning and development and should be more widely available, researchers have concluded.
Forest schools make a positive contribution to young children’s learning and development and should be more widely available, researchers have concluded. A study by Forest Research and the New Economics Foundation looked at children’s experiences of Forest Schools in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. It tracked 20 children from three to five years old and a small group of children with SEN who attended Forest Schools weekly or fortnightly for eight months. The researchers said, ‘It was evident...
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