Nature Explorers Derbyshire - Forest School

Forest School should always be child-led.

🌳 I stand back, i observe.

🌳 I enhance interests with sharing knowledge and researching together.

🌳 I encourage a curious child to experiment and find out what works and what doesn't even when i already know the answer. They learn quicker this way along with learning to risk assess themselves.

🌳 I tell children that just giving things a go is good enough. No failure here.

Sometimes it doesn't look like much is happening on the surface but i am forever noticing and seeing the deeper meaning of a child's action/interests and interactions and a small thing can be a web of learning underneath it all.

Sarah

A peek at this week so far 😍

Save the date!
I'll be helping you to create a nature costume for Margaret adding some thought provoking quotes to help you think like Margaret.

Sarah

Margaret Cavendish's MindFest at Bolsover Castle Step into the mind of Margaret Cavendish at Bolsover Castle's MindFest!

"Be Kind to nature, yourself and eachother" is the most important message we discuss at the beginning of sessions. We sing it, we say it. ❤️

Had a lovely meeting at Bolsover Castle and met everyone else who is on the Advisory Board for the Margaret Cavendish Mind Lab.

So exciting to be amongst inspirational women who ooze creative energy.

I have started getting things ready for a project i am running on 1st August as part of the Margaret Cavendish Mind lab.
More details will be released soon 👏🥰

I'm a collector of nature books pre-1940 and i found these 2 beautiful books recently and inside one was a pressed leaf with writing on dated 1906.

Beyond excited as this find 🥰

Some sap escaped a tree so we made nature rings this afternoon.

Some things we learn through child-led exploring outdoors.

None of today's learning was in a plan, just a child's curiosity and ad-hoc learning right there and then.
There are so many opportunities to learn when outside and a child's curiosity about what they have found can lead to many new learning opportunities and discussions.

Sarah