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.
This week the children have all been very creative in their constructions. We’ve had some very elaborate and wonderful places made within our forest including our very own Forest School train station. The children laid out planks of wood parallel to each other to create a train track and put sticks in between to create the sleepers that join the tracks together.
What an incredible week we’ve had in the forest! The children have been so excited with a couple of ducks that have been wondering around the Palace. They have walked so quietly, whispering to each other, whilst pointing at the ducks, talking to them and have watched so patiently whilst they drank water which was stored in the grass with their beaks.
Morden has been full of creative play, and care for our plant life this week! The children have been taking lots of opportunities to work on our growing boxes at the front of the site. We’ve been enjoying looking at what all the different seeds look like and finding words to compare them, “These seeds are smaller than these ones!” and “Sunflower seeds are stripey like a zebra!”.
We ended last week focussed on an activity that highlighted the importance of talking about feelings to support mental health awareness week. The educators produced some brilliant, laminated cards which had different facial expressions on, and the children all had a turn creating a face which best showed how they were feeling. It was so lovely to see so many happy and smiley faces being made.
Dinosaur eggs and bug hotels have been amongst the many highlights this week. Simon made magic by hiding dinosaur eggs, that our little dinosaur hunters uncovered. After popping it in water, over the next few hours they kept checking back to see the progress of the "hatching". Eventually we had two baby stegosaurs!
There isn’t a time in the forest when our children aren’t finding something to climb, or a log to lift and explore what’s underneath, or mark making with their friends. Our explorers are constantly finding something new to learn about or a new skill to be taught, and there are no limits to what the forest has to offer them.
The children were so excited on Monday to find a farmyard activity set up to explore! We had been singing ‘Old McDonald had a farm’ lots last week, and the children really enjoyed looking at our books about different animals, so we had so much fun finding hay for the farm yard, using sticks to build a little barn, and finding tiny stones as food for the animals!
We ended last week with the most perfectly pirate themed dress up day! After starting the day admiring some absolutely amazing costumes, we headed into the forest to begin our pirate activities. Our main activity of the day was a treasure hunt and the children had to use a map and solve some clues to find the treasure.
