Spring Childcare Halton

📚 Driven by Love for Reading 📚

"When we read together, we connect.
Together, we see the world.
Together, we see one another."
– Kate DiCamillo 📖

🌿 Explorers in the Wild! 🌿

This afternoon’s Welly Walk turned into a sensory adventure! 👣✨
The children had a brilliant time discovering nature, rubbing leaves between their fingers and finding some with a surprising lemony scent 🍋 (some loved it, others weren’t so sure! 😄).

We wandered through the swishy, swashy grass and wildflowers, just like in We're Going on a Bear Hunt, full of laughter, curiosity, and wonder! 🐾🌾

And what a beautiful morning it was in Forest School...the perfect setting for little explorers to connect with the outdoors. 🌞🌳

🌈 DRIVEN BY LOVE 🌈

At Spring Nursery, we’re passionate about helping our little ones grow up with strong values, honesty, positivity, and a deep respect for the beautiful diversity in our world. Pride Month is a wonderful chance to celebrate who we are and to teach kindness, acceptance, and love for others, no matter our differences.

This week, we’ve been embracing the spirit of Pride with joyful rainbow-themed activities! 🏳️‍🌈 The children have been busy creating their own rainbow flags, building colourful Duplo masterpieces, and enjoying stories that celebrate all kinds of families. The rainbow flag is more than just colours—it’s a symbol of pride, inclusion, and the beauty of being yourself. We’re proud to share that message with our children every day.

Looking for ways to talk to your child about Pride and LGBTQ+ families? Check out this helpful resource from BBC Tiny Happy People:
👉https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/articles/z37sp4j

Wishing you all a colourful and love-filled week! 💖

🌟 **Inventors Week – DRIVEN BY LOVE & Passion** 🌟

With the sunshine in full swing this week, we made the most of the mornings by heading outdoors early to enjoy the fresh air before the heat set in! ☀️🌿

The children had a fantastic time baking muffins 🧁 and playing hide and seek. As the day warmed up, we shifted gears with lots of creative artwork, both indoors and in our shaded garden space. And of course, there was plenty of splashing and giggling during water play! 💦🎨

A truly wonderful week filled with fun, creativity, and joyful moments. 💛

Driven by love
💚 our tiniest adventurers took their very first Welly Walk into Forest School! 🥾🌳

For the very first time ever, our brave Explorers (0–2 years) stepped out into the great outdoors, and they absolutely LOVED it 😍 There was so much excitement as they explored all the little nooks and crannies of the area 🔍🍂

The biggest hit? A dark, mysterious space behind the trees with a natural archway they could walk through 🌲🌿 What an adventure!

This was such a special opportunity for them to get familiar with the Forest School environment and begin building a connection with the natural world right from the start 🌎✨

We’re already SO excited for their next adventure 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ The journey has only just begun!

🌿 Driven by Love – Forest School at Spring RAF Halton 🌿

At Spring, one of our core values is passion and it shines through in everything we do.
"Staff are passionate about their work and dedicated to providing high-quality care and education."

One of the most loved expressions of that passion is our Forest School. Led by our dedicated Forest School leader, both staff and children absolutely LOVE their time exploring, learning, and growing in our outdoor space.

Here’s a peek into our adventures this week:

🍃 Inventors got creative with leaf printing in clay! They explored a variety of leaves, noticing how each tree leaves a unique imprint. This sparked wonderful conversations about shapes...round, square, rectangle...and how nature creates its own patterns.

🔍 Navigators went on a nature hunt, discovering sticks, seeds, nuts, and more. They compared sizes and shapes, and were full of curiosity as they made new discoveries about the world around them.

Every day in Forest School is a new opportunity to connect with nature, spark imagination, and nurture a lifelong love of learning.
If you want to see what explorers were up to....wait for our next post🌱💚

Our last duckling moments with the Explorers (0–2) 🐥💛

We had such a lovely time saying goodbye to our fluffy little visitors last week. One of our Explorers had a special connection with them, a true duckling whisperer!
Everyone was so gentle and sweet with the ducklings, such a heart warming sight to see. 🥰

🦆 DUCKLING UPDATE! 🦆

Our fluffy little visitors have now waddled their way back to the farm and oh, what a week it’s been!

We had front-row seats to watch them grow, splash, and learn to swim (with some serious zoomies in the water tray that left us all a bit soggy but giggling!) They brought so much joy, noise, and a lot of mess to the room, cheeping at us and each other like they had so much to say!

Sadly, little Plum Sauce didn’t make it out of their egg, a gentle reminder of the natural cycle of life 💛

We’ll miss our quacky crew: Star, Scrappy, Pancake, and Foxson, thanks for the memories, little ones! 🐣

"In Forest School today we were making some seed bombs using British wildflower seeds, soil, flour and water. We looked at the different flowers on the packets and then when we opened the packets of seed we could see that they were different shapes and different sizes. 🐦🐦‍⬛
We mixed the soil, flour and water with our hands which then were very muddy! As we were mixing we talked about what it felt like….watery, slimy, wet, like a volcano, it’s erupting, cold.⛰⛰
Once the soil, flour and water were mixed we added the seeds. Then we were able to roll the mixture into balls. When they have dried we will be able to take them home and plant them in our gardens. Hopefully they won’t take too long to dry out, but as you can see some are quite big! 😂🫣😂 as the mixture dried on our hands one Inventor was heard to say that it was all cracky, it was wet and now it dried!" - C.S *Forest School Leader*.