Exploring Outdoors Exploring outdoors is an essential part of life at Bumpkins, and the children have been outside making the most of this beautiful sunshine we’ve been blessed with and exploring their surroundings. These outdoor activities tie in with their Early Years development too – observing what they see around them and helping the children…

Nature Rangers Sessions at Bumpkins Pre-School What are Nature Ranger Sessions? Bumpkins Nature Rangers offer our children the chance to try more adventurous activities. Under adult supervision they can take part in activities such as climbing trees and also natural art. Based on the Forest School ethos, we will run our own Nature Rangers sessions…

There’s plenty of fun activities on over the Easter school holidays for young families in the area around Whaddon. Here’s our Bumpkins pick of things to do this Easter.  Click the title of the event to find out more details! The Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt is on every day this week until Friday 8th April,…

Children love spending time outdoors. At Bumpkins, we have Nature Ranger activities, which are about looking at the world around us and collecting natural resources. This Easter, the babies collected sticks outdoors. We made these wonderful baby hedgehogs out of the clay and sticks. ‪ We are sure you could try similar at home. We used air-drying…

The children love to meet the Bumpkins hens! The great outdoors is a very important part of life at Bumpkins, and we are lucky to have access to large areas of grassed meadows, fields and an all-weather surfaced garden. We even have Bumpkins hens on site. The children love feeding them and you can even…

The Bumpkins Difference is all about offering your child exceptional care during their time at Nursery. We’re based on a working farm in Whaddon and love the great outdoors. Even on a cold day, we’ll wrap your children up in coats, hats and gloves so they can run, jump and skip outside. So when it came…

The Bumpkins Nature Rangers was set up to enable all children to have direct contact with nature. Evidence and research highlights the fact that in our ever changing society children are spending less and less time playing outside and this has huge implications on their overall well being and development. Nature Rangers enables the children…