Forest School
& Risky Play
A
Professional Development Day focussing on Reflections’ Forest School programme
and the significance of risky play; featuring guest speaker, Tim Gill.
Date:
Saturday
18th October 2014, from 9.00am until 3.30pm
Venue:
Reflections
Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, UK
Cost:
£125
including refreshments & lunch
What are the benefits of
Forest School and how can Forest School transform environments and practice in
an early years setting? Is childhood being undermined by risk aversion? How
should we deal with risk in the early years and how can we ensure that we are giving
children challenging experiences.? What are the benefits of ‘risky’ play?
Speakers:
Tim Gill is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on childhood and
an advocate for positive change in children’s everyday lives. Tim’s book No
Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society was published in 2007 and is now
in its third reprint. Tim appears regularly on radio and television and has
given talks in Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan. For more details
see: http://rethinkingchildhood.com/
Martin Pace has worked in the childcare sector for over 20 years.
He is Director of Reflections Nursery and has attended nine study tours of the
infant-toddler centres and pre-schools of Reggio Emilia since 2003. Martin was
until recently the Forest School Leader at Reflections and is author of I
love Forest School due to be published
by Bloomsbury in August 2014. http://www.reflectionsnurseries.co.uk
Participants:
We welcome registrations from all those working in the area
of early childhood and primary education and in outdoor education with young
children.
Programme
- A tour of Reflections Nursery with a Reflections’ educator
and forest skills discussion
- Tim Gill - Presentation & Discussion: Is childhood
being undermined by risk aversion?
- Lunch and an opportunity to walk round Reflections Nursery
and meet with Reflections’ educators
- Martin Pace - Presentation & Discussion: How Forest
School has influenced environments and practice at Reflections and informed our
approach to risky play.
Please contact susan@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk for
further details.
