Loveders Nursery School

What a glorious sunny day we had at Thorney Island Beach! 🌊
Our children had the best time splashing in the water, exploring the rock pools for crabs 🦀, building magnificent sandcastles, and collecting beautiful shells.
One of our favourite activities was turning those special shell finds into necklaces, as well as decorating shells and stones with acrylic pens to create treasured keepsakes to take home. 🐚✨

To finish our seaside adventure, we bounced over the sand dunes, rolled all the way down, and filled the beach with giggles and smiles! 🤸‍♀️💛
A day full of sunshine, laughter, adventure, and memories we'll treasure for a long time. We can't wait for our next adventure! 🌞🌈

A beautiful time at Lordington Lavender Farm! 💜☀️

Some of our children had a wonderful adventure exploring the lavender fields. We watched busy bees collecting nectar 🐝, breathed in the amazing scent of the lavender, said hello to the friendly animals 🐑, and had lots of fun searching for letters in the corn maze 🌽🔤.
The highlight of the day? A wonderfully bumpy tractor ride! 🚜

We had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day last week! 📚✨ The children came dressed as characters from their favourite stories and brought in their favourite books to share with their friends.
We enjoyed reading the stories together, making puppets, and acting out our favourite phrases. It was wonderful to see so much creativity, imagination and a love of reading! 📖

📚 Thursday 5th March is World Book Day!

To celebrate, children are welcome to dress up as their favourite book characters if they wish to. We can’t wait to see all the wonderful costumes and share our love of reading together!📚

This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year and Pancake Day.

The children enjoyed exploring Chinese culture in a variety of hands-on ways. They had a go at writing Chinese symbols in the sand, which was a fantastic way to practise mark-making and learn about different forms of writing. In our Chinese takeaway role play area, the children loved becoming chefs and serving up delicious pretend meals to their friends. They also had great fun decorating Chinese lucky bags, developing their creativity and fine motor skills.🇨🇳

On Tuesday, we celebrated Pancake Day by making delicious blueberry pancakes. The children helped with the preparation and then enjoyed eating them for snack.🥞🫐

🌳 We’re so excited to share our new end of the garden with you all! 🏕️

Being a very free flow nursery, we are really pleased with our additional outdoor learning through play opportunities. Our children are encouraged to explore, create and get stuck in both indoors and outdoors no matter the weather.

The new space includes:
- A love bug hotel 🐞
- A super messy mud kitchen area to bake those delicious mud pies 🧑‍🍳
- Small world play 🦖
- A time to relax zone with our hammocks, fairy garden and reading teepees
- A gardening area & vegetable patch 🪴
- A pet zone
- Brand-new climbing equipment
- A tunnel and sensory path

We can’t wait to see their imagination unfold even more ✨

Another fantastic end to a wonderful year with our annual Loveders Christmas party! We danced, had a special visit from Santa and Robbie the Elf and enjoyed our delicious party food. We all wish you a very Merry Christmas and we look forward to doing it all again with you in 2026 🥳🤩✨💫

✨🎄 Christmas is in full swing at Loveders as we took a trip to Chidham Lodge to choose and collect our Christmas trees. Each room has been busy decorating them with lots of sparkle and they are looking fantastic! We are so excited to continue our Christmas magic with our friends over the next few weeks at nursery 🎄✨

🧸💛 Today we celebrated Children in Need with lots of dancing, baking, art activities and teddy bear picnics.

The children (and staff!) have been showing off their dance moves and decorating their yummy cakes. Thank you to all those parents who donated to raise money for Children In Need. 🧸💛

Lest we forget 🌹

Yesterday we paused for the 2 minute silence in respect for Remembrance Day. The children were busy printing poppies, making red play dough, exploring sensory trays, and learning about why we remember. ❤️