Our Sessions

Bright Bug Forest School sessions are planned and delivered for schools, nursery groups, pre-schools and other organisations in their own local woodlands or school grounds.

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Our programmes offer:

  • bespoke sessions to fit the needs of your group. Ideally each session will take place once a week for 6 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks for a minimum of two hours.

  • small groups (maximum of 15 pupils per session designed for all children) held at your nursery, pre-school, primary school’s own grounds or a local woodland (with permission).

  • high ratio of 1 adult : 5 children. Staff such as Teachers, teaching assistants and volunteer parents are welcome to ensure appropriate ratios.

  • opportunities for children to use creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and social, physical, cognitive, and emotional strength.

  • a learner-centred approach where in every session the children are able to make many choices about how they learn, what activities they do and who they do them with. This helps meet the needs of all participants.

  • flexible planning which encompass a lot of freedom. Children are encouraged to try out things and take calculated risks. This gives them the opportunity to develop their can-do attitudes which then translate into every other area of their lives.

  • natural resources to support creative learning as well as all tools, equipment and risk assessments are included.

  • quality experiences that are well planned, well resourced, safe, sustainable, good value and high quality. These include building a fire and cooking, tree identification, hunting for minibeasts, working with natural materials, den building, tying knots, creating bug hotels, growing and caring for plants and climbing trees.

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  • covid safe guidelines followed strictly in accordance with updated government guidelines and school policies.

All delivered by a fully qualified and experienced Primary School teacher with Level 3 Forest School Qualification and Paediatric and Forest School First Aid Certification and enhanced DBS. Bright Bug Forest School is covered by full forest school liability insurance .