What an action-packed and exciting week we’ve had in the forest! This week, we’ve been focusing on letters, writing, and phonics, as well as exploring music and percussion in creative ways. It’s also been Bird Watching Week, where the children have used special binoculars to spot different bird species and listen closely to their calls.

This week at Little Forest Folk Fulham we have celebrated everything kindness, love and appreciation, with a particular focus on how we show our love for the people we hold closest - our friends & families. We have celebrated each other’s achievements with our Kindness Awards, written letters to the ones we hold dear into our Cupid Post Box and discussed our positive feelings about our families whilst getting stuck into Valentines themed crafting.

Our Morden forest has been focusing on Communication and Language for the past 2 weeks – our Little Forest Folk-ers have had some great set up areas and activities with the intention of using their wonderful blossoming language skills! We’ve seen this lots in our small world areas - where children are able to use their imagination to take on the role of the creatures, explaining what is going on in their story, and suggesting ideas to their friends as they play!

This week, our All Around Us theme has taken a heartwarming turn as we prepare for Valentine’s Day! We’ve been focusing on the love and friendship in our lives and have been seriously getting our craft on, creating wonderful gifts and keepsakes to celebrate.

One of our most important rules in the forest is to ‘always be kind and gentle” and we also note that this is actually a good rule for life as well. This week with love in the air we have been looking at how we can be kind and gentle to each other, to the forest, to our friends and to our families. 

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, we were inspired to spend this week practicing kindness, compassion and consideration, in an effort to understand our own and other people’s emotions, promoting some extra love and care among our community!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here at Wimbledon we’ve celebrated love all week! 

Love is in the air as well as all the aromas from the One Stop Valentine Parfumerie. Many customers lined up excitedly to wait for their chosen scent of Sweet Sparkle or Forest Fresh. 

This week, we’ve been soaking up the crisp winter sunshine in our beautiful forest, making the most of the fresh air and blue skies.

One of our current focuses has been on Personal, Social and Emotional Development, particularly “understanding how others may be feeling” and to “find solutions to conflicts/rivalries”. We’ve had a week packed with fun activities to support the development of these vital skills. 

The current education system is too focussed on qualifications at the expense of broader aims. 94% of respondents favour urgent complete or partial reform of GCSEs. (HMC report)

This week our management team at Little Forest Folk attended a lecture by Simon Sinek called ‘The Infinite Game’. Simon Sinek is an organisational consultant who gives inspiring and motivational talks on a subject dear to our hearts – leadership. 

It’s a challenging thing in today’s society to trust your children to develop when they are ready. Amidst NCT groups there is always much talk about when a baby starts walking, when they are potty trained, with some families feeling the pressure to achieve a goal by a certain age or time, rather than when the child is developmentally ready.

Today is my son’s last day at Little Forest Folk. He will be returning for holiday camps but today is his last official day as a daily member of the nursery community. 

You may have seen that Little Forest Folk Chiswick recently had an Ofsted inspection, grading us as Outstanding, in which the inspector commented ‘Children thrive in this nursery. They gain a superb understanding of early literacy and mathematical skills’.

We are so fortunate in our forest nurseries to have a high adult to child ratio that allows us to fully embrace ‘in the moment’ planning.

Today is a bitter sweet day for me. It’s my last baby’s first day in the forest. It’s a good reminder of how difficult settling in can be. Not for the children but for the parents.

There’s a saying that a goldfish will only grow to the size of the bowl it is confined to, whereas a fish in the ocean surrounded by space, freedom and the wonders of the natural world can grow to its full capacity.

As part of a recent parent survey, we asked parents if they could change one thing about Little Forest Folk, what would it be? The vast majority responded ‘nothing’, which is always lovely to hear.

There were however a small group of parents who responded with ‘do some learning’.

Following the announcement of our Queen’s award in April, we are delighted to share an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in May.

Following our being selected by Tatler as being one of the finest nurseries in the nation last month, we are now delighted to share with you an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in our Wimbledon setting a few weeks ago.

Well, this weekend was the long awaited Nursery World Awards! It was a fabulous event and we were delighted to be recognised in such a large industry such as the early years to be one of the industry leaders.

‘Wouldn’t we all secretly like to be Little Forest Folk?' We are incredibly excited and proud to be included once again in the prestigious annual Tatler Nurseries Guide.

We have some exciting news to share with you. It’s been difficult to keep quiet about this achievement as we were inspected just over 10 days ago at Little Forest Folk Fulham…

We are delighted to have won the Nursery World Awards 2016 award for Online and Social Media. We see our website and social media as more than an opportunity to tell parents about our setting...

We are delighted to announce details of our third Little Forest Folk site....

From October our fantastic team will be bringing our magical experience to Fulham. Our children will spend all day playing in the beauty and wonder that is Fulham Palace Gardens. 

We are delighted to have been recognised by Tatler as one of the 'finest nurseries in the nation' in 'The Tatler Nurseries Guide 2016'