This week, we immersed ourselves in creativity as the children made beautiful gifts for their devoted mums! Some little artists crafted butterfly cards, carefully drawing around their hands to create delicate wings. With great determination, they cut them out and decorated them with their own unique pictures and ornaments, making each card a truly heartfelt keepsake.

With the spring equinox behind us, it's truly an exciting time in the forest! 🌳 Spring is here, and our intrepid explorers have been experts at spotting the signs! Of course, a few weeks ago, the sun tricked us into thinking spring had arrived before the equinox, but our clever Little Forest Folk explorers couldn't be fooled. The signs, however, are all here now, and we've been enjoying adventures this week to see the magnolias, almond blossoms, daffodils, and wild garlic! Everything is in bloom, including our young minds! 🌱We love winter but are 🌸blooming 🌼 happy to see spring arrive!

In our forest we take pride in looking after our bugs & so this week we have dedicated lots of our activities to ensuring all our resident bugs are taken care of for spring and the coming summer.

What a fantastic week we’ve had in the forest! Our Little Forest Folk-ers have been busy investigating shapes, celebrating Mother’s Day, and making the most of the glorious spring sunshine. With so much hands-on learning and adventure, there has been no shortage of excitement!

What a spectacular week we have had. The weather has been glorious and the children have delighted in the budding leaves and spring flowers. 

At Little Forest Folk, we tend to count, calculate and consider numbers a lot as part of our everyday activities, whether it is working out if there are enough stepping stone logs for all the children on camp that day, or counting out the leaves on a leaflet from an elder tree.

Another beautiful week at Wimbledon full of wonder and excitement! Spring is well and truly here now, and there are signs of it everywhere!

Little Forest Folk have wondered and wandered this week! 🤔🚶‍♀️🚶

We've had an exciting and adventure-filled time in the forest this week, with plenty of learning, creativity, and outdoor exploration!

“Understanding the World & Understanding the Key Features of the Life of a Plant and an Animal”

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'