{"id":11083,"date":"2013-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2013\/11\/13\/forest-school\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:58:46","slug":"forest-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/forest-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n\t13 November 2013<\/h3>\n<p>\n\tWhat is Forest School? Ask any of the Pre-prep children and they will say &ldquo;Forest School is fun!&rdquo;. The idea behind Forest School has been around for a long time but it wasn&rsquo;t until the 1950s that a formal philosophy began to develop in Scandinavia. 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