Forest of Avon Wood School was a 3 year project funded by the Heritage lottery Fund to link children and communities with their local woodland heritage throughout the Forest of Avon.

This highly successful project worked in areas of high social need, supporting the development of outdoor learning through delivery of woodland engagement programmes for schools and training for teachers. A key aim of the project was to resource schools to be able to continue to provide ongoing and sustained outdoor learning provision in local woodlands and green space.

The Forest of Avon Trust hopes to deliver one or more Wood School programmes with local authorities and other partners in the future. 

For further information contact: jon.clark@forestofavon.org.uk

Forest School Evaluation Project

The Forest of Avon recently co-ordinated and delivered a highly successful Forest School project in Bath & North East Somerset which demonstrated and evaluated the impact of Forest School on key aspects of children's development, learning and well being. Click here to read more and download the project reports.

You can also download the following reports and studies -

Wood School Case Studies
Four case studies - one from each Unitary Authority - illustrating best practice in outdoor learning

Badocks Wood Project Report
Raising achievement through a whole-school development approach to outdoor learning

Savage's Wood Project Report
Forest School project for pre-school children with inclusion support needs

Wood School Review
Review of the first twelve months of the Wood School project