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Wow! What a fun week’s  we have had!!!   We celebrated Diwali -Hindu Festival of Lights. The children came in to the Nursery talking about the noises they’ve been hearing all weekend. Some of them talked about the wonderful sparkly colours they had seen high up in the sky! We decided to make our own…

We have decided to join the morning sessions of “PE with Joe Wicks”. We want to encourage all the parents who are in self-isolation to do it from home as well. I hope you will enjoy as much as we did.   https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

As most of our children are staying home under the COVID-19 government guidance, our team is working really hard the online learning by Zoom and Tapestry.   We are providing parents home-learning by two platforms: Zoom: Online learning sessions, children join with their parents three times per day to do circle time and an activity….

Please see the latest updates below: https://www.theorcharddaynurserywimbledon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TODN-16-March-2020.docx https://www.theorcharddaynurserywimbledon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Daily-Update-ODN-17.03.20.docx  

Last week Orchard Day Nursery celebrated World Book Day. The children dressed up as their favourite characters. We have been doing loads of different activities: face painting, reading their favourite books, colouring characters from different books, making our own books. Everyone had an amazing time. Please see our little gallery below :

Orchard Day Nursery children have their second trip to local care home to enjoy a day of games with the elderly residents who are always pleased to see them. They share various activities with the residents, who look forward to the visits and are always pleased to see the children. We did some singing and…

As you must be aware, the government has updated its travel advice to say anyone returning from specific areas should stay indoors, avoid contact with people and contact NHS 111 even if they do not have symptoms. The areas which are highly affected are Northern Italy, Iran, South Korea, Wuhan and Hubei province in China,…

The children had a great time taking part in our themed activities on Pancake Day this year. We celebrated Pancake Day with the children and parents. Everyone enjoyed pancakes with fruits. Children particularly were happy seeing their parents join them for breakfast at the nursery. The children continued the pancake activities in their classrooms making…

Children in Orchard has been very busy in the last couple of weeks. Our focus in last weeks was the five senses, Valentine’s Day and Pets. Children were given the opportunity to explore various textures and feel them, our vocabulary expanded to learn some new words wrinkly, prickly, fuzzy, gritty rubbery, bumpy, smooth, hard and…