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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

On Windrush Day the chn learnt about the journey's people made from the Caribbean to the UK to help rebuild it after the war.They looked at photos and read books about people's experiences. They looked at a globe and saw how far people travelled. One parent saw her country's flag on the bunting.

A child exploring a globe. Picture of Empire Windrush in the background.

A child reading a copy of Floella Benjamin's book Coming to England.

The flag of United States Virgin Islands.

A parents hand pointing out on an inflatable globe where in the Caribbean her family is from (US Virgin Islands)

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The chn had a fantastic day meeting Police staff from Peckham Police Station. They spent time with the chn telling them about their roles in the community & answering their questions. They showed the children their equipment: a baton, a radio, handcuffs and a taser. They even sat in the police car!

A Police Constable showing the children his baton. He also has a radio and a taser on his belt.

A child wearing a full sized Police vest.

A child wearing a Police Constables hat.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The children planted cress seeds. They made labels for the seeds so they would remember what they had planted. After one week the seeds had grown enough to eat the cress. The children made cress sandwiches at snack time. "It's spicy" "I put the butter" "I like it" "That's a leaf from the garden"

Children sprinkling cress seeds on dampened cotton wool balls.

A child writing a label for the cress seeds.

A child cutting cress with a pair of scissors before sprinkling them on a piece of buttered bread.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The chn had an amazing experience when Animal Encounters visited Nursery. They learnt about, and held, a selection of mammals, reptiles & insects, inc a Leopard Geko, Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and, the star of the show, a Python, called Zazu. In one child's words "It was the best day ever".

A child holding a Hermann's Tortoise and feeling its shell.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The chn are taking part in the Wildlife Trusts '30 Days Wild'. They made a small wildlife pond, nature treasure baskets and apple bird feeders (below). "We're making an apple bird feeder" "I can see through the apple" "I'll hold the apple for you" "I can open the seeds myself" "Here's one more seed"

A child looking through an apple that has a hole through the center.

Two children working together to thread string through the center of the apple.

A child pushing sunflower seeds into an apple.

The finished apple feeder hanging from a branch.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One of our wonderful parents visited the children in Nursery to tell them about his job as a Paramedic (EMT). The chn learnt that he drove an ambulance and helped people who were unwell or hurt. They saw some of his medical equipment such as a stethoscope, a pulse oximeter and a skin marker pen.🧵

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The children had a wonderful experience visiting the rescue hens at Glengall Wharf Garden. They fed the hens cooked rice and watermelon. They learnt how to hold a hen safely. They saw hens lay eggs and held them whilst they were still warm. They even helped to write the date the eggs were laid on.

A child feeding a hen half a watermelon.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We were excited to read the new book in the Maya & Marley series, 'Maya & Marley and the New Friend', written by @laurahallain.bsky.social and illustrated by Yabaewah Scott. The children enjoyed listening to the story, talking about the themes of book and what they could see in the pictures. 🧵

A copy of Maya and Marley and the New Friend. On a green table cloth next to a letter from Laura Henry Allain and a gift of sunflowers.

A page from the book. Three children sitting on a bench.

A page from the book. A child pointing at a picture of characters from the story.

A page from the book. Child pointing at a picture of a man carrying a container of patties.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The children have been trying some of the food that The Very Hungry Caterpillar ate in the story. As well as the fruit, they tried some of the more unusual food that the caterpillar tried...Swiss cheese and pickles! “It’s sour for my tongue” “The cheese looks like Sponge Bob” “I don’t like it”

A bowl of pickles and a block of Swiss cheese on a wooden chopping board with a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in the background.

A child holding a piece of Swiss cheese, noticing the holes looked like eyes.

Slices of apple, pear, plum, strawberry and orange on a wooden chopping board next to a page of the weekday fruits the caterpillar eats in The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our current core poem is 'A Cup of Tea'. The children have been role playing tea parties in the home corner. To give them a real life experience we made chamomile tea in a beautiful bunny tea pot and sipped it around the table together. “Mummy and baba drink tea” “I don’t have tea cups at my house”

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our core text this fortnight is 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson & illustrated by @lydiamonks.bsky.social This sparked an interest in maps. The chn looked at local and national maps and drew their own. "Fish" "Car went in the pond" "I live here" "I go Burgess Park. I play my friends"

A child drawing a map of the farm that is featured in 'What the Ladybird Heard'.

A child drawing their own map of home, nursery, a friends house and her teachers house. She has drawn a line to indicate the route her dads car drives to get to nursery.

A child driving a toy car around the streets of Camberwell and Peckham on a large map.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

One of our families generously bought the children caterpillars for Eid. They arrived to coincide with the start of this fortnight's core text, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children observed their behaviour & noticed how they are growing. "The caterpillar's wriggling." "It is going up again."

A copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in a basket of story props inc real fruit that feature in the story, a tiny caterpillar and a big fat caterpillar.

A child putting caterpillar food in a small plastic tub before the tiny cateropillar goes inside.

A child observing a caterpillar through a magnifying glass.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We had a wonderful community sing-along to mark the end of term. It was an extra special get-together as many families were celebrating important occasions in their lives: Eid, Easter and Nowruz. We all learnt about these special times in our children's lives as well as sing our core songs. 1/2

An Easter table with books about Easter, an information sheet about Easter, hot cross buns and Easter eggs.

A table with books about Eid, an Eid information sheet, Eid biscuits made by the children and two plates of Ma'amoul (a West Asian biscuit eaten as a treat during religious holidays across the Arab world).

A Haft Sin table for Iranian New Year, given by a parent. An arrangement of 7 symbolic items, representing different aspects of life and well-being. And a plate of dates.

A table set with bags of seed balls made by the children for sale. Money raised will be given to a local charity. And two books about the environment.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The children returned to Nursery with lots of stories about their Eid celebrations with their families. “I played with the balloons. We had lots of food” “I got henna. My mum did it on me. A flower. Up here” “I got henna and my sister got henna. My mumma did it” “I got a unicorn and cupcake tattoo”

A child showing henna designs on their hands for Eid.

A child showing a henna design on their hand for Eid.

A child showing their glitter tattoo for Eid.

A parent showing her henna design for Eid.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

On Saturday 20th March it will be Nowruz, Iranian New Year, when Spring is welcomed. One of our families will be celebrating so they kindly came into Nursery to tell the children about how they celebrate, including the beautiful Haft Sin table of 7 objects beginning with the letter 's'.

Haft Sin Table with 7 symbolic objects and a book about Haft Sin.

Haft sin table and a Haft Sin colouring sheet

A tea pot with chamomile tea and a plate of an Iranian cookie called Noon berenji made by Sarah.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The children are learning about Ramadan & Eid al-Fitr. Parents visited nursery to read stories about the meaning of these important occasions, how they celebrate Eid in their homes, how Eid is celebrated around the globe and shared ideas on how we can be kind to each other during this special time.

A display made by a parent with pictures of people from all around the world celebrating Eid. Also a selection of books for pre school children about Eid.

A parent reading a book about Ramadan to the children.

Children looking about books about Ramadan and Eid.

A paper 'chatterbox' made by a parent and the children with ideas about how we can be kind to each other during the month of Ramadan e.g. help your mum, tidy up your toys and say something nice to your friend.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The children enjoyed using the @rspb.bsky.social Springo! sheets to look for signs of Spring. “There are six petals” “Look. Look. A bee” “I like the sun” “I want a little baby leaf” "I see white blossom" “This leaf is spiky. It’s ouchy” “I can’t reach the blue blossom” “It’s called see-ya-no-sis”

A child marking off what she spots on the Springo! sheet.

A child counting the petals on a daffodil.

A child feeling the texture of a catkin.

White cherry blossom against a blue sky.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

During British Science Week the children made seed balls using a British wildflower mix. They carefully added seeds to red clay and rolled them into balls. They let them dry out for 2 days. They wanted to sell them to raise money for a charity. They voted to donate the money to Surrey Docks Farm.

Two posters with the instructions on how to make seed balls, a block of red clay, a bowl of compost and two small bowls of wildflower seeds on a table.

A child adding a sprinkle of seeds to a little cup of red clay that will become the seed ball when rolled.

A child rolling a ball of red clay, with seeds inside.

The children voted on which animals they would like to help: cats, cows, dogs, giraffes and elephants. A tally chart with marks in the boxes.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The children continue to recycle at Nursery. On Global Recycling Day they made signs for our 'big bins' that go outside on the pavement asking the public not to put their rubbish in our recycling bins as it contaminates it.

A child writing a sign in felt tip pens that says "Please don't put rubbish in with the recycling. Thank you".

Children sticking one of their posters to the big recycling bin.

All of the children's colourful posters attached to the recycling bin asking the public not to put their rubbish in with our clean recycling.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of the highlights of British Science Week was a visit from Veolia. Back in September 2025, the children entered a competition to name one of the new fleet of household waste livery. In fact, three of their names were chosen! Veolia brought 'Tummy Tron', one of their fleet, to meet the children!

'Tummy Tron' the food waste vehicle arriving at The Grove Nursery School.

'Tummy Tron' tips our school lunch waste into the vehicle.

My name is Tummy Tron printed on the side of one of the new Veolia vehicles.

The original poster with the names the children thought of to enter the Veolia competition in September 2025.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The chn celebrated British Science Week by taking part in STEM activities every day including a wildlife safari, exploring light/dark, investigating the properties of water, recycling, bird watching, finding out about magnets & gravity, and changing states of matter making bread & churning butter.

Seeds, plant pots, trowels, compost and our gardening calendar set out in the mud kitchen ready for children to plant beans.

Books on British garden birds, binoculars, bird spotting sheets and a tally chart for the children to record which species of birds they spot.

Vegetarian suet, bird seed, cardboard discs and string in a baskets ready for children to make natural bird feeders.

A giant marble run set up in the garden. Guttering arranged at different heights for children to explore how gravity and inclines effect the speed of the balls.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

World Book Day was all about our love of books. We had a big book giveaway, information about library services and a map showing where to find them. Books were in all areas of nursery. Parents/carers stayed to read with the children. And staff acted out The Three Little Pigs for the children ❤️

Lots of story books set out on African print fabric for children to choose to take home and keep.

A large walking map of the local area showing where local libraries are. Also information about library services.

Children's magazines on the sofa in the home corner.

Cookery books on a table cloth in the homecorner.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The chn have been listening to 'Pick Up A Book', written by Laura Henry-Allain, for the UK National Year of Reading, ft MC Grammar, DJ AG & the choir from Wendell Park Primary Sch. The super catchy song had the children singing along and doing the snazzy dance moves. They love to pick up a book.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It is the National Year of Reading and World Book Day this week. The children have enjoyed reading the new delivery of information books on their favourite topics. "I go in the aeroplane. That's papi and that's daddy waiting for me. Now it fly away" "It's a beluga whale. The mummy will protect him"

A display of newly purchased information books for the children.

A child reading an information book about being at the airport.

A child reading an information book about being on a farm and holding a plastic cow.

A child reading an information book about sea life.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The children were very interested in a walking map of the area around their Nursery School. They found where their houses were and how near they lived to their friends. They spotted bus stops, libraries, swimming pools and parks. It sparked lots and lots of conversation about their community.

A walking map of the local area surrounding The Grove Nursery School. Children looking at the map and finding where they live.

Children pointing to bus stops on a walking map of the local area near Nursery.

A child pointing to Camberwell and Peckham libraries on a map of the local area.

A child pointing to a picture of a person riding a bike on a walking map of the local area.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The warm sunshine brought out lots of bugs in the garden. The children enjoyed observing them, noticing their body shapes, patterns and if they had legs. "What's that? Is it a slug?" "Why is it a Leopard Slug?" "Leopard Slug don't eat me" "The Leopard Slug is coming down" "He's got stripes"

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

At snack time the children tried different fruits from East Asia: Pomelo, Autumn Moon Pear, Fuji Apple and Nashi Pear. They also tried using chopsticks (perfect for eating Cheerios with!). #lunarnewyear "It's so big" "It's difficult to peel" "I'm trying to pick the apple with the chopsticks"

A selection of East Asian fruits on a red cloth in a basket.

A child using learning chopsticks to eat a bowl of Cheerios.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The children have been reading 'The Three Little Pigs'. We had some big boxes from deliveries and decided to make each of the piggies houses. The children worked together over two days to produce houses that they could use when retelling/acting out the story.

Children glueing straw to a big cardboard box.

Children glueing art straws to a cardboard box (sticks).

A child reading The Three Little Pigs and pointing to the house made out of sticks.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The children decorated bikes, scooters, trolleys, hula hoops and instruments for our Carnival/Mardi Gras parade. Some of our parents from Latin America taught us salsa dance steps. Families joined in with the dancing and a parade around the garden with our beautifully decorated floats.

Wooden trolleys decorated with ribbons, tinsel and pipe cleaners.

Tambourines decorated with colourful ribbons.

A child pushing a decorated 'float' around the garden in the carnival parade.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Our sch community came together for our end of term sing-along. We learnt about some the special occasions many families will be celebrating over the coming days/weeks: Ramadan, Lunar New Year, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras & Valentine's Day. Families enjoyed dates, lychees, pancakes & heart biscuits♥️

A table with dates, a book and information about Ramadan.

A table with pancakes, lemons, sugar and information about Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras/Carnival.

A table with lychees, a book and information about LNY, red envelopes.

A table with jammie dodger biscuits and information about St Valentine.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

So much fun was had in the sand pit with a big bag of balls, guttering, buckets and baking trays. Lots of chat, playing collaboratively and mathematical language. "I need more balls" "I got 10" "This is my bucket. It's full" "One, two" "Can you put the gutter down? It's too high for me"

A child with a red bucket fulls of balls that are being decanted and placed into a cup cake baking tray. A counting opportunity.

A red bucket full of colourful plastic balls. An opportunity for conversation about volume.

A cupcake tray with rows of yellow, green and blue balls. An opportunity to talk about pattern.

Two rain gutters, resting on a stand, connected to form a double ramp. Balls running down it.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The children took part in the Big Schools' Birdwatch 2026. They looked and listened carefully to find out which species of birds visited the Nursery garden. They made tally marks to record their findings. "What this?" "It's not landing" "I can see the sparrows" "Hello birdie" "Quack quack" "Pájaro"

A flip chart with a range of bird species that may be spotted in the garden. Tally marks recording numbers seen.

A child making a tally mark after spotting a bird.

A child looking at a book about garden birds and listening their song.

A child making a tally mark on a flip chart recording a blur tit spotted in a tree.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We were very lucky to be invited to see 'Squirrel' at Unicorn Theatre today. We took two groups of children & their parents to see the show. It was a beautiful, immersive experience. The children loved the lights and sounds and collecting Squirrels acorns. We even got to say hello to Squirrel.

A production photo of the set of Squirrel, a hand operated puppet.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Our core text this fortnight is 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. We will be reading alternative versions of the story and looking at similarities and differences. There will be opportunities for cooking different kinds of porridge, acting out the story and using lots of mathematical language.

A display of Goldilocks and the Three bears in the classroom.

A display of props for the story and selection of different versions of the story.

A copy of the book Goldilocks and the Three Bears on a wooden book stand.

Different versions of Goldilocks: Ghanaian Goldilocks, Goldilocks with golden beads in her hair and F is for fufu to accompany Ghanaian Goldilocks.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The blue sky today meant the children could see all the aeroplanes flying over nursery. There was great excitement. They counted planes as they flew overhead, using binoculars to get a closer look. They recorded the number of planes they saw. There was so much conversation & lots of new vocabulary.

A flip chart board in the garden with a tally sheet with marks made by the children to record the number of planes they spotted.

A child making a tally mark on the flip chart paper.

A big blue sky with a plane flying high in it.

A child using binoculars to spot aeroplanes.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The children explored magnetic letters. They recognised special letters and letters they shared with friends. They arranged letters into words, explaining what they had written. "That's my letter G" "What letter is this?" "Letter O" "Look. It's my name" "It says papa" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

A string of magnet letters above magnetic letters in alphabetical order is n a magnetic board.

A child holding the letter g in the palm of their hand.

A string of magnetic letters and magnetic shapes on a magnetic board.

A child arranging magnetic letters on a board.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The children were so inspired by the story of Munch, the food recycling vehicle, that the following day they wanted to name the Nursery recycling vehicles Munch. It was a good opportunity develop marking skills & scissor skills. The children acted out a story of the vehicles collecting food waste.

A child writing the word Munch on a piece of paper they cut out and stuck on the front of our you food waste vehicle.

A second waste vehicle with the name Munch written on it modelled by an adult.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The children decorated our snack food waste caddy with the stickers given to them by Veolia. They took the food waste to the compost bin in the garden. "Stinky bin" "The fly went in my face" "Is the maggot a little worm?" "A wasp. A wasp once stung me. Yesterday" "There's a big slug" "I see apples"

Children placing food waste stickers on the food waste caddy.

A child tipping food waste from the caddy into the compost bin.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We had a special visit from the Education Outreach Team at Southwark Veolia. They read 'Munch and the Funny Tummy', a story about a recycling vehicle called Munch that is fed the wrong kind of recycling and things go wrong! Luckily the recycling crew helped Munch and he was back on the road again.

A meme net of the Veolia Education Outreach Team reading a book from a SMART board.

A member of the Veolia Education Outreach Team reading to the children.

A large cardboard box full of recyclable materials.

Children carrying a big box of recyclable materials to the big bins which will be collected by recycling vehicle.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today was Christmas lunch day. A very special day when the children and all the staff eat together. The table was set beautifully. We had turkey, vegetarian wellington, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, vegetables and gravy. The children loved pulling their crackers and wearing their party hats 🎄

A child's plate with roast turkey, roast potatoes, three different kinds of vegetables, chicken sausages, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

A child's hand about to pick up a sausage from their dinner plate. On the plate there is roast turkey, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and vegetables

A child and an adult about to pull a Christmas cracker together across the lunch table.

A piece of Christmas pudding on a bowl with fresh cream.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We had our end of term sing-along today. Children, families and staff all sang Christmas songs together. As well as singing a song in Yoruba we sang in Spanish and Arabic too. Afterwards we enjoyed German spiced biscuits and mulled apple juice, hook a bauble and making eco-Christmas decorations.

Some sheet for Christmas song-along, songs in English, Yoruba, Spanish and Arabic.

Lots of natural resources suck as sticks, leaves, seed pods and pine cones on a table.

A black circular tuff tray filled with baubles as children use sticks to hook them out.

A plate of chocolate covered lebkuchen on a table covered in a Santa table cloth.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We had two special visitors today. Santa 1 and Santa 2. The children were so thrilled to see Santa they showed him their toys in the nursery before he even got to the grotto. As well as meeting the children in the grotto, Santa had a game of football and an impromptu Santa disco. Two top Santa's ❤️

Santa in the grotto next to a Christmas tree.

Santa meeting some of the children's favourite toys on nursery. A dinosaur.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The children had a magical experience watching How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney at Unicorn Theatre in London Bridge. It was wonderful to see them laugh at the jokes and smile at the beautiful snowy and sparkly special effects. Thank you to Unicorn Theatre for their generosity ❤️

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The children practised their cutting skills by wrapping gifts (old empty boxes) to put under the tree in the home corner. "We're making presents" "I cutting" "It's too small. I need bigger paper" "Mummy like chocolates" "I do it" "It's for me" "This is my name" "I want to take it home for mummy"

A child cutting wrapping paper, following a line across the paper.

A child cutting some masking tape to seal her wrapping Christmas wrapping paper.

A child writing their name on masking tape that is stuck down on a gift.

A child writes 'to mummy' on the gift they have wrapped.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thank you so much to our parents and carers who came in both this morning and afternoon to wrap books for the children for Santa's grotto.

Parents wrapping books for the children for Santa's grotto.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The chn 'bought' the classroom Christmas tree from the role play shop. They decided it cost £60. The tree was delivered to the homecorner where they decorated it. "It's £60" "Ouch the tree is spiky" "I got tree my house" "I got decorations on my tree" "I got big, big tree" "I'm the delivery guy"

A child making a price tag for the tree. They are writing the price on it after having punched holes and threaded string to make a tag.

A child owing for the tree at the till of the shop, handing money to the cashier.

A group of children carrying the tree to the homecorner.

Children placing tinsel on the Christmas tree.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The children helped build a bug hotel made entirely of reclaimed materials: wooden pallets, old wonky wooden construction blocks, egg boxes and cardboard tubes. They searched the garden for logs, sticks and leaves to stuff in the gaps. "I got sticks" "Will snails live here?" "Is that the bedroom?"

A child filling a section of the bug hotel with sticks collected from around the nursery garden.

A child filling an old cardboard tube with leaves collected from around the nursery garden.

A child holding a shopping basket to put sticks in it, which have been collected from around the garden.

Full length shot of a bug hotel made entirely from reclaimed materials: pallets, old wooden construction blocks, egg boxes, kitchen papertowel rolls, straw, sticks, logs and leaves.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

We are winners!! Names thought of by our children were picked as names for three of Veolia's fleet of waste food recycling trucks. Gizmo, TummyTron and Chewball will be collecting food waste from homes in Southwark. Well done to the children ♻️ 🚛 ♻️

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Sarah and Claire, our teachers, spoke at the #NurseryWorldConference and shared different ways we support children at The Grove, now and for their futures. They spoke about knowing our community, developing the whole child, building an inclusive curriculum and putting sustainability into action.

The first slide of a Power Point Presentation: practical strategies to support children from under-resourced backgrounds get ready to start Reception.

Claire and Sarah on stage at the Nursery World Conference Best Beginnings. Their agenda on a screen in the background.

Claire and Sarah on stage presenting. A selection of books with diverse characters set out in front of the stage.

A selection of resources from nursery that support and enrich the children's learning displayed on a table.

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The Grove Nursery School @grovenursery.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The chn studied the work of British artist Frank Bowling. Born in British Guiana in 1934, he moved to London in 1953. He still has a working studio not far from The Grove. The chn watched a video by the Tate on his different techniques and worked together for a week to produce a large-scale artwork.

A portrait of Sir Frank Bowling. He is sitting in front of one of his own pieces of art.

A laptop playing the video of How To Paint Like Frank Bowling.

Lots of different art resources set out on a table ready to be used by the children: acrylic paints, rollers, spatulas, brushes, string, chalk, water spray bottles, paint mixing trays.

Children working collaboratively to create art using brushes and rollers.

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