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.
Such a wonderful week at Wimbledon! This week we’ve taken some time to focus on the change in weather and incorporating the start of Autumn into our play. Our favourite activity has certainly been painting with some lovely autumnal colours. The children also tried painting with some natural paint made from turmeric in the week, the gorgeous bright pigment from this really helped embrace the Autumn colours of the forest!
After another fabulous week here in the Fulham forest, I am pleased to inform you all of how much fun we have had! At the beginning of the week a safari jeep was appeared on camp made from our crates and to bring it to life, all of the small world animals came out to play. The children had great fun with these, using them to not only role play but to have a sing-along to some of our favourite animal nursery rhymes too!
The first week in October started out with a bang as the children honed many new skills!
To start the week off strong, the children engaged in the most magical maths activity with their educators. They listened to a story and used props to count how many characters there were. The little ones added and subtracted the props but transformed the activity by using them to retell the story in their own words.
This week, the carnival was in town! We bought our tickets at the gate as we entered the forest and took part in many fun games. Our little explorers rushed to put their coordination to the test by taking part in a sponge toss challenge where we tried to throw sopping wet sponges towards the bullseye.
As the sun sets on another week of our second summer, we are grateful for this continuous warmth!
Water play has been aplenty, from making mud birthday cakes for one of our mini explorer’s fourth birthday, to a water hoist activity using a pulley clip to activate some paracord that is attached to a bucket of water, we attempted to reinvent our water play area to create a more physical challenge to our children.
It's been another joyful week at Wimbledon Common, in the slowly advancing autumnal colours. A carpet of brown and burgundy leaves lay about the camp. Fortunately, many of the children are very enthusiastic about raking the leaves up, leaving deep tracks for others to follow and play on. Our newest children continue to settle splendidly.
We’ve had another lovely week in the forest. The weather has still provided sun which has encouraged some harvesting of our vegetable patch, including potatoes and tomatoes! The wind did cause us to seek refuge indoors but we took full advantage of this, playing games such as “Sleepy bunnies” and “Animal freeze” as well as practicing our mark making and construction.
It’s been a blustery week in the forest with the wind coming to play and the rain coming to cool the forest and children after our very hot weather last week. Nevertheless, we had a wonderful time exploring how our amazing bodies move. We noticed how much more we can do from when we were babies. From crawling, to sitting up, to learning to walk, we realised how much stronger and faster we are getting as we grow.
