by Forest School Association | 29 Jun, 2016 | Members' news
By Jon Cree, Forest School Association Chair There are a number of proposals in the latest education white paper for England. (see https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/508447/Educational_Excellence_Everywhere.pdf ) For a bulleted...
by Forest School Association | 29 Jun, 2016 | Members' news
Your directors and I have been working hard over the past six months to develop a strategy for the future development of the FSA. Our starting point was an acknowledgement that our current membership model does not address the specific needs of a large proportion of...
by Forest School Association | 14 Jun, 2016 | Members' news, News
Ofsted and other requirements if setting up a new holiday club. Read more on the Out of School Alliance website
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 An-Ex-Member | 24 Mar, 2016 | Members' news, News
The latest announcement on the decline of ash trees in Europe is a saddening and alarming. According to research, published in the Journal of Ecology, the British countryside will never look the same again. The paper says that the ash will most likely be...
by Forest School Association | 8 Mar, 2016 | Members' news
Every now and then it is good to ask the big questions like what is the purpose of education? Which is exactly what a DfE select committee was asking before Christmas (see the last FSA bulletin). While one can be somewhat cynical of any government consultations this...
by Forest School Association | 29 Feb, 2016 | Members' news
Reproduced from the February 2016 Bulletin in case anyone wants to comment. (Bulletin has been delayed, don’t worry if you have not yet received it). ‘C’mon everybody, let’s do the muddle puddle twist!’ It’s the craze that’s...
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 An-Ex-Member | 29 Jan, 2016 | Members' news, News
A radical campaign to keep children out of school until the age of seven is being tabled in Tayside and Fife. For further information please see here
