NIFSA
Applications are now open for the 2024/25 academic year covering all of Northern Ireland. If you submitted an application last year and this was not successful, you will have been notified if this has been carried over to this round of funding. Applications will be selected to ensure equal numbers of schools and nurseries getting trained in each Council area.
NIFSA have secured funding from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Mid-Ulster District Council, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Belfast City Council, Ards and North Down Borough Council and Drumlin Wind Co-Operative to offer free training and accreditation for schools and nurseries, across Northern Ireland, to gain their official NIFSA Forest School status.
Funding is only available to organisations that are not qualified Forest Schools already and are not private businesses.
NIFSA Full of Life Resource
NIFSA Full of Life resource
NIFSA Full of Life Resource
NIFSA resource
NIFSA Full of Life Resource
NIFSA Full of Life Resource
NIFSA Hide and seek thematic unit appendix
Hide and Seek Animal Thematic Unit resources
Hide and Seek Plant Thematic Unit Resources
Hide and Seek Thematic Unit main handbook
Resource for NIFSA Survival Thematic
Children within Key Stage 2 stage will investigate, explore and learn about the environment
by utilising and working in a Forest School setting. This may be within their grounds or
forest area nearby. They will meet the objectives of the Northern Ireland Curriculum whilst
also developing the aims and values of NIFSA.
The children will use the forest to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills across
a range of learning areas. The theme allows the teacher a wide variety of opportunities
to connect the learning from the Forest School setting to other opportunities within the
classroom and to make relevant connections across the curriculum