Windmill Daycare-Music Federation

Windmill Daycare-Music Federation Windmill Daycare is part of Windmill Primary School in Belle Isle, South Leeds.

We offer high quality childcare for children aged Three months to Four years old.

This week in the tulips room we have been looking at the story called walking through the jungle. The children have expl...
26/06/2026

This week in the tulips room we have been looking at the story called walking through the jungle. The children have explored painting with the animals, looking at the patterns and making their own patterns. We have followed the children’s interests of looking for insects and mini beasts in the garden and we provided pots with magnifying glasses on for the children to have a closer look at them. We have provided shady cool areas outside for the children and they have enjoyed having the tents out. As it has been very hot the children have had to have limited time outside, inside we have cooled off playing group games and doing animal jigsaw puzzles.

We had a busy week this week in Daffodils with our story, “Cat’s Cookbook.” The children have enjoyed making pretend foo...
19/06/2026

We had a busy week this week in Daffodils with our story, “Cat’s Cookbook.” The children have enjoyed making pretend food with pasta outside, hunting around the library for pictures of books and getting creative in the Forest Schools by making herby soup, mud pies and leaf tea. We also had Father’s Day Stay and Play with various activities.

This week in the Tulips room we have been looking at the story called “You choose”. The children have enjoyed interactin...
19/06/2026

This week in the Tulips room we have been looking at the story called “You choose”. The children have enjoyed interacting with the story and talking about all things they would choose. The children have been exploring different construction materials to build houses and buildings and they have created their own story books using their imagination and drawing their ideas. We have provided the children with a range of different dressing up outfits and have supported them to become more independent with dressing. On Friday we celebrated Father’s Day and had a stay and play session with our parents and carers.

Tulips class story w/b 08/06/2026Last week in the tulips room we had been looking at the story called “Peace at last” ab...
15/06/2026

Tulips class story w/b 08/06/2026

Last week in the tulips room we had been looking at the story called “Peace at last” about a bear who can’t get any sleep. The children have really enjoyed this story and have followed it well. We have explored lots of exciting activities throughout the week including a listening game and making listening ears to wear, lotto games and jigsaws, making vegetable wraps, continuing our bare foot walks in forest school and lots of role play with the teddy bears.

This week in Daffodils, our story this week has been “I’m the best.” The children have had lots of develop and learn thr...
14/06/2026

This week in Daffodils, our story this week has been “I’m the best.” The children have had lots of develop and learn through different opportunities about cooperative play, inside we have spoken about our feelings and what they mean. The children have used the colour monster teddies and book to help understand. During outside play, we have done some cooperative play by doing lots of turn taking. In forest school, we have been doing lots of mud play and looking at our environment. The children are still enjoying their visits to Tulips, ready for their transition in September.

Have a lovely weekend, we’ll see you next week. 🌼

This week in the sunflowers room, we have had a very busy week.We looked at the book “The Tiger who came to tea”. The ch...
14/06/2026

This week in the sunflowers room, we have had a very busy week.

We looked at the book “The Tiger who came to tea”. The children loved this book as we spoke about what the greedy tiger ate, as well as patterns and what we would buy from the shop. One of our activities were to look at patterns, complete patterns and create our own. The children were fantastic at this. Another one of our activities were to create a shopping list, where we focused on our writing skills, the children are coming along with there writing which is FANTASTIC!!

We also went litter picking this week, the children did amazing at this and we collected lots and lots of rubbish. Well Done boys and girls!!!

And finally, we also made some scones this week and they were absolutely delicious, the children loved them!

Have a fantastic weekend everyone 🌻

This week in the Tulips room we have been looking at the story called “Little sunflower”. Our rhyme of the week has been...
05/06/2026

This week in the Tulips room we have been looking at the story called “Little sunflower”. Our rhyme of the week has been “Baa baa black sheep”. The children have enjoyed planting sunflower seeds. We have used chalk outside to draw around our bodies and measure them and compare sizes. In forest school the children experienced a bare foot walk on different textures such as stones, grass, mud and bark. We have started our transition visits to the sunflower room for the children that will be moving up in September. We have had such a busy week back.

This week in the sunflowers room we have looked at the book “you choose fairy tales”. This book has been one of the chil...
05/06/2026

This week in the sunflowers room we have looked at the book “you choose fairy tales”. This book has been one of the children’s favourite books this year, there is so much to talk about and so many activities to do.

The children have enjoyed listening to the book and choosing their own characters, houses, friends, mazes ect in this book and putting the story together at the end. We let their imaginations run away with itself. We have also created our own stories by choosing characters who we want in our stories then drawing them. The children have also spoken about what they would like to be when they grow up, we had lots of teachers, builders, princesses, spidermen and many more wonderful things.

In our forest school we got to experience a bare foot walk which the children absolutely loved. They spoke about what they could feel on their feet as they walked across it.

And finally… in our little chefs we created pizza wraps!! They were absolutely delicious. The children add mushrooms, tomato puree,Sweet corn and cheese. The children loved them.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend and remember always follow your dreams✨💫

This week in Buttercups, we have been focusing on the story “Rabbits nap.” We have been doing lots of things around sens...
05/06/2026

This week in Buttercups, we have been focusing on the story “Rabbits nap.” We have been doing lots of things around sensory play, we have had a sensory tray out with lots of different textures for the children to explore such as feathers, different types of brushes, textures balls, tiles and fidget spinners. We have also had fluorescent paint and shaving foam on the table, they have used different tools to make marks. The children have also been visiting their new room Daffodils ready for their transition in September and to become familiar with the room and staff.

This week in Daffodils, our story has been “Look out! Hungry Snake.” The children have been enjoying making their own sn...
05/06/2026

This week in Daffodils, our story has been “Look out! Hungry Snake.” The children have been enjoying making their own snakes using their fingers and hands, the children have expanded their balancing skills outside to walk along the balance beam and move along their own snakes we drew out with chalk. In forest school, we found and collected lots of different materials we could find from the garden. We spoke about the different textures, colours and sizes, the children have also been visiting their new Tulips ready for their transition in September.

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Windmill Road
Leeds
LS103HG

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm

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+441132712330

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