--- title: "Forest School" url: "https://hopehighschool.co.uk/our-community/forest-school" school: "Hope High School" --- [![Hope High School](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/logo/logo_250b.png)![](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/logo/logo_250b.png)](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/) - [ Our Community](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/our-community) - [ Key Information](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/key-information) - [ Curriculum](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum) - [ Term Dates \| School Day](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/termdates) - [ Personal Development ](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/personal-development) - [ Contact Us](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/contact) # Forest School Forest School is a specialised learning approach that sits within and compliments the wider context of outdoor and woodland education. The process helps and facilitates more than knowledge-gathering, it helps pupils develop socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically and intellectually. It creates a safe, non-judgemental nurturing environment for our pupils to try things out and take risks. Forest School inspires a deep and meaningful connection to the world and an understanding of how our pupils fit within it. Our approach to risk means that our pupils constantly expand on their abilities by solving real-world issues, building self-belief and resilience. We believe that risk is more than just potential for physical harm, but a more holistic thing, there are risks in everything we do, and we grow by overcoming them. Forest School therefore, helps our pupils to become, healthy, resilient, creative and independent learners. There is lots of research out there to support the outcomes of Forest School, but we know that it isn’t just the educational outcomes and research that matter, our pupils and staff love it too! ### Curriculum Map - Forest School Forest School Curriculum 87 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/files/documents/Curriculm_Map_Forest_School_2020-21.docx) ### Curriculum - [About our Curriculum](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/about-our-curriculum) - [Art](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/art) - [Computing](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/computing) - [Design Technology / Construction](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/design-technology) - [English](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/english-and-literature) - [Food Technology](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/food-technology) - [Forest School](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/our-community/forest-school) - [Horticulture](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/horticulture) - [Humanities](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/humanities) - [Maths](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/maths-and-numeracy) - [PE](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/pe) - [PSHE](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/personal-development) - [Religious Education ](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/religious-education) - [Science](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/science) - [The Duke of Edinburgh Award](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/the-duke-of-edinburgh-award) - [Alternative Provision ](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/vocational-programmes) - [Interventions](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/interventions) ### [Latest News](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news) [![Image of Hope High School Recognised Among Lancashire's Top 5% of Pol-Ed Schools](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/imagecache/150x150c/news/Pol-Ed.png)](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news/2026-07-15-hope-high-school-recognised-among-lancashire-s-top-5-of-pol-ed-schools) #### [Hope High School Recognised Among Lancashire's Top 5% of Pol-Ed Schools](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news/2026-07-15-hope-high-school-recognised-among-lancashire-s-top-5-of-pol-ed-schools) 15 July 2026 [![Image of Lancashire County Council - Break Time Service](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/imagecache/150x150c/news/Break_Time_APRIL_2026.jpg)](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news/2026-04-02-lancashire-county-council-break-time-service) #### [Lancashire County Council - Break Time Service](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news/2026-04-02-lancashire-county-council-break-time-service) 2 April 2026 [![Image of Skelmersdale Youth Zone for Violence Against Women and Girls 'Get the Message Campaign' ](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/imagecache/150x150c/news/VAWG_Event_pic.jpeg)](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news/2026-03-27-skelmersdale-youth-zone-for-violence-against-women-and-girls-get-the-message-campaign) #### [Skelmersdale Youth Zone for Violence Against Women and Girls 'Get the Message Campaign' ](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/news/2026-03-27-skelmersdale-youth-zone-for-violence-against-women-and-girls-get-the-message-campaign) 27 March 2026 - ![Thrive](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/menu/embraced-setting.jpg) - ![DofE](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/menu/DofE_logo_gunmetal_full_RGB.jpg) - ![Team Teach](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/menu/teamteach.jpg) - ![ASDAN](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/menu/asdan_registeredcentre_logo_colour_print-web-700-x-400-page.jpg) - [![Asthma Friendly School Accreditation](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/menu/Asthma_Friendly_School.jpg)](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/) ### Contact Us **Hope High School** Carfield Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9DP Tel: 01695 721066 - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/HopeHighSkem/?view_public_for=107108070944363) © Copyright 2017–2026 Hope High School– [View Privacy Notice](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/privacy-notice) School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)