Forest Schools level 3 practitioners award.
This course is an opportunity to explore to a higher level, different approach to using the outdoor environment in a Forest School setting and is for those who and wish to coordinate, manage and lead Forest School Sessions with children, young people or adults.
You will investigate how best to design and run a Forest School programme and look at how to approach and apply it safely and effectively.
This Level 3 course is aimed at individuals who have a minimum Level 2 qualification in Youth Work, Child Care, Teaching OR relevant experience in working with children,
The course content of this qualification is based on up-to-date research surrounding aspects of
~ Child development
~ Personal development
~ Neuro-science
~ Accelerated Learning
~ Woodland conservation and recreation
~ Innovative and therapeutic theory in the outdoors
~ Risk assessments to enable safe outdoor play and education.
Course Duration
- Initial training week consisting of 5 consecutive days of training.
- Portfolio work - candidates take away their portfolio to work on (For about 6 months)
- First Aid - Candidates complete a 2 day ITC first aid course
- Assessment Week- Consisting of 5 consecutive days of assessment.
- You must return your completed portfolio to us within 3 months from the date or your assessment week. After this you will be charged £100.00 re-registration fee. Please return your portfolio by recorded or special delivery remembering to include a copy of your first aid certificate and your CRB check.
- Cancellations of the Assessment or First Aid sections of this course are also subject to cancellation fees. A £50.00 re booking fee will apply for any courses cancelled within 14 days of course start date.
Course Costs
£884 per person inc. Training, First Aid, Assessment and VAT
If you are not sure whether you should start with an OCN level 2 or 3 please contact the Training Team 0114 2855534 or email info@archimedes-training.co.uk outlining your relevant experience and they will advise you explaining in more detail the requirements of both courses.
Taught Units
Unit 1: Forest School Practical Skills and Woodland Management.
Unit 2: Learning and Development at Forest School .
Unit 3: Establishing and Delivery of a Forest School Programme.
Before actively running programmes you will be required to hold:
First Aid Qualification
Clean CRB reference
These can all be organised through Archimedes.
A Forest School Practitioner will enable children to:
Explore magical, stimulating, mysterious, relaxing, exciting, amazing, interesting, educational, safe & fun environments.
Experience achievement, complete challenging tasks, develop relationships and act as positive role models, provide supported learning, problem solving, working in teams or independently, developing self-awareness, self-esteem and building confidence.
* For the Level 3 Forest Schools Practitioners Award you must complete the 2 days of first aid training included in your course. If you already hold an appropriate outdoor first aid certificate you may be exempt from attending these two days. We are unable to offer any reduction in the course price if you choose not to attend the first aid element.
We regret we cannot accept pets and babies/children on the courses for Health and Safety reasons.