Chichester Forest Schools has a range of activities for families to enjoy the outdoors and spend quality time together.
Woodland Group for parents and pre-schoolers
Come and join our warm welcoming woodland group that supports parents and their children under 5. We meet each week in the beautiful tranquil Secret Garden, Fishbourne for 1hrs 45mins of well-being and outdoor play!
Our sessions provide a supportive environment for young children and parents. Sessions have woodland activities themed around a story, season and nature with lots of opportunities for child-led play. Children may go bug hunting, make a delicious mud pie in the mud kitchen, pond dip in the stream, learn how to safely use simple tools, hang out in the hammock or laugh on the rope swing.
“I cannot believe how much my son’s confidence has grown since he started coming to Babes in the Wood, He’s such a different boy, he talks about it all the time, he loves it!!!!”
Held in the tranquil Secret Garden in Fishbourne our sessions are run following forest school principles with a focus on child led play. Activities on offer include nature activities, woodland crafts, mud kitchen. rope Swings and hammocks, story telling, and campfire cooking . Make new friends, build you and your childs confidence and see them learn and grow through nature.
Our Term time sessions run on Monday Mornings 10-11.45am Sessions are booked on a half termly basis. Our forest school runs all year expect Jan-Feb half term We are booking for after Feb half term
If you have any questions, bookings, taster sessions and waiting list visit our bookings page or email us at info@chichesterforestschools.com
OWLS Outdoors Without LimitS Home Education group 5-10 yrs
Owls (Outdoors Without LimitS) is our fun and friendly forest school drop off session for home educated children. Owls is aimed at children aged around 5-10yrs, and meets weekly on a Tuesday morning during term time.
Based at the peaceful secret garden in Fishbourne, a 2 minute drive from the big Tesco roundabout in Chichester, this private space is just for the forest school so children are free to explore, build, hide, cook, make or just relax. Our ethos is very much one of child-led learning so there is no pressure to do any of the many activities offered each week, children are free to follow their own learning. The sessions are led by 2 experienced forest school leaders who adapt their approach to facilitate each child’s learning.
Children take part in a number of activities including nature activites, bug hunting, stream dipping, mud kitchen, wood craft and use of tools, den building, pulleys and ropes, hammocks and rope swings. fire lighting, camp fire and cooking.
Forest school encourages physical and emotional development and has been shown to build confidence, self esteem, social and emotional skills and a love of nature.
Please sign up on the waiting list or if you would like information, click on the link For information and tickets click here.
Holiday Sessions
We run a variety of sessions during school holidays for families, including whole-day and half-day events that cater for all ages. As well as our popular Go Wild forest sessions we offer themed sessions e.g. Minecraft, the Gruffalo and survival skills.
We also run a holiday club for children who are entitled to free school meals. HAF sessions during Easter, Summer and Christmas Holidays