Jubilee Daycare

🦋 Today is Butterfly Education and Awareness Day! 🦋

We've had such a wonderful time over the past few weeks watching our caterpillars transform, hatch into beautiful butterflies, and finally take flight as we released them into our outdoor spaces.

This hands-on experience has been a fantastic way to learn about life cycles, nature, and the importance of protecting these amazing pollinators.

Take a look at the link below where we've shared a link to our most-loved butterfly resources including Yellow Door Education and Insect Lore 🦋💛

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Today we put on our waterproofs and headed out into the sensory garden to collect herbs and rose petals 🌿🌸 for our scented tea party.

With the smell of fresh rain, scented water and lots of tipping and pouring, it was a lovely hands-on morning of learning through play

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We love spending time in our atelier and outdoor spaces for creative activities 🎨🌿

These inspiring environments encourage children to explore, create, and express their ideas freely.

We enjoy bringing together children of a variety of different ages, giving them opportunities to interact, collaborate, and support one another through large-scale creative activities 💛

🐝🌼 World Bee Day at Jubilee!

Today we had the best time celebrating World Bee Day! We were so excited to spot lots of busy bees buzzing around our gardens, hard at work collecting pollen 🌿🐝
The children loved observing them and learning about the important role bees play in helping our environment and plants to grow. A wonderful day of outdoor learning and discovery! 🌸

🐝 Fun Bee Fact: Did you know a single bee can visit up to 2,000 flowers in one day while collecting nectar and pollen? 🌼


Yellow Door Education

We’ve been having lots of fun adding the bugs sensory play stones into our play from Yellow Door Education 🐞🐜🐌

The children loved hiding them under sticks, leaves and plant pots, then heading off around the garden to see if they could find real bugs to match the ones on their stones. It was such an exciting little adventure!
They were so proud to successfully spot an ant, a snail, and even a ladybird hiding on one of the roses 🌹✨

A lovely way to explore, learn, and enjoy the outdoors together 💚

We have introduced you to Bella already, but just look how much she’s grown 🐑💕
She’s still just as friendly as ever — her absolute favourite thing is a good back rub! When she’s not soaking up the attention, you’ll find her happily running around the field with her brothers and sisters.
The children have absolutely loved going to visit her and her friends.

From the moment our caterpillars arrived, we have been carefully observing their incredible journey. The children have loved watching them change through each stage of their life cycle, from tiny caterpillars to chrysalises, and finally emerging as beautiful butterflies 🐛🦋

To support our learning, we used our sensory stone butterfly set from Yellow Door Education to explore different colours, patterns, and varieties. This helped the children to recognise and talk about the butterflies we saw when it was time to release them.

It was a magical experience for everyone, sparking curiosity, wonder, and a real appreciation for the natural world 🌿✨

Today we are celebrating International Nurses Day 🩺💙

We were very lucky to have one of our parents take the time to come in and talk to the children about her role as a nurse. She explained what her job involves and helped the children understand what nurses do if they ever need to go to hospital.

She also brought along lots of different equipment for us to explore, which sparked plenty of curiosity and thoughtful questions. A huge thank you for such a valuable and inspiring visit, and for everything nurses do every day!

Today we spent time in our very own nursery woodland, chatting about the animals we might find or spot hiding among the trees 🌳🦊🦉
This woodland set from Yellow Door Education was the perfect fit for extending our learning and inspiring lots of thoughtful discussion and imaginative play.