Welcome!
Wild Plants Can Sing Forest School is located in the heart of the beautiful Grainey valley in county Clare, Ireland, on 44 acres of wildflower meadows and the magical ancient oak woodland called Bunshoon Wood. This woodland can be found on the oldest maps of Ireland.
What is Forest School?
Forest School is an innovative educational approach to outdoor learning and play. It is a wonderful way of helping children to learn about Nature and about themselves, while developing a whole variety of skills, improving physical and mental health, and experiencing connection with the natural world outdoors.
Here at Wild Plants Can Sing we support the child's holistic development on all levels, including physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Practitioners are certified and Garda vetted, and trained in Remote First Aid ...
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Benefits of Forest School
In the words of Richard Louv, the author of the acclaimed book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, “Contact with nature is as important to children as good nutrition and adequate sleep.”
Forest School has been shown to build confidence and resilience, improve physical and emotional well-being, and social and communications skills.
It helps build empathy for the natural world, as well as allowing experiences of joy and freedom ...
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Our Vision and Values
Activities at Forest School
Our Vision is to support all participants, children and adults, in reconnecting with Nature and developing confidence, compassion, self-responsibility, a sense of adventure, and empathy and respect for the natural world, through regular outdoor sessions in a woodland.
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Each session includes some seasonal activities that can range from plant identification walks in our species-rich meadow and ancient oak woodland, to making clay tree faces or clay animals; foraging; den-building and making fairy houses...
"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild.
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand"
W B Yeats
Upcoming Events
Forest School group for Girls ages 6 - 9
Dates
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Music of the Plants
We sometimes help the plants perform in a Music of the Plants concert! If you'd like to find out more, come to one of our sessions...
