This week we opened our gates to a brand-new term, lots of new children and their loving families!

One morning this week, Miranda stood in an empty forest getting it all prepared for the day a head. With a blink of an eye, empty water jugs became full, with a click of her fingers the art table and books arranged themselves beautifully and with the twitch of her nose, the tent was all cosy and set for taking a nap in during the day.

As we closed the forest on last week, everything was in its place, butterflies had been released, resources cleaned and packed away and in the children’s vegetable garden sat a growing pumpkin, green tomatoes and some pink blushing strawberries.

Last week saw children fascinated watching ladybird larva transforming into adult bugs and we had lots of conversations about other insects and animals that make radical changes to themselves as they take a leap into adulthood.