Overbury Grasshoppers News

How lucky are we that we get to choose our own Christmas tree from the Estate?

The preschool children ventured out for a walk today to look for conkers.

The toddlers go hunting for snakes......

The children have been lucky enough to make regular trips to Overbury Court's kitchen garden where Leigh and Tom have been showing them that it is time to prepare the garden for planting. So back at nursery, weeding has been carried out  in our nature garden so that we  can enjoy the spring daffodils from the main playroom. The two Christines...

On Friday 26th the farm's tractor and trailer picked the leavers up at Grasshoppers at 5.30pm. They, their parents and siblings all enjoyed a ride through the village and up into the Park to a picnic spot by the stream. The children all really enjoyed exploring and playing in the stream before tucking into the picnic food.    ...

We like to think we are a very 'outdoors nursery' and even though we spent as much time putting on our waterproofs, scarves, hats and gloves as we did playing outside we have had great fun enjoying this winter's extreme weather. After having a good run round in it, we found just enough snow in the first snowfall after Christmas  to make a...

The wet and windy weather may have caused all sorts of trouble, but it just increased the fun on our walks!         All of that rain produced lots of muddy puddles on tracks and in fields for the children to splash in and make footprints!! As you can see they had lots of fun!!  The children also found lots of sticks blown...

The first of the Summer's Activity Days(for primary school aged children) was a resounding success! Sixteen children spent most of their day exploring the stream and pond in the   Park, and after a tractor and trailer ride, finished their day painting with mud and sticks! Beautiful countryside, water and mud... all the ingredients for a fun...

The children are always keen to explore outdoors and living things are of extra interest. Last week we found 8 snails under the tractor tyre in the digging pit so we brought them inside to have a close look, even try some races! They took a long time to venture out of their shells but eventually our patience was rewarded! However...

On our walk last Monday afternoon we were able to lots of exploring to learn about the wildlife and countryside around us. The children found lots of feathers of different sizes and types. Then we heard a noise coming from the top of an oak tree and wondered if the owners of some of those feathers lived up there. We enjoyed running though the...