Happy Hares Nursery Blog
February 2025
We’ve had a fabulous February here at Happy Hares! This month, we focused on emotions, chatting about how we feel and how others might feel too. We also loved hosting a 'Stay and Play' session, giving our wonderful parents and carers a chance to join in the fun at...
January 2025
Welcome to our first blog of the year! This month, we’ve been exploring "Winter", "Healthy Eating", "Under the Sea", and "Chinese New Year". We had lots of fun making biscuits, decorating bread with colourful food dyes using pipettes – a great way to boost our fine...
November 2024
November at Happy Hares has been full of fun and learning! We've had such a wonderful time exploring topics like 'Bonfire Night', where we talked about safety, and ‘Remembrance Day’, during which the children created their own poppies and learned about its...
Yoga
This week we had our first yoga session with our new yoga teacher Amy. We learnt all about different stretches and exercises whilst developing on our listening skills and focusing on following instructions from Amy. We can’t wait to continue our yoga sessions every...
Woodwork
“At the woodwork bench children are learning skills that will empower them to shape their world. It’s learning through doing.” Peter Moorhouse, 2021. Here at Happy Hares we really value the importance of woodwork. Trina is our designated woodwork teacher and the...
Chickens!
This week at Happy Hares we have welcomed two chickens to our setting, welcome to the Happy Hares family Hillary and Tinker!
Pre-School Graduation
What an AMAZING graduation we had for our “Big Ones” yesterday! We are going to miss them sooo much and wish them the best of luck in their next chapter at School.
Under the Sea
This week in nursery we have started our new topic of “Under the Sea”. Very appropriate now it’s getting hot and we all want to be at the seaside!! Big Hares have been having lots of practice with their scissor skills in preparation for moving to “Big School” cutting...
New Climbing Frame!
We are in love with our new climbing/ balancing apparatus and log walk! We hope you love it too!
Dinosaurs
This week to end our Dinosaur topic, we have been learning about chemical reactions making our own mini volcanoes! We have used coke and mentos; and vinegar and bicarbonate of soda! The children have loved this soooo much.
We LOVE muddy puddles!
We LOVE muddy puddles here at Happy Hares! We especially love dressing up and jumping in them - using logs to get different heights! If you have any waterproof suits you are not using anymore, we would be super grateful for donations for our older children (3 plus!)
Our mud area
At Happy Hares, we have a mixture of lovely outdoor spaces including a sheltered area (to protect us from the rain!), our tarmac bike area, our astro turf for all weather play and the children's favourite, "the mud area"! Here we have different climbing ropes and...
Red Nose Day
We had a great day wearing amazing and whacky hairstyles....I hope you love the pictures!