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We were delighted to welcome some very special visitors from our local care home, who joined us to watch our pre-school children perform their Nativity. ❤️

It was a heart-warming afternoon filled with song, laughter, and festive cheer as generations came together to celebrate the Inn Keepers Breakfast. Our residents loved every moment, and the children shone brightly creating memories that will be treasured by all. 🎄✨

Thank you to everyone who helped make this beautiful visit so special and they will be visiting us more in the new year for a baking and gardening club!

✨ A Huge Thank You! ✨

A massive thank you to all our wonderful parents, carers, families and friends who joined us for our Christmas Extravaganza on Saturday! ❄️🎄

Your support and festive spirit helped make the day truly magical!!! from meeting Father Christmas and his two beautiful reindeer to biscuit making with Mrs Claus it was our best, busiest year yet!

Alongside visiting Father Christmas and the reindeers we also had lots of other things going on;

Face painting

A range of gifts and Christmas goodies in our Christmas shop,

Fun games like ball or brussel, santa darts

Our tombola’s,

Arts and crafts

Refreshments including hot drinks, sausage rolls and sweet treats

Soft Play

Icing biscuits

We’re delighted to share that we raised an amazing £950.05! 🎉

Every penny will go straight into our fund for the Sensory Pod, bringing us one step closer to creating an incredible space for our children.

Thank you once again for your generosity and continued support. ! 💛

Ofsted Report – WE ARE OFFICALLY OUTSTANDING!!

We can finally share with you all our amazing report and we will also be featuring in the echo news paper😊 we are outstanding in all areas!

Thank you all for your amazing support, it has been a crazy few years for us here but wow what an amazing achievement for EW . This grade really meant a lot to us here, it is so hard to go from a good to an outstanding so we are so so proud.

Thank you to my amazing team for their hard work every single day.

Please see attached our full report.

‘The provision is outstanding – Children flourish at this unique and welcoming setting. They are at the heart of everything. They arrive smiling and eager to start a day filled with amazing and exciting learning opportunities. Leaders create a very stimulating and inviting environment, where children feel ‘at home’. A wide selection of natural and real-life resources available for children, means that they quickly become deeply engrossed in inspirational activities that stimulate their curiosity and sense of discovery and exploration. Children display high levels of energy and confidence. The well planned provision allows children to make their own informed decision of what they would like to do next.’

Sonia – Today the Badgers and Foxes took an exciting trip to Sainsbury’s super market. Elly gave them all some spending money, and the children enjoyed shopping around to buy their own snack, bananas and pumpkins.

The children enjoyed loading the shopping onto the conveyor belt, and helping the shop assistant to scan their foods.

We then all enjoyed our snack having a little picnic outside of the shop.

We learnt all about road safety during our walk, and we were all lucky enough to see the fire station, police car and an ambulance on our way. The ambulance crew even set off their siren for the children to see.

Jade

This is ADORABLE 🥰

Zena

This is too cute! Thank you ladies for giving them this experience xx

Liz

Lovely. Mum saw them all in the shop and said cute it was that they were all handing holds 🤗

The last few weeks our middle garden had a well needed renovation, with lots of new exciting equipment and some lovely astro and safe play flooring in our middle triangle. The children have loved watching the builders over the last three weeks and offering a helping hand!

We are so so pleased with it, thank you to every single person who helped towards the 25% of the renovation no matter how big or small. By attending events and donating, to be able to make this happen for the children and team at EW has been a dream come true which wouldn’t of been possible without all your help!

We have a beach, construction site, mud kitchen, music wall, book nook, painting easels and lots more for them to explore. We have lots more planned on the coming months also with a growing station and play dough station.

Amanda George (Squirrels)

This looks amazing ❤️xx

Becky Maisie (Squirrels)

Oh wow it looks beautiful! X

Gemma Jesse (Badgers)

Looks amazing! X

Megan Otis (Squirrels)

Oh wow! It looks amazing 🫶🏽

Katy Orla-Rae (Badgers)

Looks amazing xx

Aimee Isla (Foxes), Phoebe (Bunnies)

This looks absolutely fantastic!! Well done! X

Leigh Evelyn (Squirrels)

Wow! Looks amazing 😍 x

Clarie Jessica (Hedgehogs)

What an amazing achievement 👏

Sophie Lola (Foxes), Rocco (Squirrels)

This look so great! Rocco is going to love that sandpit!

Louise Rafe (Foxes)

It’s really fantastic Elly – well done and thank you to you and the team 💛💛 x

Goodbye Graduates 😢

What a day! Thank you to everyone who came to our pre school graduation today we know it was so hot but the children and you all done amazing.

To our amazing foxes team, you are fantastic! You should be very proud. Thank you our lovely Sonia for making us all cry.. a lot!

To our Foxes graduates of 2025, we love you and we will miss you! We are all so proud of how far they have come, some we have had since babies and some joined us along the way all holding a special place in all our hearts. Thank you for choosing EW for your child’s nursery journey and sticking by us, we feel very privileged. Thank you for the lovely surprise of presents too x

In the words of Winnie the Pooh ‘How lucky am I to have something that makes goodbye so hard’ 😢

Do not forget to come and visit us and send us your first day of school photos!

Love always from every member of the Enchanted Wood xxx

Jay – Thank you so much for a lovely afternoon, they did so well and it was so beautiful and special!
I wasn’t able to get any photos of Melia from where I was, if anyone has any I would be really grateful 🩷🫶🏼 Thank you xx

Jess  – Such a lovely afternoon, thank you so much x

Anisha – Thank you to each and every one of you for such a lovely afternoon x

Chloe – Well done to everyone for making today so so so lovely! Pearl loved every minute xx

Claire – You all done amazing, a very special day, thank you 💗 Margots words on the way home ‘that was a dream that was’ 💞

Aimee – Thank you for all of your hard work ladies- it was perfect! X

Elisha – Thank you for a wonderful afternoon 💖

Fathers day Stay & Play – Thank you to all the dad’s, granddads or immediate family members that attended yesterday for our Thursday session children. There was lots of fun had and some treats in the garden. It was so great so many of you could come along.

Today the children have had a fun packed morning taking part in activities all about ourselves and how we are all different in so many ways.

We all worked together on a large group activity drawing around ourselves, using leaves and flowers to decorate the large outlines of our bodies. As the children used the loose parts to decorate the silhouette we all spoke about the ways that we are different from each other, our eyes, hair, skin, how tall or short we are, likes and dislikes, and lots more. We had some lovely questions and language being used and we all enjoyed saying kind things to each other.

The children then got to explore with different skin toned play dough, and used our multi cultural and emotion stones, and loose parts to make their own people.

They explored mixing the play dough together to see what other colours they could make, and used sticks and leaves to make their person. The children made some lovely creations.

These activities are giving the children a Variety of cultural experiences using books, art, music, and diverse social interactions. This helps develop critical thinking skills, creativity, and a broader understanding of the world, and everyone around us. It also helps the children to learn that we are all the same, but different in so many ways.

We all read the lovely books “The same but different” and “We are all welcome” and the children all took part in a circle time all talking about how we are different from our friends.

VE Day celebrations & Street Party! ❤️💙❤️💙

Wow what a great week we have had! We have been celebrating 80 years of VE day today with a lovely street party in the garden and lots of provocations and activities for the children to take part in.

It really has been a great week 😊

Thank you all for helping us celebrate with the children looking fantastic in all of their red, white and blue clothes!

The children enjoyed a special Easter Trail in the woods with their families, they had to follow the path and spot the eggs on their list. With some special treats along the way!

There was also a special visitor at the end! What a lovely Afternoon.