Job Opportunity: Wood School Assistant
Wood School Assistant [job title pending] Sylva Wood School Sylva Foundation is looking to recruit an exceptional individual to join its Wood School team based at the Sylva Wood Centre. Since launching the Wood School in 2019, it has gone from strength to strength. The Wood School plays a central role in Sylva’s mission; nurturing …. Read More
Summer School 2021
In September, Sylva Foundation hosted a Summer School for young creative people to promote design and craft using home-grown timber. The inspiring report from the workshop is published today to coincide with Grown in Britain week. Sylva Foundation cares passionately about trees and people, and at its Wood School in south Oxfordshire it has set …. Read More
A discussion about Wood Culture
Recently, Sylva Foundation CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery was interviewed by Tom Barnes, Director of Vastern Timber, about Wood Culture. They discussed public perspectives of forestry and the need to recreate an affinity between society and the natural world. With thanks to Vastern Timber. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
LITTLE ADVENTURES, BIG CONNECTIONS: Inspiring Kids to Explore Nature Virtually
Three weeks ago, life as I knew it was pretty great: every week I got to bring nature connection games, stories and lots of love and silliness to over 400 kiddos in central Ohio. Inspired by Richard Louv, Jon Young, Dave Bauer and many more authors, I had worked my way up from being an …. Read More
A MILESTONE IN THE STUDY OF NATURE’S BENEFITS: From Intuitive Understanding to Overwhelming Evidence
Thirty years ago, I was a newly hired faculty member in the Department of Special Education at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Many of my graduate students were working as teachers in classrooms with young children with disabilities. Teaching strategies, at the time, were based in part on behavior modification principles. This approach uses …. Read More
HEADING TO THE FOREST: Bringing Joy, Accomplishment & Hope to Children
This is the second installment of a two-part series. In the first part of this article, we visited a nature-based early childhood program in a forest preserve on the western edge of Chicagoland. Here, children found treasure, became pirates, engineered a raft/bridge and adventured for long distances in the winter woods. In this part, we’ll …. Read More
New Woodland Management Resources for Educators
Today the Sylva Foundation launches a set of new woodland management resources for teachers, Forest School leaders and other outdoor educators, through the myForest for Education website. myForest for Education is a free online application that enables educators to produce simple maps and management plans for their outdoor education sites, and has been designed in …. Read More
Forestry Fieldwork Resources Launched for Secondary Schools
Fieldwork in the Forest, our new forestry fieldwork resources for secondary school geography teachers and pupils launches today. Fieldwork in the Forest The resources are the culmination of four years of consultation with geography teachers and effective partnerships, working across England’s education and forestry sectors. The Sylva Foundation, with support from Patsy Wood Trust and …. Read More