10th March 2010

Celebrating 50 years of Kate Greenaway Nursery School

All this week, we are celebrating Kate Greenaway’s Golden Birthday – and we hope you will be able to join in with some of the celebrations.

The nursery school is named after the children’s author and illustrator Kate Greenaway, who grew up in Islington in the 19th Century.

So our celebrations are focussed on children’s books and literature. We are working with local schools, the schools’ library service, and Lewis Carroll library.

All this week children are making books and telling stories through video.

Today (Wednesday) London zoo are coming to tell stories with animals

On Friday girls from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School are bringing the multi-lingual books they have created for the children into nursery, and will be sharing them.

On Friday we are inviting children to come dressed up as their favourite book character. Home-made stuff is great – there is no need to have a full costume. We’d prefer no TV characters, Batman suits etc as the focus is on books.

Friday evening (6pm-8pm) we are holding an event at The Guardian (King’s Place, York Way) on the history and future of the nursery school. The main speaker will be Professor Tina Bruce (who works closely with us) and there will be a panel discussion at the end chaired by Polly Toynbee. If you would like a ticket, please ask Julian. More details here.

On Saturday we are open from 10.30am to 2.30pm for a day of storytelling, songs and music, face painting and more – so come along if you are free. There will be activities for older children at Lewis Carroll Library. More details here.

We hope you will come along and enjoy one or more of these events.