Welcome to Woodland Adventure Forest School Harrow
Forest School Harrow seeks to engage with young people in a safe but challenging outdoor setting, encouraging
them to respect and care for each other and take responsibility for their local environment.
Forest School Harrow
takes place on the campus of
All Saints' Church, Harrow Weald. The campus includes the church, the churchyard meadow
nature reserve and an area of attractive mature secondary woodland - managed as the Bentley Old Vicarage Nature Reserve.
Forest School Harrow is
managed as a partnership between Harrow Council and
All Saints' Church, Harrow Weald. The project is supported by
John Lyon's Charity.
The Forest School Ethos
Forest Schools originated in Scandinavia, where outdoor living and learning is totally embedded in society. Forest
School was adopted by Denmark in the 1980's as a solution to the lack of buildings available for the number of nursery
places required.
The philosophy of the Forest School was based upon the desire to provide children with an education
which encouraged appreciation of the wider, natural world and which would encourage responsibility for nature
conservation in later life.
Forest School was introduced in the UK, in 1995. Since then it has been rapidly developing
in the UK, where trained and accredited Forest School leaders devise a learning program tailored to children's interests
and individual needs.