Little Nest Childcare

WHAT HAVE PRESCHOOL BE UP TO LATELY?🌞

Our preschool children have been busy! We have been exploring, creating, building and learning! Have a look what we have been doing:

1. Collaborative play in our sand kitchen 👩‍🍳
2. Portraits on acetate 🎨
3. A huge favourite with our children; construction with our Grimm's blocks🏰
4. Role playing Megan & Alice's upcoming charity skydive ☁️
5. Making the most of the heatwave in the paddling pools 🫗
6. Planting Strawberries 🍓
7. Prewriting Painting 👨🏼‍🎨
8. Critical thinking to create bridges for our cars 🚕
9. Magnet tile bowling 🔢
10. Beautiful small world set ups for our animals 🦁

SUNDAY IS SKYDIVE DAY 🤩🤩

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far. Please feel free to use the below link if you would like to donate/ purchase raffle tickets.

Charity raffle- Open to families and their connections🖤🪹

As part of our fundraising efforts for LimBo UK and to support Megan & Alice’s skydive, we are holding a raffle. Each ticket is £1 and entries can be purchased by donating to our Just Giving page.

This is open to all Little Nest families and their connections! All entries must have a child initials and their key group in the write up in order to qualify, this is so we can successfully match prizes to their winners! Any donations made without this information will not entered. If you have previously donated, we will automatically add these entries to the draw. You will not receive a physical ticket, the draw is being completed electronically.

We will be drawing the raffle on 7th June at the sky dive!

We have a fabulous range of prizes, a small snippet is on the poster below however a full list will be available within the next few days.

As a reminder, all families are welcome to join us at Old Sarum Park, Salisbury to see Megan and Alice doing their sky dive and the drawing of the raffle. Please arrive from 8am, we are not given an exact jump time.

How to buy tickets - Via our just giving crowd funding page- https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/littlenest-childcare.

When you donate, please add your child’s initials and key group to the comment, every £1 donated will be 1x entry into the draw!

Thank you!!

SECOND HAND UNIFORM SALE!

Our second hand uniform table is out this week, all uniform available for a small donation. If any families due to start / already with us would like some affordable uniform☺️

STORIES IN OUR NEST!

A big thank you to Ellie from Lockswood Library who visited us last week to hold a rhyme time session. Our babies and pre-schoolers loved listening to lots of different stories and singing some of our favourite nursery rhymes.

If you are interested in joining the library with your child, please see the below link:
https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/library/membership/jointhelibrary

If you would like to know more about Lockswood Library please see the below link:
https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/library/libraryfinder/lockswood-library

Charity raffle- Open to families and their connections🖤🪹

As part of our fundraising efforts for LimBo UK and to support Megan & Alice’s skydive, we are holding a raffle. Each ticket is £1 and entries can be purchased by donating to our Just Giving page.

This is open to all Little Nest families and their connections! All entries must have a child initials and their key group in the write up in order to qualify, this is so we can successfully match prizes to their winners! Any donations made without this information will not entered. If you have previously donated, we will automatically add these entries to the draw. You will not receive a physical ticket, the draw is being completed electronically.

We will be drawing the raffle on 7th June at the sky dive!

We have a fabulous range of prizes, a small snippet is on the poster below however a full list will be available within the next few days.

As a reminder, all families are welcome to join us at Old Sarum Park, Salisbury to see Megan and Alice doing their sky dive and the drawing of the raffle. Please arrive from 8am, we are not given an exact jump time.

How to buy tickets - Via our just giving crowd funding page- https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/littlenest-childcare.

When you donate, please add your child’s initials and key group to the comment, every £1 donated will be 1x entry into the draw!

Thank you!!

LOOK WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO!

It's been a little while since we've showcased the fun we've been having at Little Nest! Have a look at what the pre-school children have been doing:

1. Our love for loose part play continues✨
2. Exploring reflections in our Mini Professors Science Lesson💡
3. Stories in our new treehouse📚
4. Celebrating Earth Day with collaging🌎
5. Can you thread the correct amount of cheerios?🔢
6. Developing Coordination, Balance and Spatial Awareness during our weekly Tennis lesson🎾
7. The cutest pockets of play that the adults spot around our room💓
8. Cleaning the dinosaurs🦖
9. Sunny weather means lots of water play🌞
10. St Georges Day celebrations with themed mark making🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

If you would like your child to join the Little Nest fun, please be aware we are currently full in our preschool room until September 2028. For a space from this date, please get in touch!

On Wednesday night, the Little Nest Team had training from the lovely Louisa at Jigsaw Early Years Training. Learning, developing and reflecting on our outdoor play provision at Little Nest 🖤

Last night Jigsaw Early Years Training had the pleasure of delivering an in-person training session with the wonderful team at Little Nest Childcare, exploring Nature’s Classroom. 🌿

It was a fantastic, interactive session filled with fresh ideas, shared experiences, and practical ways to bring the outdoors into everyday learning. The team’s enthusiasm and openness made it a truly engaging experience!

We’re excited to be delivering this session again online on Thursday 4th June, 9.30am-11.00am. Click here to book your place: https://jigsawearlyyearstraining.com/product/exploring-natures-classroom-enriching-activities-with-outdoor-adventures/

🤔 Interested in a bespoke session for your setting? Drop us at email at [email protected]