And finally....... Part 7 - Acorn Nursery - Shenley, featuring forest school

One of my favorite sites was Shenley Church End nursery where the girls from Forest School joined me and the children outside.  It was such fun and the children loved it, even on a slightly chilly Autumn day.


This is my last post for a while with Acorn Childcare, however a new site has been opened at Milton Keynes - The Willows and hope to visit and take some photographs once its established itself.






Mark Making on the massive white board wall










Outside with forest school - the large hammock is a big hit




Home made dream catchers


The boys are Bug Hunting


Lunch was home made pizza and beans


with hot chocolate


a break for more playing and painting the trees


Sawing


Splitting logs








Dessert was pancakes with lemon and a bit of sugar.... mmmmmmmm

Acorn Childcare - Part 6 - New Bradwell

New Bradwell was a new site to Acorn Childcare  which opened in March 2010.


A selection of photographs from the site

Acorn Childcare - Part 5 - Cedars

A rainy morning in Newport Pagnell I had a couple of hours to visit Acorn Childcare at Cedars

Peppa pig has a lot to answer to!

Acorn Childcare - Part 4 - Castlethorpe

This week features photographs from Acorn Childcare in Castlethorpe we spent a lovely afternoon in its very autumnal playground, the children loved playing outside with the leaves.

Please enjoy the selection from the day............

Enjoying hands and feet painting


Making biscuits










If you stood still too long you were made a patient!

Acorn Childcare - Part 3 - Burton Latimer

Some of the lovely photographs I took with the children at Burton Latimer near Kettering.  The array of equipment and facilities are excellent and the children were never at a loose end with what to play with.

Here are a selection from the day........

Outside with the new construction kit


Hard at work!!!




Break for story time


Then lunch


Andy is at Burton Latimer with games for the children


Interactive white board - wish I had these when I was at school - great fun


This is the era of our children being more technical than we are!

Acorn Childcare - Part 2 - Brafield on the Green

Part 2 of the Acorn Childcare photographs - It's hard as a creative photographer to shoot commercial work sometimes, but with children I think its made a lot easier, they tend not to play up to the camera after a while and just enjoy playing.  You have to think differently when tasked with a brief of photographs for commercial use as you need to get a range of key activities which your client can then tell their story with.
Also you have the challenge of parental consent - this makes group photographs a little trickier.


I am pleased with how the group of photographs have turned out - here are just a selection which I hope shows a flavour of Brafield nursery.


The last few show the talented and energetic Andy from Mini Strikers.

A great safe outdoor area for the children to explore

Boys and their toys!


Messy play - first start at mark making






Role Play - today we were a Doctors surgery




Andy from Mini strikers - the kids loved him!