Willowdene Nursery School

18/02/2025

Would you like to join our team? We have a vacancy at our Sherfield Park nursery. Further details at

Willowdene Nursery School

17/03/2023

Would you like to join our team? We have a vacancy at our Sherfield Park nursery. Further details at https://uk.indeed.com/job/nursery-deputy-f9bee4d8ce418bb0

18/02/2022

It is with regret we have taken the decision to close the Nursery today following the red weather warning and guidance issued by Hampshire County Council. The safety of everyone is always our highest priority.

12/05/2021

Today is the festival of Eid, when Muslims celebrate the end of a period of fasting and prayer. The sighting of the crescent moon signifies the end of the month long fasting ( Ramadam) and the start of the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr.
Why not join in the celebration with these feast ideas? Banana stars and apple moon on peanut buttered biscuit, star and moon Rice Krispies shapes, star and moon shaped sandwiches, cupcakes topped with a star and star shaped pizzas.
You could also make some binoculars from cardboard tubes and see if you can see the moon tonight?

01/05/2021

Monday May 3rd is May Day - a festival day to celebrate the coming of summer and the warmer weather. People celebrate May Day with maypole dancing, picking flowers and wearing a flower crown ( and being May Queen)
Why don't you -
Go on a nature walk to pick some (natural) flowers. Use these to :

Make a flower crown
Conduct a science experiment to see how flowers drink water ( choose white flowers and food colouring & water in the vases).
Try printing with your flowers
Print your own flowers using a cardboard tube.

28/03/2021

28th & 29th March is the Festival of Holi. It is a Hindu festival that celebrates Spring. It is also known as The Festival of Colour and people throw coloured powder paint in the streets.
Have a day of colour by making splatter pictures on large sheets of paper ( using brushes or sticks ), have fun with mixing coloured paints to see what colours you can make or dressing up in colourful clothes.

19/03/2021

Time to celebrate Red Nose Day. Here are two ideas for Red Nose Day treats.
To make the Chocolate Krispie cakes
Melt 50g butter, 100g chocolate and 3tbsps golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat or briefly in the microwave. Allow to cool a little before pouring over 100g cornflakes/rice krispies.
Stir the ingredients together gently. Spoon the mixture into 12 cupcake cases arranged on a muffin tray (or baking sheet, if you don’t have one). Add cherries or red smarties/M& M s for the nose. Put in the fridge to set.
Or
Decorate cupcakes as shown

12/03/2021

Some ideas for Mothering Sunday

09/03/2021

Some ideas for Mother's Day this Sunday

04/03/2021

It's World Book Day!
Why not try these activities around The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Or adapt to suit your child's favourite book.
-Have fun using your body to creep like a caterpillar, snuggle in a cocoon and then flutter like a butterfly.
- Encourage some imagining. If you could change into any kind of animal, what would you like to be? How would you move? What would you eat?
-Explore the food in the book and taste test some of the food: what tastes best? Or play a guessing game, wearing a blindfold and smelling and tasting the food and trying to guess what they all are without peeping.
-Have some fun with printing, using cut apples, pears and oranges to dip in paint and create some designs.
-Go on a leaf hunt. How many different leaf shapes can you find?
- Make a model caterpillar, paint a butterfly
- Eat a caterpillar! Prepare a caterpillar lunch, using cucumber and tomato slices to create the body.

16/02/2021

Mix a pancake, stir a pancake , pop it in the pan
Fry the pancake , toss the pancake
Catch it if you can.

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