William Wordsworth
Yates' Community Orchard is where we hold our Forest School sessions. We have some wonderful volunteers who do an amazing job in keeping the grounds maintained.
Our wonderful community Orchard was donated to the LSRC for the benefit of the community by David and Carol Yates. It was opened in 2008 by HRH, the Duke of Kent.
The children enjoy picking the fruit that is ready for harvesting. We are extremely lucky to have all year round access to such a beautiful space in nature.
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.
Forest School has a developmental ethos shared by thousands of trained practitioners around the world, who are constantly developing their learning styles and skills to support new and imaginative learners. Its roots reach back to the open-air culture, friluftsliv, or free air life, seen as a way of life in Scandinavia where Forest School began. It arrived in the UK in 1993 and has grown from strength to strength.
The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps learners develop socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically and intellectually.
Forest school 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.
Taken from the FSA website
We are very pleased to say we have been working with the Lenches Sports and Recreation Club to secure funding to restore the Walking Shelter in the Orchard. Thanks to Severn Waste Services fantastic grant scheme supporting community projects we will be able to achieve this. Building work to commence late in the year.
It is an ideal shelter to support our trips to Forest School so its restoration will be an asset enjoyed by many many cohorts of our children.
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