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.
‘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.
During our half term week, we have been so excited to welcome back some of our friends who left us for school in September. It was hard to tell who missed them more, the educators or the children!
It has been another delightful Holiday Camp during which we have welcomed back some of our old Little Forest Folk children and a few new faces during the week.
We’ve had a lovely week welcoming some new, and some past friends back into the forest. It’s always interesting to observe the change in dynamic when holiday campers come; often starting off a little shy, tending to stick together in the common knowledge of none of them having been before.
At the end of last week, our Little Forest Folk-ers had become pretty fascinated with a bird of prey that had perched in a high branch of a tree near their snack circle.
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.
This week the children have been exploring the forest in new ways. The warm sunshine has finally shown itself again and the signs of spring are just beginning to appear.
When you have so many worms what do you need? A worm house of course! This week children built houses for worms from sticks, using mud kitchen bowls as the roof and populated their houses with more worms than you could ever imagine.
Could it be that Spring has sprung? Probably not, but with the Hazel trees adorning their catkins, Daffodil shoots rising up from the earth and the sun bringing gloriously warm and bright days, it has certainly felt like it.
In contrast to last week’s polar blast, this week in the forest has felt almost spring-like, with some warm winter sunshine and slightly lighter mornings and evenings.
There is something very special about the spontaneous magic that happens in Little Forest Folk when children encounter expressive art and design resources that have been presented in a way that allows them to tinker and create whatever they like.
We started the week off with a nice cosy fire to keep us warm. The children toasted marshmallows on long sticks, ate their snack and enjoyed a warm cup of apple juice.
Our chilly mornings in the forest this week have been full of discovery and joy. Faces of amazement looked up at us as the children lifted up huge pieces of ice that they discovered, whilst others crunched and stomped in the frosted grass outside Fulham palace.
It has been a magnificently frosty and icy week in the forest. As always, the children and educators have relished the changing environment, showing adaptability and unbridled energy to stay warm and positive.