Little Cherubs Nature Kindergarten

Toddlers and young children thrive when given plentiful access to stimulating outdoor environments. They learn best through involvement in play activities that are meaningful to them and through experiences that build on their current curiosity, enthusiasms and interests.

Our older children 3-5 yrs in the Nature Kindergarten follow the

Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS)

curriculum, which is designed to deliver improved outcomes for all children across every area of learning and development.

Little Trekkers – Preschool (3 to 5 years)

We believe that young children learn by having real life ‘hands on’ experiences. At this stage of development, children’s opportunities for learning are all that they see, hear, feel or do — both indoors and outdoors, which is why we are passionate about ‘Outdoor Learning’.

Nature Nursery

This is our overriding ethos that combines our indoor and outdoor learning. We aim to bring each child on exciting trips to our Secret Forest. This is a private piece of land for our use only and not for the general public. We are also fortunate to have the old railway line glen a short walk away. We often visit this glen in addition to our weekly trip to the forest.

Our Nature Nursery is based on ‘forest learning’ ethos. As well as many outdoor activities such as going for walks, in the Glens, visiting the beaches, splashing in puddles, water play and various nature-themed learning topics, we also carry out our Forest Learning sessions.

Forest Learning sessions help children to build positive relationships in an enabling environment and we know that for preschool children, Little Cherubs provides the best opportunities to meet those early learning goals of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.

Forest Sessions

Forest Learning is a child-led play and learning approach where children are encouraged to explore and create in a forest or natural environment.

Beach School

In the summer months we take Forest School to the beach. We use the same principles as in the woodland, and apply them to the new and exciting environment of the seashore.

Fossils

This week we have had the most exciting mystery box… A selection of fossils to spark and inspire our little minds. We passed the fossils very carefully around our circle so we could have a feel and think about how they felt and how they looked. This prompted questions like “where did it come from?”…

Getting Creative with Natural Resources

This week at Little Cherubs we will be embarking upon an exciting play based experiment! As you know, our passion is outdoor learning and the use of natural objects within play, which is why we have decided to dedicate a week to precisely this! There will be no conventional toys being used at Little Cherubs…

Minibeasts and their habitats

What’s more exciting to children than minibeasts and their habitats? During our mini beast topic in June the children used their senses to look, listen and touch their way around their outdoor space – encouraging a sense of curiosity that could lead to adventures and imaginative play. We took a range of pictures to show…

Animals in the Jungle

Our forest school out door learning for this month also incorporated our animal theme. The children had so much fun expressing their feelings and imagination through role play as animals in the jungle.

The Changing Seasons

*********Topic of the Month********** *********The Changing Seasons********** KOW ( knowledge of the world) is one of the EYFS area’s that helps children learn about the world around them and the environment. This helps provide a good basis for early childhood education. One of the ways in which we have done this is to help them…

‘People who help us’

So! what have been up to this month? Choosing the topic “People Who Help Us” has kept us very busy indeed. There are lots of people who help us in the community and it’s great to learn about how they help us in our day-to-day lives. Some of these people help us in emergencies, like…

Autumn learning

Autumn is a wonderful season for outdoor learning experiences. The changing colour of the autumn leaves is a great opportunity for exploring science, art and literacy with young children. This month we have encouraged the children to look carefully at leaves, discovering their different shapes. Can they find out which trees they come from? Do…

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Toddlers and young children thrive when given plentiful access to stimulating outdoor environments. They learn best through involvement in play activities that are meaningful to them and through experiences that build on their current curiosity, enthusiasms and interests.

Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS)

We believe that young children learn by having real life ‘hands on’ experiences. At this stage of development, children’s opportunities for learning are all that they see, hear, feel or do — both indoors and outdoors, which is why we are passionate about ‘Outdoor Learning’.

Nature Nursery

Our Nature Nursery is based on ‘forest learning’ ethos. As well as many outdoor activities such as going for walks, in the Glens, visiting the beaches, splashing in puddles, water play and various nature-themed learning topics, we also carry out our Forest Learning sessions.

Forest Learning sessions help children to build positive relationships in an enabling environment and we know that for preschool children, Little Cherubs provides the best opportunities to meet those early learning goals of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.

Forest Sessions

Beach School

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New Parents

About

Our Nursery

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Need to know

Little Explorers & Forest Trekkers

Learning

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Toddlers and young children thrive when given plentiful access to stimulating outdoor environments. They learn best through involvement in play activities that are meaningful to them and through experiences that build on their current curiosity, enthusiasms and interests.

Early Years Foundation Stages (EYFS)

We believe that young children learn by having real life ‘hands on’ experiences. At this stage of development, children’s opportunities for learning are all that they see, hear, feel or do — both indoors and outdoors, which is why we are passionate about ‘Outdoor Learning’.

Nature Nursery

Our Nature Nursery is based on ‘forest learning’ ethos. As well as many outdoor activities such as going for walks, in the Glens, visiting the beaches, splashing in puddles, water play and various nature-themed learning topics, we also carry out our Forest Learning sessions.

Forest Learning sessions help children to build positive relationships in an enabling environment and we know that for preschool children, Little Cherubs provides the best opportunities to meet those early learning goals of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.

Forest Sessions

Beach School

7.45am -5.45pm Monday to Friday

All year except Christmas to New Year, Thursday and Friday of TT week and all Bank Holidays.