September 21, 2021

Footsteps Fundraises for MacMillan Cancer Support

Footsteps takes our responsibilities to teach our children about the importance of helping others very seriously. We love to support both causes at the heart of our local community, as well as national charities. Inspired by the recent Coffee Morning campaign by MacMillan Cancer Support which took place on the 29th September, Footsteps Watermead held their very own Cake Sale and Raffle on Friday 1st October. It was incredible to […]
September 21, 2021

Oral Health at Oving

Here at Footsteps we are committed to supporting our parents, carers and families in looking after the health and happiness of all the children. Oral health is an important part of every child’s physical and emotional well-being. In line with our commitment to keeping physically fit and eating healthily to take care of our bodies, we also love to create fun learning activities around oral health. Looking after our total […]
September 2, 2021

Forest School at Footsteps

It’s a sad truth of modern life that kids are spending less time outside than ever before. The average child spends just five hours a week playing outside, compared to a staggering 45.5 hours in front of a screen. This is having a knock-on effect on children’s learning and development. A recent survey found that only  one in three can name a single herb, and 50% struggle to name five […]
August 3, 2021

Fun and Fitness at Footsteps

Physical Activity in Early Years Settings Daily activity is important for children as it supports healthy growth and development. Physical activity needs to be incorporated from very early on, so that it becomes part of children’s normal everyday routine. Trends show that if this happens, children are more likely to be physically active adults and to maintain this throughout their life. At Footsteps we ensure that physical activity is incorporated […]
August 3, 2021

Two Year Old Funding

2-Year-Old Funding – Are you eligible? Here at Footsteps we want to help our families make access to our setting as easy and affordable as possible.  Our team are always on hand to advise and support parents with all the latest information. Your 2-year-old may be able to attend funded early education and childcare giving you the chance to do some training or study or take a part-time job. Or […]
November 24, 2020

Watermead November Roundup

Can you believe we are at the end of November?  It has been an action packed month with so many celebrations helping to pick us up and brighten up Lockdown. We have been so pleased to remain open and support our families. We started the month with a bang as we celebrated fireworks night.  There may not have been any big displays but we certainly made our setting light up […]
November 24, 2020

Chalfont’s Winter Wonders

What a busy month!  We hope you enjoy our whistle-stop tour through November as we tell you about just some of our highlights! Lighting up the darker skies this month were some of our amazing creations. We have had lots of fun with colour as we learnt about Fireworks night.  For fireworks, we made some stunning glittery pictures, Catherine wheels with tissue paper, rockets with shapes, collages with pom-poms and […]
November 24, 2020

Maple Cross November News

As Autumn days turn to winter, we are enjoying the last of the Autumn season, we have spent many days in November still enjoying playing in the falling leaves.  Our new outside investigations area has given the children lots of tools and ideas for exploring our lovely outside area.  We have a couple of lovely video tours of both our garden and inside areas so do go and take a […]
November 18, 2020

Footsteps Farnborough Recruiting

Job Title: Nursery Practitioner (Full time / Part-Time) Job Setting: Footsteps Farnborough Job Role: Early Years Practitioner Date Posted: November 2020 Hours: Term time only 8-3.30pm Are you looking for a new role in 2021?! If so, come and join us at Footsteps Farnborough. We are recruiting for Early Years Practitioners to join the Footsteps family at our friendly preschool focused on outdoor learning. You will be responsible for helping to provide […]
November 16, 2020

Footsteps support Children In Need

On Friday 16th November all Footsteps Nurseries and pre-schools took part in lots of exciting fundraising activities and events to raise money for Children in Need. All staff and children joined in and there were lots of different ways we showed our support. At Farnborough it was all about the crazy hair and pyjamas, whilst Maple Cross and Watermead opted for yellow or spots. There was an array of amazing […]
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