Smilers Nursery Park House

🌟 Happy Rakhi / Raksha Bhandan to everybody celebrating today 🌟

Rakhi/ Raksha Bhandan is a celebration of the love and bond siblings have for one another. Traditionally the Rakhi string, once tied, symbolised a brother protecting his sister throughout their lifetime. This tradition has remained, and developed to be a celebration of both sisters and brothers.

At Smilers, we made some Rakhis using lots of different materials 🎉

This week, we really enjoyed looking at different ways to recycle old materials. We melted down old crayons to make some wax cupcakes 🧁

We had fun making a rocket by recycling lots of different materials. 3...2...1...LIFT OFF 🚀

This week we hosted our very own Smilers Karaoke, taking it in turns to sing our favourite songs 🎤🎶

**The microphone was cleaned in between turns of each child, to ensure we are keeping COVID safe.

Olympic fever at Smilers 🏅
Swipe to see the Olympic Torch and flag we made today 🇯🇵🥇🥈🥉

S M I L E R S • G R A D U A T I O N • 2 0 2 1
🎓 C L A S S • O F • 2 0 2 1 🎓
We had an amazing day celebrating our 'Class of 2021'. This year has been a turbulent one where our children have had to adapt to lots of changes, and they took it in their stride, becoming more resilient along the way. We are so proud of all our Smilers children and wish them the best of luck in the next chapter of their lives.

🎓 S M I L E R S • G R A D U A T I O N • 2 0 2 1 🎓
We had an amazing day celebrating our 'Class of 2021'. This year has been a turbulent one where our children have had to adapt to lots of changes, and they took it in their stride, becoming more resilient along the way. We are so proud of all our Smilers children and wish them the best of luck in the next chapter of their lives.

As we reach the end of term, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of kindness we have received from our Smilers parents and carers. It has been a difficult year to navigate and we have could not have done it without your support. A big thank you to our Smilers team, parents, carers and children, for making this year a super one! 💫☀️

Eid Mubarak to all our Smilers children and families who are celebrating today. 🌟🌙

🏅 SMILERS SPORTS DAY 🏅
Our Smilers children and team had a fantastic sports day today competing in lots of fun activities! Well done to everyone who took part today 🏆

Smilers are supporting the England team this week as hopefully football is coming home ⚽️

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Happy Father's Day to everyone celebrating today 🏅

Our Smilers children have been very busy helping Mario with our brand new outdoor paving. They helped him to measure and balance out the paving, finishing off with their handprints in the cement to mark the occasion. Mario's team may be growing at Smilers 👷‍♂️👷‍♀️

Yesterday, the children went on a nature walk to spot how much wildlife they could see. They then created a tally chart and added up their findings. There was a lot of discussion about all the animals they spotted and it was clear that the most sighted animals were the ducks 🦆🦢

We were very sad to hear about the passing of Eric Carle; beloved writer and illustrator of one of our favourite books at Smilers- The Very Hungry Caterpillar. He will continue to live on through his amazing work; may he rest in peace 🙏💫🐛

To continue with our activities for Numeracy Day, Adem supported Daaya and Trijai to sequence numbers 1-20 on the number wheel. Well done Daaya and Trijai! 💫

The Smilers team and children commemorated Numeracy Day with a range of different activities today. The children enjoyed this number matching games with our number ducks in the water tray 🦆

Eid Mubarak from the Smilers Team 💫

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating today. Our children spent some time yesterday discussing what Eid is and why it is celebrated. They also made some beautiful Eid decorations and tasty chocolate dates 💫

We are so lucky to have such amazing parents and children at Smilers and we are always sad when they leave. The emails and cards we receive always remind us of the hard work and efforts of our team and how our number one priority is the high level of care for our children. Thank you to Aayah's parents for the kind words we received below:

“Being first- time parents with Aayah we were really nervous about putting her into nursery at such a young age and leaving her with strangers. We saw a few nurseries in the area and I was totally put off and decided not send her to nursery. Then we came across Smilers a few months down the line & when we visited the nursery we felt drawn to it and knew it would be perfect for Aayah. A year and a half along we can honestly say the Smilers team have well & truly exceeded our expectations of a nursery. Aayah has really grown & developed being there and she really enjoys it. She will really miss the nursery.

As parents of Aayah we wanted to thank you from the bottom of our heart for not only being amazing teachers to Aayah but also making us as parents very comfortable with sending our precious daughter to strangers, who are now like family.

You have set the bar high, making our search in Slough for a nursery a lot tougher.”

Good luck to all our children who find out where they will be going to primary school, today. We can't wait to hear where your learning journey will continue 💫

Puthandu also know as Puthuvarudam or Tamil new year, is the first day of the year on the Tamil calendar and traditionally celebrated as a festival.

Homes are decorated with flowers and these are known as a Chitra. 🌺🌼🏵🌸

Smilers marked the Tamil new year by creating their own Chitra by placing some flowers into water. When the flowers start wilting they are put into a river or pond.

We also marked the first day of Ramadan today at Smilers, making star and moon shapes using playdough 🌟🌙

Our first celebration of the month was for the Sikh festival Vaisakhi. Vaisakhi is the harvest festival in Punjab and also marks the Sikh new year.

To signify the day in Punjab, people fly kites. Today at Smilers we made our very own kites to commemorate the day 🪁

Today is a very auspicious day for many religions and cultures. We look forward to spending this month celebrating them at Smilers 💫

Wishing our Smilers children, parents and team a very Happy Easter! We hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend 🐰🌼

Our Smilers children had fun in the sun on our Easter egg hunt! The children followed the map amd some clues carefully, and Isaac found the golden egg 🥚
Well done to all our Smilers children involved 🐰

The sun was out at Smilers today ☀️
We all had lots of fun in the garden 🌼