санаторно-лесная школа gen.

[HarryWharton&Co]

Dear playmates,
In the terms "санаторно-лесная школа" and "оздоровительная лесная школа", to what does the "лесная" refer? More to the point, can anybody suggest an English-language equivalent?

Many thanks.

[Armagedo]

к тому, что она находится в живописном месте на адриатическом побережье, где по утрам надоедают цикады в лесу...

[Armagedo]

Хотя это из серии зелено-сладкого или толсто-мягкое...

[HarryWharton&Co]

Maybe I'm looking at it from the perspective of a city dweller born and bred, but the fact that these schools are all in woods and forests seems rather wierd. Sounds like something out of Little Red Riding Hood...

[techy1]

look at it the other way around:
it's a long-term live-in facility for children with respiratory problems, built in a wooded area for better air quality, and it offers the school curriculum (so that the long stay does not hamper their academic progress)

[Armagedo]

*are all in woods and forests seems rather wierd*

...but it seems as being so :)

Smth like this

[HarryWharton&Co]

Armagedo and techy1 - Thanks a lot. I don't think we have those in the UK. Our schools are strategically positioned next to gasworks to "build character". In short: Russia 1, England nil.

[TSB_77]

Как называется санаторий на фотографии? И на скамейке вроде не дети?

[Tante B]

***for children with respiratory problems ***
not only ( + заболевания сердца, ревматизм и т.д.)
built in a wooded area etc. -- quite right