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As we enter our fifth year, join us in September 2026 for the start of our inspiring Forest School course
alzina forest school
Welcome to Alzina Forest School. We are a Scandinavian-inspired nature preschool for children aged 2–6, set within 42 hectares of beautiful natural surroundings.
Our aim is to provide a daily outdoor adventure where children can explore, play, discover, learn, and build meaningful connections with each other and the world around them.
We offer a bilingual program focused on personal development and emotional intelligence, nurtured through self-directed play, creativity, multisensory experiences, and a deep connection to nature.
Our Forest School guides accompany each child in a non-intrusive, respectful, and responsive way, supporting their growth through four key principles: emotional validation, attentive observation, flexible planning, and simplicity of resources.
Alzina Base Camp
Alzina Forest School offers the ideal environment for children to learn and grow in a true forest school setting.
At the heart of our site is base camp, with shelters and simple facilities that protect from the elements while encouraging children to experience nature in all its forms.
From here, we venture out on daily mountain adventures. Base camp is our home—continually shaped and nurtured by the children themselves.
Forest & Farm
Children of the Forest School have a range of private forestal zones to explore around the site along with the farm animals of El Marti. Children have the opportunity to observe and interact with the animals.
the FOREST SCHOOL RULES
At Alzina Forest School we have few rules and they can all be summed up in one word: RESPECT.
+ RESPECT EVERYONE
+ RESPECT YOURSELF
+ RESPECT NATURE
+ RESPECT MATERIALS
A DAY IN ALZINA FOREST SCHOOL
Each day at Forest School is different In our sessions we look for the balance between routine and improvisation. The routine brings us confidence, comfort, familiarity and security while improvisation brings us adventure, creativity, problem solving skills, decision making
STEAM PRINCIPLES
Creative proposals
Production of artefacts, experimentation with the colors of nature, creations with natural elements that surround us typical of the forest (leaves, trunks, flowers, rocks...) typical of the garden (pumpkins, fruit/vegetable dyes...) and of the animal world (egg shells, wool, leather...). We encourage the child's creativity and transformative capacity through a flexible and open artistic proposal.
STEAM proposals (Science, Technology, Engieering, Art and Maths)
Proposals designed to acquire specific skills such as: the safe use of field and forest tools adapted to children's small hands; or lighting a fire in a conscious and accompanied way, or the ability to make knots to fix structures or develop a basic system of pulleys among others.
These skills will be deployed from specific proposals (construction of cabins and shelters, fences for farm animals, small stairs, creative pieces) as part of the eating ritual (cooking on the campfire) or as a proposed challenge to be solved by the educators.
These proposals are aimed at mobilizing rational, logical and mathematical thinking, teamwork, and the ability to be responsible, assume limitations, manage risks and ecological awareness of the impact of our actions on the environment.
Proposals for observation and listening and raising awareness.
We accompany in the awareness of the environment that surrounds us. We favor the observation of nature and the appreciation of its richness and diversity: leaf shapes, types of mosses, plants, bark, trees, rocks, clouds. We favor moments of listening and distinguishing sounds, textures, colors. These aspects will sometimes be worked on spontaneously (as a result of the dynamics of the group at that time) or in a programmed way depending on the age of the child: herbal creation, insect houses, searching for fossils or classifying rocks others.
