FOREST PROGRAMS

Nature school helps your family prioritize outdoor time and positive connections with the Land within a welcoming community. Through play and hands-on learning opportunities at forest school, children grow to understand nature, themselves, and their community.

Young children are at the perfect age to explore the properties of mud in a mud kitchen or to create balancing games on a log. Getting dirty, climbing rocks, and finding our way safely and happily through the forest is all part of the forest school experience. Forest school is all about observing and supporting children’s interests, and we give children the time and space to make their own discoveries.

Throughout our programs, children will have many opportunities to experience play-based nature education, create with nature, listen to stories in the forest and learn about the places around them as they change throughout the seasons. Over the course of a year at forest school, children grow in their physical capacity and resilience, social-emotional learning, and connections to the land and to each other. They’ll experience so much that we have created an entire page of forest school learning outcomes below!

NEW FAMILY INFO SESSION

Are you considering having you child join one of our programs? In addition to connecting with us, please inquire about getting access to our recorded new family info session! You will learn about forest school philosophy, a typical day at Fresh Air Learning, how to dress your child, and much more.

Contact: info@freshairlearning.org

3 - 13 YEARS
2024-2025

For children ages 3 - 13 who enjoy being independent from their parents, we have play-based classes that give children the time and space to develop a relationship with each other and the land, in a warm, attachment-friendly environment. Children learn how to solve problems, discover their own resilience, and delight in the ways that the environment changes around them throughout the year. During the summer months, Fresh Air Learning also offers play-based nature camps for children ages 3-12.

*We still have spaces and short waiting lists in some of our winter and spring forest school classes! View the schedule and sign up below.

Questions? Contact info@freshairlearning.org

VIEW AND REGISTER HERE

2.5 - 12 YEARS
2025-2026

For children ages 2.5 - 12 who enjoy being independent from their parents, we have play-based classes that give children the time and space to develop a relationship with each other and the land, in a warm, attachment-friendly environment. Children learn how to solve problems, discover their own resilience, and delight in the ways that the environment changes around them throughout the year. During the summer months, Fresh Air Learning also offers play-based nature camps for children ages 3-12.

2025-2026 Program schedule

Vancouver: Everett Crowley

*Monday 7-11s 10am - 3pm
*Wednesday 12-15s 10am-3 pm

Vancouver: Trout Lake Park

*Monday & Wednesday 2.5-5s 9:30am -12:30pm (Fall Session)

North Vancouver: Various Locations

*Monday 3-7s 9:30am - 12:30pm
Thursday 3.5-7s 9:30am - 1pm
*Thursday 7-12s 9:30am - 1:30pm

*New program, age ranges, or times

*ALUMNI REGISTRATION: FEBRUARY 1ST @ 9AM

(with access code)

**NEW FAMILY REGISTRATION: FEBRUARY 15TH @ 9AM

FOREST PROGRAM FEES

Programs run September to June. We offer programs that meet once a week, and you may enroll your child in as many individual classes as you like. Monday fees are lower due to statutory holidays.

Payment Policies & Information

Each registration requires a one-time $35 non-refundable membership*. Membership fees fund our scholarship and bursary program.
First month's fees due upon registration. These are nonrefundable.
We require 4 weeks' notice should you decide to withdraw. Remaining fees returned or canceled.
After January, fees are non-refundable, unless we can fill the space.
Class transfers are $50.
We accept homelearning (OL) funds and autism funding. Contact info@freshairlearning.org
Payments up to 30 days late will be assessed a 10% administration fee.
Payments more than 30 days late will be assessed a 25% administration fee.
Spots vacant after a month will be filled.

*Members Receive:

Free Member Events
10% off adult professional development programs

*Registering a sibling? Enter "Sibling2025" to get 25% off the memberships.

*Do you have a scholarship? Contact us to waive the membership fee: info@freshairlearning.org

Drop-in Spots: We require 1 week notice to cancel a spot and receive a refund.

Sick Policies:

All programs: there are no credits or refunds for classes missed due to illness.

If fees pose a financial challenge for your family, please contact us about scholarship funds, to waive the membership fee or alternative payment schedules BEFORE YOU REGISTER. Contact info@freshairlearning.org

*2025-2026 Scholarship deadline for alumni families February 15th 2025

*2025-2026 Scholarship deadline for new families June 1st 2025