2019 in Review: Guided by our Trees

2 Jan 20202 Jan 2020

2019, a year of quiet focus and slow build towards our vision of being the village to raise our children together. We started the year at a new location, Dairy…

The Legendary Thornbill Thursday

26 Dec 2019

The cool wind of the monsoon season arrives. The forest school season ends for the year. Through the many years in Singapore, the thornbill thursday have been a main stay…

Children the Nomad

9 Oct 2019

"Let the land rest, Lets move to another space" , Children exclaimed. She hop on towards the light sprinkled forest floor, leading to the red clayed river plain in the…

Insight into Session: The Journey of a Bag

28 Aug 201926 Dec 2019

By Coach Darren 😸 (Written in September 2019, FSS Newsletter) This is a story about a child and his growing journey in forest school. ~ L has never put his…

Insight into Session: A month of FSS

30 May 201926 Dec 2019

By Coach Shimin The weather was both humid and hot, yet also having wet showers at times. In the regular weekly sessions, the kids went everywhere in the Dairy Farm…

Dimensional Training in Forest School @ Kuala Lumpur, Gombak Forest

1 Apr 20191 Apr 2019

"Everybody Goooooooo" a voice vibrated through the jungle, at 3am in the wee early morning. Awakened, I close my eyes to understand what I need to know. A stewardship is…

Forest School Visit: Japan, Kamakura

11 Feb 201911 Feb 2019

Letting Go of the Baggage of Emotions Head tucked in her bag, hands clasped over the ears, Tzmugi was stuck in the abyss of emotions from the little quarrel with…

Applying the Forest School ways to Kids Yoga

14 Jan 2019

As a school teacher previously, I greatly disliked the top-down and overly disciplinary way that most lessons were delivered and how students were automatically required to toe the line. Hence…

2018 in Review: Becoming Small

7 Jan 20197 Jan 2019

2018, a full year of forest school in Singapore. A total of 40 weeks of regular sessions, and 12 weeks of holiday camps, coupled with 20 over workshops plus another…

Bullying – from the view of an ex-MOE secondary school teacher

22 Oct 201822 Oct 2018

Bullying and the Practice of Mindfulness. By Wei Shimin (Coach & Editor of Forest School Singapore) My first year as a school teacher, everyone avoided this girl in my form…