Mars children exploring their outdoor area, promoting their social skills and gross motor development

Our Graduates enjoyed their special celebration, participating in lots of fun activities and games

Our Preschool Graduates enjoyed their special celebration, participating in lots of fun activities and games

The children taking advantage of the great outdoors, exploring in gross-motor activities

Having fun in the sun. So much has grown at nursery while we have been at home. We are now using different senses to look, smell and touch the plants.

The children used natural resources to create an imaginative tea party whilst sailing on our boat in the garden.   

Chinese New Year tuff tray exploration and having fun mixing coloured paints on the slide!

The children enjoyed participating in different activities for ‘Chinese New Year’.

Observing the changes through the seasons in the garden.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, the children used chopsticks to fill up bowls with noodles, and they had a food tasting session.

The children also painted various Chinese symbols using different coloured paint.

Santa Claus came to visit us at nursery.

In honour of Remembrance Day a group of children visited the local memorial gardens to lay down their poppies that they had made.

The children were experimenting with magnets and grouped the objects into categories depending on if they were attracted or rejected by the magnet’ (stick and not stick in the children’s words)

‘Pop’ went the bubble wrap during our finger/toe gym exercise.

Come to our Winter wonderland and practice your mark making skills.

The children in Mars have thoroughly enjoyed making oat cookies and shortbread. They been introduced to weighing, scooping, mixing and patting.

I wonder what they will make next?

This week during our baby yoga and baby massage session the babies practised stretching their arms and legs to gain body awareness, strengthen their posture and improve their co-ordination skills using their muscles.

This week we made samosas to celebrate Diwali.

The children delivered Harvest food donations to the Red Trust in Bushey.  The Red Trust runs a food bank for less fortunate families.

The children have enjoyed using their imagination to explore a number of tough tray materials.

In Pre school, we have been busy practising our independence skills to ensure we are ‘school ready’.

In the classroom the children used dot to dot numbers to form recognisable numerals.  

Our preschool room have been learning to recognise and write numbers.

They played a fun game of bingo in the garden where they were asked to roll a train down the slide of numbers and say the numbers the train collected on its way down. Some children were able to add together the numbers the train went over.

Jupiter children have continued to show an interest in baking, here they have made a berry smoothie, it was delicious.

Parents joined us for a  ‘United World School’ fundraising breakfast.

Every year we help to raise money for Watford Mencap.
This year the children dressed as super heroes and took part in an obstacle course followed by a teddy bear’s picnic.

Parents joined us for a  ‘United World School’ fundraising breakfast.

The children had a lovely visit from Ark Farm this month. They were able to feed and pet the animals, which included a cow, sheep, goats, a rabbit, chickens and even a tortoise! There was lots of fun had by all and lots of love and concern shown for the animals by the children.

The children in Jupiter enjoyed making their own fruit crumble. They chose several different fruits and measured the ingredients themselves, following the recipe.

Danceathon in aid of our charity United World Schools.

Danceathon in aid of our charity United World Schools.

Radlett danceathon in aid of our charity United World Schools.

Our revamped ‘Mars’ room for our babies.

Lots of fun in our new disco room where we can sing, dance and tap out rhythms using musical instruments.

Congratulations to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on the arrival of Archie.

During April the children enjoyed  their mummies visit for a Mother’s day stay and play.

The children watched the chicks hatch and then cared for 11 baby chicks and went on a space rocket to celebrate ‘Space day’.

Teddy bears picnic.

 Easter fun for the 3-5 year olds who enjoyed finding the letters in their name. 

We are supporting a local charity called  ‘greenfingers’.

‘greenfingers’ is a charity that helps support children in hospices around the UK. They help create fantastic outdoor spaces for the children.
We invited our grandparents to come for a stay and plant day. We had fun planting different flowers and had a flower sale!

Our Pluto children have become keen gardeners. They enjoyed filling our garden wellington boots with soil, ready for planting. We cannot wait to watch our plants grow!

The children in Jupiter have enjoyed, welcoming a police officer into their nursery environment. They enjoyed looking around the police car and trying on the uniform. The children learnt that Police Officers are here to help protect us and show us the difference between right and wrong.

Jupiter enjoyed hanging up the bird feeders they created during their Forest School session. The children are very excited to be on the lookout for different types of birds.

The children looked after the duckling eggs very carefully. All five hatched and we all had so much fun seeing them grow and were sad to see them leave us to return to the farm.

We wore odd socks to nursery to raise awareness for world Down Syndrome day.

Lots of new, learning opportunities and so much fun and fresh air during Forest school which takes place weekly.

Welcome to the farm!

We value our parent partnership and the children love it when parents come in to read stories.

On one of our regular visits to Houndswood House, the children painted some clay models that the residents had made for the children in advance.

Miss Zopf brought in her guitar from home and carried out a music session with the class. Miss Zopf taught the children how to sing the  nursery rhymes in German.