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The Samara Trust, made up of three primary schools in the county, launched its first Forest School provision at one of its settings in 2012.
Since then, the trust has expanded the programme across all of its schools, accompanied by Branching Out, a separate training arm offering courses to teach others how to deliver Forest School sessions.
Sarah Pearson, the trust’s Forest School lead and a Forest School trainer, says she embraced the opportunity to swap her indoor classroom for an outdoor one.
Having taught for several years at Upton Heath – one of the trust’s three primaries – she was given the opportunity by the school’s head to go on a Forest School training course.
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