Summer Course 22LC 07 002 - Introduction to Forest School

By completing this course, Teachers should be able to:

• Engage all school stakeholders in assessing the usefulness and application of the forest school pedagogy within their school through the use of SSE techniques.
• Outline, promote and use the forest school teaching methodologies within their school environs on a regular basis.
• Facilitate and be confident in the creation, design and utilisation of the outdoors as an extension to their classroom and interactive learning environment.
• Adeptly use the outdoors to create unique and challenging learning opportunities for their students that link classroom learning across a number of curricular subjects to promote and enhance STEM activities, numeracy, literacy and wellbeing learning.
• Integrate the use of ICT, through engagement with Apps and website resources to further enhance and extend the experience of the learner outside and inside the classroom.
• Work safely in the outdoors and risk assess activities easily to keep learners and teachers safe.

Create a Learning Record of their experiences and activities to use in the future.

The booking fee is non-refundable. All Summer Courses qualify for EPV days provided you complete the full course over 5 days. Blackrock Education Centre has the right to cancel a course if we DO NOT have the minimum numbers required.