Daisy Nursery Ltd

This month we’ve been honouring Pride through rainbow-themed arts and crafts such as making their own wands and chalk drawings to developing creativity and fine motor skills. We’ve also been reading stories that celebrate kindness and inclusion, and learning about family, friendship and community. 🌈

We hope everyone had the most wonderful Father’s Day weekend! Now that the day has passed, here’s a glimpse back at the last week when the children were hard at work making crafts, cards and gifts for their dads and father figures. These are a true reflection of the care and creativity the children wanted to share, and we think they did a great job! 🎨

Our gardens are the perfect places to explore all the many treasures that nature has to offer. Over at Aster Daisy, Sophie, our maternity cover chef, has been using the allotment to not only home-grow many of the ingredients she uses in meals (we had a try of some of the garden peas and can confirm, they were lovely!) but also as a learning opportunity for the children. 🫑 🍅 🥕

Discovering where our food comes from, and how to grow your own is a great conversation starter for young children. It leads to learning new skills, encouraging their curiosity and finding out more about the world around them.

We’ve been celebrating father figures this week in honour of Father’s Day. The children have been busy making lovely gifts to take home (don’t worry, we haven’t included them in here so you won’t get any spoilers!). This morning, we also offered bacon and sausage rolls at drop off to mark the occasion, thank you to everyone who joined in.

We also celebrated one of the UK’s best-known dads earlier this week in honour of the King’s birthday. This involved tea parties, crafting our own crowns, and singing the birthday song! 🫖👑

The early years is such a key part of a child’s development, the experiences they have at this age impact their whole lives. This is why offering training opportunities to ensure our whole team feel confident in making each day special and unique for your children is hugely important for us at Daisy.

With our sector constantly evolving as new research comes out, we are incredibly lucky to have a team so fully committed to staying updated, and regularly upskilling themselves to deliver the best possible childcare and educational experiences to every child that comes to one of our nurseries. 👏

It’s footie season and we were thrilled to welcome Theo from BabyBallers Farnborough to Crown Daisy for a session with the children ahead of England’s first game in the World Cup on Wednesday! 🏆🤞

The children loved getting active and having a go, could there be a future football star in our midst? ⚽

If you’re interested in signing up your child for a BabyBallers class, you can see full details on their website.


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This week, in light of the WHO’s Food Safety Day, we’ve been exploring healthy eating, food hygiene and making our very own delicious creations. The children have been donning their chef’s hats to make smoothies and crumbles, and hosting their own healthy picnics with their friends and teddies. 🍌 🍎 🍓

We’ve also been looking at the Eatwell Guide, exploring an “I Can Eat a Rainbow!” theme and picking lettuces from the allotment to bring our learnings about healthy eating to life. 🥬

To take the theme even further, the children have also had discussions about how to use kitchen equipment safely and how to dispose of packaging in an environmentally-friendly way. ♻️

We’re hiring! 📣 We’re looking for fantastic early years professionals to join our team at Aster Daisy Nursery in Rake, Hampshire. 🌼

If you’ve got a level 3 qualification or above in early years and are looking for an exciting new opportunity in the development of the next generation, fill in our form and let us know you’re interested in our educator roles.

Or, if you’re passionate about early years’ experiences and brimming with ideas on how to make their educational journey even better, then we’d love to invite you to apply for our more senior Early Years Curriculum Leader role.

We offer a starting salary of £28k+ for educators with a level 3 early years qualification or above, a 4-day working week and the opportunity to work with a truly enthusiastic and friendly team. Please use the link below to apply or head to our Daisy Nursery Ltd Indeed page for the full job descriptions ⬇️
Apply now: https://form.jotform.com/260561291567360

The rain has certainly been on theme for World Oceans Day! 🌊 🐢 The children have been discovering the deep blue through library books and artworks. To bring the mysteries of the ocean to the surface, the children created their own wave patterns, buried shells in their blue play dough, hid sea creatures in bubbles and greeted sea animals in a small world activity. 🫧

Plus, after today’s downpour, several children also went on an exciting rescue mission to save whales from the puddles! 🐳

We’ve been honouring a key moment in British history at nursery today ahead of the anniversary of D-Day tomorrow. Babies have been exploring Union Jack-themed rice trays and painting, and Toddlers have been creating their own poppy-inspired artworks. In the Pre-School Suite, the children have been decorating their own medals and having discussions about D-Day sparked by photos (kindly loaned by Lucy at Butter Daisy’s grandad).

Plus, over at Crown Daisy, we’ve also been introducing the children to Aldershot’s annual Victoria Day event and discovering what the celebration is all about. The children were also excited to learn that this year’s theme is ‘Fairytales and Folklore’, which led to a hunt for dragons in the garden! 🐉