Why We Started Greenwood Learning, and Why That Matters
When people visit us for the first time, they often comment on the noise. Not chaos, but the sound of children talking, digging, arguing about whose turn it is to feed the chickens, and figuring things out. That sound is, to me, the sound of learning actually happening.
I've worked in education for over twenty years, in schools that prized quiet corridors and uniform handwriting. There's a place for structure, and we have plenty of it here too. But I started this school because I believe children who spend their formative years disconnected from the systems that sustain them will struggle to care for those systems later.
Our 'Roots, Branches, Canopy' approach isn't a marketing idea. It came from genuinely mapping what each child needs at each stage, and being honest when something wasn't working. We change things when the evidence, and the garden, tell us we should.
If you're considering us for your child, I'd encourage you to visit on an ordinary Tuesday, not just an open day. Come and see the noise, and the mud, for yourself.
