Roots Forest School
Outdoor Education in Angelsey, Wales

Welcome to Roots forest school, we are a family run forest school, catering for children of all ages and abilities. Though a variety of programmes, such as after school child care, Summer holiday clubs, homschooling sessions, school groups, ceremonies and parties. We offer camping experiences on-site, to be immersed in nature.

Roots Forest School
Outdoor Education in Angelsey, Wales

Sessions currently running

Tree Babies

What we offer

Seren Y Mor

Find us onsite at Seren Y Mor Campsite! Keep an eye on our Faccebook for dates of Summer Forest School, and workshops for families , from foraging to immersive theatre, nature crafts, and making flower crowns

Tonneau Festival

Fund us running forest school at Tonneau Festival

Home of the Drum

Find us running forest school at Home of the Drum

Stay and Play family sessions

Family stay and play sessions where all the family is welcome. This session is aimed at all ages . Share in the wonder of nature as a family, make something in our creative corner; learn new vocabulary get active climbing over logs and building dens. Tree babies activities there for those with babies, the outdoor library is open, help yourself to tea and sit around the fire, take part in a scavenger hunt with toddlers, get messy in the mud kitchen. Something for everyone to enjoy. ***Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult*** 10 am – 1pm Carreglwyd Estate, Anglesey Please book through our contact page

School groups

We aim to work with the Education Authority to deliver sessions to school groups at the Carreglwyd Estate. These sessions run through term time, the activities are planned to with the class’ current learning journey or to consolidate prior learning in different curriculum areas.

Children’s Parties

Childrens parties available on request with a range of activities, we will do our best to accommodate your group, no matter how large or small. To celebrate that special day we an combine this with a ceremony of some kind to celebrate the year. Parties include games and activities, and a craft to so children can go home with their home made party token.

Home Education

Home education club runs Fridays from January, 10.30am – 12.30pm. This gives the home education community a space to get together, to experience forest school, and to give children an additional social hub. Sessions are learner led however we help facilitate sessions around your learning objectives. These sessions start again in September.

Weddings

We offer wedding sessions at the beautiful Carreglwyd Estate. During the speeches and meal why not let the kids run wild and learn about the incredible surrounding forest? We offer sessions from 2 hours to the full day. Adding extra magic to the special day.

Social Prescription

Social prescribing is the provision of non-clinical support for people with a range of mental and physical health problems. We are available to provide nature based interventions as an alternative, or alongside prescribed medication to improve health and wellbeing of participants. We accept referrals on a case to case basis. We recommend a minimum 12 week prescription model, to facilitate incremental benefits to health and wellbeing experienced through attending sessions. We passionately believe in time in the woods, a cup of tea, and a chat.

Forest bathing

A Japanese therapy with clinically proven results to improve happiness and invigorate cognition. These sessions are available for adults, children in separate groups. Mothers and babies join our tree babies sessions tailored specifically for you and your little one. Please keep an eye on our up and coming events page for the next sessions.

Rite of Passage Ceremonies

Ceremonies would have traditionally featured in the lives of all individuals and are now extremely rare. Marking of the transitions from one phase of life into another highlights and strengthens the connection to yourself, your community, and to nature. Celebrations of the changing of seasons, such as the solstices and equinoxes can be participated in by all, and we can also mark a special event on a more individual level, the end of bed wetting, first day of a new school, a final exam; if the event is important to you then we can help mark it and make it special.

Ethos

We know that Homo sapiens is a keystone species in all of the world’s diverse ecosystems, and that ecological literacy is the foundation for participating in regenerative action leading to environmental conditions conducive to the continuation of life.

The first step towards ecological literacy is a comfortable immersion in the natural world; safely exploring the life that surrounds us, developing self-awareness and self-reliance, and coming to understand our place in systems both social and ecological.

‘Now I see the secret of making the best persons, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth’

– Walt Whitman

Location

Carreglwyd Estate

Carreglwyd is a beautiful and magical family run estate nestled in woodland enfolded by the local landscape. The estate is focused on a 17th century country house set in a landscaped garden, around an ornamental lake, with tall trees, outcrops of rock, and a large reed bed nature reserve attracting a diverse array of birds and other wildlife, as well as only being a short walk from the beach and rugged coastline, there are a variety of environments to explore.

It is on this site we offer school groups, summer holiday retreats for both children and adults, and sessions for child care when the estate offers bespoke weddings.

Contact Us

Have any questions or would like to book please send us a message!

“When we chop nature into bits in an attempt to understand it, we lose sight of the relationships among those bits. But ecological healing is all about the healing of relationships.” Charles Eisenstein

Thank you to everybody joining our sessions this s