As an extra-curricular activity, the Children's Centre offers a forest school experience to children over three years old. Within a secure woodland environment children can move away from close adult supervision and experience a sense of freedom, so becoming more responsible for each other and themselves. A semi-permanent shelter has been built in the woods and a lock-up cabin houses the portable toilet and tools and equipment. The Danish model, on which the forest school is based, is designed to encourage young children's appreciation of the natural environment and responsibility for conservation in later life