Author: Elizabeth

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Hello! We’re forest school practitioners who write for the web to share what we know. Scroll down to review our content archive of useful articles. We are also parents. Read more about Elizabeth and Jon Borley.

Forest School Survey 2022

Back in 2019, the Sylva Foundation ran a national survey with the aim of gathering evidence about forest school practice, in particular the barriers and opportunities to provision of forest school and outdoor learning. The results were (and still are) eye opening, but times have changed. In particular, the coronavirus pandemic of recent years has…

Outdoor Leaders Survey 2022

What’s it like being in outdoor education at the moment? We wanted to find out more about what the situation is for Forest School practitioners and those working with groups of children to bring nature to the classroom in all the different ways that happens. Sylva Foundation did a survey of practitioners in 2018 but…