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 at Little Forest Folk Chiswick, our camp transformed into a world of witches, potions and mathematical mischief! 🧙♀️💫 As Halloween crept closer, our little explorers mixed imagination with number play - stirring up bubbling potions, measuring mysterious ingredients and spotting patterns in every corner of the forest.
We’ve also been enjoying reading some much beloved stories such as Dear Zoo and Hairy McClary which the children can repeat phrases back from altogether, learning rhymes as they go! Our educators have also brought in their favourite stories and these have inspired some amazing games of chase where everyone turned into a Spider-Man!
This week at Little Forest Folk Winkworth has been full of autumn fun as we’ve embraced the wild and windy weather. We started our week illuminating the darker mornings and evenings in our forest with all the colours of Diwali! The children ventured out for all the excitement and laughter of a big rain walk adventure.
What a fantastic week it has been for our Little Forest Folk-ers as we began our new learning theme, “Our Planet.” The children have shown so much curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm as they explored everything from ancient dinosaurs to the world we live in today. Their energy and imagination have made for a truly special week outdoors!
The Gruffalo lives in Fishpond Woods and for years the children have been walking past his house everyday without seeing him. This week, however, we were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the Gruffalo, the fox and the owl! We then went onto site and saw the mouse’s reading house and the snake's log pile den. The children then had to find some more logs to help the snake rebuild his house, to help ensure he couldn’t be found by the Gruffalo!
We started the week hunting for mushrooms in the Arboretum. Our intrepid Little Forest Folk-ers set out on their adventure walk with maps of the Arboretum and laminated sheets to identify different types of fungi. It was wonderful to see the children excitedly point out landmarks and signposts that they saw on the map in real life.
First they transformed into billy goats on an exciting adventure all the way to the wetlands of Winkworth Arboretum. By the lake they looked for the right size sticks to be their billy goat horns and attached them to their head bands.
This week we have been learning about families, our own small network including mummy, daddy, brothers, sisters, granny and grandpa. We have also printed all the painty hand prints of our Twickenham Little Forest Folk Family. We’ve read and talked about families throughout the world, and considered families in China celebrating the Mid Autumn/Moon festival.
Once upon a time there was a group of adventurous little forest folk-ers who spent a week deep in story land.
First they transformed into billy goats on an exciting adventure all the way to the wetlands of Winkworth Arboretum. By the lake they looked for the right size sticks to be their billy goat horns and attached them to their head bands.
We have had a glorious week of exploring the forest through our senses and extending our vocabulary. Sticky, orange, ooblek with its combined dribblyness and stiff qualities, perplexed and excited our curious minds. We also enjoyed tweezer work with natural elements like smooth conkers, rough pine cones, small, hard, ash keys, small greenish acorns and soft feathery grasses.
