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Category: Nursery News

March Montessori Round Up

18th March 2026

Encouraging Montessori during Springtime Montessori spring activities focus on practical life, nature exploration, and sensory experiences to embrace the season’s renewal. Key activities include gardening (planting seeds), flower arranging, cleaning outdoor toys, bird watching, and nature scavenger hunts. These hands-on, child-led tasks foster independence, fine motor skills, and environmental appreciation. Key Montessori Springtime Activities: Practical…

Employee of the Month for March

18th March 2026

Well done to Jessica – We are delighted to let you know that you are our Employee of the Month for March! Jessica is a consistently friendly smiling face in the waiting room each morning, and she has such a patient attitude and calming influence on the children.

Celebrating Dukes Education New Staff Member of the Year!

8th December 2025

We’re delighted to share some wonderful news from across the Hopes and Dreams family. Christopher Grierson, Manager at our Angel nursery, has been awarded Dukes Education’s New Staff Member of the Year, a fantastic and well-deserved achievement. Since joining Hopes and Dreams in summer 2025, Christopher has brought with him a real sense of positivity…

Meet Chris, our new Head of Nursery at Hopes and Dreams Angel

20th June 2025

Christopher Grierson | Head of Nursery We would like to take this opportunity to share a little background about Hopes and Dreams. For over 30 years, we have been proudly providing high-quality early years education and care. We are Montessori-accredited through Montessori Global Education, and I am incredibly proud that we remain one of the…

Hopes and Dreams Daily Outing Trips

10th February 2023

Hopes and Dreams Montessori Nurseries believe in providing a wide range of resources for children to grow and develop. Here we can see the children on a trip to the local park. They talk about nature in terms of the colours of flowers, how tall the trees are, the leaves on some of the greenery,…

Parent Q&A Sessions

1st December 2022

We are delighted to announce our new Parent Q&A sessions which will be launching in January 2023. As a surgery-style session, these are a great way to get information and guidance around all things early years. Join us for a relaxed morning or afternoon, meet other families and ask any questions you may have to…

Open Day at Angel Nursery...

We are having an Open Day!

Join us for our next event on Saturday 21st March 2026, from 10:00am to 12:00pm

Book to come along to our Open Day