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What we offer!

Nurture the Nature Forest School offers Research-backed Forest School programs in Scarborough, Ontario for children ages 2-12 including Forest PreSchool, Forest School Kindergarden, School Age Forest School, Camps, and more. Our location is 390 Morningside Avenue, at Morningside Park!

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Reach out to learn more, and enroll with us today!

Registration is open!

Experience the benefits of education in nature!
A place where your child can explore the depths of their imagination in a sensory rich environment

Set your child up for the future!

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A bit about us

Nurture the Nature Forest School was founded in 2022 by Brittany Gillingham, a licensed Lead Forest School Practitioner and certified Therapeutic Skills Practitioner for Outdoor Leaders.

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With years of research it was clear that learning in nature is just what children and youth need, so Nurture the Nature Forest School was born.

"Passion is lifted from the Earth itself by the muddy hands of the young. It travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature” Richard Louv

Benefits of Forest School

  • Improves physical and mental health

  • Improves knowledge of environment and ecological literacy

  • Enhances environmental stewardship

  • Improves cognitive flexibility and academic achievement

  • Improves self-esteem and confidence

  • Improves capacity for attention and working memory

  • Stimulates creativity and imagination 

  • Advances fine and gross motor skills

  • Beneficial shifts in perserverance and resilience

  • Reduces stress and increases patience

  • Enhances leadership skills, and teamwork

  • Improves problem solving, and critical thinking

  • Improves risk-taking and self-regulation skills

  • Improves concentration and motivation

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Open Extended  Hours

Come check us out!

Mon - Fri: 7:30am - 6pm
Sat: Closed Sun: Closed

Ask us about Field Trips, Private Lessons, and B-earth day parties!

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Ron Scott, CA

"Their social emotional growth is incredible. They learn how to solve complex on their own and play without a need for adult intervention. They're fine motor improved dramatically without using a pencil more than necessary. They are creative, writing and imaginations run wild! They sleep better because of the fresh air and sunlight, and a much higher level of activity. Students with speech concerns improve radically because they're communicating all the time with peers. And for me, it's just so peaceful being in the forest, surrounded by its beauty and the beauty of children playing and their laughter."
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