Forget enrichment classes, these kids learn life skills by climbing trees and spotting snakes

Sessions at Nature Explorers School include forest bathing. Here the children are observing fallen leaves. PHOTO: NATURE EXPLORERS SCHOOL
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SINGAPORE - When Ms Sandra Aw drops her four-year-old son off to class on Saturday mornings, she knows he will return all muddy and sometimes "completely soaked".

Unlike many of his peers who head to academic enrichment on weekends, Luca attends a forest school programme with Nature Explorers School.

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