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Forest School Leader Course | REGULAR COURSE

​Level 3 Certificate in Forest School Programme Leadership - OFQUAL REGULATED
REGULAR COURSE: Course requiring attendance in person and online study
This qualification enables you to become a Forest School leader in a school, early years or other setting.

Location

​The Hoop House (Polytunnel), Wadswick Country Store, Bradford Road, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 0NY
UNIT 1: WOODLAND ENVIRONMENT
Unit 1 focuses on the countryside and outdoors where you could be running your forest school sessions. As a Forest School leader you will need some understanding of nature including, plants and animals, the environment and how to positively connect your learners to the natural world.
UNIT 2: LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Unit 2 focuses on how people learn, covering learning theories and learning in forest school. You will cover holistic learning and the impact of behaviour on learning and development.
UNIT 3: PLANNING FOREST SCHOOL
Unit 3 focuses on the aspects that you will need to have in place for running your forest school programme. You will need to create a forest school handbook and plan six sessions.
UNIT 4: PRACTICAL SKILLS
Unit 4 covers some of the practical skills that you may need to consider in your forest school including safety considerations for your staff and your learners, such as camp fires, using basic hand tools, building shelters and tying knots.
UNIT 5: DELIVERING FOREST SCHOOL
Unit 5 focuses on you delivering your six sessions that you previously planned in unit 3. You will need to deliver these to a group of learners in your own setting. For example, this may be one session per week for six weeks. Some use their school or early years setting, others may deliver sessions to children of family friends. You will need to reflect on each session and adapt future sessions to support the progress of your learners.

Learning Management System LMS

There are five units to complete. You will have access to the Learning Management System LMS which will guide you through all the course requirements for the five units. There are short videos to watch, images and written course content. You will need to write five assignments, one for each of the five units. You are welcome to read around the subjects using other material, such as books, however all the content that you need for the qualification is on the LMS.
Have you considered our online courses? 
​Same content and same qualification

Entry requirements

  • Minimum age is 21 years and you will need to confirm your identity
  • Fluency in speaking and writing in English
  • Computer literate

​Note: Many of our learners are qualified teachers or teaching staff from schools and early years settings, although this is not mandatory.
Note:  All training courses are subject to minimum and maximum numbers of learners.  Should a complete course be cancelled by Woodland Adventurers then your booking will be transferred to another date or a full refund will be offered.

Terms and conditions

Programme

There are 5 attendance days covering 5 course units. Each unit requires a written assignment. You will be given about one month to complete each assignment, to be handed in before your next session.

You will have access to our comprehensive online course material to help you through all the assignments; if you can't make one of the sessions you are covered. For the last assignment you will need to run 6 Forest School sessions with a group in your own setting. 

So 5 units, 5 assignments, 5 months, plus 2 months safety buffer. That gives you a total of 7 months until your course deadline. Fast track: Complete the course work as faster and we will put you through for your qualification when you are ready.

The level of work could be compared to that of an A Level qualification where you will need to write assignments and produce evidence of meeting the qualification requirements.
OFQUAL REGULATED. The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England.

Booking

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