At Newton Primary School, we are proud to be able to offer Forest School provision for our children. Children from Year 1 to Year 6 will have timetabled sessions for Forest School.  Our Forest Schools practitioners also run after school clubs in the autumn and summer terms. We make the very most of every outdoor space we have, and have an outdoor classroom space, meaning that the sessions can usually continue whatever the weather! The children have installed willow fencing and dug out a pond for wildlife. 

Forest School is based more on the process of learning than it is on the content, more on the 'how' than the 'what'.  This means that genuine Forest School practice steps out of the shadow and limitation of 'planned activities' and ventures collaboratively into the realms of the unplanned, unexpected and ultimately unlimited.  Learners are given encouragement to direct their own learning - this often requires catalysing on the part of the Forest School leader, either through stimulating play in the outdoors or through 'scaffolding' a child's learning, but mostly through simply observing how children are in the outdoors.