Vegetable Printing

Parents of Toddler children can expect some great art work sent home today! 

Vegetable prints!

See the photos on our Facebook page here...

Seed Planting

Our current topic is growth and this week the children have been learning about seeds and plants. Toddlers planted some cress seeds in pots at Little Chums which parents should now have received to take home.

 

We would appreciate it if you could observe any growth with your children and maybe take a photo or two! Please send any photos back to us using the ClassDojo app!

 

Photos of the children planting their seeds are on our Facebook page
here...

Butterfly Lifecycle

Before Easter, the topic was 'Minibeasts' and part of that topic was caterpillars and butterflies. Preschool ordered a butterfly kit online to see if they could grow some. 

The children watch over a period of a few weeks as the incredibly small baby caterpillars that were delivered grew and turned into chrysalises, from which eventually emerged butterflies! The butterflies were eventually released safely into Elisha's garden.

See this lifecycle in the photo album here... 

Congratulations / Llongyfarchiadau

We’d like to say a big congratulations to Amelia Bailey, sister of our staff member Holly Bailey. 

Amelia is captain of the Wales Women U18 rugby team and has recently taken part in the Women's Six Nations Festival, where the team achieved fantastic wins against both England and Scotland.

Some of the children may remember Amelia from the times she has volunteered here at Little Chums over the years and we’re incredibly proud to see her doing so well on such a big stage!

Well done Amelia, a brilliant achievement and a great role model for our children!

A couple more photos on our Facebook page here... 

Little Ravers

Little Chums has recently signed up with Early Years Wales to become a 'Movement Champion'. We understand and value the importance of children being active when they are young.

To help on the journey, we recently bought a large speaker that can be taken outside for music and movement activities and for the last few days Preschool have been 'Little Ravers' with lots of moving and dancing to Lenny Pearce and his 'Techno Toddler' music!

The photos are on our Facebook page here...

Check out some of our dancing YouTube video shorts (uploaded with parents' permission) here...

Spring Sunshine

The weather has been gorgeous the last couple of days, so Tots and Toddlers have been getting outside into the sunshine and fresh air! 

Photos are on our Facebook page here...

YouTube

Little Chums is now on YouTube! 

From now on, as well as publishing photos of special events in our photo gallery, we will produce video slideshows and upload them to our YouTube channel!

This is just another way of Little Chums communicating with you and involving you in the events that take place.  As usual, any photos used will be edited to protect the identities of your little ones, with unedited versions sent to you on the app. A link to the channel is on our main website or you can search YouTube for @littlechumsnursery

To test out our new channel, visit us, view and like the slideshow video we have produced of the recent Easter party!

See the video here... 

Easter 2026

After the massive 'Pop in and Play' Easter event yesterday, the Easter fun continued today with more Easter themed activities and a party! 

The children had rabbit and egg shaped toast for breakfast, an Easter Egg hunt outside, made chocolate crispy nests, played party games and even had a visit from the Easter Bunny, who had fun dancing at the disco! The Easter Bunny did try a visit to Babies and Tots but the children were terrified!

There was an Easter party lunch complete with individual party food boxes and a chocolate egg treat to take home as well, delivered by the bunny. 

Combined with Easter art and craft activities all week, it's certainly been very busy here at Little Chums!

See the photos in the Easter 2026 album here...

Have a Happy Easter!

Easter 'Pop in and Play' Event

Our Easter 'Pop in and Play' event has just ended. 

To say it was well attended is an understatement! We sincerely thank those Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, Aunts, Uncles and anyone else who attended for taking time out of their busy days to spend some quality time with their children and relations!

We hope you enjoyed the:

• art & craft
• music and movement disco
• gingerbread decorating
• sand & water
• free cakes & brownies
• Easter themed activity tables
• anything else we've forgotten to list!

We'd like to thank the following for helping to make this happen:

• Flying Start team at Torfaen for partial funding
• staff at Little Chums for their hard work before, during and after
• sprinkled.bysoph for the Easter treats (visit on Facebook)
• Eva Lasting Memories for the disco (visit on Facebook)
• and you for attending and spending quality time with your child(ren)!

We hope you enjoyed the occasion!

See all the photos in our gallery here... 

 

April 2026 Newsletter

Little Chums has emailed out a newsletter for April 2026. Yes it's a little early, but it contains important information about Easter events next week! 

Didn't receive a copy of the newsletter by email or deleted it by accident?

Read it online here...

Prehistoric Preschool!

For the last few weeks, the topic has been 'animals' and this week has been a favourite... DINOSAURS!!! 

 

In Preschool, they made salt-dough fossils and have been having fun in the prehistoric tuff tray.

 

All of the photos are on our Facebook page and take care to make careful note of the photos of the prehistoric tuff tray before and after the children got their hands on it!

 

Find the photos here... 

Easter Reminder

Next week, we will be celebrating Easter at Little Chums. There will be two main events. 

Wednesday 1st April

We will be holding a 'pop in and play' event for parents of Toddler and Preschool children from 3.30pm. There will be an opportunity for you to spend some quality time with your child completing some Easter art & craft, decorating a gingerbread Easter chick and some music to dance along to!

Please go to your child's group and you will be directed to the activities. You must remain with your own child at all times. 

Although the event starts at 3.30pm, if you can't get here till later don't panic. Just show when you can, there will be plenty of resources! It would be helpful if you could let us know you are attending, but this is not essential.

Thursday 2nd April

Easter party day! All the groups will be completing Easter activities and having the usual fun and games. Weather permitting, there will be an outside Easter Egg hunt.

If you decide to make an Easter bonnet at home, please feel free to allow your child to wear it to show (off) to the other children and staff!

There will be a Easter party food box instead of the usual lunch.

Tots Outside

It's a little brighter today, but that wind is still strong! 

Just like Preschool, Tots managed to get outside before the weather turned all winter-like again!

The photos are attached to a post on our Facebook page here...

Preschool Canal Walk

What happened to the weather today?! Wind and rain? Not good! 

While it was still fine yesterday, Preschool went for a nice walk along the canal to the basin, enjoying the fresh air, exercise and some snack!

The photos are on our Facebook page here...

Comic Relief / Red Nose Day

Today was Comic Relief / Red Nose Day 2026! 

Although we didn't do any direct fundraising (after you were so generous for Children in Need) and asked you to donate directly to Comic Relief if you were able, that didn't stop us having some fun at Little Chums!

As well as the usual fun, games, activities, art and craft across the whole setting, Preschool even found time to go on a little 'Red Nose Hunt' in the garden!

See all the photos in our Comic Relief album here...