Nature Garden

Our Nature Garden is a truly magical place filled with wildlife, flowers, plants and a pond, as well as a new outdoor classroom. Our children experience a real taste in the best of outdoor learning. We have built a compost toilet, dug ponds and built shelters with the help of our wonderful St Faith’s parents and the Friends of St Faith’s.

Children visit the Nature Garden regularly as part of their Forest Friday routine but our classes also choose to increase their adventuring at other times of the school week. Free play and discovery empower children to learn their own way, working individually or in a team and appreciating the world around them. Being outside boosts positivity and eases stress and our staff also reap the benefits from this beautiful and peaceful space.

Over the years, teachers have used this resource to the full in all areas of the curriculum: acting out Macbeth, measuring in Maths and studying many aspects of nature as well as painting water colours in Art and enjoying the warmth of a fire at our annual campout.