A promotional film produced by Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi for Better Start Bradford and The Forest School Play Project which provides access to woodland and nature for children and parents of nursery school age. Through play they learn more about the environment, so that when they are older, they will become better custodians of it. Title: The Forest School Play Project with Get Out More In response to environmental inequalities across the area, Better Start Bradford commissioned Get...

A promotional film produced by Pishdaad Modaressi Chahardehi for Better Start Bradford and The Forest School Play Project which provides access to woodland and nature for children and parents of nursery school age. Through play they learn more about the environment, so that when they are older, they will become better custodians of it. Title: The Forest School Play Project with Get Out More In response to environmental inequalities across the area, Better Start Bradford commissioned Get Out More CIC to deliver a programme of activity to increase children’s and families’ confidence and skills in accessing the outdoors through play to promote children's development and wellbeing Between 2018-2024 Get Out More ran 57 nine-or-ten week forest school programmes in local parks and woodlands, involving 61 nurseries and nearly 600 three-year-old children We ran 541 free family play sessions in local parks, on a drop-in basis to extend the opportunity for outdoor play beyond the forest school programmes As various classes of nursery school aged children are accompanied on the exploration of woodland in and around the city of Bradford as part of the Forest School Play Project, they are filmed taking part in a variety of activities that helps teach them about nature and how to take care of it. Some of the children hold -hands as they walk along woodland paths while others toast marshmallows over a fire, cross a small stream, climb a small hillside with the assistance of a rope and walk along a rope bridge. As the children take part in these activities a montage of voices from those facilitating the project to parents and nursery workers who are assisting and leaning about the project about what both they and the children get from it. As a child turns over a stone to see what lives underneath it, another helps build a fire and rope swing. In another part of the wood a group of adult nursery workers taking part in a training session in which they learn some of the skills necessary to run their own Forest School including setting up a bivouac shelter and camp. As they go about their tasks some of those involved talk about what they hope to take back to their own classrooms, as they speak a montage of both moving and still images of more children taking part in other activities such as jumping into leaves and feeding a horse in a field and going on another forest walk to learn about nature. As one of the teachers talks about how the children like to talk about what they’ve done, a group of them having fun swinging in a hammock. Over a final montage of another group of children going on a walk through a woods, some of their smiling faces ending with them waving at the camera. In voiceover one of those involved in the project talks about how the Forest School Play Project will be a legacy for Bradford. End title: With thanks to all the children, parents and nurseries and practitioners who took part in the Forest School Play Project, Better Start Bradford, Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub