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The Grove Nursery School
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We would like to give you a warm welcome to The Grove Nursery School. We pride ourselves on being a small setting with a very big heart!
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Our recycling champs love taking classroom waste to the 'big bins' in the store room before everything is collected to go to the borough recycling centre.
"I'm a superhero. I'm saving the planet"
"This is recycling. It go in the big bin"
"Let's carry it together"
"Bye rubbish"
"I'm recycling"
Children carrying a big box of paper/card recyclables. A child carrying a box of plastic recyclables. Children putting classroom waste that can be recycled into the 'big bin'.
September 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The children explored seasonal resources at carpet time. Some had to be handled carefully as they were a bit prickly!
"It's a bit hairy"
"It spiked me"
"It's autumn"
"Me want acorn"
"Squirrels eat acorns"
" I like pumpkin. I wanna take it my house"
"I take the conker out of the shell for you"
A tray full of autumnal treasures: conkers, pine cones, spiky sweet chestnuts, leaves of different colours, a white pumpkin and acorns. A child carefully holding a spiky sweet chestnut burr. A child holding a shiny conker in its case. A child holding an acorn in one hand and a sweet chestnut in the other.
September 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Nursery is feeling very autumnal. We have beautiful seasonal resources for the children to explore alongside our core text 'Aaaarrgghh Spider'.
Baskets filled with conkers, conker shells, fallen leaves in different t hues, dried sunflowers from the garden with seed heads, pumpkins and our core rhyme 'Five Little Pumpkins'. Five different little pumpkins in a basket along sis a copy of a book about autumn and our core poem, Five Little Pumpkins. This fortnight's core text 'Aaaarrgghh Spider' on the top of a cabinet. Non fiction books alongside it about spiders and other insects. A double page spread of an illustration of birds eating berries and falling leaves, spider webs and text about signs of autumn.
September 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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We have been learning more about recycling during #recyclingweek

Families enjoyed watching our beautiful film on sustainability featuring @laurahallain.bsky.social by @sirenfilms.bsky.social

We read a range of books/info about looking after our planet.

And children have been junk modelling.
A selection of books about caring for planet earth set out on a green table cloth. A display board of information about recycling in Southwark - leaflets, books. A smart board in a classroom playing our sustainability film for families. Laura Henry Allain on the screen. An example of junk modelling by one of the children. Cardboard tubes and masking tape to represent spiders on a log.
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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The chn have been thinking about recycling waste for #recycleweek
They brought recycling in from home to sort into different piles and took them to the nursery recycling bins. They continue to take care of nursery by picking up litter from the garden/classroom floor to recycle or put in the bin.
A child holding a Southwark Council household recycling bag containing different recyclable items to sort and recycle at nursery. A child sorting plastic from card/paper for recycling. A child putting classroom recycling into the 'big' bin (red Veolia waste bin). A child picking up litter from the nursery garden at tidy up time.
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Following on from our learning on World Afro Day, one of the children brought in her wash day crown. We read'Ada's Wash Day' and talked about similarities.
"Why is she crying?"
"I go on my tablet when I get my hair done"
"This is my crown"
"I got a brush like that"
"Aunty Angel braids my hair"
A pink wash day crown. A pink wash day crown. A page in Ada's Wash Day where Ada is crying because the shampoo is in her eyes. Front cover of Ada's Wash Day
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The children were fascinated to watch tree surgeons trim two big olive trees outside the Nursery. It was a great opportunity to chat & introduce lots of new vocabulary: motor, engine, strimmer, chipper, helmet, visor, ear defenders, shovel, canopy, pruning.
"What you doing, bro?"
"Why he up there?"
September 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The chn explored different brushes and combs for maintaining and styling Afro hair. We looked at beautiful books about hair. We learnt names of different hair styles, including 'Chiney Bumps' that one of our team had when she was a girl in Jamaica. And we looked at different hairstyles people have.
A selection of hair brushes used to maintain and style Afro hair: wide tooth comb, Afro comb, detangler brush, boar bristle brush, Denman brush. On a table top. Children exploring them. A selection of books to explore to learn about Afro hair including a book about wash day. Set on a table with an African print table cloth. A mannequin with a Jamaican chimney bump styled into it. Next to a braid. A display of photos natural Afro hairstyles for adults and children from across many years.
September 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The Grove celebrated World Afro Day today. Parents came in to share how they take care of their children's hair - showing tools and products. Our staff talked about their hair too. One of our team, whose child attends our setting, showed the chn how she styles her daughter's hair after wash day 🧵
A parent and child spraying water on a mannequin's hair and using a detangling comb to gently tease out knots. A parent demonstrating how she removes braids from her son's hair using the thin end of a tail comb. Our colleague styling her daughter's hair in the home corner. She is choosing which bands she would like in her hair. A parent demonstrating on a mannequin how she does corn rows.
September 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The children entered a competition to name one of Veoila's new vehicles that will collect waste food (to be recycled) from homes in the borough of Southwark. The children worked together to think of names and then they voted on the one they liked the best.

GOBBLE TRUCK got the most votes 💚🚛
A photo of a Veolia food waste vehicle. Also a tally sheet listing the names the children thought of for the food waste vehicle and the number of votes cast against each name.
September 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We are very excited to welcome the children back to Nursery today. The garden and classrooms are looking beautiful and we can't wait to play!
Homecorner kitchen set up with. Vanity table with hair dressing resources and beauty items. Our nursery garden looking a bit wet but very green. Climbing frame and classrooms in the distance. Maths resources- conker abacus, 5 and 10 framed and maths books.
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Good morning from our beautiful nursery garden. The sunflowers and pumpkins are loving the sunshine.

It is our final week before the summer break. We are going to enjoy our last week together.
July 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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"You want to drink water, chicken?"
"There's a chicken on the roof"
"There's lots of poo on the roof"
"I can see an egg"
"Can I hold the chicken?"
"She's so fluffy"
"They eat all the food"
"I eat eggs at my house"
"The chicken is so fluffy"
"Chicken fly"
Six eggs freshly laid that day in a pink egg box. A child holding a fruit/veg basket that contains fallen apricots and greengages which will be fed to the hens.
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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More children visited the rescue hens at Glengall Wharf Gardens. They fed the hens (seeds and kale), they held the hens gently and they searched for eggs in the coops. They also collected fallen, ripe fruit (apricots and greengages) from the orchard to feed to the hens. Such a rich experience 💛
A child skilfully holding a hen inside the chicken pen. Three orange feathered hens sitting on the roof of the chicken coop. A childnioldomg the handle of a frying pan that is full of seeds. A hen pecks at the seeds. A child about to collect some eggs george chicken coop. Eggs are surrounded by rosemary which is an antibacterial agent.
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Lots of scooters and bikes outside of Nursery. We love to see sustainable forms of transport.
A selection of the scooters and bikes children have come in to Nursery on in the scooter/ bike park.
July 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The chn ate sweet bun at snack time. They had lots to say about it:
"I want to eat all the bread"
"I don't have bun. I have toast"
"Nanny buys bun"
"Would you like some bun?"
"The bun has cherries in it"
"Mummy buys bun. She make toast"
"I wanna eat all the bun"
"It's delicious"
"I want bread"
Slices of Jamaican bun and slices of cheese. A page in the ABC of African and Caribbean Food. Page displaying an illustration of a loaf of bun.
June 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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The chn were talking about who was their friend and who was allowed in the home-corner. We had a discussion about the home -corner being for everyone. For all of our friends. We gave the home-corner a name: Friends House. The children made a sign and it went up over the entrance. Everyone welcome.
Children making a poster (writing and drawing) saying Friends House: everyone welcome. A child putting the poster up in the archway entrance to the home corner.
June 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The children conrinue to take part in The Wildlife Trusts #30DaysWild.

Week 2: Move like wildlife and get active outdoors.

They tried wildlife yoga poses: eg heron, snake & frog.

And they made treasure boxes out of old egg cartons, filling them with beautiful & interesting things they found.
Child doing heron pose. Legs crossed and balancing on yoga mat in the garden. Children lying down in snake pose on a yoga mat in the garden. An egg carton filled with different leaves, one leaf placed in each space. An egg carton filled with different treasures: petals, leaves and pebbles.
June 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The chn also made Jamaican Festivals (a sweet dumpling). They learned how to play dominoes. They looked at photos of what people packed in their suitcases ('grip') when they came to Britain. They looked at a world map & talked about countries familiar to them. And danced to Reggae and Calypso.
A tray of Festival dumplings made by the children. A child counting the dots on a jumbo domino tile. A photo of 'grips' displaying items packed such as playing cards, books, a camera, hair brushes and gloves. A child pointing out Bolivia on a world map.
June 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The chn have been learning about Windrush. They looked at photos of families aboard Empire Windrush and a map of the world and the journey across the oceans that people made to come to Britain. Gloria, who helps look after our classrooms, talked with them about her journey, as a child, from Guyana.
A display of black and white photos of people on the HMT Empire Windrush. Also photos of people who became nurses and bus drivers in London and other cities. A basket of books telling the story of Windrush Generation. Also picture books telling stories of the Caribbean. Gloria showing the children her doll dressed in traditional Guyanese attire with beads in her hair, in the colours of the Guyanese flag. Gloria is also holding a small Guyanese flag Gloria showed children some of the fruit that grows in Guyana. In this photo she shows the children a yellow plantain and explained how it is cooked and eaten.
June 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The chn were thirsty this morning whilst playing in the garden. They picked some lemon mint from the garden to add to the jug of water. It soon turned into role play, with the children setting up a 'lemonade stall' and pouring drinks for each other. A sign was written that said "Have some water"
Children picking lemon mint to add to a jug of chilled water. A child writing a sign for the drinks stall that's reads "Have some water" on a table with an African print cloth, a jug of water and a stack of plastic cups. A child pouring water for their friends. The drinks stall set up with a jug of chilled water and cups.
June 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The children have been taking part in The Wildlife Trusts #30DaysWild!

Week 1: Help Wildlife Where You Live

The children made:

Bird feeders with seeds and vegan suet.

A mini wildlife pond for small creatures.

Seed bombs to grow a mini meadow.

A log pile for the insects.
The #30DaysWild! Poster on the window where we are displaying all the photos of the children's projects. Photos of the mini wildlife pond the children made from a small metal bowl, filled with rocks, water and hornwort. Photos of the log pile the children created with dead wood from the mud kitchen. Photos of the seed bombs the children made with mud and water and wildflower seeds. Set to dry in a baking tray.
June 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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A parent who helped developed The Feel Garden told us that in Farsi, strawberries are called 'tout farangi'. She showed us how it is written in Farsi.
The word strawberry written in Farsi (tout farangi).
June 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The children also learnt how to protect the still growing strawberries from rotting on the soil by placing straw underneath them.
"Night night strawberries"
"Why do the strawberries rot?"
"This strawberry is so tiny"
"We need to put nets on the strawberries"
A child placing a handful of straw onto the soil. Three unripe strawberries resting on a pile of straw.
June 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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This morning we picked strawberries growing in The Feel Good Garden. We washed them in the home corner & chopped them up for morning snack.
"I can see a strawberry"
"This one is really red"
"Don't pick that one. It's not red yet"
"Something has been eating that one"
"Can I wash the strawberries?"
A child picking a ripe strawberry. Children holding two bowls of freshly picked strawberries from the nursery garden. A child washing fresh strawberries in a bowl of water. A child chopping a strawberry at the snack table.
June 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM