Course Terms and Conditions: Beach Schools Practitioner, Level 3

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Please read this before you buy. By ticking the box at the cart and completing your purchase you accept the terms set out below. They cover how long you have, how the course is paid for, and what you may and may not do with the material you are about to be given.

These terms apply to Beach Schools Practitioner, Level 3.

Version 1.0, September 2026.

Terms and Conditions

Profile Accuracy

Ensure all details in your profile and final submission declaration are correct, including your forename and surname as they appear on your birth or marriage certificate, your date of birth, your postcode and your email address.
A copy of photo ID is required upon portfolio submission. A driving licence, passport or student card is accepted. Your name, date of birth and photograph must be clearly readable.

Access and Deadlines

Your course opens as soon as you sign up. You can begin straight away and work at your own pace.
Your start date is the day you signed up to the course. The 6 months run from that day, not from the day you first log in and not from the day you open your portfolio.
Beach Schools Practitioner, Level 3: complete your portfolio within 6 months.
Access closes 6 months from your start date. After that you will not be able to open the lessons or submit work.

Portfolio Submission Criteria

Submit all sections of your portfolio for inspection.
Do not complete the final submission declaration page until all sections are submitted and finalised. After submitting the final submission declaration page, no amendments can be made.

Photograph and Video Consent

Anyone appearing in photographs or video you submit must have agreed to their image being used for this purpose. Where children are in shot, written permission from a parent or carer is required. If in doubt, photograph the activity rather than the people.

Extensions

If you do not want the certificate, you do not complete the portfolio and there is nothing further to pay.
If you need more time after your access has closed, monthly extensions are available at a cost of £97 each.
The first extension becomes applicable immediately after a one-day delay in submission past your deadline.
Extensions are available up to 6 times.
To arrange an extension, contact info@forestschools.com.

Internal Verification

Your portfolio is internally verified before any qualification is claimed.

Accepting These Terms

By ticking the acceptance box at the cart and completing your purchase you accept these terms and conditions.
The same terms appear as the first page of your course and must be accepted again before you can move into the lessons. Where your course includes a final submission declaration, accepting that declaration also confirms your agreement.

Contact

For enquiries or assistance with your portfolio, contact info@forestschools.com

Copyright and Permitted Use

First published 2026 by Archimedes Forest Schools Education.
This edition 2026. Course version 1.0.

Moral rights

The right of Sarah Blackwell to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved

No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, stored in a retrieval system, publicly displayed or transmitted in any form or by any means, whether electronic, mechanical, photographic, audio recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This includes copying into any other learning platform, virtual learning environment, shared drive, messaging group or artificial intelligence system.

What your enrolment allows

Your enrolment gives you a personal, non transferable licence to study this material for the duration of your course. You may read it, take your own notes from it, and print single copies for your own study. You may not share your log in, forward the material to colleagues, or reuse it to teach or train others. Nothing here transfers ownership, and nothing here grants a licence to deliver Forest Schools training.

Models and frameworks

The Archimedes models taught on this course remain the intellectual property of Archimedes Forest Schools Education and its author. These include the Blackwell Growth Cycle, the E.N.E.R.G.Y. Model, the E.M.O.T.I.O.N.S. Formula, the CHOCOLATE Box Schemas, the COMMUNITY of Brilliance and the Emotional Wealth Inventory, together with the Archimedes and Forest Schools Education names and marks. They are taught here so that you can use them in your own practice. They may not be reproduced in training materials, publications, presentations or commercial products without written agreement.

What is not claimed

PILESS is not ours. The PILESS strands of holistic development are in common use across the sector and no ownership of them is asserted here. What belongs to Archimedes is the way we teach and apply them, not the model itself. The same applies to any other established model, theory or research cited in this course, which remains the work of its own authors and is credited where used.

Photographs and third party material

Photographs, illustrations and video used in this course are either the property of Archimedes Forest Schools Education or are used with permission. Images of children are published only where written consent is held. They may not be copied or reused for any purpose.

Permissions

Requests to cite, quote, translate or reproduce any part of this work must be made in writing before use, and agreed in advance.

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Please state the passage or image concerned, the purpose, the audience and the intended distribution. Permission is given for a stated use only and is not transferable.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this material at the time of publication. Where awarding body requirements change, the awarding body's published specification takes precedence.

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