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    • Contact Us
  • Our School
    • A Brief History
    • Aims, Ethos and Values
    • Our Approach
    • OFSTED Report and School Performance
    • Admissions & Prospectus
    • Forest Schools
    • Staff
    • School Day
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    • Sports Premium
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    • Policies
    • Further Information >
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    • Golden Eagles Class
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  • Remote Learning and Home Support
    • World Book Day Thursday 4th March 2021
    • Red Nose Day Friday 19th March 2021
    • Wrens- Remote Learning and Home Support
    • Kingfishers - Remote Learning and Home Support
    • Golden Eagles Remote Learning and Home Support
    • Screen Free Friday 29th Jan 2021
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Forest Schools​

Outdoor Learning for all

Forest Schools, as an initiative, offers an approach to teaching (with a focus on the outdoors and learning through practical experience) that has been proven to engage children and improve performance across other areas of the curriculum.

Boddington CE Primary Academy has been running outdoor learning programmes for several years. Children love to be given the opportunity to get outside and do their learning in nature.

‘Outdoor learning is an inspirational process that offers all learners regular opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem, through hands on learning experiences in a natural environment.’ ‘It is an approach that sits within and complements the wider context of outdoor and woodland learning.’ 

We aim to provide children with an appreciation of nature as well as encouraging an attitude towards nature that should encourage responsibility for conservation as children mature. 

There is an increasing body of research identifying the positive benefits of outside learning on children.   That research says that children and young people are stimulated by the outdoors and typically experience, over time, an increase in their self belief, confidence, learning capacity, enthusiasm, communication and problem-solving skills and emotional well-being. 

We know from parental feedback that outdoor learning engages and excites children.

The key features of our outdoor learning include:
  • Frequent and regular sessions to enable children to appreciate how their natural environment changes, including the different challenges that each season provides.
  • The relationship between children and the natural world is nurtured. 
  • The holistic development of each child is promoted, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners. They develop their emotional awareness and the positive experiences that they have enhance their self-image. This all helps to give children a high degree of self-confidence as well as a positive self-esteem which are essential pre-requisites for good learning to occur. 
  • The freedom to explore using multiple senses which is fundamental for encouraging creative, diverse and imaginative play. Children also have the opportunity to develop risk assessment skills as well as expressing their adventurous spirits. 
  • High staff: children ratios to ensure the safety of the children.
  • A child-centred play based approach dominates outdoor learning sessions with children having choices and freedom within the session. 
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Forest School for Pre School and Keystage 1

As well as providing outdoor learning throughout our cirriculum, we also provide an additional Forest School experience for our Wren Class during the Spring adn Summer terms at school.  We work with Acorn to Oak Woodland Learning.  To find out more visit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/acorntooak/ 

These sessions making use of the local environment. Forest School offers an approach to teaching that has been proven to engage children and improve performance. 
Boddington C of E Primary Academy
Church Road
Upper Boddington
Nr. Daventry
Northamptonshire NN11 6DL

Telephone: 01327 260120​
Email:boddingtonadmin@cb-cepa.org
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