Haywood Grove School is a community that serves children with significant social, emotional and mental health challenges, and their families.
We have a passionate conviction that all our children ...
Forest School Support
Practical details
Volunteering • Long term role
Contact person
Catherine Smith
Provided
Requirements
#127583
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Haywood Grove has grown its own forest and has a trained Forest School teacher. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to come and help out with this.
Could you help with Forest School?
Forest School is an important part of life at Haywood Grove, giving our children regular opportunities to learn outdoors, explore nature, take appropriate risks, solve problems, build confidence and resilience, and enjoy being part of a group. We are looking for volunteers who could give some of their time to help us make these sessions even better. You certainly don’t need to be an outdoor expert! We are looking for people who enjoy being outside, are practical and willing to get stuck in, and can be calm, patient and encouraging with children who sometimes need a little extra support. You might help with activities such as gardening, den building, woodland crafts, maintaining our Forest School area, preparing resources or simply being another supportive adult alongside the children. You’ll need to be happy outdoors in all sorts of weather, able to follow our safeguarding and safety expectations, and willing to embrace a bit of mud! If you have some time to spare and think you might enjoy being part of Forest School at Haywood Grove, we would love to hear from you.
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About Haywood Grove School
Haywood Grove School is a community that serves children with significant social, emotional and mental health challenges, and their families.
We have a passionate conviction that all our children and community can achieve. We are optimistic about success and accept no restriction on what is possible for all people in our community. We work respectfully and responsively with our families to ensure that the impact of our support can be seen both at school and home.
We demonstrate high expectations for every child, through a high-quality creative curriculum and flexible and imaginative teaching that addresses each individual child’s learning and social, emotional, and sensory needs. We get to know the children’s talents, their strengths and their weaknesses and build their learning around these, in addition to facilitating the accumulation of knowledge and skills across a broad and balanced range of subjects. We do the same for all community members.
We view behavioural challenges as regulatory issues and address all behaviours that would not be right for a safe and civil society. We provide the right kind of support, at the right time, in the right way such that children learn to regulate their own behaviour through internal control within the context of healthy and secure relationships, rather than by external force. We make sure all our community members know how to stay regulated so that they can best help our children.
We view behaviour as communication of thoughts and feelings, we listen to what children say and what they don’t say, and we engage in collaborative problem-solving with them, to find solutions. We understand that their behaviour is driven by high levels of stress and support and teach them the explicit skills they need to return to a state of calm alert, ready for learning.
We prepare our children for the next part of their educational journey and beyond, shaping their lives for the better. They become independent, resourceful, resilient and humane members of the wider world. They know their own worth and the positive contribution they can make to their own families and to a civil society.
Everyone is welcome at Haywoodd Grove.
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