Happy Hares Nursery Blog
October 2025
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...
September 2025
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...
August 2025
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,...
Magical month of December!
We have had a magical month for December! Leading up to Christmas we have been taking part in lots of Christmas activities and crafts. We have been creating our own crafts to take home to our families whilst decorating the nursery with our handmade decorations. We...
Hartbeeps Musical Class
This week we were super lucky to be able to have a Hartbeeps musical class in nursery! Neralie came to see us and showed us all of her magical resources! We sang lots of songs, learnt new actions and dressed up all whilst developing our communication and language...
Our talented two’s have had an exciting month in June!
We have been focusing on 'Under The Sea' and 'At The Beach'. We have been getting our hands messy in arts and crafts, under the sea sensory trays, sea animal playdough and painting our own sea creatures. We have also been practicing our fine and gross motor skills,...
Minibeasts
This month our topic has been based on nature and Mini beasts! We have learnt all about different insects including how and where they live, whilst challenging our numeracy skills through counting their arms, legs and eyes! We have decorated our own bug biscuits,...
Spring!
We love that Spring is in full bloom at Nursery! We have loved starting to plant in our garden - making it even more beautiful ???? Getting children involved in gardening allows them to experience plant care and learn about the process of change and plant life cycles!...
Author Visit
What a super exciting morning we have had today with a visit from local author Roy Goddin. He shared 3 of his books he wrote with us and we were so engaged commenting on what was happening, answering his questions and even posing questions to him such as “why is the...
Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! The children are having a fabulous time this week learning and celebrating this special festival. All the children have loved testing the delicious Chinese food with the crackers being a firm favourite! We have made a...
Children In Need
We have had a fantastic day celebrating Children In Need today! We have been very busy with lots of different activities such as, baking Pudsey Bear cookies, creating Pudsey hats and masks, pinning the bandana on Pudsey and a Children In Need workout!
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...