Crowdfunding will help with ambitious forest school project at Peckover
A Fenland school is hoping the public will help achieve its ambitious of developing a forest school for pupils to learn outdoor skills.
Teacher Lucy Downham is one of the staff members at Peckover School in Wisbech leading the forest school project and she has set up a Justgiving crowdfunding page to help raise the necessary money.
With a target of £750Lucy explains on the fundraising page: “Peckover has been privileged enough to have been given the opportunity to develop an area of the school site to become forest school, while three staff members gain their level 3 leaders qualification.
“This is such an important and valued opportunity for our children, especially after the difficult year of lockdown and their missed learning, social and life experience opportunities.
“One of the main principles of any forest school programme is to develop physical, social cognitive, emotional, linguistic, social and spiritual aspects of learners.
“This is so incredibly important to us as we at Peckover want to offer exactly this to our children through a unique educational experience using the outdoor environment; providing children with rich amounts of learning opportunities such as emotional well-being, improved mental health, learning by experience, social skills and many more.
“But in order for us to provide the very best opportunities and experiences we need to purchase a wide range of resources from fire pits, cooking resources for outdoor cooking, a shelter (for those rainy days), den building equipment, wet suits to keep children warm and dry during the winter months. The list goes on.
“We want every child to grow up with memorable experiences and we want to do the up most to support our children promoting the holistic development of every child; fostering resilience, confidence and independent individuals.
“We believe we owe it to our children to provide the very best learning support we can but we just need your support in achieving it.”