• Our Ethos •

We spend loads of time in nature and we have a lot of fun doing it! Our site in the Hermitage of Braid Nature Reserve is really special to us. We want to go back time and time again.

It is like an old friend who has lots of delicious biscuits. We care for it, and always leave it better than we find it.

Outdoor skills like wood carving, fire building, wild cooking and foraging help us to feel confident and good about ourselves.

Forest School is a safe place to try new things and embrace challenges. We’re perseverant, resilient and independent. Who doesn’t feel chuffed with themselves when they’ve built their own fire?

We encourage kindness to all life by following our 3 rules of Forest School:

✓ Look after yourself

✓ Look after others

✓ Look after the environment

Lucy is a qualified Forest School leader who has been running groups since 2019. She has the best job in the world, spending her days outdoors with curious children, her best friend, and Edinburgh’s answer to David Attenborough. She loves watching sticks become wands, mud turn to paint, and every leaf reveal a tiny mystery. Her favourite time of year? Bird nesting season.

Leila has enjoyed working with groups of children and young people for over a decade. She likes to craft. She likes to laugh. She regularly does both together. She is big on kindness, developing a growth mindset, and is interested in everything. She definitely believes in magic.

Ian is an ecologist who has worked with people of all ages but especially likes sharing nature with children and families. His passions are forest craft and foraging, and he enjoys telling a story by the fire. When he is not carving a whistle or a spoon in the woods he is probably paddling his hand-built canoe on a loch.