Forest Area

We are delighted at OLOR to have a bespoke Forest Area in our incredible school grounds. We have recently developed our Forest school sessions within school to allow further opportunities for children to utilise the forest area and develop their skills. We have an Outdoor Learning club that runs on a weekly basis and is available for children from Reception to Year 6. We also have regular Forest sessions for our SEND children throughout the school week, along with a reward system where children earn forest time for demonstrating excellent behaviour within school.

We believe at OLOR that forest school helps to promote children’s physical and mental health, self-confidence, emotional literacy, social skills and self-esteem. For many of our children that can sometimes struggle in a formal schooling environment they find forest school somewhere they can flourish and succeed altering their perception of their own abilities and skills. Forest School offers unique opportunities and resources that encourage children to be creative and allow them to take ownership of their learning. We feel that Forest schools helps to develop all our pupils at OLOR embracing risk taking, problem solving and developing resilience.

Please see below for our risk assessment, parent consent form and an overview of the sessions.