Watts paid upwards of £1,500 for an annual National Trust licence to run her nursery, which provided government-funded free places for preschool-age children. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Caroline Watts’ forest school at Toys Hill was rated outstanding by Ofsted. “Since 2014 our children have benefitted immeasurably from playing and learning in these special National Trust woodlands. “He and his peers at forest school are the future generation of environmentalists who have at a young age developed an appreciation of the world around them,” they said. The wood’s understorey – remnants of gorse, heather and bramble – “has diminished during the time that the forest school has used the site”.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2018 06:56 UTC