Forest School Sheltersa shelter that belongs in the landscape
Purpose-built Nordic tipi shelters for forest school settings. Installed and handed over by our team, yours from day one, with the compliance documents and the first year's care included, so your team can focus on what matters: the children and the learning.
Forest school needs a base camp: a place to gather, to shelter, to reflect, and to warm up. But it also needs to feel right. A plastic gazebo or a metal shed doesn't belong in a woodland setting. It disrupts the connection to nature that forest school is built on.
Our forest school shelters are different. Crafted from timber and canvas, they sit naturally in the landscape, becoming part of the environment rather than intruding on it. They're engineered for the British climate, providing genuine shelter from rain, wind and cold so that forest school runs on the days it would otherwise be called off.
Our shelters are sold outright and priced per site, and every quotation includes everything: delivery, installation and handover, training for your designated person, the structural risk assessment and compliance documents, and the first year's inspections and care. An ongoing care plan is available after that, quoted with the purchase. You get a beautiful, functional shelter that belongs to your setting from day one, without any of the set-up burden.
Looking for an enclosed classroom instead? Our enclosed classroom tipis are available on a managed monthly service or to purchase outright. The Bower and The Grove are purchase only.
Two sizes, one standard of quality
The Bower
Intimate Forest School ShelterThe Bower is designed for smaller forest school groups and intimate settings. Perfectly sized for a single class group, it creates a focused, enclosed gathering space where children feel protected and connected to the natural environment around them. Ideal for primary schools, nurseries, and specialist settings running regular forest school sessions.
The Grove
Full-Group Forest School ShelterThe Grove offers the space for full-group forest school sessions, larger gatherings, and multi-activity use. With room for a fire circle, seating, and activity zones, it functions as a genuine woodland classroom, a place where children can cook, create, and learn together in all weathers.
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Built for British weather
Engineered for the British climate. Heavy-duty canvas and precision-machined timber poles provide genuine shelter in rain, wind, and cold — a base camp your forest school can rely on, not a gazebo that comes down at the first gust.
Installed, handed over, cared for
Our team delivers and installs the shelter, trains your designated person and hands it over ready to use. The first year's inspections and care are included; an ongoing care plan is available after that, quoted with the purchase. Your forest school leader doesn't need to become a facilities manager.
Sits naturally in the setting
Timber and canvas belong in a woodland environment. Unlike metal or plastic alternatives, our shelters complement the natural setting rather than disrupting it, supporting the very connection to nature that forest school is built around.
Compliance included
Full structural risk assessment, compliance statement, maintenance log, and inspection evidence guide, all supplied at handover. Your setting is covered for inspections without any additional work.
Every Beehive Tipis forest school shelter is engineered in Swedish Lapland, by a manufacturer with decades of expertise in Nordic tipi structures built for the most demanding outdoor environments on earth.
Looking for an enclosed outdoor classroom?
Our main tipi range offers fully enclosed outdoor classrooms in sizes from intimate calm zones to full-class teaching spaces — on a managed monthly service, seasonally transformed by our team, or purchased outright.
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- Every tipi classroom, with sizes and capacities
- Managed monthly, or purchased outright — what each includes
- Our flagship independent-school installation and an eight-working-day SEND install
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