Richard Dean started in childcare alongside his wife, manager of Grayswood Nursery in Surrey, in 2009. Two years later he had added ‘Forest School’ to the setting’s name by completing a Level 3 Certificate in Forest School Programme Leadership.
‘In the Royal Green Jackets regiment we were fieldcraft specialists – our job was living in and from nature lots of the time,’ he says. ‘I started outside activities at the nursery and decided to pursue that through the qualification.’
Forest School originates from Scandinavian educational approaches and aims for children to develop personal, social and emotional skills within the natural world. Forest School Training delivered the course, which is accredited by the Open College Network West Midlands and recognised by the Forest School Association.
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