Education

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Education

The environmental education programmes in the Forest are very successful, with 37,000 children and their teachers last year learning about bugs and bats, tracks and trails and habitats. Planting a tree is a great way to connect with nature and the very different time scale that trees inhabit, as opposed to our hectic lives!

Tree for All in The National Forest

Comments

Head Teacher:
'The day was a great educational experience which the children thoroughly enjoyed.'

Schoolchild:
'I like going to the forest. I like to pick the leaves up from the floor,' schoolchild.

Teacher:
'Children experienced planting trees for themselves - they LOVED IT!'

Teacher:
'A sense of achievement when planting trees'

Teacher:
'Good for health and fitness'

Head Teacher:
Children did not understand the word 'view' and thought it was amazing that they could see so far. Many children thought that having travelled some distance from Birmingham to another town (Burton) it must be London.

Child to Project Officer:
'Lucy, I love your garden!' - describing field being planted to create Daniel Hayes Woodland.