by An-Ex-Member | 24 Jan, 2019 | Members' news, News
Best Forest School for Recycling 2019 Congratulations to FSA member, Amanda Greenaway, the Leader of St. George’s Forest School, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Her Hobbit House project has gained a Green School Award for recycling. All the materials for the structure were...
by An-Ex-Member | 11 Jan, 2019 | Events: Local Group Event, Members' news, News, Uncategorized
11:00 to 15:00 on Saturday 9 February 2019 St George’s CEP School, Chequers Road, Minster, Isle of Sheppey, ME12 3QU Complimentary hot drinks and toasted hot cross buns on arrival at St George’s Forest School, hosted by Amanda Greenaway and the Kent & Medway FSA...
by An-Ex-Member | 5 Nov, 2018 | Members' news
The Memorandum and Articles of Association of the FSA prevents us from undertaking any taxable permanent trading activity. This is because charities must be fiscally prudent and trading is inherently risky. Most large charities set up separate trading companies...
by An-Ex-Member | 30 Oct, 2018 | Members' news, News
Congratulations go to Jessica Brocklebank whose photo of her daughter enjoying the campfire (and marshmallows) was the clear winner in our ‘Belong in this Place’ Forest School Festival competition. Both Jessica and her daughter will enjoy reading through a...
by An-Ex-Member | 16 Aug, 2018 | Members' news, News
Playing outside and discovering the world of nature is part of growing up, or is it? Do children still push aside logs to see what’s crawling underneath? Are daisy chains part of playground life or some relic from the past? Children are spending more time indoors than...
by An-Ex-Member | 30 May, 2018 | Members' news, News
The Co-operative Childcare Forest School recognised for good Forest School practice. The Co-operative Childcare Forest School in West Midlands is celebrating becoming a ‘Recognised Forest School Provider’ after receiving the accreditation from the Forest School...
by An-Ex-Member | 24 May, 2018 | Members' news, News
The Sylva Foundation have launched a new version of their myForest software. The Woodland Manager suite of tools in myForest provides easy to use tools for woodland mapping and management. myForest is currently used by 4,229 users to map and manage 68,744ha of...
by An-Ex-Member | 15 May, 2018 | Conference, Members' news, News
Nature Connection is not just Nature Contact by Jon Cree Food for thought for the Forest School Conference 2018 – “Belong in this Place” 5 – 7 October in Norfolk “Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher” William Wordsworth (The Major...
by An-Ex-Member | 10 May, 2018 | Book reviews, Members' news, News, Reviews
Endorsement of ‘Forest School & Autism – a practical guide’ by Michael James (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) Jon Cree – Director and founding chair of the Forest School Association, also Training and Alternative Curriculum Co-ordinator for FSC Bishops Wood Centre....
by An-Ex-Member | 24 Apr, 2018 | Members' news, News
We are a team of staff from a large Nursery School in Tottenham, North London. We are really excited to have received some Erasmus funding to visit pre-schools in Sweden at the end of May, and Finland at the end of September. Whilst in both countries we would really...
