We believe in the importance of instilling a sense of community in our children and using our local area as extended learning opportunities. To this end, we regularly take children on trips outside the nursery as well as invite people in.
- Trips – Groups go on trips monthly, more frequently in the spring/summer, to local areas such as St. Anne’s, the beach, and Hove Station to extend their learning and develop their safety awareness. On trips, all children and staff wear hi-vis tabards with Young Friends name and phone number printed on the material. All trips include a level 3 member of staff and first aider, as well as a fully stocked trip bag with first aid kit, water, emergency contacts and any necessary toileting needs such as nappies or potties. Staff are required to take one phone, complete a trip form – this includes listing who is going on the trip, mode of travel and the trip’s objective – and ensure they’ve read or carried out a risk assessment for the location. The ratio for each group is halved i.e. 2yr old 1:4 ratio goes down to 1:2
Visits – Visits in to the nursery are organized by our trip coordinator. Visits have included children and teachers from a deaf school, local mosaic artist Sue Penrose who led a session with the children, and the RNLI boat rescue service who brought in dressing up materials and carried out an activity identifying beach safety hazards. Visits into the nursery by our families is also welcome as we have a great many parents who, not only love the opportunity to see what their children get up to at nursery, but are also happy to contribute to our themed weeks and talk about their professions or share their cultures and festivals.
Our new garden at Young Friends will be paying special attention to attracting a variety of butterflies. Declining populations of butterflies as a result of climate change have consequences for many other species. Animals such as birds, small mammals and other insects that depend on butterflies and caterpillars, can lose an important food source and have to shift their diet to less desirable or less available species. Therefore our new garden will be doing its bit to help them and to teach the children why this is so important
We've got plenty of them around as well as bees as always planted with them in mind 😊
Over a third of hedgehogs have been lost since the millennium. Researchers now believe that we have less than 1 million left in the UK. These little creatures need your help now more than ever before. We have introduced hedghog homes into our nursery and Nature plot garden which the children learn about and check often for paw prints. Creating a hedgehog friendly garden is not to difficult either, please click on this useful link which will tell you all the tricks you need to know to entice hedgehogs into your garden.
www.hedgehogstreet.org/help-hedgehogs/hedgehog-homes/
#hedgehoglife #wildlife #endangeredspecies #nature #snapforchange
I remember as a little girl always seeing hedgehogs in our garden. I've not seen one in over 10 years now. This weekend I'm planning to create more holes under our fences to hopefully encourage more in x
Oh I also wish they would ban slug pellets too. These are killing so much wildlife
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Our new garden at Young Friends will be paying special attention to attracting butterflies. Declining populations of butterflies as a result of climate change have consequences for many other species. Animals such as birds, small mammals and other insects that depend on butterflies and caterpillars, can lose an important food source and have to shift their diet to less desirable or less available species. Therefore our new garden will be doing its bit to help them and to teach the children why this is so important x
We love growing our own at home and releasing them locally. Such a lovely experience.
Over a third of hedgehogs have been lost since the millennium. Researchers now believe that we have less than 1 million left in the UK. These little creatures need your help now more than ever before. We have introduced hedghog homes into our nursery and Nature plot garden which the children learn about and check often for paw prints. Creating a hedgehog friendly garden is not to difficult either, please click on this useful link which will tell you all the tricks you need to know to entice hedgehogs into your garden.
www.hedgehogstreet.org/help-hedgehogs/hedgehog-homes/
#hedgehoglife #wildlife #endangeredspecies #nature #snapforchange
