Playful and Joyful celebrations
We are so grateful to you all, we have been hearing from the forest school community all over the UK on how they are going to celebrate Forest School Day this year. We have picked a few here to share and will keep adding to it daily. To share with us your celebration ideas is easy, first,
- Complete our short online registration form and then,
- Use #ForestSchoolDay to post your ideas and images of your celebrations and inspire others and share your gratitude of forest school with a simple message on instagram.
How are you going to celebrate?

Essex, England
Essex Outdoors Tree Huggers
“The small team of Forest School Practitioners from Essex Outdoors will be having a campfire get together. It will be a great chance to be together in the woods and blow away the cobwebs!”

Shepperton, England
Saxon Primary School
“I will be running a Forest School session at my school and we will be celebrating FS Day by making crowns, playing games, reading poetry and sharing the joy of nature!”

Bedfordshire, England
Marston Vale Forest School
“We are relaunching our parent and toddler group at Ampthill Park and also starting a new Home Ed group. Both sessions are fully booked and we can’t wait to be back in the park.”

Bodmin Cornwall, England
Badger Forest School & Outdoor learning
“We will be running sessions all week with our pre school family groups and home Ed learning groups to celebrate Forest School Day. We will share gratitude memories on wood cookies to hang on the trees.”

Stockton-on-Tees, England
The Barn Childcare
“I am a Forest school leader and Deputy room, leader. We want to get parents and carers involved, hold a full-day event of forest school enabling children and parents to take part. This may also be taking place in the other 2 settings.”

Hertford, England
Cherry tree school
“All classes at Cherry Tree School will complete outdoor activities on this day and celebrate using nature to inspire our learning. We will encourage children to develop confidence, work together and develop new skills.”

Moray, Scotland
“Earthtime Forest School Nursery will hold a cook-out lunch and attempt to paint a natural rainbow!”

Nottingham, England
“We will be in our school forest site and will be aiming to produce a collaborative art effort inspired by Autumn… I will post pictures.”

Cambridge, England
Fireflies Forest School
“We will celebrate with our weekly Twiglet group all things forest school!”
Forest School is awesome!
We hear you loud and clear…We have been receiving FSD registrations all week, and the message is clear you all agree forest school is awesome! Here are some of the counties already confimed to be celebrating….
Celebrations in all regions of the UK!
East Midlands
Nottingham
North East Derbyshire
London
Barnet
Greater London
Haringay
Harrow
Newham
Redbridge
Richmond
North East England
Durham
Durham Stockton-on-Tees
Newcastle Upon Tyne
North West England
Blackpool
Cumbria
Lancashire
Liverpool
Manchester
Greater Manchester
Liverpool
East of England
Bedfordshire
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
East Hertfordshire
Essex
Hertfordshire
Watford
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Moray
Edingburgh City
South East England
Dartford
East Sussex
Hampshire
Kent
Oxfordshire
Sevenoaks
Surrey
West Sussex
South West England
Cornwall
Devon
Gloucestershire
Wales
Cardiff
West Midlands
Dudley
Staffordshire
Stoke-on-Trent
Walsall
Worcestershire
Yorkshire and the Humber
North Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
York
Be inspired
We invite you all to connect, share and celebrate Forest School on Forest School Day.
Hear Jon Cree tell us about how one school is celebrating ‘The joy of Forest School’ .
For a chance to have your Forest School Day celebration message read out here upload how you are going to celebrate Forest School Day on instagram at #ForestSchoolDay and register your celebration.
Share your gratitude for forest school!
Forest School Day is a wonderful, opportunity to take some time to stop and and share our gratitude for our forest school community. It has been quite a year and we are grateful for your individual dedication and commitment to forest school.
Stop and take some time to connect with you forest school community and nature to celebrate in a forest school values way.
How are you going to celebrate?
#ForestSchoolDay
See how are other people celebrating?