First Aid Academy is registered on the Forest Schools National Register of Outdoor First Aid providers. This national register is maintained by Archimedes Training and ITC who have helped to design the Forest School Outdoor First Aid course.
First Aid Academy has been involved in trialing and piloting this course over the last two years. The course content is structured to integrate the forest school rationale and ethos. All our trainers who run this course have undergone training in ethos, risk-assessment, and procedures of forest schools.
The Academy already runs courses for Forest School groups in England, Scotland and Wales.
Courses for GroupsStandard Option: Forest Schools First Aid
This is a 2 day (16 hour) outdoor first aid course valid for 3 years. Course content is designed for dealing with children from 1 year of age upwards and includes their potential illnesses and injuries of young children as well as those of adult helpers. The first day covers basic first aid skills and the second moves into incident management.
Alternative Option: Paediatric First Aid course with additional 4 hours of outdoor first aid content
For Forest School Practitioners who are working with infants (under 12 months of age) or those who require an Ofsted approved Paediatric First Aid qualification we can run a standard 12 hour Paediatric First Aid course and add a further 4 hours of content covering outdoor injury and illness. This makes the course 16 hours in total and covers the requirements of most Forest School Practitioners.
Individual Forest School practitioners are recommended to attend our standard 16 hour Outdoor First Aid courses. Forest School First Aid courses are rarely run as open courses hence the need to complete a standard Outdoor First Aid course. It is easy for the individual to book on these open Outdoor courses, which cover the requirements of a forest school practitioner. Let us know when you book you require your qualification as a Forest School Practitioner and we will send a covering letter with your certificate outlining the child content of your Outdoor First Aid course.
