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

🔨 People Who Build: Join Our Free 6-Week Adult Forest School! 🌲 Looking for a hands-on project that makes a real impact? Our 6-week forest school for adults is the perfect opportunity to work with your hands, learn new skills, and contribute to something permanent in the great outdoors. You’ll be part of a team creating a lasting forest school area using natural materials, hand tools, and battery-powered equipment. 🗓️ When: Every Wednesday, from mid-September 🕒 Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm 📍 Location: Roots Forest School, Carreglwyd, Llanfaethlu 🔗 Email: vivienneplank@smallwoods.org.uk Get outside, get your hands dirty, and be proud of what you build. Email to register now—limited spots available!

Share in the wonder of nature as a family and with friends, learn life skill. Make something in our creative corner, get active in the woods, the outdoor library is open, help yourself to tea, sit around the fire. Sessions aimed at 11 – 16 year olds, all ages welcome. There will be something for everyone to enjoy. Bring a packed lunch to enjoy the woods together.

What we offer

Seren Y Mor

Find us onsite at Seren Y Mor, Emma will be hsoting with creative nature crafts 10.30-12pm Every Tuesday and Thursday from 23rd August. Thres food onsite and Dandelion Wellness and Massage, and workshops for families every weekend, from foraging to immersive theatre, nature crafts, and making flower crowns and wreaths see the Seren Y Mor site for more details. Book with Emma here.

Tree Babies

This connection with nature is part of traditions the world over. We have lost our connection to nature in the busy world. Tree babies gives helps create experiences with nature from the early of days. We are all one, connected and together. Working with Babi Actif to bring sessions to baby and parent. TUESDAYS 10.30am -12pm in term time These sessions are free thanks to Babi Actif. Book your space through the BabiActif Facebook or email babiactif@snowdonia-active.com.

Summer holiday sessions

This Summer the lovely Emma will be running nature crafts Tuesdays and Thursdays at forest school! Bob and I LOVE a running our sessions, but are trying make sure we create space for free play, and going with the flow with our boys over the Summer, around work commitments. So are going to start our sessions again in September. Emma helped out at sessions last year and plans to start her own Forest school one day, she’s so energetic and creative! A message from Emma- I am very exited to be running crafts in the woods sessions this summer. Sessions will run 10-12 and I’d be delighted if you would join us for a picnic after. The sessions will include activities like: ⭐️Butterfly wing making: Cardboard wings will be provided and we will go on a nature walk to gather leaves and flowers to decorate the wings, bonus.. we get to wear them for the rest of the session!! ⭐️Making nature brushes: again, we will start with a nature walk and gather swishy leaves to tie to a stick and use them to paint. ⭐️Making sculptures from mud clay. ⭐️Decorating nature wands. ⭐️Nature crowns. ⭐️Flower hammering. ⭐️Making natural paints with flowers, spices and anything plant based we can think of There will also always be lots of other lovely things to play with in the woods like a mud kitchen, quiet reading, and many more! Please please remember to wear clothing you don’t mind getting dirty, as we most certainly will. Please also remember to be prepared for both rain or shine as Wales can be pretty unpredictable and change in the blink of am eye! If you have any more questions feel free to contact me on: 07877736304 I look forward to getting creative with you!!! All the best, Emma Book here

https://woodland-crafts-with-emma.live.baluu.co.uk/event/crafts-in-the-woods-1716713641

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

Such a lovely Wreath making and Forest school sess