Badger Forest School
Choose Nature CIC
Our Mission: To inspire lifelong learning, support connections to nature and strengthen communities.
We are a Community Interest Company, which means we are a non-profit organisation partly funded by grants and sponsorship
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Our activities & offerings
We offer a variety of weekly, monthly, and termly groups.
During the school holidays, we offer family sessions, Holiday Club, and community events.
We also work with and support many local nurseries, schools and colleges, such as class trips, educational outreach programmes, CPD… Get in touch to find out more!
With our beautiful and safe sites, enjoy time in the outdoors, discover nature and connect with others.
Nurture Programme
This Alternative Provision is an intervention programme providing an inclusive and sensory rich environment for children needing a bespoke timetable.
We work with local schools across Cornwall at three different sites.
This programme helps to develop confidence, build self esteem, motivation to learn and self worth.
Community Engagement
We run offer a range of opportunities to support the community including:
weekly volunteering sessions
hosting regular community events
Sprout! (steering group)
welcoming volunteering parties and groups
collaborative events and sessions with local organisations and charities
What is Forest School?
Forest School is a child-centred inspirational learning process, that offers opportunities for holistic growth through regular sessions. It is a long-term program that supports play, exploration and supported risk taking. It develops confidence and self-esteem through learner inspired, hands-on experiences in a natural setting.
The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically and intellectually.
It creates a safe, non-judgemental nurturing environment for learners to try stuff out and take risks. Forest School inspires a deep and meaningful connection to the world and an understanding of how a learner fits within it.
Our approach to risk means that learners constantly expand on their abilities by solving real-world issues, building self-belief and resilience.
We believe that risk is more than just potential for physical harm, but a more holistic thing, there are risks in everything we do, and we grow by overcoming them. Forest School therefore, helps participants to become, healthy, resilient, creative and independent learners.
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