Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nursery and primary school based forest school. Breaking through concrete: the emergence of forest school in London / Katherine Milchem ; Forest school: a whole school approach / Clare Lamb ; Developing practice and delivering a forest school programme for children identified as gifted and talented / Tracey Maciver ; Using forest school to make the transition to high school / Alasdair Horning -- Forest school, social and emotional needs. Supporting emotional and social development in forest school with adolescents / Clare Neenan with Sara Knight ; Forest school: an alternative curriculum / Ross Evans ; Learning from working with disaffected year 10 pupils / Rich Sylvester ; Maintaining the forest school ethos while working with 14-19-year-old boys / Jon Cree -- Forest school and young people with particular needs. Removing barriers: getting children with physical challenges into the woods / Fiona Hopkins ; SEALs in the woods / Xavier Eloquin and Tina Hutchinson ; Forest school and looked after children / Rebecca Wicks ; Autism, art and nature as relational aspects of forest school / Kevin Burrows -- Using forest school strategically. Addicts and forest school / Mike Brady ; Forest school for families / Lucy Partridge and Wendy Taylor ; Forest school county-wide: a Norfork perspective / Louise Ambrose ; Edinburgh's forest school partnership project: 'building local capacity' / Jenny Watters.

The United Kingdom Forest School is a way of working in an outdoor environment, preferably but not exclusively in wooded settings. This is based on the premise that repeated enjoyable outdoor experiences will have a positive effect on people, including their potential dispositions for learning and personal change. Forest school is now being used with a wide range of different age groups and in many different settings.

"Forest School is now being used with a wide range of different age groups and in many different settings, and it can address issues such as obesity, public health and social wellbeing. This book includes case studies that will help to demonstrate how to run Forest School sessions with: children in older primary classes; secondary schools; children in urban environments; special schools; young people in residential homes; school refusers; young people who have been excluded; adults with autistic-spectrum disorders; family centres."--Publisher description.