by Forest School Association | 25 May, 2016 | Green Man, Members' news
“I don’t understand why other people, particularly those with children, aren’t terrified about the future environmental change?” This is how a conversation with one of my good friends started on a sunny (well partially sunny!) bank holiday weekend over a cold one. He...
by Forest School Association | 8 Apr, 2016 | Green Man, Members' news
It seems as the sun shines, the hares run mad and the clocks have gone forward that Spring has most definitely sprung. So the tree of new beginnings seemed like a logical choice for pondering. Birch; her slender shining trunk gracefully reaching to the sky, with...
by Forest School Association | 24 Feb, 2016 | Green Man, Members' news
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives...
by Forest School Association | 16 Dec, 2015 | Green Man, Members' news
It’s hard to escape noticing that it’s that festive time of year again. Indeed, in schools it is like an annual endurance competition that starts after summer and climaxes this week with a relay of nativity plays, carol concerts and complaints from the cleaning staff...
by Forest School Association | 24 Nov, 2015 | Green Man, Members' news
Who is The Green Man? Contact The Green Man “Be the change in the world you want to see.” (Gandhi) For me, this quote sums up the heart of what Forest School is about. It’s transformative potential to empower individuals all hangs on the verb ‘to be’. How can...
