Happy Hares Nursery Blog
June 2025
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...
May 2025
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 2025
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...
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...
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!