Following the announcement of our Queen’s award in April, we are delighted to share an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in May.
We’ve been bursting with excitement and now that it’s the Queen’s birthday and the official announcement day, we are absolutely delighted to finally share with you the news that Little Forest Folk has been given the royal seal of approval.
Following our being selected by Tatler as being one of the finest nurseries in the nation last month, we are now delighted to share with you an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in our Wimbledon setting a few weeks ago.
Well, this weekend was the long awaited Nursery World Awards! It was a fabulous event and we were delighted to be recognised in such a large industry such as the early years to be one of the industry leaders.
What a fantastic week we've had in the forest! The children have been busy exploring, creating, and discovering new wonders in nature. From balancing on tricky logs to uncovering tiny bug friends, their curiosity and sense of adventure have been truly inspiring. We've also had magical storytelling moments, hands-on number games, and even a treasure hunt!
It has been a Marvellous week of mathematicians calculating their way around the forest, counting pinecones, gathering sets of twigs, and washing and balancing stones into wobbly towers. Our creative team of educators have devised all sorts of games to encourage the development of our children’s knowledge of numbers, volume, weights, and shapes.
We certainly had a magical week in which we worked on building our community spirit, including a warm welcome from our regulars to our new visitors joining us for holiday camp sessions - it was great to have some familiar faces return and there was a huge variety of play and conversation on camp all week.
This week at Wimbledon we have been really enjoying the sunshine, showing us some little signs of Spring! The children have loved spotting and talking about all of the hints that Spring is on its way, and we have headed out on adventure walks to do scavenger hunts, looking out for different signs along the way.
What an action-packed and exciting week we’ve had in the forest! This week, we’ve been focusing on letters, writing, and phonics, as well as exploring music and percussion in creative ways. It’s also been Bird Watching Week, where the children have used special binoculars to spot different bird species and listen closely to their calls.
This week at Little Forest Folk Fulham we have celebrated everything kindness, love and appreciation, with a particular focus on how we show our love for the people we hold closest - our friends & families. We have celebrated each other’s achievements with our Kindness Awards, written letters to the ones we hold dear into our Cupid Post Box and discussed our positive feelings about our families whilst getting stuck into Valentines themed crafting.
Our Morden forest has been focusing on Communication and Language for the past 2 weeks – our Little Forest Folk-ers have had some great set up areas and activities with the intention of using their wonderful blossoming language skills! We’ve seen this lots in our small world areas - where children are able to use their imagination to take on the role of the creatures, explaining what is going on in their story, and suggesting ideas to their friends as they play!
