February 11, 2019

Footsteps Nurseries celebrate Chinese New Year

Footsteps Nurseries at Chalfont, Aylesbury and Maple Cross enjoyed Chinese New Year celebrations on Tuesday February 5 and these will continue until 12th February as part of their Understanding of the World, for EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage). The wide range of activities put on by the Footsteps teams allowed the children numerous opportunities to discuss and participate in a variety of traditions and experiences that they may not experience in […]
November 14, 2018

Lest We forget: Footsteps Commemorates Remembrance Day

Armistice Day was commemorated on the 11th November. Also known as Remembrance Day, it marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. This year also marked 100 years since the end of WW1. In the week before this important day of remembrance, we used lots of different ways and activities to talk to the children about what it meant. We also explained why leading up to […]
November 12, 2018

Lighting up November at Footsteps

The beginning of November has been a whirlwind as we celebrated a world of colour. With fireworks and Diwali taking top spots on the calendar, we enjoyed lots of different activities which have brightened up our walls (and sometimes our clothes too). Glitter, paint, sponges, hand printing, glue, coloured blocks and tissue paper were out in full force as we enjoyed our firework themed paintings and shakers. We also put […]
June 27, 2018

Bug Week at Footsteps: Mini Adventures With Our Mini-beast Friends

Footsteps are situated in fantastic surroundings which allow us to offer our children access to Forest School, allotments and wide open spaces for running and playing.  By the very nature of the environment, we are often joined by various creepy crawlies.  This is to the great delight of the children. Last week we celebrated our outdoor friends with bug week.  We were fortunate enough to have visits from both Zoolab […]
June 27, 2018

Tackling obesity in children: Footsteps meets Governments 10 year plan

It is a worrying statistic, that today nearly a third of children aged 2 to 15 are overweight or obese. It is well documented that younger generations are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer. The Government have launched a new initiative which aims to significantly reduce England’s rate of childhood obesity within the next ten years. However, long-term, sustainable change will only be achieved through the […]
May 24, 2018

Wedding Fever Hits Footsteps

Footsteps Nursery at both Chalfont St Peter and Aylesbury have enjoyed a Royal celebration of their own in the lead up to last weekend’s big event as Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle. Excitement filled the air as bunting was put up, crafts took a definite British theme with baking, printing and painting dominating the preparations.  Staff really got into the spirit of the occasion, with parents generously donating food for […]
May 1, 2018

Footsteps step-up to raise funds for Crackerjacks

Footsteps are proud supporters of Crackerjacks charity. Sharing similar values, Crackerjacks Children’s Trust believes that every child, whatever their needs, has the right to participate fully in their community and to have the same choices, opportunities and experiences as other children, to make local friends, and to access, play, leisure and recreational facilities. On the 24th April, Footsteps held a fundraising pyjama day as just one of the planned annual […]
March 23, 2018

Science Week at Footsteps

Last week staff at Footsteps Nursery & Preschool Nursery at Chalfont and Aylesbury introduced children to the wonderful world of science during National Science Week. The nursery ignited children’s interest in this fascinating subject by hosting a week full of science experiments. Director Kelly Carter says: “All children are natural scientists and explorers given the right opportunities and resources. We felt that National Science Week was the perfect time to […]

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