Outdoor Learning Essentials: Forest School Thinking in Ireland

What you'll take away

• Describe what forest school is and is not
• Run a repeatable outdoor session in ordinary Irish weather
• Carry out a simple, proportionate risk-benefit judgement
• Plan a year of returning to one outdoor place

1. 1What forest school actually is7 min · Not a nature-themed craft session. A long-term relationship with a place.
2. 2Irish weather, and the kit that solves it6 min · There is no bad weather, but there is genuinely bad clothing.
3. 3Risk, benefit and the useful wobble8 min · The question is not 'could they get hurt?' but 'what do they lose if we say no?'
4. 4Planning a year outdoors7 min · Seasons do the planning for you if you let them.