FSES Learning Insight into Sesssion: Beyond the Forest – Connecting with Heritage and the village 10 Jul 201926 Dec 2019 By Coach Shimin As the regular Forest School sessions settle into our primary location at Dairy Farm Nature Park, we start to explore beyond the forest. Even towards the later…
FSES Learning Insight into Session: Where shall we go today? (Emotional Resilience) 13 Jun 201926 Dec 2019 By Coach Shimin (Repost. Article have to be read in the context of May 2018) The toughest part of each Forest School session is probably right at the beginning, when…
FSES Introduction… 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…
FSES Learning… 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…
FSES Introduction… Letting the child lead in Forest School 17 Feb 2019 By Coach Shimin Parents familiar with Forest School style would know that we let the children ‘lead the way’ in sessions. This includes deciding on where to go as a…
FSES Learning… 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…
FSES Learning UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 21 Jan 2019 By Coach Shimin When I was at a pre-school recently, I saw a poster displayed: https://www.unicef.org/crc/index_30177.html UNICEF was first set up post-WWII to establish certain rights and needs for children…
FSES Play… 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…
FSES Introduction… 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…
FSES Play Play Fighting Vs Bullying 29 Oct 2018 “I didn’t know what to do, when the manager touched me on my thigh.” Many young ladies and sometimes gentlemen have experienced being physically harassed at work. And more often…
