Effra Nursery School & Children's Centre
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Forest school provision

At Effra qualified staff plan weekly Forest School trips to Effra Nature Garden and Brockwell Park.  Forest school sessions provide children with the opportunity to experience the outdoors on a large scale without concrete boundaries.  Children are involved in experiences and activities that encourage them to explore and interact with the natural environment.  Many Forest School activities have an element of risk attached to them, but these are carefully managed by the qualified staff.
Our aim with forest school activity is to support children to develop key skills such as confidence, perseverance, resilience, self-regulation and  building self-esteem. These skills are then applied back in the school to develop positive attitudes to learning across all areas of learning and development.

Examples of Forest School activities are:
  • Sawing wood using a bow saw or hack saw
  • Transient art
  • Mud pies/painting
  • Den building
  • Whittling using potato peelers
  • Collecting natural objects
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​​35 Effra Parade | London | SW2 1PL
Tel: 020 7733 8425
Email: admin@effra-school.org.uk
Website maintained by: SML​
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  • Welcome
  • About Us
    • Our vision and ethos
    • Our governors
    • School development plan and EYPP report
    • DfE Financial information
    • Key policies
    • GDPR and privacy notices
    • Ofsted reports
    • Opening times and hoilday schedule
    • Our staff
    • Volunteer programme
    • Job vacancies
  • Nursery Experience
    • Fees
    • Applying for a place >
      • Enquiry form
    • Places for 2 year olds
    • Places for 3 and 4 year olds
    • Nurture Space
    • Children's learning and development >
      • Learning outdoors
      • Learning to communicate, read and write
      • Forest school provision
      • Music therapy and interactive music making
    • Children with special educational needs and disabilities
    • Settling in
    • Daily routines
    • Breakfast and after school club
    • Holiday provision >
      • Holiday provision form
  • Children's Centre
  • Information For Parents
    • Emergency procedures for uncollected children
    • Gallery
    • Newsletters
  • Contact us
    • Our centres and contacts
    • Legal enquires