Forest Schools Risk Assessment Templates
Fire lighting, tool use and woodland play: pre‑filled hazards and sensible measures for outdoor learning. Edit online for your site and season, then export a polished PDF for leaders and helpers.
A structured risk assessment helps keep your forest schools activities safe and compliant.
Each template below opens in our online wizard, where you can customise the hazards, benefits, and control measures to suit your setting. You’ll also have access to our built-in Benefit and Hazard Bank – a curated library of common risks and positive outcomes for specific activities, ready to add to your assessment with a single click.
Activity Ideas for Forest Schools
The Risk Assessment Wizard includes ready-made hazard and benefit suggestions tailored for forest schools activities. Here are some examples to get you started:
Forest Schools Ready-Made Risk Assessment PDF Templates
Den Building
Purpose: To provide students with the opportunity to construct temporary shelters using natural materials within a supervised forest school environment.
Fire Lighting
Purpose: To teach students how to prepare, light, manage, and put out a fire using natural methods.
Forest School Tool Use
Purpose: To enable children to carry out practical tasks using hand tools such as peelers, knives, saws, and loppers as part of Forest School sessions. Tool use is an integral part of woodland-based learning and supports a range of outdoor activities.
Generic Forest School Site
Purpose: To provide children with regular opportunities for outdoor play and learning, developing confidence, practical skills, and connection to nature.
Group Campfires
Purpose: To support outdoor learning through the safe use of campfires for activities such as cooking, storytelling, and skill development.
Nature Walk Through Woodland
Purpose: To allow children to walk through woodland and spot natural features such as trees, plants, and wildlife.
Open Fire Cooking
Purpose: To safely teach students practical cooking skills over an open fire, developing responsibility, cooperation, and understanding of fire safety and food preparation.
Shelter Building
Purpose: To allow children to build temporary shelters or dens using natural or provided materials as part of outdoor learning and play.
Blank Risk Assessment
Quickly and easily create a professional risk assessment for your forest schools setting.
Make use of our hazard and benefit suggestion tool.
