Has anyone looked at the new forest school due to launch in Sept this year at Merchiston? It does nursery and the p1-p3 followed by p4-p7 in their existing junior school. The offering is co-ed. Their senior school will remain all boys.
Does anyone have any experience of forest schools? The website brochure says that numeracy and literacy will all underpin the primary school learning like in a regular school but that most of the learning will be outside and with outdoor materials rather than at a desk with a board. Merchiston has a good academic track record so id hope any new offerings were of the same standard.
Our dd attends an outdoor nursery, we think its fantastic. It would be great to continue this approach into primary learning but i worry about how many girls will be early adopters into a historically all boys school, whether its a fad and could be a poor educational move, any finally, i worry she wouldn't get into high school because it will be more competitive further up the school and also that it will generally be more disruptive to move schools and make new friends etc (before finding out about this option for merchi, we had been set on heriots and had planned to send from p1).