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Marina Robb becomes a Forest School Association Endorsed Trainer! In January 2018, the Forest School Association (FSA) – the UK’s professional body and voice for all things Forest School – launched a new quality assurance scheme for Forest School Trainers. The FSA Trainer’s Quality Assurance Scheme is based on a new set of ‘Forest School community’ agreed professional standards.  Marina Robb from Circle of Life Rediscovery has been a successful applicant and has been added

Toffee Apples and Mythical Creatures October 23rd saw in the first session of the Teenage Woodland Programme. The new woodland season, which has been kindly funded by The People’s Projects in association with The Big Lottery Fund and ITV, will run from October 2017 to June 2018. You can read about the full Programme here. It’s exciting to begin the Teenage Woodland Programme when the woodland is in such a great period of change. The

Ideas to inspire your Outdoor Learning. Make it Outdoor Classroom Day every day! Outdoor Classroom Day took place this year on 12th October 2017 with 19,800 schools getting involved and spending the day (or part of the day) learning outside the classroom with their pupils. This is an amazing collaborative effort, not just in the UK but across the World, with 2.3 million children across 105 countries taking part, quite an achievement for an initiative

Grab your wellington boots, gather the kindling, and have those marshmallows toasting at the ready. Why I hear you say? Because the Teenage Woodland Days are back and I for one cannot wait. At the beginning of 2017 Circle of Life Rediscovery in partnership with East Sussex CAMHS (Discovery College) successfully secured a grant from ITV’s The People’s Projects. This well earnt money will be used to fund the upcoming Teenage Woodland Days, as well

We meet at the car park, with our packed lunches and everyone is excited and maybe a bit nervous? I wonder what we will be doing today? We wave goodbye to our families and disappear down the track, into the woods to find the Wild Things basecamp and begin the day’s adventures. At basecamp we are shown around, we find out there is a toilet (phew!) and play some games to learn each other’s names.

The Importance of Residential Camps. More and more research is coming to light to support what we in the environmental world have always asserted – being outdoors is good for you and so are residential camps! This means not only are children able to be more active by being outside, they are also able to learn more freely, engage more readily and be inspired, encouraged, challenged and therefore improve their confidence and self-esteem. These positive

Hope for the future – The Woodland Project wins grant from The Peoples Projects! The Woodland Project in East Sussex offers days out in the woodlands for children and young people with physical and learning disabilities, their families and siblings. The project was one of five projects in the Meridian East region shortlisted by The Peoples Projects to be in the running to win a grant of up to £50,000 and it was announced on