Let’s Go Outside: Forest School for SEND Pupils and Children with Autism. A Toolkit for Practitioners and Schools.

The benefits of learning outside the classroom are increasingly recognised and
documented and there is growing research establishing how the natural environment is progressively being used as an alternative learning provision for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and those diagnosed with Autism. This toolkit arises from a project which developed and tested methods to assess the impact of forest school on children with SEND, developed in partnership with the Inclusive Multi Academy Trust in Watford, which has an outdoor education/forest school programme focussing on children with SEND. The toolkit aims to provide an overview, give general guidance, and make suggestions for setting up, running, monitoring and evaluating forest school to support children with SEND / Autism.