This afternoon is designed to give teachers the chance to meet and chat with a variety of local project experts who provide free learning resources for our local schools, as part of the Foresters’ Forest ‘Working with Schools’, National Lottery Heritage funded project (2017-2022).

When booking, there are two afternoon sessions teachers can choose from:

13:00-15:00

15:30-17:30

Reasons to attend:

• Explore how best to use the Forest of Dean as a giant learning resource – see our free ‘curriculum schemes of work’, designed to meet the OFSTED requirement to deliver a curriculum that reflects our local context
• Talks and Forest Visits – meet our project leaders who can visit your school to give talks, organise forest visits and more
• Plan visits to Forest heritage sites – including Hopewell Colliery, Clearwell Caves, Dean Heritage Centre, Forestry England Visitor Centres & Conservation Grazing projects
• Online Tools – find out how to access the wide variety of free online learning resources we provide
• Collect your free copy of our Geology Pack for Schools
• Learn more about and book use of ‘Ranger in a Bag’ , an outdoor learning resource
• Find out about Foresters’ Forest ‘Hidden Heritage Apps’
• Book school visits to an Archaeology Dig – scheduled Autumn 2021
• Hear about the new Foresters’ Forest children’s books
• Complete the afternoon by booking a free tour underground at Hopewell Colliery (limited spaces)! You will see the option to book the tours when you reserve your place.

Note: We will pay staff cover to enable teachers to come, simply let us know if you need this once you have booked your place.