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🌞☀️ Babies' Sun Safety Day ☀️🌞

Our babies enjoyed taking part in a fun-filled Sun Safety Day as we learned all about staying safe in the sunshine! 😎💛

💚 We kept cool while exploring and playing in the garden, enjoying the fresh air and shade. 🌳💦

🩷 We learned about the importance of sun cream and practised applying it to our baby dolls, helping us understand how it protects our skin. 🧴☀️

🩵 The children had lots of fun practising putting on sun hats and sunglasses, learning how these help keep us safe in sunny weather. 👒🕶️

💜 We got creative and made beautiful sun pictures using a variety of arts and crafts materials. 🎨🌞✨

What a wonderful day of learning through play while discovering simple ways to stay safe and protected in the sun! ☀️😄

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💚🌿 Mental Health Awareness Week at Little Learners 2 🌿💚

Our Little Learners 2 have been exploring the importance of mental health and wellbeing through a range of calming and mindful activities. 😊✨

The children used their hand-eye coordination skills to carefully slice cucumbers 🥒 and create their own refreshing cucumber water 💧🍋. We also practised yoga stretches 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ and deep breathing exercises 🌬️ to help us relax, focus, and feel calm.

To finish our wellbeing sessions, we enjoyed lying down and listening to soothing music 🎶💤 before treating ourselves to a relaxing spa-style self-care experience, complete with cucumber slices over our eyes 🥒😌.

It has been wonderful to see the children learning simple ways to care for their minds and bodies while having fun together. 💚✨

Pre School Caterpillar Update 🐛🦋

The preschool children are thoroughly engaged in our caterpillar journey, and recently, six of the caterpillars began the cocooning process!

After some discussion and debate over names, we are pleased to announce the final names for our ten caterpillars:

Colin, Elsa, Kpop, Katie, Alex, Connie, Sir Crawls-a-lot, Clyde, Lord Bugginton, and Mrs Munch 🐛



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🤩June Winners 🤩

We have lots to celebrate and share this month! 🥳

Please join us in congratulating our Employee of the Months:

🔯Hannah - Hannah for the exceptional work and dedication she consistently brings to her role. The activities Hannah creates are always exciting, engaging and always provide a wonderful variety of learning opportunities. Hannah adapted positively and proactively, using her initiative to incorporate BSL and deaf awareness into her daily practice.

✳️Emma - Emma was faced with an emergency medical situation and she handled it with outstanding professionalism, confidence and care. Emma remained calm, collected and focused throughout, acting quickly and appropriately to ensure everyone's safety. Her ability to stay composed under pressure was remarkable and reflected the dedication, training and compassion she brings to her role every single day.

And we have received two Parent Nominations:

✴ Kelly - Kelly has been incredible since day one, goes above and beyond and our child absolutely adores her and puts on his cheeky smile the minute he sees her! He has learnt so much because of her and we will miss her! Thank you so much!

❇️Danni - Danni is always enthusiastic and not only with my child, but she instils confidence in me too. She communicates with us as parents meticulously and reassures us when needed and our son loves her too, which is most important. Thank you for your professionalism and how much joy she brings in the Toddlers!



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🍌🫐 Happy National Baking Day! 🧁

Our little learners had a wonderful time rolling up their sleeves and becoming mini bakers! They carefully mixed, measured, and created their very own banana and blueberry cakes, developing important skills while having lots of fun.

From mashing bananas to stirring in juicy blueberries, the children showed great concentration, teamwork, and enthusiasm throughout the activity. Best of all, they were so proud to take home their delicious homemade creations!

What a fantastic way to celebrate National Baking Day while building confidence, creativity, and a love of learning. 💛



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Our Pre-School children have been learning about and celebrating International Nurses Day! 💙👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

We talked about the important role nurses play in helping people, caring for others, and keeping us healthy. The children enjoyed exploring doctor and nurse role play, using bandages, stethoscopes, and medical kits to care for their friends and dolls. 🩺

Through discussions and activities, we learned about kindness, compassion, and the many ways nurses help people every single day. The children also created beautiful thank you cards and artwork to show their appreciation for all the amazing nurses in our community. 🌟

A wonderful week of learning, role play, and celebrating real-life heroes!



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During Deaf Awareness Week, Tiny Todds have been learning about different ways people communicate and celebrating inclusion and understanding. 💙

The children enjoyed exploring simple sign language, using gestures, facial expressions, and songs to communicate with one another. Through stories, activities, and group discussions, we talked about how everyone is unique and how we can be kind, patient, and inclusive friends to all. 🤟

It has been a wonderful opportunity to encourage empathy, communication, and curiosity while helping our little learners understand the importance of celebrating differences. 🌟



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Today our toddler room enjoyed learning about VE Day and why it is such a special celebration. ✨🇬🇧

The children explored the meaning of coming together, celebrating peace, and remembering this important part of history through age-appropriate discussions and activities.

To mark the occasion, we held our very own celebratory tea party in the garden! 🫖🌸 The toddlers loved sitting together with their friends, enjoying tasty treats, waving flags, and soaking up the sunshine in our beautifully decorated outdoor space.

It was a wonderful day full of laughter, learning, and community spirit as we celebrated together. ❤️



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Our Babies have been busy creating their very own enchanting fairy garden! 🧚🌸

The children enjoyed planting beautiful flowers, helping to bring their magical garden to life while exploring nature through sensory play and hands-on learning. 🌱

They also got creative making fairy stones, designing colourful treasures for the garden, and loved exploring spinning fairy spinners as they watched them twirl and move. ✨

To finish our magical day, the babies created their own fairy wands, using their imagination and creativity to make something truly special. 🪄

A wonderful day full of creativity, exploration, and lots of fairy magic!



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Our Little Learners have been exploring the important topic of food waste! 🍎🥕🥔

We carefully prepared our snack together, learning how to use a knife safely while cutting different fruits and vegetables. Along the way, we talked about the foods we enjoy, named the different fruits and vegetables, explored their colours, and practised our counting skills by seeing how many of each we had.

We also discovered some potatoes that had started to sprout, which sparked a wonderful conversation about how food can grow! The children learned that we can plant sprouting potatoes to grow even more potatoes, helping us think about reducing waste and caring for our environment. 🌱

Such a lovely hands-on learning experience full of curiosity, teamwork, and discovery!



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