15/10/2026
💚 Mental Health Week – Nurturing Little Minds and Big Feelings 🌿
At the heart of everything we do is a holistic approach to learning, recognising that children’s emotional wellbeing is just as important as their physical, social and cognitive development.
We believe in giving our children the tools, confidence and emotional awareness to support their wellbeing long after they leave us. This is woven into our everyday practice through our slow, outdoor learning, barefoot explorations, weekly yoga and sound baths, and our commitment to creating an environment where all feelings are valid, welcomed and safe to express. 💚
This week, during our Wednesday session with our friends, we placed a special focus on emotions and wellbeing. We added an extra yoga session and sound bath, explored gentle breathwork and created calm moments for the children to connect with themselves and those around them. 🧘♀️✨
Stories provided a wonderful starting point for conversations about feelings. We explored The Colour Monster and Ruby’s Worry, as well as The Invisible String, helping the children begin to recognise and name their emotions, talk about what makes them feel happy, worried, scared or sad, and understand the connections that help us feel safe and loved.
Our learning continued through creative, hands-on activities. The children made face biscuits, explored emotions through expressive plates and used drawing boards to show and share different feelings with their friends. These experiences offered gentle opportunities for self-expression, empathy, listening and understanding that everyone experiences emotions differently.
🌈 Our message is simple: there are no wrong feelings. We want our children to know that they can talk about their worries, celebrate their happiness, ask for comfort and feel safe being themselves.
By nurturing emotional literacy, resilience, connection and self-awareness from an early age, we hope to lay foundations that will support our children throughout their lives.
Because wellbeing isn’t something we teach for just one week — it’s something we nurture, every single day. 💚🌱
