Little Learners Forest School
Nanaimo — Snuneymuxw Territory
Huckleberry Little Learners is a forest school that learns on beautiful Snuneymuxw territory in and around Nanaimo. We are opening in October 2025 and are excited to invite people to register their interest via the form below! You will be the first to know when registration is open.
As we prepare to open, please check back here while we continue to update this space with more detailed information about who are are, how we think about learning, where we will be learning together, and other logistical bits and pieces. For now, below we have a snapshot of what we are dreaming up and hope to keep dreaming, with you!
Image description: in a photo taken from above, a child wearing a dark woollen sweater is leaning on a tree stump. They are partially in shadow and have their hands placed on the stump, one hand is about to pick up an orange shell. In the centre of the tree stump it is hollow and filled with stones, bark, branches, green pine needles, and brown cedar. A circle of grey and brown rocks has been arranged on the stump around the hollow centre.
Huckleberry Little Learners
Throughout our year we will spend time with three ecosystems, visiting them in each season in a spiral of relationship building and care led by the exploration of our little learners. We will do this through child led play, plant walks, storytelling, uplifting curiosity, and sharing traditional knowledge and handicrafts. Our learning will be grounded in understanding how to be respectful of and to care for our animal kin, each other, and ourselves, and always striving to be in right relationship and solidarity with our Host nation. We take our lead from the learners, the elders, and the land.
What will this look like?
Approximately 4 weeks at each learning space
Each 4 week cycle beginning with a welcome + workshop open to all families on a Saturday
4 learning sessions a week on Thursdays and Fridays, 9 - 11:45am & 12:30 - 3:15pm
You are welcome to choose more than one session a week to attend, however we will not be offering supervision in between. But feel free to pop by for lunch with your learner!
Up to 12 learners per session, and 2 facilitators
Who will forest school be for?
We are welcoming 3 - 5yr olds to Huckleberry Little Learners. For now we are going to wait and see how interest looks to make decisions as to whether we will run all 3-5yr old programming, or if we do something especially for 3yr olds and something different for 4-5yr olds!
We will be reserving a select amount of spaces per session for Snuneymuxw members to attend for free.
Caregivers of enrolled little learners are welcome to join us during their Little Learners session. Siblings of enrolled Little Learners are welcome to join at no cost, with a caregiver present.