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Is Your Child School Ready?

Lauren Saunders and Rachel Smallwood

6 days ago
2 min

Is Your Child School Ready?

As September approaches and many of your children are due to start their first year at "big school", you may start to wonder if your little one is "school ready". Here at Jabberwocky, we strive to empower your children to be leaders of their own learning, to believe in themselves. We encourage and support them to develop their individuality by giving them the confidence to express their interests and preferences. School readiness is so much more than being able to read and wr

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Come and Join Us!

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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New Year Resolutions - How to be Kind to Yourself!

Dec 29, 2020
2 min

New Year Resolutions - How to be Kind to Yourself!

Well, that was year and a half. I think most of us are cheerily waving goodbye to the old and actively welcoming the new. And what better way to celebrate than with a new year’s resolution? But not the type that is just punishment disguised as a new year health kick. No. We’ve had enough of assessing hygiene standards in any given indoor and outdoor space. Of minimising germ contact by wearing masks and marinating in hand sanitiser. Enough. Now it is high time we thought abou

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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer! – Elmo and Patsy

Dec 13, 2020
3 min

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer! – Elmo and Patsy

There’s always one, isn’t there? The ones that when faced with an array of twinkling lights will point out the one that isn’t twinkling. The ones that wrinkle their noses at the merest hint of warmed spice and cinnamon. The ones for whom Rudolph and his red nose will never shine brightly enough. Chances are there is probably someone you know that has that almost magical ability to shroud even the most genuinely uplifting moments with a sopping wet cloth, rendering said moment

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Seven benefits of Outdoor Learning and Forest School to young children

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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Ten Fun Christmas Party Games!

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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The Grinch Who Stole Christmas – What to Plan and What to Buy During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Nov 18, 2020
3 min

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas – What to Plan and What to Buy During the Covid-19 Pandemic

As we find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, we have learned a new way of navigating our lives in order to adhere to Government advice and to keep ourselves and our neighbours and loved ones healthy. Nipping to the shops has become something I can only just about remember doing, without having to remember masks, hand gel and making sure I am complying with queuing and one way systems. Socialising too has become something that requires careful planning, compliance with bu

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20 Activities for Young Children during Lockdown

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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