Caylin (Forest Schooled)
How do we advocate for more Nature programs, like Forest School?
I was sitting in a wooden chair at a table in the school principal's office wondering how it all happened so fast to get me here
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Risks
Posts discussing the benefits of taking appropriate risks and the impact on self-esteem, resilience, learning and development
Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Play is what makes us human!
This is a recorded chat with my sister Chelsea where we reflect on the role of outdoor play in our lives as children growing up in...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Storytelling Resources
Ever since gathering a group of storytellers together at the start of the global shutdown in 2020 for weekly livestreams, I've been getting
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Nov 3, 2019
- 3 min
Forest Schooled Evolves... Again
Well, I’m dusting off the ol' Forest Schooled keyboard. It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog here. Life moves and sways, shifting...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 1, 2019
- 3 min
Forest Schooled, The Book
Okay, you know that feeling when you have an idea and then someday that idea becomes a reality? It's an amazing feeling and one I am so...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 12, 2019
- 5 min
“So what do you do about puddles?!”
“So what do you do about puddles?!” I could sense a slight panic in her voice as she asked me this. And it was a valid question from...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 24, 2019
- 9 min
Integrating Forest School into a Public School Day
In the Starting a Forest School Program from Scratch series I described the steps I took to get a couple of programmes up and running in...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Learning through taking risks...
I took a risk. It was the coldest day we'd had in the school year so far and nobody was quite back in the mindset of playing in cold...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 5, 2019
- 6 min
Intervening in Children's Play...
This is a tough one for me to write, but here goes... One of my missions in Forest School and even through writing this blog has been to...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Dec 16, 2018
- 3 min
Delivering programs at night...
This has been a really exciting time of year for me because it's the first time I've delivered Forest School sessions in the dark! I...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 30, 2018
- 4 min
Children's risky play and experiencing 'scary-funny'
The other day at Forest School a five year old named Ryan approached me with tears in his eyes. He was calm, but also clearly upset. He...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 29, 2018
- 4 min
Nature is not always nice... And that's why I do this work
I went to a conference recently that was all about connecting children with nature. Sounds like something that should be right up my...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 3, 2018
- 1 min
A History of the UK & US Forest School Movement
If you've been following along with me over the past several months, you may have caught my ramblings here and there about how I'm...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 9, 2018
- 4 min
Starting a Forest School program from scratch: Part 3
Preface: I've called the first post in this series "Part 1", but a friend reminded me that there is so much more that comes before this...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jan 29, 2018
- 4 min
Whole body learning...
We've had snow on the ground for weeks now, but a few days ago the temperature rose and it rained. This started to melt the snow... but then
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Dec 17, 2017
- 5 min
Why being wet and cold can be a good thing...
If you've been following the Forest Schooled blog for a while, you might be aware that earlier this year I moved from southern England, UK
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Nov 29, 2017
- 5 min
How perceptions of 'danger' can change after making fire with four year olds...
I find it interesting how our perceptions of what's 'dangerous' are highly influenced by our cultures, in other words, what seems to be the
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Oct 21, 2017
- 4 min
Fire and Food: Playing with Outdoor Cooking...
If I had to take a guess I would say that marshmallows are the number one food 'cooked' over a campfire. It's just so easy! You stuff it on
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Sep 2, 2017
- 6 min
Why Forest School?
If you caught the recent Facebook post or Forest Schooled newsletter, you'll have seen I've just started grad school and will be working
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 12, 2017
- 4 min
Should we stop telling children to be careful?
“Be careful!” It just comes out, doesn't it? You start to get nervous when you see a kid doing something a little bit risky, maybe...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Feb 23, 2017
- 4 min
Give them something sharp, then look away...
I was sitting with a girl, about 5 years old, who was whittling a stick of willow with a peeler. Well actually, I think she thought she...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Dec 9, 2016
- 4 min
Could I? Should I? Helping children learn to assess risk for themselves...
The children created a rope swing this week. The activity was inspired by a jump rope that had been thrown onto a branch and left...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Nov 25, 2016
- 3 min
Does firelighting promote self esteem?
I've been doing a lot of firelighting using fire strikers with groups recently. Perhaps the cold weather makes this activity all the more...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Oct 14, 2016
- 5 min
Should we let them panic and fall?
“But I might fall,” she said. I replied, “You're right. That could happen.” She looked at me, a bit puzzled. I don't think that was the...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jul 10, 2016
- 6 min
Competition and risky play
“I beat your record! I climbed higher than you!” “Okay, I'll have another go! I'll bet I can get even higher!” And up the boys went,...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Jun 22, 2016
- 4 min
Why are we afraid of mud? The call for a mess-benefit assessment...
You know how there's this movement for risk assessments to also evaluate the benefits rather than just the hazards? These 'risk-benefit...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 18, 2016
- 6 min
We've got principles...
It was number 2 out of 6 for my pilot sessions today! (See My Forest School Fledging for a rundown of what happened during session 1 last...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Apr 13, 2016
- 5 min
But it all went so well...?
I was struggling to think of what to write about after the PRU session today because it was actually such a lovely session! So instead of...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 16, 2016
- 5 min
Let's play...
Today's session was very different from last week's session (Thank goodness!!). The mud wrestling and associated traumas of the week...
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Caylin (Forest Schooled)
- Mar 9, 2016
- 4 min
The dangerous muddy puddle...
Today's Forest School with the PRU was a session I will probably never forget. This is for both good and also very bad reasons... We had...
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