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Worker Bees have enjoyed learning all about bees! Together they watched a video about bees making honey & also looked at the shapes of bee hives & honeycombs. There was lots of discussion as they learnt new words such as nectar & pollen. Using loose parts...

Honey Bees and their room pet Cooper have been busy exploring flowers! They were fascinated by the different scents & colours of the flowers. They used different approaches including picking, mixing & mashing to create perfumes & potions! Honey Bees also...

Our Forest School session, building fires, rope swings and easter-egg hunts

The children had a fantastic day for World Book Day. They took part in lots of story related activities and enjoyed reading their favourite stories inside and out. The children also enjoyed dressing up as their favourite story characters and we thought they looked...

Today, our Busy Bees enjoyed taking part in a food and health eating activity. The children cut the vegetables and use cookbooks to talk about what they wanted to make with the food.

The children in our Worker Bees explored different senses and developed their fine motor skills during this activity scooping and pouring the potion into the potion tubes, using a range of tools. We also played calming music using the Alexa and dimmed to lights to...

Our Worker Bees loved their baking lesson with Moe our cook. They have made delicious pancakes for tea. #pancaketuesday

The children in our Busy Bees room developed their mark making skills in creating circles. We researched the artist Wassily Kandinsky and provided artwork created by him for the children to explore. Our Busy Bees read the book Peely Wally, which they really enjoyed....

This morning we embraced the wet weather! We made some rain shakers and danced in the rain in the garden. We then created some watercolour pictures and used our spray bottles to make different effects. When we went inside we looked at some water colour prints and used...

Our children have enjoyed exploring a spring themed tuff tray 🌼 they explored the different materials, developing their fine motors skills, shape recognition and talking about their worries.

Today our children enjoyed using our water tray to paint in. We explored a sea life theme and the children enjoyed mixing the colours to create the colour purple. We listened to music to match our theme and talked about the different sea creatures and their features

Today or Worker Bees took part in a spring themed activity outdoors, shadow drawing using daffodils. The children followed the outline of the shadows they could see on their page and were proud of their creations.

As a part of children’s mental health week, our Worker Bees children have been enjoying being pampered by the staff in Honey Pot’s spa! The children enjoyed a relaxing foot soak in scented water & they were very keen to have a face mask, complete with cucumbers to...

As part of storytelling week, some of our pre-school children explored a themed tuff tray based on one of their favourite stories ‘Supertato!’ The children enjoyed acting out the story using the vegetables provided in the tuff tray, rescuing some of the vegetables...

The children in busy bees and preschool have enjoyed smoothie making this morning to begin ‘Children’s Well-being Week’, they have explored different fruits including some new ones, learning new vocabulary and tasting these for the first time! The children were very...