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.
This week began with even more children meeting our new Tiger worm friends wriggling around in their home. Children have been naturally curious and fascinated in how the different parts of the three-tier system work together.
Autumn has said it’s big hello this week with chilly mornings and showers dropping in some days. It brings with it new opportunities to learn and explore, and to see what extra exciting things the forest has to offer us!
What an array of weather we have had this week! We can’t believe that on Monday we were still wearing shorts and it didn’t even cross our minds that we would be soon putting more layers on.
What a crazy week of weather we have had, we think we can officially say Welcome to Autumn! Today has dawned with a soggy start to refill all of our lovely big puddles and developed into a wonderful blustery day to blow away all our cobwebs.
This week the children have been noticing all the changes in our environment; whether that be the construction going on during blue group's walk into the forest or the changes prompted by the weather.
Ever so slightly, the weather this week has been changing. Children have been noticing a colder temperature in the air towards the end of the week and we were all so happy to have big puddles to splash in after a lovely downpour.
Autumn brings a mixture of fun and what a week it has been! We have been greeted each morning with the forest showing signs of Autumn, with dewy grass and fallen leaves.
Making and establishing new relationships was our major theme this week and the children went about it in many ways. They shared chase games and hide and seek were very popular! It was so lovely to see the whole group join in.
As the pace in nature’s changes hasten in anticipation of a new season, so too has our new starters ability to manage the site, and the variety of surfaces are being handled very well at some spectacular speeds already!
The warm weather made a welcomed return this week, bringing with it a fantastic week of adventures! The sun has meant that we have had to move some of our exploring areas to more shady places, but they have been just as exciting and full of fun things to do.
The woods felt magical this week! With the sun peeking through the trees’ crowns and the robins sweetly singing to the rhythm of the day, we felt like we got stuck in a land of fairies.
What an exciting week we have had, the children have been so busy! Our new starters are becoming more and more confident with the space and it’s lovely to see them start to charge around and dip into our different activities with gusto.
As we are approaching mid-September, we are starting to see new seasonal changes around us. The mornings are starting off chillier, the leaves are beginning to turn yellow and the grass is often covered with morning dew.