Developing & Managing your Forest School Site

Establishment & Delivery Unit 2.3

A blank canvass?

Let the grass grow!

• Likely to be a diversity of plants present

• Incorporate development of your site into the curriculum

• Stop the contractors from mowing it off

Log circles do not = Forest School

Create interest at your site or nearby

Encourage biodiversity

Create habitat

Plant trees and shrubs

• Choose native species wherever possible

• Consider planting mini orchards or small groups of fruit trees

• Choose things which will be useful at Forest School

• Plan the management of these new arrivals!

Manage your resource sustainably • Prune for renewal• Coppice broad leaved

trees• Allow the site to recover• Make cost / benefits

decisions• Take a trip to a woodland

once in a while

Enjoy it!