Level 3 Forest School Leader Training - May 2024

Course Dates - May and June 2024

Tuesday 28th May 9am - 5pm

Wednesday 29th May 9am - 5pm

Thursday 30th May 9am - 5pm

Friday 31st May 9am - 5pm

Monday 3rd June 9am - 5pm

Tuesday 4th June 9am - 5pm

Wednesday 5th June 9am - 5pm

Thursday 6th June 9am - 5pm

Payment

The initial payment (£450 excluding the Eventbrite admin fee) is your deposit and half the cost of the full course - The total cost of the course is £900. The remaining £450 is due 6 months into the course.

To pay in full at the start please email [email protected]

Theory - 6 days training

This covers all of the practical aspects of leading your own forest school group including risk assessments, landowners permission, writing up policies and procedures, how to run forest school and much more.

Practical - 2 days training

Here we will go through a number of the main activities that you will need to lead your own forest school. We will go out into the Woodland directly behind our centre and demonstrate skills around erecting shelters, tying knots, learning about your woodland environment. Within the Centre we will complete tool training and learn how to make campfires and about fire safety. We will aslo give some examples of some of the wide variety of activities that you can do as part of Forest School.

Throughout these practical sessions you will be given the chance to both observe and have a go and will receive 121 support to gain the skills you need.

At the end of the practical 2 days you will be assessed in order to successfuly complete the first part of your course.

Leading your own sessions as part of the training

Following the Theory and Practical days you can then start leading your own forest school sessions. The skills and experience gained from doing this is an important part of gaining your qualification.

If needed, we will be able to offer you opportunities to gain this leading experience at one of our centres during the school holidays.

To qualify you need to lead a minimum of 6 sessions. These should include all the aspects you learnt in the theory part of your course such as planning, risk assessments and activities.

Your trainer will come and assess you leading one of these sessions to check all aspects are being adhered to such as having the correct kit, ratios, safety , paperwork etc - This forms part of your qualification.

Portfolio

You will need to collect evidence to form your portfolio as you go through the course. Your protfolio will be made up of answers to questions, pictures, short one page essays etc.

The portfolio is broken down into 5 sections -

Portfolio of 5 units:

- Supporting learning, play and, development in the outdoors

- Observation and evaluation of outdoor learning

- Sustainable use of natural resources

- Teaching outdoor practical skills

- Forest school leader

Accreditation

All our courses are accredited to Agored Cymru which is a Welsh awarding body, same as OCR, Edexcel, AQA in England. All our courses at Social Adventures and Agored Cymru are recognised by the FSA (Forest School Association) and IOL (Institute for outdoor Learning) throughout the UK.

Location

Our Forest School Training Centre is located 10 minutes drive outside Manchester City Centre.

The address is - Garden Needs, 1 Radford Street, Salford M7 4NT

Some of the theory based training may be held at our other Centre - The Angel Centre, 1 St Philip's Place, Salford M3 6FA

We will confirm nearer the time

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Garden Needs, 1 Radford Street, Salford, United Kingdom