Surrounded by high-rise council blocks, Eastwood Nursery School in Wandsworth, London, appears an unlikely place to operate a forest school. But amid the urban sprawl, the practitioners have found a green haven in the grounds of nearby Roehampton University.
Many of the nursery children who attend the sessions come from cramped and confined local housing estates and do not have access to a garden or a safe, natural play space. In a community where outings to the park are not the norm, many of the children would be missing out on a local resource and experiencing little of the natural world if they didn't attend forest school.
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