After-School Club
🌲 Adventure • Confidence • Nature
Give your child the gift of mud on their boots, confidence in their voice, and curiosity in their heart.
Our Forest School After School Club uses the Wild Passport Curriculum to guide children through exciting outdoor challenges that build resilience, practical skills, and a lifelong love of nature. With plenty of free time to explore the woodland and develop friendships.
🌿 What Is Forest School?
Forest School is a child-led, outdoor learning experience where children explore, create, build, and problem-solve in a natural woodland setting.
We believe children learn best when they:
- Take initiative in their own learning
- Take managed risks
- Explore independently
- Work as a team
- Connect with the natural world
Sessions run in all weather (because adventure doesn’t stop when it rains!).
🎒 What Is Wild Passport?
Wild Passport is a progressive outdoor learning curriculum that helps children build real, practical skills over time.
Children work towards exciting achievements in areas such as:
- 🔥 Fire lighting and safety
- 🪵 Shelter building
- 🧭 Navigation skills
- 🌱 Plant and wildlife identification
- 🪢 Knot tying
- 🛠 Tool use
- 🐾 Tracking and nature awareness
- 💪 Teamwork and leadership
Each child works through their own “passport” journey at their own pace — building confidence with every challenge they complete.
🌟 What Your Child Will Gain
Forest School is about more than outdoor fun.
Children develop:
- ✔ Confidence and self-belief
- ✔ Resilience and problem-solving skills
- ✔ Communication and teamwork
- ✔ Respect for nature
- ✔ Independence and responsibility
- ✔ Emotional wellbeing
Many parents tell us their children become calmer, more confident, and more capable after just a few weeks.
🧭 What a Typical Session Looks Like
Each session includes:
- Welcome circle and safety briefing
- Skill focus linked to Wild Passport
- Child-led exploration time
- Snack around the campfire (when appropriate)
- Reflection and celebration of achievements
We maintain small group sizes to ensure safety, supervision, and meaningful learning.
👦 Who Can Join?
Our after-school club is suitable for children in Year 1 to Year 6.
No previous experience needed — just a sense of adventure!
🛡 Safety First
- Led by qualified Forest School leaders
- All staff members have a clear, enhanced DBS
- Fully risk assessed
- Outdoor and paediatric first aid trained staff
- Safeguarding compliant
- Appropriate staff-to-child ratios
Children are taught how to assess risk safely — an essential life skill.
🌿 Any questions?
Check our FAQ page, or contact us at nat@nettleandnurture.co.uk
