Please turn JavaScript on
The Forest School Podcast icon

The Forest School Podcast

follow.it gives you an easy way to subscribe to The Forest School Podcast's news feed! Click on Follow below and we deliver the updates you want via email, phone or you can read them here on the website on your own news page.

You can also unsubscribe anytime painlessly. You can even combine feeds from The Forest School Podcast with other site's feeds!

Title: Brand Logo

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.09 / day

Message History

This week Wem and I get into something that's been rumbling through forest school Facebook groups all summer: fires, heatwaves, drought, and where individual choice ends and collective responsibility begins.

It started with a post about forest school leaders lighting fires during the current UK drought, and the pile of comments underneath it. Some people were arguing it...


Read full story

This week I'm joined by Ellie J, known online as Clown Daddy. I first came across her work online and knew straight away that forest school leaders and outdoor educators would get something out of hearing how she thinks about performance, status and play.

Ellie trained as an actress at NYU before studying at the famous L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in ...


Read full story

This week, Wem and I chatted about Boundary setting and picked through Kami Orange's book of boundary scripts and frameworks!


Read full story

What if the secret to better behaviour support in forest school isn't focusing on the child at all?

Lewis and Wem are back for a wide-ranging, woodland-based chat that opens with lime plaster, kilts, and a mosaic pizza oven before diving into some genuinely rich territory: what does it actually mean to take an intraaction-based approach to behaviour? How do you move awa...


Read full story

This one is special. Wem and I got to sit down with Dr Wendy Russell, independent play researcher, senior research fellow at the University of Gloucestershire, and 50 years into a career that started on an adventure playground apprenticeship in the 1970s. I came away from this conversation needing to go for a long walk and think about everything.

The first half covers W...


Read full story