{"id":8716,"date":"2025-03-13T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:04:40","slug":"nursery-learners-enjoy-forest-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/13\/nursery-learners-enjoy-forest-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest School adventures for nursery learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8720\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/13\/nursery-learners-enjoy-forest-schools\/forest-schools-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"forest schools 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8720\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155148\/forest-schools-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Cathedral nursery learners are enjoying accessing our Forest Schools area, just outside the school grounds. In this wonderful woodland environment,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/13\/nursery-learners-enjoy-forest-schools\/forest-schools-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155132\/forest-schools-1-e1741881212125.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"318,386\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"forest schools 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155132\/forest-schools-1-e1741881212125-247x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155132\/forest-schools-1-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8719\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155132\/forest-schools-1-e1741881212125-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155132\/forest-schools-1-e1741881212125-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/03\/13155132\/forest-schools-1-e1741881212125.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/> the children have exciting opportunities to build problem-solving skills, confidence, independence and resilience as they are given freedom to test their limits in the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>Cathedral&#8217;s Forest School area is only as big and full of resources as our children&#8217;s imaginations. Learning opportunities are almost limitless and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Climbing trees<\/li>\n<li>Making campfires and cooking<\/li>\n<li>Woodworking<\/li>\n<li>Building shelters and dens<\/li>\n<li>Playing in the mud<\/li>\n<li>Foraging<\/li>\n<li>Various social games such as hide and seek<\/li>\n<li>Using nature for arts and crafts<\/li>\n<li>Animal spotting and bug hunting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathedral nursery learners are enjoying accessing our Forest Schools area, just outside the school grounds. In this wonderful woodland environment, the children have exciting opportunities to build problem-solving skills, confidence, independence and resilience as they are given freedom to test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/03\/13\/nursery-learners-enjoy-forest-schools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}