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Bishops Wood Centre

Bishops Wood Centre

Bishops Wood LogoWelcome! The Bishops Wood Centre works with schools, teachers and environmental educators in Worcestershire and beyond. The centre focuses on Learning for Sustainability, outdoor environmental learning, Forest Schools and helping schools to develop their own grounds as exciting places for learning.

The Centre offers conference facilities, room hire, team building / activity days, leisure courses, workshops in traditional crafts and woodland skills and is an ideal venue for children's parties.

As well as a comprehensive suite of school programmes, we offer alternative curriculum provision leading to NOCN 'Step Up' Award and a range of CPD training courses in partnership with TIDE~global learning.

The 70 acre woodland site is home to a range of exciting eco-buildings, meadows, ponds and a Saxon settlement.

Forest School News

Bishops Wood and Worcestershire have  been at the forefront of the development of Forest School throughout the UK since it started 12 years ago. In this milestone in the development of the Forest School movement, Jon Cree, Training Co-ordinator at Bishops Wood has been elected first chairman of the national Forest School Association. This will provide the first national governing body for Forest School which will assure high standards in training and provision and will also support Forest School practitioners around the UK.  For more information contact fsa@outdoor-learning.org

Patron Tim Gill, author and national authority on play and learning, particularly in the outdoor sector, said "I am very honoured to be asked to be the patron of the first national association for those working to take forward the Forest School movement.......... For me, the potential of Forest School is built on two vital foundation stones: the intrinsic qualities of natural places, and the intrinsic motivations and learning impulses of children. If Forest School is to leave a lasting impression on the lives of the children and young people who experience it, these two need equal emphasis.......... I look forward to following and cheering on the work of the Association, and I am happy to do whatever I can to help take the organisation forward."Forest School Association

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External websites

  • National Grid
    Bishops Wood Environmental Education Centre
  • Planetary Voices Radio
    Tour around the Bishops Wood Environmental Education Centre
  • Anubis
    A Website that specialises in first aid training and team building.
  • Learning through Landscapes
    A site dedicated to stimulating outdoor learning experiences.
  • WCC Biodiversity for Schools
    Worcestershire County Councils School and Biodiversity Section.
  • Earth Education UK  
    Information on the Earth Education process - helping people to live more harmoniously with the natural world
  • Folksy Theatre
    Folksy Theatre tour rural areas performing a range of Theatre styles from issue-based plays and Theatre-In-Education, to open-air Shakespeare productions. On this site you can find information on the company and it’s various productions, along with pictures, reviews, comments and tour dates.
  • Friends of Bishops Wood 
    Friends of Bishops Wood is a charity set up to support the work of the Bishops Wood Centre. We run regular events that are open to the public.
  • Tide - global learning
    A teachers' network promoting the idea that young people have an entitlement to global learning through engaging with global perspectives, human rights, sustainability and international development.

    We are not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more

This page was last reviewed 14 May 2013 at 11:36.
The page is next due for review 10 November 2014.