Alphablocks Nursery School & Pre-Prep, Hadley Wood, London

Over the past two weeks St Paul Explorers have focused on books all to do with nature and growth, inspired by our forest school curriculum. We planted a tree and There’s a rang a tang in my bedroom have opened up further exploration and understanding of the wider world, from conversations about nature, to changes over time!

Our Explorers at Hadley Wood have had a wonderful two weeks embracing the Forest School approach 🌿🍃 From running their very own nature café and discovering different animal habitats, to creating masterpieces with natural materials and splashing through muddy puddles, every day has been filled with adventure, creativity, and outdoor learning! 💚🐞🎨👣 LearningThroughPlay

🌟 On Thursday, we had a fantastic Crazy Hair Day across our Alphablocks Nurseries to help raise funds for 🌟

At Alphablocks, we believe it’s never too early to teach children about kindness, community, and caring for others around the world. 💛

The funds raised will help support a garden project at Remba Primary School on Remba Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya, as well as after-school clubs that help sustain learning opportunities for pupils.

The project aims to help the school grow vegetables and produce to supplement lunches for children and families in the community, improving nutrition while teaching valuable gardening and sustainability skills. 🌱

Over the coming weeks, the children at Alphablocks will also continue learning about Kenyan culture, language, music, and daily life in fun and engaging ways, helping them develop curiosity about the wider world and understanding of how children everywhere share many of the same hopes and needs. 🌍

A huge thank you to all the children, families, and staff who joined in with the fun hairstyles and supported this special cause — your kindness and generosity are truly appreciated! 💕

☀️St Paul’s ☀️ Explorers had a wonderful time exploring their story all about the five sense through a very fun beach day. Explorers played at the beach, made play dough ice cream and of course spent time relaxing!

Try it Tuesday at ✨St Pauls✨ To develop the children’s independence we set up a salad station, replicating how lunch could be when they go to school. Adventurers made choices on what they would like in their bowl and carefully took it back to the table to eat with their friends!

✨ Magical Maths & Movement ✨

Our Explorers at Hadley Wood have been busy bringing numbers to life through movement, inspired by our book of the week 'One Mole Digging a Hole' 📚🐾

From counting creatures to digging, wriggling, and hopping along, the children explored early maths in the most magical way—through sensory play, imagination, and play! 🐛🦋

Learning has never looked so lively 💫

St Paul’s✨ Explorers have had a blast this week exploring the story ‘There a dinosaur in your book.’ The children have loved all things dinosaurs from finding dinosaurs eggs, experimenting with the light box and of course creating with the berries that the dinosaur dropped! It has been lovely to see Explorers fine motor skills develop throughout our activities this week.