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“Imagine a world where the lines were harsh and unyielding, the textures were consistent and variation is unheard of. Does it inspire you?
Now imagine a place where the carpet changes every day, the ceiling is a myriad of different colours, light, shadow and movement. The feelings and movement completely surround you, sometimes breezy, sometimes cold, others warm. Unexpected wonders fly by, sometimes full of colour and sometimes full of noise and movement.
If we really want children to thrive we need to let their connection to nature nurture them.”

(Nurture Through Nature, Claire Warden 2007)

Little Cherubs has been fortunate in acquiring the use of some private land to carry out our outdoor learning and Forest Learning sessions.

Spending extended and regular time in the woods allowing us to observe the seasonal changes and make discoveries and this resource provides the best opportunities to meet our early learning goals.

 

We aim to bring each child on one trip per week to our Secret Forest. This is a private piece of land for our use only and not for the general public. This adds to the mystery and intrigue for the children and allows us flexibility to visit 5 days a week if we desire.

It is a versatile area which we can adapt to our needs. We have created a story corner, natural mud slide, bird hide, arches, wigwams and more.

View the photos to see the fun and exploring we have done!

Highlights from the Secret Forest

Painting with nature

We are so fortunate to have our own area of private land where the children can create, explore and play. This weeks trips involved making our paint with herbs and spices and our own paintbrushes using what we could find in the forest around us. This activity engaged our sense of smell, and developed our…

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Exploring outdoors

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…

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Animal Hunt

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…

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Staff meeting in the forest

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…

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Spring is here!

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…

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Identifying hazards

Learning to identify and manage risk is such an important part of early education. At Little Cherubs we hope to pass on to all the children the skill of identifying risks for themselves and being able to process and decide on the outcome that lessen the risk. Discussing how deep the river is ? how…

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Exploring the woods

Today’s wonderful wild adventures 💚🌲🌱🌿🌳 Today we ventured a bit further out and investigated the stream, where the children initiated fishing activities with sticks and pots. We also took a closer look at the old wheels and Brooklyn decided it must be part of a monster truck. As the wheels are now rusty we feel…

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Forest Trekkers

Today’s Forest Trekkers

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Discoveries in the woods

Something very exciting and wonderful happened today when our Forest trekkers went exploring. Ever so slightly hidden under a mound of mud (which miss Rianne was digging away) we spotted something old and rusty-We dug it out of the ground. We came up with some rules (getting the children to risk assess-after Rianne and Louise…

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Forest learning problem solving

At Little Cherubs we follow the Forest school ethos and believe child led play out doors provides the best outcomes for children. Today we had a dilemma, our slide was full of rain water when we arrived! ‘How can we go on the slide now?’ ‘Where did all the water come from?’ ‘The leaves are…

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