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Littlest Elf Littlest Elf
- Feb 12
- 2 min
Come and Join Us!
Our wonderful Nursery Team have excellent and hugely varied experience within the world of Early Years Childcare. Because of this exceptional start point, we not only offer the highest standards of care, we also have the broadest diversity in skillset and ideas. This enables us to provide your children with the greatest range of exciting activities, and brilliant learning opportunities. We promote, value, and love independence and child-led play. We believe that every child s
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Rosie Alexander
- Dec 3, 2020
- 3 min
Seven benefits of Outdoor Learning and Forest School to young children
Grab your Pooh sticks, plonk on your wellies and stride forth into the fresh air, because Britain’s favourite classroom is fast becoming an outside space! Initiated in the early 1980s in Denmark where open-air culture (“frulitsliv”) is a way of life, the Forest School concept has shaken up young children’s learning in the UK since the 1990s, when the idea was introduced over here. Now we have armies of young folk regularly and happily turning over stones, whittling sticks or
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Rosie Alexander
- Dec 2, 2020
- 3 min
Ten Fun Christmas Party Games!
Nothing, absolutely nothing, gets Christmas with the family going more than some homemade, inexpensive party games. Yes, there’ll be much eye-rolling and groaning at their very mention, and there could be cries for another mince pie and some telly instead, but it’s almost guaranteed that the person who moans loudest will eventually be having the most fun! Christmas party games let adults behave like children and that can open children’s eyes to you in a good way. They also al
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Littlest Elf Littlest Elf
- May 16, 2020
- 4 min
20 Activities for Young Children during Lockdown
Did you know that Isaac Newton drummed his fingers and pondered what to do during his Lockdown from Bubonic Plague in 1665 and came up with nothing less than Calculus and the Theory of Gravity? Well, well done him *clapping emojis*. But before we get too hung up on the extent of our lesser achievements during a pandemic, take heart — Newton had a couple of things in his favour: he was a freaky genius and he didn’t have kids! For many of us, the all-consuming business of carin
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