Derby Forest School

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Derby Forest School Forest School for children and young people of all ages in South Derbyshire www.derbyforestschool.com

Free Play at Forest School 🤗Unstructured play outside means children have time to explore, develop their own ideas, buil...
08/10/2026

Free Play at Forest School 🤗

Unstructured play outside means children have time to explore, develop their own ideas, build on social skills, problem solve, and have fun!
Here's a house built by some of our Forest Friends children today. It had different rooms including a garage for their wheelharrow and i was lucky enough to be invited in for a cup of tea!

We love spotting bugs at Forest School, we find so many different types and they inspire so much curiosity: How many leg...
07/10/2026

We love spotting bugs at Forest School, we find so many different types and they inspire so much curiosity:
How many legs has it got?
Does it fly?
What does it eat?
Where does it live?

We've also been reading Bugs by Emily Gravett and learning how many important jobs bugs do!

And sometimes we even make our own! 🪲

Counting Conkers 🌰
05/10/2026

Counting Conkers 🌰

Booking is open on our website now!
02/10/2026

Booking is open on our website now!

Exploring nature's textures with playdough this morning 🍂🌰🌲
30/09/2026

Exploring nature's textures with playdough this morning 🍂🌰🌲

Snack time! One of our favourite times of day: when we gather round the fire circle, try tasty new foods, chat and sing ...
28/09/2026

Snack time!
One of our favourite times of day: when we gather round the fire circle, try tasty new foods, chat and sing songs together 🔥

Autumn is bringing new textures and scents into the mud kitchen 🍎🌰🌱 Tree Tots had lots of fun in here this morning!
23/09/2026

Autumn is bringing new textures and scents into the mud kitchen 🍎🌰🌱
Tree Tots had lots of fun in here this morning!

Thank you Arbnature tree surgeons for this massive pile of willow that they kindly delivered to our field today. Lots of...
21/09/2026

Thank you Arbnature tree surgeons for this massive pile of willow that they kindly delivered to our field today. Lots of fun to be had with this

Windfall apples for practising scooping, counting, weighing, grabbing, comparing, observing nature, imaginative play... ...
21/09/2026

Windfall apples for practising scooping, counting, weighing, grabbing, comparing, observing nature, imaginative play... 🤗🍎

You can book your child's place on our website from this evening. As well as our usual offering for 5-11 year olds we ar...
20/09/2026

You can book your child's place on our website from this evening. As well as our usual offering for 5-11 year olds we are trialing a date specifically for 9-14 year olds with more advanced skills being offered.

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Whistlewood Common
Melbourne
DE738DH

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