Mini Beast Discoveries
The children have been busy making discoveries in the forest. They’ve been using magnifying glasses to look at the different parts of snails, ladybirds, millipedes and centipedes. We counted their legs and eyes and talked about their sizes using words like ‘smaller’ and ‘bigger’.

Here at Fulham we’ve had a fantastic week, welcoming some new friends into our setting ️ Our current cohort continue to impress us with their welcoming nature and kind spirit when meeting their new forest mates, ensuring smooth and harmonious settles for our new starters. 

This week in our Morden forest, the children jumped into loads of fun exploring our colour monster book! Our forest space was set up with areas to explore each colour/emotion. We had a space to dance and let out our ‘wiggly feelings’ /the yellow zone.

Scavenger Hunt for Wildflowers

With spring in full bloom, we set out on a scavenger hunt around our camp, seeking out the enchanting beauty of wildflowers.

What a wonderful week we’ve had welcoming our mums, daddies, and carers into the forest as part of our Stay and Play week!

What busy bees Wimbledon Village have been this week 🐝.

This week at Wimbledon we have been very busy doing lots of tool work, creating rockets and talking about all of our emotions.

We have had a lovely week in the forest! The children have been amazing at coping with the changing weather. No rain, hail or wind can stop us having fun outside - well done everyone! 

On camp we have had all sorts of activities including creating a library with great stories for the children to explore. A popular activity was making our own library cards in the creative area and encouraging further development for our older children by encouraging them to practise writing their own names on their library cards.

This week has been one of the most anticipated so far this year as we had the arrival of our five duckling eggs on Monday. Our explorers were very excited and eager to see them. Some were a bit confused as to why they were in an incubator and had some questions like 'why haven’t they hatched yet?' or 'what are they inside?' which gave us the opportunity to talk and explain what the incubator does to help the ducklings grow. The entire experience from the duck eggs arriving to watching small chips and cracks appearing on the eggs was very exciting for everyone.

The current education system is too focussed on qualifications at the expense of broader aims. 94% of respondents favour urgent complete or partial reform of GCSEs. (HMC report)

This week our management team at Little Forest Folk attended a lecture by Simon Sinek called ‘The Infinite Game’. Simon Sinek is an organisational consultant who gives inspiring and motivational talks on a subject dear to our hearts – leadership. 

It’s a challenging thing in today’s society to trust your children to develop when they are ready. Amidst NCT groups there is always much talk about when a baby starts walking, when they are potty trained, with some families feeling the pressure to achieve a goal by a certain age or time, rather than when the child is developmentally ready.

Today is my son’s last day at Little Forest Folk. He will be returning for holiday camps but today is his last official day as a daily member of the nursery community. 

You may have seen that Little Forest Folk Chiswick recently had an Ofsted inspection, grading us as Outstanding, in which the inspector commented ‘Children thrive in this nursery. They gain a superb understanding of early literacy and mathematical skills’.

We are so fortunate in our forest nurseries to have a high adult to child ratio that allows us to fully embrace ‘in the moment’ planning.

Today is a bitter sweet day for me. It’s my last baby’s first day in the forest. It’s a good reminder of how difficult settling in can be. Not for the children but for the parents.

There’s a saying that a goldfish will only grow to the size of the bowl it is confined to, whereas a fish in the ocean surrounded by space, freedom and the wonders of the natural world can grow to its full capacity.

As part of a recent parent survey, we asked parents if they could change one thing about Little Forest Folk, what would it be? The vast majority responded ‘nothing’, which is always lovely to hear.

There were however a small group of parents who responded with ‘do some learning’.

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.

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.

‘Wouldn’t we all secretly like to be Little Forest Folk?' We are incredibly excited and proud to be included once again in the prestigious annual Tatler Nurseries Guide.

We have some exciting news to share with you. It’s been difficult to keep quiet about this achievement as we were inspected just over 10 days ago at Little Forest Folk Fulham…

We are delighted to have won the Nursery World Awards 2016 award for Online and Social Media. We see our website and social media as more than an opportunity to tell parents about our setting...

We are delighted to announce details of our third Little Forest Folk site....

From October our fantastic team will be bringing our magical experience to Fulham. Our children will spend all day playing in the beauty and wonder that is Fulham Palace Gardens. 

We are delighted to have been recognised by Tatler as one of the 'finest nurseries in the nation' in 'The Tatler Nurseries Guide 2016'