After the winter that never ended this week’s glorious weather was well needed to kick start the Summer term.  The children were excited to spend lots of time playing in the garden in which they discovered many new things to play with.  Over the Easter break we had been busy building a new wooden wall for them to balance on around the bark pit as well as a climbing feature around the tree.  In addition, we extended the garden to make way for... read more

There was love in the air this week in the run up to Mother’s Day.  The children were all enthusiastic to create hand made cards to surprise their Mummies and it is great to see how many of the preschool children could write their names independently.  Many children talked about where they would hide their cards at home in readiness for Sunday.  However, there was less enthusiasm for giving away the coffee cakes they made for their Mummy in this week’s cooking session,... read more

We were promised blizzards, strong winds, drifting snow and bitter cold as the Beast from the East took hold of the Country. St Albans missed out on the worse of last week’s bad weather and there was minimal disruption to the children’s fun at nursery.  By Thursday afternoon we were feeling rather smug with ourselves that the week had gone without a hitch, particularly amid reports that several schools had closed due to the snow. The smiles were wiped from our faces when... read more

The children went ga-ga this week as our theme was all things babies. We kicked it off on Monday with an activity where the children gave a bath to our collection of baby dolls. It was lovely to see how gentle and caring the children were towards the baby dolls, and they washed them as if they were real. On Friday, as a special treat, Mr Federici brought in his 3 month old baby for them to help bath during... read more

The thing about making pancake jokes is that they often fall flat! Fortunately the children didn’t have to listen to lots of crêpe jokes when we celebrated pancake day a week early due to it falling during half term. They came dressed in an assortment of fantastic costumes which set the tone for a fun filled day. The teachers also got dressed up and there was a range of fairytale characters and superheroes. Mrs Federici had prepared her best pancake... read more