The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (otherwise known as LWT) have been running their Forest School Project in Manchester since 2015 and in Liverpool since 2017. Project officers work with urban schools for a year, delivering free Forest School sessions, offering accredited Level 3 Forest School Leadership training for teachers and installing outdoor classrooms, all thanks to support from players of People's Postcode Lottery. Forest School is a unigue form of outdoor learning, with a play-based, child-led ethos that offers children regular opportunities to succeed and develop as people, through practical learning and hands-on activities in a natural setting. The children are allowed to take risks and explore, within a safe outdoor space and support from trained Forest School practitioners. Sessions are designed to stimulate each child's imagination, creativity and desire to explore through activities involving natural materials such as green woodwork, shelter-building and natural art.
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