Little Sunbeams Preschool

Goodbye Robyn!
Robyn is going on maternity leave today, we wish her and her partner Lawrence the best of luck. We cannot wait to meet your little one 👶🍼

The children have enjoyed exploring our new mud area, using the pots to make their own plants 🌼🌻
We all hope you have a lovely half term, see you on the 1st June.

This week we have all been learning a new song "see you later alligator". The children have enjoyed helping to decorate our display 🐊🐞🪼🦖🐻‍❄️🦋

This week the children have enjoyed being outside and enjoying the sunshine ☀️🌞😎

If your little one is starting school this year, Little Big Village have released their meet up dates for school starters so pop along if you can and meet some new friends 😊

This week the children have enjoyed helping to plant, runner beans, potatoes, strawberries and spring onions. 🍓🥔🧅

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It's easy to treat a skipped nap as a minor scheduling inconvenience — something the child will recover from overnight. Most parents have made that calculation dozens of times, particularly when the nap fights more energy than it saves.
But the research on what actually happens inside a toddler's brain and nervous system when daytime sleep is missed tells a more significant story.
When toddlers don't get enough daytime sleep, negative emotional reactions increase by more than 30 percent. Positive mood drops. Problem-solving capacity falls. Cortisol — the body's primary stress hormone — rises measurably. And the ability to regulate emotions, which is already limited in young children under the best conditions, becomes significantly more impaired.
Night sleep and daytime naps are not interchangeable — they serve different neurological functions. Night sleep builds and organizes the brain, consolidating memory and supporting structural development. Daytime naps serve a different purpose: they act as a reset button for the nervous system, regulating stress responses and restoring emotional capacity in a way that a longer nighttime sleep, however restorative, cannot fully replicate.
The child who melts down after a missed nap isn't being difficult or defiant. Their nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight mode because their brain genuinely needed that rest and didn't get it. The behavior is biological, not behavioral — and responding to it as a discipline problem rather than a physiological one makes it significantly harder to navigate.
Before age four, the daytime nap isn't optional. It's part of how the brain stays regulated through the second half of the day.
Protect it like it matters. Because for your child's developing nervous system — it matters more than most parents realize."

Wishing all our Little Sunbeams and their families a very happy Easter 🐣

Wishing a very happy Mothers Day to all our Little Sunbeams mummies, past, present and future 😉 Hope you all have a lovely day with your children and feel very loved and blessed 💐💞