The Wigwam Day Nursery

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Celebrating St George! Wigwam had lots of fun making flags, shields and roses. We explored different sensory trays and learnt about St George and why we celebrate every year on April 23rd. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🌍 Wigwam celebrated Earth Day! 🌍

In the older rooms, we were talking about how to make our planet a cleaner and healthier place to live and how to take care of the environment. The children were talking about the importance of recycling and then were busy sorting different items to the recycling boxes. ♻️
Our Dancing Deers did lots of junk modelling using recycled materials to show to the children how they can reuse the materials and create something new and interesting with them.
Dancing Deers also made a giant Earth picture by dipping their feet into paint and enjoyed drawing animals using the shadow from the beautiful sun.
Our little scientists made fizzy Earth's using bicarbonate of soda and vinegar with added blue and green colouring!

Our younger children explored different themed sensory tuff trays where they explored sea and and animals alongside dyed rice, foam and moon sand.

Found outside the nursery!

Everyone is invited to our FREE Centenary Community Festival 🎉

Join us for a two-day extravaganza for all the family, celebrating 100 years of the University of Reading.

On Saturday 16 May our Whiteknights campus will once again be buzzing with our annual Community Festival, sponsored by Lloyds Bank, with live music, mind-expanding research talks and workshops for all ages, plus sports activities and much much more.

Then on Sunday 17 May, our historic RAG Parade will make its long awaited return to the centre of Reading, leading to a day of family-friendly entertainment in Forbury Gardens.

The best thing of all, is that entry to both days is FREE and everyone is welcome.

Learn more at rdg.ac/centenaryfestival

This week Wigwam had an 'eggcellent' week celebrating Easter! 🐣
We enjoyed a fantastic range of different activities including baking, exploring tuff trays, egg and spoon races, egg hunts, rabbit bowling, making cards, decorating eggs and even cooking a whole feast of eggs! 🥚
Our annual Easter Bonnet competition was fierce with some amazing contenders, it gets harder every year to choose a winner from each room! Our winners were Margot from Turtles, Roman from Squirrels, Asa from Foxes and Kori from Deers!

Happy Eid to all of our families and friends celebrating over the weekend🌟 🌙
In Wigwam, the children explored a sensory tuff tray filled with exciting textures and materials, helping them learn through hands-on play. The older children also enjoyed listening to a story about Eid, which introduced them to the meaning of the celebration.

Some of us also had some lovely henna, where they had beautiful patterns applied to their hands. They were excited to observe the designs and shared their thoughts with their friends. Through these experiences, the children developed a better understanding of what Eid is and why it is celebrated.

🔴What a 'Redtastic' day we had celebrating Comic Relief's Red Nose Day! We wore our best red outfits and spent the day exploring all things red. 🔴
We made pasta necklaces, explored tuff trays filled with various different red resources, investigated slime, designed our own noses on balloons and enjoyed a special Red Nose biscuit treat made by our chef Kelly!

Reading’s Toy Library opened in its new location on Wednesday (18 March) at Palmer Park Leisure Centre & Stadium where families can borrow toys for toddlers and children for free.

The Toy Library offers over 300 toys that can be borrowed and then returned, just like with a library book. Supporting childhood development and reducing the financial pressures felt by families when buying new toys.

Toys can be reserved in person or online. Most toys can be collected from any of the Reading library branches, but large toys must be collected from Palmer Park Leisure Centre and Stadium during Toy Library opening hours – Wednesday’s 10.30am to 12.30pm during term time only. To check Toy Library opening times before travel visit https://rdguk.info/OpeningTimes_ZLxh1

The Toy Library will be staffed by tutors and SEND students from Reading College and University Centre, which will provide invaluable work experience for students to learn new skills to help them get workplace-ready.

View the Toy Library here https://rdguk.info/ReadingToyLibrary_ezOzV