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What a lovely colourful collection, washed and ready to go 🍂🍁 all collected by our very own preschool Cherubs. Halloween is just around the corner so plenty of sticks will be needed for our witches brooms 🧙‍♀️ Happy Friday everyone 😊

Over the past few weeks our new baby cherubs have been exploring their new indoor and outdoor surroundings. They have loved their walks to the glen, happily playing amongst the autumn leaves and collecting a stick or 2 🙂 even having a picnic in the Autumn sunshine! Learning outdoors provides a wonderful sensory experience which…

A big thank you to all our parents who attended our graduation ceromony this evening. It was emotional and funny sharing all the wonderful stories of your little one that we have all gotten to know so well. Each passing year it doesn’t get any easier saying goodbye, but we are proud to have been…

The have finally arrived! it’s been a long wait but from today’s fun in the garden it was well worth it 🙂 whether it’s sunny or raining the fun will continue! something for everyone

Sunny days are starting to make a regular appearance and we have even enjoyed a handful of warm ones recently. Children have bundles of energy so getting outside is a great way of connecting with nature and releasing all that energy. These photo’s show how much fun the children are having and doing exactly what…

This week the children went on an animal hunt, they took some of their toy animals with them to hide in the wood. Miss Louise used the hot and cold game to help the children to find the animals, some were hidden high up in the tree’s and some low down in the grass and…

Such a lovely evening to have a staff meeting, and no better place than the forest. Sitting there listening to the sounds of the cows and baby lambs in the background while Esther collected the wild garlic for Miss Louise and Elise to fry on the pan with plenty of butter, delicious! It was a…

This morning our chestnuts enjoyed a trip to Nobles park. Being outdoors allows young children more space and freedom for big movements, like running, jumping, kicking and throwing. Our chestnuts put their climbing skills to the test and there was no stopping them. After using up all that energy Miss Louise (in the Eskimo coat…

It’s been a long, cold winter but thankfully spring is finally here. With the changing of the seasons comes longer days, warmer weather, and—thanks to all the activity happening in nature at this time of year- plenty of outdoor learning. This week our cherubs have enjoyed being outdoors exploring. Animals are starting to get active…

Little Cherubs Nursery in Union Mills has joined the Crisp packet recycling scheme and gone the extra mile by placing their Non biodegradable plastic into plastic bottles( Eco Bricks ) ! Manx Hedgehog Conservation Society went along to talk about the importance of protecting our environment & wildlife …. The charity will be supporting the…

Well done Miss Louise, you have worked hard to achieve this and it has paid off. We are very proud of our forest school practitioners (Louise, Rianne and Elise) working full time, studying after hours , outdoor first aid courses and travelling to the UK for assessments! shows their passion and commitment to the job…

The Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch have just opened their new premises in Peel. Our preschool Cherubs took a trip out today to have a look at the wonderful work they are doing. The plates in the picture below were painted by our cherubs and I’m sure you will agree! we have some budding artists…

This month our nature babies have been learning through sound, smell, tastes and touch. With a balance of outdoor and indoor activities, this allows our babies to have a diverse learning experience. So! what have they been up to? 🙂 They have been getting messy with soil and vegetables to create a sensory garden, using…

A huge thank you to Lacie’s dad (Tom Richardson) for the fabulous wooden spider gift which he made himself!! the children are absolutely loving it and so are we xx

Splash day turned into splash week and what a fabulous week our little cherubs have had. Sun, ice lollies, water pool and fun! fun! fun! and it’s all set to continue for next week

Today our baby cherubs had great fun getting messy. Not only is finger painting lots of fun, it is also excellent for the development of all the big and small muscles. Finger painting is wonderful for the development of colour recognition, developing creativity skills and simple cause and effect thinking skills

Enjoying the sunshine outdoors this week was the perfect place for our baby cherubs to enjoy the freedom to play, shout, jump and run. The changing nature of the outdoors makes it a stimulating and sensory place for babies to play and increases their knowledge & understanding of the world. These lovely moments were captured…

This mornings adventures took our Preschool group to the land of the trolls. We started the trip finding sticks and leaves and tied them together to make into paintbrushes which we will use to paint with back at nursery. We then explored the river, throwing stones and sticks. And in the distance a troll was…

Our baby cherubs have also been busy doing spring activities and having fun 🙂

This month we are learning about flowers and spring. So this weeks trips have been in the beautiful glen. We have been looking at the flowers and leaves in the glen (The trees are fabulous and have great hiding places inside!). We each had a plastic cup and collected flowers, leaves and natural items to…

We would all like to say a massive well done to Miss Elise who has completed her Level 4 early years qualification. She has worked extremely hard 🙂  

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Little cherubs are committed to providing quality training to all our staff. We believe having qualified staff helps to make a positive difference to children’s learning. Elise is our third member of staff to undertake her Forest school level 3 qualification. You may not have seen Elise recently as she is tucked away in some…

What a beautiful day it was yesterday making our trip to the Arboretum all the more enjoyable! today’s visit was a bit wetter! but It was a fun filled 2 day’s where the children discussed the wildlife sounds around them, the colour’s of the ducks, chicken’s and birds. They also looked at what food they…

This week some of our cherubs went for a trip to Peel Lifeboat Station. Kat kindly showed the children around the lifeboat explaining what the lifeboats do and what an important job its is. She also took them up to the uniform room to try on the helmets and uniforms. They had such great fun…

This week our little cherubs have been busy learning about the natural world around them. Miss Elise’s group had great fun making bug hotels. Creating a safe place for the little bugs to live teaches children compassion for living creatures and helps them to develop empathy and respect for animal habitats

Each trip outdoors with our little cherubs brings it’s own adventures as you never know where their wonderful imagination’s will take you! During our recent trip to the woods the children had decided the trolls had cut down the huge tree as they didn’t like the fairies! they climbed the huge tree to look for…

Today’s trip was all about sticks: 🌲finding sticks, hiding sticks, piling up sticks and Comparing sticks. Next week we will be looking in more detail at the sticks, using them in craft, talking about where they came from, how old they are etc. Some of the children watched room on the broom during the christmas…

Being an outdoor nursery there was nothing more fitting than to end the year creating outdoor Christmas magical experiences for all our children, the fairy Glen and Santa in the woods are both magical memories they will always remember and we are very happy to have be apart of it all ☺ a big thank…

Christmas dinner day 🥦🌽🍗🍴🎄 Big Thank you to our incredible cook Miss Jade for our scrummy dinner☃️ Merry Christmas everyone🎅🏻