Snack is a very important part of our day. During snack, we practice social skills such as turn taking, enjoy time together and chat, develop independence as we serve ourselves and even learn to clean up and wash our dishes.

Recently, we have had some very special snacks to celebrate Pancake Tuesday and also the Lunar New Year. 

On Pancake Tuesday, we all made our very own pancakes by mixing flour, eggs and milk and using a mixer to blend the ingredients together. We then took a ladle full of the mixture onto our griddle. We watched for the pancakes to bubble and then flipped them over. We then enjoyed our pancakes with strawberries. 

We also like to learn about global celebrations. We decided to learn about the Lunar New Year with some different snack items. We had fried rice, noodles, curry sauce, sweet and sour sauce and prawn crackers. We had the hallway decorated for the year of the horse. We played some games related to the New Year and also read the story of 'The Great Race' to find out how the years were named after the order the animals finished in the race.

We are excited to announce our Harmony Nursery Open Day 2026. Please come along on 8th January 2-3pm to see our nursery facilities, allow your child to explore and play and chat to our amazing staff team. We look forward to welcoming you!

Harmony Nursery are delighted to announce our shared education partnership with Holy Child Nursery School through PeacePlus ASPIRE.

We have been chosen to be a part of this very exciting project over the next few years. We are building strong and positive relationships with our partner school, Holy Child Nursery School. We have been supported by parents from both schools and staff members. These visits have provided wonderful opportunities for children, staff, and families to connect, and our school communities are developing excellent links that will continue to grow. 

Our first visit was here, at Harmony, where the children joined together in a visit to the forest school, where we went on a Bear Hunt! We also had fun together in the classrooms.

The nursery children have been settling in so well and we are very proud of them. They have enjoyed getting to know their new friends, teachers, classrooms and exploring the outdoors.

One very exciting thing in our outdoor play space is our mud area. Here we have a mud kitchen, digging pits, a big hill to climb and a place to grow our own food. We have really enjoyed making the most of the Autumn harvest in nursery this year and have used the foods growing here to make something new and delicious!

In September, we picked the apples from our apple trees. We decided to use these to make an apple crumble. Together, we prepared the crumble, first by chopping up the apples. We then made a crumble topping by rubbing butter into a mixture of flour and sugar. This isn't just fun but a really good way for us to develop our fine motor skills. We baked our crumble and had it for snack the next day (with some custard too!) and it was so tasty!

We also enjoyed making some more tasty delights with our garden produce. In October, we harvested some onions from our vegetable patch. This time, we decided that we wanted to share our food with others. We cut the onions up, with a just a few tears from Mrs Montgomery! We then added them in a pot to cook, along with some brown sugar, vinegar and balsamic vinegar. They stewed and the whole nursery smelled amazing!

We packed up the chutney into small containers and sent them off in the Harvest Hampers to members of our local community. We shared photographs of some of people enjoying their chutney for their lunch and talked about how we can make other people feel loved with our kindness.