Happy Hares Nursery Blog

January has been full of discovery, creativity, and fun for the children! We kicked off the year by exploring three exciting themes: Winter, Healthy Eating, and Under the Sea. The children embraced hands-on learning through a wide range of sensory and active...

December was such an exciting month full of festive fun! We bundled up and took lovely walks to admire the beautiful Christmas lights in the town centre. The children crafted cards for their loved ones and created amazing decorations like snow globes, reindeer food,...

Throughout November, our Happy Hares have been discovering many new skills. They've been working on their fine motor skills by using tweezers to pick up small items like pom poms and practising cutting with scissors. This month, our planning has mainly been led by the...

October has been a busy month at Happy Hares, with our activities centred around 'Diwali', 'Road Safety', and 'The Zoo'. To celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, we created our own diya lamps, designed vibrant rangoli patterns, and made Barfi, a traditional...

Autumn has arrived! This month, the children have had a wonderful time exploring both Pilton and Rock park, collecting treasures such as conkers, acorns, pine cones and colourful leaves. They really enjoyed activities inspired by their finds; honing their maths skills...

During August at Happy Hares, we’ve celebrated some VERY important skills. These are not your everyday skills – these are the ones that make childhood magical and fun. These skills included shark dodging, tree climbing, castle building, sheet painting, woodworking,...

This month of July has been quite eventful for us. We focused on two main topics: 'Vikings' and 'On the Farm'. We also celebrated a graduation party for the children moving on to 'Big School' in September. During our Vikings theme, the children made helmets,...

Hello everyone! Welcome to our June blog! It’s been another exciting month here at nursery, filled with fun topics like 'Kings and Queens', 'In the Jungle', and 'Minibeasts'. Our nursery garden has been buzzing with minibeasts, and we had a fantastic time searching...

Wow, what an exciting month May has been! We've been buzzing with fun exploring 'Mini Beasts', grooving in 'Music and Movement', and pretending to be 'Pirates'! The children loved searching the garden for tiny insect friends. They carefully placed them in magnifying...

April has been a garden digging, ice-cream making, tower building, book reading, train track creating, tree climbing, frog watching, cress growing whirlwind of a month! We have spent a lot of time in the garden developing our physical skills by running around, riding...