A guest blog post from Senior Educator Helen At Deerness Valley Nursery we prioritise the safety and wellbeing of your child, including...

Previously on the website and on social media our short description often included "Montessori and Reggio inspired" These are both...

We have many conversations about what we use at nursery, so I thought it would be good to have a place where we can share what we use,...

I'm really proud of all the team of builders, plumbers and electricians have done to build the beautiful log cabin. I'm also really proud...

This honestly has been a total whirlwind of a project. I'm sure that I'm much greyer than before we began, but seeing the cabin completed...

I know you've been waiting for an update on the building project and here it is... in a word - MUD We've had loads of rain, and with all...

After working on this project for so long now, and having a very visual imagination, I can see very clearly what it will look like when...

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social- emotional development at all ages.

I've been reminded that I was blogging about the process of setting up a nursery, but that I haven't written for a while. So, let's see...

We got our planning permission granted! Which is superb news... Now we need to do a lot of work in the background and on the laptop to...

With our planning application submitted and now being reviewed, the time has come to ask for your support. You can do that by writing...

I present to you for your admiration the culmination of hours and hours and hours of planning - our final cabin design!! Well, subject to...

You've got to the point of working on a planning application and realised that you need to put in with it some reports and surveys. My...

Who was John Dewey? He was born in Vermont in 1859. Originally he was a student of philosophy, then after marrying Alice Chipman, he...

When I've been researching the design of the cabin I have also been researching the requirements for the nursery. There are some that are...

I know you love photos, so here are the photos and images I used in the design and access statement. Photographs of cabins:...

The next stage in the process is to put in a planning application. However, I have never done this before either! Helpfully, our local...

Wow, look who we had to visit today! I can't really believe it was just sitting there on the path! I also can't really believe I managed...

I was wondering what the word Deerness means today. In Scotland there's another Deerness, it's a parish in Orkney and it's an Old Norse...

In order to properly explore education today, we need to place it within an understanding of what education used to be like in our...