About Nurture the Nature Forest School
Nurture the Nature Forest School focuses on Evidence-based practices to meet the needs of the whole child while building meaningful connections. Activities are designed to adequately nurture the emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual growth of our students. Through stimulating and hands-on learning opportunities in nature, children are guarenteed to develop all the benefits learning in nature has to offer!
Our ratio's consist of 6:1 so we can ensure each child's needs are met and powerful connections are made.
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All staff are First-Aid/CPR Certified and come with invaluable skills.
We prioritize the importance of community, helping one another as a community, and seeking the input of the community to ensure we meet everyone's needs to the best of our ability.
All About Me
Our Mission
To provide essential and lasting building blocks that nurture the mental, physical, and spiritual well-being of children through nature, and to develop nature connectedness.
Core Values
Connection
At Nurture the Nature Forest School we focus on connection with the land, with each other, with the community, and with ourselves. We see this as integral for our other values to be met.
Growth
We strive for growth in all areas and believe part of wellness is to keep growing as a person and community. Forest school has endless opportunities for growth!
Wellness
Wellness is a key component here at Nurture the Nature Forest School. We not only make time for wellness but center everything around it. We want to make sure that instead of just surviving, our children are thriving.
Meet our Founder: Brittany Gillingham
Brittany is a certified Lead Forest School Practitioner and is a Practitioner in Therapeutic Skills for Outdoor Leaders. Brittany is also a Child and Youth Care worker with over 10 years experience, and has many certificates in Indigenous Studies, along with lived experience and Survival Skills Certificates.
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Brittany is passionate about the outdoors and in striving to make the world a better place. She has four kids of her own whom she loves to explore the outdoors with in her personal time.
How Nurture the Nature came to be
Through her own spiritual journey and love of nature Brittany started to think about what the world needed to create positive change. With many years of research she knew the key was to re-connect children with nature. To provide an environment for children to thrive and grow where they could also learn essential skills. Brittany put together a program that incorporates the many things public schools are lacking such as developing inner-outer world connection, practicing wellness, gardening, nutrition, survival skills and much more.
Land Acknowledgement
This land is the traditional territory of the Mississauga’s of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples.
Relationship with the land is at the heart of Nurture the Nature Forest School. We are dedicated to learning and honouring the history of this land.
