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The heart of Canopy
Our Ethos
Our ethos underpins everything that takes place within the Forest School. It encompasses our beliefs and values, purpose and passions.
Our Mission
To create a transformative learning experience in a natural setting where play, exploration and supported risk taking inspires personal growth and meaningful connections to the world, self, and others.
Look after ourselves, look after each other and look after the place that we're in.
Our Four Values
Connection, Growth, Exploration, Sustainability
Although each value is explored individually, they may all take place within a session — interlocked and working harmoniously together.
Our Ethos
To provide a classroom with no walls.
Where the sky is the limit.
Nature is the teacher and imagination, play and discovery the curriculum.
Self-esteem, well being, deep connections and a sense of wholeness and joy are the learning outcomes.
We help young people build meaningful relationships — with the natural world, with themselves, and with each other. In the forest, connection is the foundation everything else grows from.
To undergo natural development socially, emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually over time. We nurture reflection, innovation and creativity — growth that happens at its own pace.
To enjoy new discoveries, adventures and take supported risks. Children learn by doing, explore at their own pace, and develop the confidence to step into the unknown.
To use methods that do not harm the environment, so natural resources are still available in the future. We support ecosystems so they can continue — and we look after the place we are in.
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