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WOODLANDS FAMILY FESTIVAL
On Saturday 25th June, we will be hosting our family festival at our Barnes Lane setting. Everyone is invited to join us for a day of fun and activities for all the family!
We will have our Craft Village, Wellness area and main stage with some amazing performers!
Wristbands go on sale next week! £2 per child, adults are free!!
We hope you can join us!
#woodlandsfestival #dayout #woodlandsnursery #earlyyearsV E T S 🐶🐰
Our vets has opened in Rising Fours this week! The children have been helping take care of our Woodlands “Pets”
When young children pretend to take on occupational roles such as, police, doctors, nurses, teachers and builders, they’re engaging in play that encourages empathy amongst their peers.
It’s fun and beneficial for Early Years to imagine themselves working in different roles in society.
Through occupational role play, early years naturally build their communication and problem solving skills as they discussion situations they face in their imagined job role.
We’re going to have so much fun playing with our friends and learning to take care of our animals.
#childdevelopment #creativity #problemsolving #empathy #communication #buildsconfidence #understandingtheworld #EYFSDay 1 of donations and we are so overwhelmed with what we have so far! We will be making one drop off tomorrow morning at Jacobs Well due to having so many donations!
If you would still like to donate, we will still be taking donations this week and early next week.
If you would still like to donate, we are short on medicines like calpol, paracetamol, plasters, first aid kits.
As well as adult clothes, underwear, hats, scarves and gloves.
These are just ideas, any donation is welcome 💙💛
@jacobswell_gosportU K R A I N E • A I D 🇺🇦
We are sure you have all seen the incredibly sad events taking place in Ukraine at the moment. The devastation the Ukrainian people are facing, is unbearable. We are compelled to use our large community to good use and help to support those in need.
Jacobs Well, in Gosport, an amazing charity we have supported before, are looking for donations that they will deliver themselves to refugees that have fled their homes. They will be leaving within the next couple of weeks and so we would like our Woodlands family to help collect supplies for these families.
The items they are asking for are;
- Toiletries- shampoo, conditioner, sanitary items, soap etc
- Baby milk and baby food
- Nappies and wipes
- Warm children’s clothing (good condition please)
- Blankets
- New men and womens underwear
- Socks
- Hats, scarves and gloves
- Pasta
- Rice
- In date tinned foods
Due to the urgency of the situation we will be looking to take our donations to Jacob’s Well, early next week.
They will be leaving to take items, as soon as they have a van full. If after the first drop, they aren’t quite ready to go, we will keep collecting on their behalf.
Please bring your donations to either offices or hand to your key person.
Thank you so much for your support.
Woodlands xx
#woodlands #woodlandsecoproject #jacobswell #ukraine #aidL O V E ❤️🌹
This week our Rising Fours at Barnes have been celebrating love.
Their curiosity table is full of play dough, cutters, rolling pins and much more. So that the children can explore and develop their fine motor skills, pre writing skills as well as promoting creativity and imagination.
We’ve also added resources to extend literacy and numeracy.
The children really enjoy the curiosity tables and being able to take their learning in their own direction.
#curiosity #curiositytable #literacy #maths #earlyyears #eyfs #loveDear Parents,
We are so upset to share with you that on our 18th birthday, a day that was full of celebration, our nursery office at Barnes Lane was broken into.
Our nursery remains safe for our children to attend. The intruders did not gain access to our play spaces.
Understandably, we are so upset but most importantly we are all ok and can continue to remain open to care for our wonderful children, who are sure will pick us straight back up.
We would be so grateful to our community to keep an ear out for us, if you hear or saw anything, please reach out to us.
Thank you xxxWOODLANDS IS TURNING 18!!
This week we are celebrating Woodlands turning 18!
It’s been an amazing 18 years and we are beyond proud of what we have been able to achieve.
We have faced many different challenges over the 18 years but have always come out the other side stronger.
We have set down roots in two locations now and are so proud of the way our nursery has grown.
Some of our team have been with us from the very beginning and some have joined us along the way but we are the amazing setting because of them. Our Woodlands family, providing the best experience for our families and always putting our children first.
We are very much looking forward to celebrating this week and invite you to share your memories of Woodlands with us by adding to our memory board!
#woodlands #woodlandsecoproject #woodlandsis18 #birthday5 ⭐️ AGAIN!
Today we have achieved a 5 star in our food hygiene standards!
Huge well done to the kitchen!! We are so proud of you!!
#foodhygiene #earlyroots #kitchen #earlyyearsShout out to all our parents old and new 😊
We are very excited to be celebrating woodlands 18th Birthday on 2/2/22 🎂
We will be celebrating within the setting the whole of the week commencing 31st January, with lots of fun activities for your children to participate in. We will also be making a memory board, which will be outside for you all to see. If any of you have any pictures or memories that you would like to share on our board please do pop by to pin them up as we would love to see them 💛🖤
We look forward to celebrating with you all next week!!
The Woodlands Team
XxxxOn Monday we are introducing our first Role Play of 2022 the ‘Woodlands Coffee Shop’!
Role play is an important part of child development, as it builds confidence, creativity communication, physical development and problem solving.
Along with being a fun activity, it also allows the children to get into character and act out real life fictional performance and handle real money.
Babyccino anyone? ❤️
#EYFS
#SEVEN AREAS OF LEARNING
#REAL LIFE SITUATIONS IN A SAFE FAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTC H R I S T M A S • G I F T S
This morning we took over all of your generous gifts to Ancasta Grove and met Chris to hand them over.
He was overwhelmed by your generosity! He said he can’t wait to hand them out and share them with the residents.
We also had some delicious cupcakes baked by Lesley, a wonderful friend of Woodlands. 🧁🎄
A huge thank you to everyone who gave gifts and to Lesley for the delicious cupcakes!!
#ancastagrove #woodlandsecoproject #christmas #christmasgivingG I A N T • F I N 🦈
Today it was Woodlands Also’s turn to be visited by Phil who wrote and illustrated @giantfin
Phil read the story to us, and joined us in making our very own giant fin illustrations, making sharks with play dough and exploring sensory trays of rice, sand, water and ice!
The children were also keen to show Phil a few of their other favourite books about sharks and other sea creatures.
We want to say another great big thank you Phil for taking the time to come and read your story to us, we enjoyed it very much and can’t wait for your next book! 🦈
#giantfin #philclaydon #reading #eyfs #loveofreading #earlyyearsG I A N T • F I N 🦈
Today Phil, who wrote and illustrated @giantfin visited Woodlands.
Our children absolutely loved having Phil here and they loved showing off their fins they had made, pictures they had drawn and he also read to them in small groups.
Instilling a love of reading to our children is so important, reading not only provides an opportunity to spend quiet time snuggling up and really promoting close relationships, it can help with speech and language, turn taking and increasing attention span.
It was lovely to watch the children in awe of Phil and his animation as he read his amazing story.
Phil, a huge THANK YOU for coming to spend time with us. We had the most amazing morning with you 🦈
#giantfin #philclaydon #reading #eyfs #loveofreading #earlyyearsA U T H O R • V I S I T 🦈
On Thursday and Friday we have a very exciting visitor to both nurseries! Phil Claydon, who has written the amazing @giantfin will be stopping by to read to our children and help us learn to illustrate. Both nurseries will be spending the day learning all about the characters and celebrating uniqueness- the very important message from the book!
We will be having under the sea themes too, so we can really immerse ourselves in the book.
Parents of Woodlands- remember if you would like to purchase the book beforehand, to be signed by Phil, it’s available on Amazon! Please pencil your child’s name in the book and give to your child’s key person.
We are so excited to have this opportunity and inspire the love of reading to our children!
#philclaydon #localauthor #giantfin #woodlandsecoproject #earlyyears #loveofreading #readingisfunD I W A L I 🏮
Happy Diwali!
Today we are celebrating Diwali with our children. Our Pre schoolers have been busy making their own candles from clay and talking about the celebration.
#diwali #earlyyears #celebrations #festivaloflight #woodlandsearlylearning #woodlandsecoprojectS P O O K Y • S C R A P • B O O K🎃
Our lovely friends at Ancasta Grove sent back our scrap book, filled with so many lovely photos! They’ve been super busy carving pumpkins and enjoying a special pink day!
The children LOVED looking through the photos and talking about what they could see!
Thank you so much to everyone who sent over photos of their halloween to share back- WOW you guys are talented with the pumpkins!! 🎃 so impressive!
We will be sending the book back over tomorrow, as well as sharing details about a very special Christmas project we will be running for the wonderful care home!
#earlyyears #intergenerationalwork #eyfs #halloween #woodlandsearlearning #yeswesaidchristmas #christmascountdown #christmascelebrationsDon’t forget Woodlands Also will be hosting our bonfire event at our Segensworth site tomorrow evening from 4.30-6pm!
176 Segensworth Road
Fareham
PO15 5EJ
Everyone is welcome from both of our nurseries, so grab your torch and come and join us for some sizzling sausages, hot chocolate and a spooky Halloween hunt around the garden 🎃
We hope to see you there!!We have been doing some spooky science experiments today at Woodlands also! Carving funny faces into some pumpkins, adding bicarbonate of soda, some food colouring and shaking in some vinegar. We were fascinated by the reaction which occurred when the ingredients mixed together and talked about all the bubbles, the smell of the vinegar and of course how funny the pumpkins looked with the mixture spilling out of their mouths!! 🎃 #woodlandsalso #experiments #spookyscience #earlyyears
Yesterday at Woodlands Also our preschool children had the opportunity to make use of our outdoor classroom ‘Darek’s Den’. They began their day by learning all about fire safety and all the rules they needed to follow to keep themselves and their friends safe! They then spent the day going on a gruffalo hunt around the garden, using the saw to create their very own log slice medal, and enjoying their lunch of sausages, toast and beans which was cooked on the fire. The group also kept warm with some hot chocolate and marshmallows toasted on the fire, it was delicious and such a yummy treat! 🐝 #woodlandsalso #outdoorlearning
P I C T U R E S • F R O M •
O U R • F R I E N D S 🍁
This morning our friends from the care home brought some lovely pictures over to share with us, that they had made. Our Rising Fours really enjoyed adding to the beautiful tree picture and it inspired them to make their own pictures. They particularly loved the jewels that had been used, so added some to their own pictures.
This afternoon our Pre-Schoolers are going for a leaf hunt to make a leaf picture, just like Cathies!
#intergenerationalwork #earlyyears #autumn #childledlearning #childledlearningthroughplay