The secret to a kid who’ll actually try new foods? Let them cook it. 🌿😊
At Nurtured Nest, lunch doesn’t just appear, the children sometimes help make it. Measuring, mixing, chopping, stirring.
It looks like happy chaos, but it’s teaching independence, patience, a little maths and science, and the confidence to try foods they’d usually push away. (Turns out kids are far more willing to eat what they made themselves.)
Hands-on, real, and a world away from worksheets.
Save this one if you’ve got a fussy eater at home 🌿
This is the kind of day we’ve been building for five years, come taste it for yourself on Saturday, July 4th.
📍 5-Year Anniversary Open House · Dunearn Road · Saturday, July 4th
Spots are limited, we keep it small so every family gets real time with our educators.
🔗 Grab your invite via the link in our bio (Linktree).
👉 Or comment NEST and we’ll DM you the details.
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Singapore's first ever Reggio Forest School, located conveniently in Bukit Timah.
Our approach to learning brings together the best of both the Reggio Emilia approach and Forest Schooling with a focus on Sustainable Education.
How do you teach a 3-year-old to handle big feelings? Not with words, with this. 🌿
Every morning at Nurtured Nest starts with circle time. The children come in, get welcomed by name, and see who’s here everyone included.
But as our Nursery Educator Miss Ning explains, it’s quietly doing so much more. Putting their picture on the tree teaches turn-taking.
Talking about their day builds vocabulary. Naming how they feel is the first step to learning to manage those feelings and to knowing they can always ask a teacher for help.
The big developmental stuff, built from the smallest daily moments.
Save this if it’s the kind of start you’d want for your little one’s day. 🌿
This is the intention behind everything we do and on Saturday, July 4th, you can come see it for yourself.
📍 5-Year Anniversary Open House · Dunearn Road · Saturday, July 4th
Spots are limited | we keep it small so every family gets real time with our educators.
🔗 Grab your invite via the link in our bio (Linktree).
👉 Or comment NEST and we’ll DM you the details.
They tried a preschool on the other side of Singapore first. Then they found us. ❤️
The Hendersons have been in Singapore for ten years, and this is the school that finally fit what they were really after: the outdoors, the chickens, Forest School, a proper childhood.
A year and a half in, both girls are thriving. Edith (4) has settled into Blooms, and little Margot (2.5) is already counting down to turn 3 so she can start Forest School. And yes the whole family is on first-name terms with Vernon. 🐓
This is what the right fit feels like. Come find yours.
📍 5-Year Anniversary Open House · Dunearn Road · Saturday, July 4th
Come meet our educators and see the chickens, the pond and the Forest School for yourself.
Spots are limited we keep it small on purpose.
🔗 Grab your invite via the link in our bio (Linktree).
👉 Or comment NEST and we’ll DM you the details.
Your toddler isn’t giving you a hard time.
They are having one and trying to tell you.
Before children have words, they have cues, a look, a change in posture, a shift in behavior. Learning to read them changes everything.
When you notice and respond to those signals, your child feels safe and understood.
That’s what builds trust, grows their language, eases frustration, and teaches them to manage big emotions.
Our Early Years Educator Yani on how she really listens to the little ones 👆
Come and meet Yani and our educators in person at our 5-Year Anniversary Open House.
📍 5-Year Anniversary Open House · Dunearn Road · Saturday, July 4th
🔗 Grab your invite via the link in our bio (Linktree).
👉 Or comment NEST and we’ll DM you the details.
We weren’t looking for a preschool obsessed with academics.
We were looking for this.
Mark moved from Spain to Singapore four years ago. When it came time to choose a school for his son Liam, he wanted somewhere warm and genuinely kid-friendly, a place that grows soft skills, not just drills worksheets, and lets children simply be children.
What won them over?
The open space. The greenery. The pond. And a sense of community his family could feel the moment they walked in.
This is the childhood we’ve been building for five years and on Saturday, July 4th, you can come see it for yourself.
📍 5-Year Anniversary Open House · Dunearn Road · Saturday, July 4th
Spots are limited,we keep it small so every family gets real time with our educators.
🔗 Grab your invite via the link in our bio (it’s all on our Linktree).
👉 Or comment NEST and we’ll DM it straight to you.
In the forest, children encounter ideas they cannot rush and questions that do not have immediate answers.
A fallen seed pod becomes a discovery.
A shared challenge becomes a conversation.
A quiet observation becomes a theory.
As they explore, collect, build, and wonder together, children learn to trust their ideas, adapt their thinking, and find new possibilities.
The forest invites children to slow down, notice, and engage deeply with the world around them. Through these encounters, they develop confidence, curiosity, perseverance, and a growing sense of themselves as capable learners.
Some of the most meaningful learning begins not with instruction, but with wonder.
03/06/2026
In a world that moves quickly, Forest School offers children something increasingly rare. It offers them time. Time to wonder, climb, build, observe, imagine, and simply be.
Out in nature, children learn far more than the names of plants and insects. They develop resilience when a structure falls and they try again. They learn risk assessment when balancing on a log. They practise collaboration as they build shelters, solve problems, and navigate the landscape together.
Nature invites children to use all of their senses. It nurtures curiosity, confidence, creativity, and a deep respect for the living world.
At Nurtured Nest, we believe some of the most meaningful learning happens when children are free to explore outdoors.
01/04/2026
Today the children explored fabric collage using recycled materials.
Bowls of scrap fabrics invited them to slow down and look closely. From choosing colours, feeling textures, cutting shapes, to layering pieces onto their cardboard eggs.
Some worked carefully with scissors, others experimented with patterns and placement. Piece by piece, their ideas began to take shape.
Sometimes the most meaningful learning begins with the simplest materials.
22/03/2026
World Water Day at Lower Peirce Reservoir
With the reservoir right in front of us, the children began to explore an important question.
How does rainwater become the water we use every day?
They learned that rainwater is collected in reservoirs and goes through a process of cleaning before reaching our taps. To better understand this, the children built their own filtration systems using materials such as cotton, sand, gravel, charcoal and rocks.
As they poured dirty water through their filters, they observed how it changed — becoming clearer, but not completely clean. This led them to experiment further, adjusting their designs, rearranging materials, and testing different combinations.
Through this process, the children worked together, shared ideas, and discovered what made a filter more effective.
More importantly, they began to understand the effort it takes to clean water.
This led to meaningful conversations about why we should care for our environment including keeping our drains free from litter, as rainwater flows from drains into our reservoirs.
19/03/2026
World Water Day at Nurtured Nest!
How do children come to understand something as essential as water?
Not through worksheets, but through experience.
This week, the children explored water in many ways.
They poured, filtered, observed and questioned.
They followed where water flows, explored how rain forms, and saw how water supports life, in the forest, in the classroom, and through stories.
They worked to free marine animals from plastic, explored how water moves through materials, and learned to return water back to the earth by caring for plants.
Through these experiences, the children began to understand that water is not just something we use, but something we depend on, care for, and share with the world around us.
Because children cannot care for what they do not know.
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