Writing a risk-benefit assessment
What a good RBA actually weighs, and how to write one you'd be happy to show an inspector.
Practical guides for leaders
Forest school guides.
Free, practical guidance written by a practitioner: the things you actually need to run safe, joyful sessions. Plain English, no jargon for its own sake, and no signing up to read any of it. Start with a cornerstone guide below and follow the threads from there.
Forest school ratios
The numbers behind safe adult-to-child cover, and how to keep them right as a session changes.
Ofsted & the FSA
Who looks at what, what they expect to see, and how the two frameworks fit together.
Fire & tool safety
Running fire and tool activities with children safely: set-up, supervision and the boundaries that hold.
EYFS observations outdoors
Capturing meaningful observations in the woods and tying them back to the EYFS, without losing the moment.
Planning a session & term
From a single session to a full term, a simple way to plan that leaves room for child-led play.
Built by someone who runs the sessions too
These guides come from the same place as the Forest School app: time in the woods with real groups. When you're ready to stop wrestling paperwork, the app turns the ideas here into your everyday tools: registers, ratios, risk-benefit assessments and observations, all in one place. Have a look at everything it does.
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