Blog - Wind in the Willows Childcare

September 24,2019

Feel Good Factory- Culture Capital

The Children at Sefton, have developed a close relationship with the ‘Feel Good Factory Community Allotment’ group. The Children are enjoying learning about the outdoors and growing food with the help of Pauline and Sue. We hope to use the vegetables we have been growing to participate i

September 17,2019

Forrest School Stay and Play

Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who attended the Forest School Stay and Play. The children really enjoyed showing you how we use our new skills. We made flags to scare the birds away from our seeds. Using the flowers and mallets allowed the children to transfer the colours to design

September 16,2019

Community Links

Our Longbarn Nursery has entered in to the, annual Longabrn Residents Association Scarecrow competition. Last year the Nursery won with an Olaf Scarecrow, this year we have entered our 3 Minions. We wish the Nursery good luck and hope they win again.

March 14,2019

Woolston Forest School

The children in 3-5’s at Woolston had lots of fun participating in Forest School Session. We have regular Forest sessions when small groups of children take part in activities in the area. This session the children enjoyed looking for local widlife, bugs and minibeasts and became really excite

March 14,2019

Outdoor Classroom in Longbarn

Longbarn has added an outdoor classroom to their nature garden so children can get extended learning opportunities outdoors and learn more about our environment. We have been using this classroom during our Forest School Sessions too and it provides us the opportunity to learn outdoors in all weathe

February 10,2019

Longbarns visit to Tell Tales

Longbarn now has a local book shop which offers a weekly sessions for singing and story time, some of our children go over to the shop once a week for the session and a small snack which we really enjoy. WE are happy that Tell Tales has opened as this allows us to visit our […]

February 05,2019

Activate Fun at Woolston

Every Tuesday we have Activate Fun sessions when Danny comes to lead a sports session at Nursery. All the children are really excited for this session each week and take part with the practitioners. We use good listening, kind hands and follow Danny’s instructions. Each we week we learn a diff

January 22,2019

Super Hero play at Woolston

The children at Woolston have really enjoyed and been keen on sharing their interests of Super Heros and forming this as a base for their play. Following the children’s interests the practitioners created a Super Hero obstical course; we all dressed in our favourite Super Hero costumes includi

January 14,2019

Longbarn children have been busy making up their own games in the garden and making use of our large mud kitchen area where we have found lots of vegetables growing. We love exploring the garden and learn lots about our outdoor environment. #outdoorplay

December 20,2018

Children in Need at Sefton

Sefton children and practitioners had lots of fun fund raising for Children in Need, they had a PJama Day a cake sale. They raised an amazing £300 for the charity. Well done Sefton!