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The staff at Spring RAF Halton send their deepest condolences to The Royal Family.

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Are you looking for a new career path, have you always wanted to work with children?
At Spring Nursery RAF Halton we currently have a position available for an Early Years Assistant.
We provide a great team atmosphere, on the job training opportunities and a whole lot of fun!
For more information and an chance to apply, please click the link below:
https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/7801/description

We look forward to meeting you.

Many thanks
Madieke

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TEAM AWESOME at Spring Nursery RAF Halton are looking for Early Years Level 3 practitioners!
Do you love to work in a nursery with a great team spirit, wonderful children, weekly Forest School fun that includes mindfulness and wellbeing?
Do you have a specific skill/interest that you think you'd like to add to the teams cultural capital?
Then we are looking for you!!
To apply click on:
https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/7801/description
We would love to meet you!!

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"From birth, children actively seek to make meaning from
the many different representations of language that
surround them (Bruner,1990; Vygotsky 1986; Daniels,
2014)" . Birth to five matters

Alongside our usual story corner in Inventors our room leader has provided each area of the room with supporting books.
The construction area has books about buildings and the world.
The dressing up area has books about how we are all different and our cozy, baby care area has stories to read to our friends or the dolls. 📔📙📖📚

"Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment" - Maryann F. Kohl

Inventors and Navigators created a wonderful process art display. The children were just asked to make a window display and worked together to make it into a tree, the grass, clouds and sky.
It was a lovely joined project that produced a beautiful piece of art.

On the 10th of August it was World Lion Day. 🦁
Explorers (0-2yrs) enjoyed creating a joined masterpiece exploring a variety of textures.

"Children are naturally creative, it is our job to give them the freedom, materials and space to let their creativity blossom to its full potential" - Jean Van't Hul

Doodle Packs from RAF Association

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We're very excited to share with you our new video, showcasing the Nursery, staff, and some of the fantastic activities we have on offer here. It is also lovely to hear the amazing feedback from the parents, a massive thank you to those who were involved.

If you would like to enquire about a space here at Spring RAF Halton, don't hesitate to get in touch!

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*Permission gained from parents*

Forest School Adventures at Spring Nursery RAF Halton

"The best classroom and the richest classroom is roofed only by the sky" - Margaret McMillan

At Spring RAF Halton we are looking for an

Early Years Teacher

to join our Outstanding Nursery and amazing staff team.

Are you currently looking for an exciting new opportunity then please don't hesitate and apply below:

https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/early-years-teacher-aylesbury-7253/7271/description/

At Spring RAf Halton we enjoyed wonderful jubilee celebrations this week!!

All the decorations were handmade by the children.

The children explored a variety of activities and we had lots discussions about the queen.

The staff also enjoyed a nice relaxing tea party for their breaktime.

*permission gained from individual parents regarding photographs*

Yesterday in Forest School some of us made natural crowns using found natural materials.
We also started practicing with our fire striker which we will, moving forward, be using to start our fires for cooking. There was a lot of listening and concentration during this one to one activity, we also talked about keeping safe when using fires and reminded everyone about staying outside of the log circle until called. Using natural materials led to lots of language relating to size, colour and texture.🍃🌱🌿🌿🍃

Inventors also planted poppy seeds 🌺🌺🌺🌺

Navigators did some seed planting today- sunflowers🌻 and poppies🌺 that one of the children gave us when they left our nursery, and paper impregnated with seeds.... it’s a mystery as to what they are. 🤔

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Are you looking for a new opportunity to find your own place within a small team, share you experience and gain new skills as you work??

Then we are looking for you!

Apply below and hope to see you soon!!

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For Earth Day last week we made little Seed bombs that represent the earth in Forest School.

If you'd like to make one with your children please follow the very easy few steps below:

1. Rip up some pieces of paper and pop them in a bowl
2. Add a little bit of water
3. Add your choice of seeds
4. Mix them all up and roll them into little balls.

All done!

Have fun!

Happy Easter🐰
Explorer's have been busy this week with lots of Easter activities; they have had sensory themed egg hunts in sand and ice, made Easter cards and crafts and a Easter themed egg decorating tuff tray with different media to mark make with.

Happy Easter!
Inventors and Navigators have been very busy with lots of fun Easter activities thus week; they have made Easter biscuits, baked ginger cake, made their own rabbit ears, done Easter themed mark making and had a wonderful time in an Easter themed forest school session where they toasted marshmallows and had an egg hunt.

TEAM AWESOME at Spring Nursery RAF Halton are looking for Early Years Level 3 practitioners!
Do you love to work in a nursery with a great team spirit, wonderful children, weekly Forest School fun that includes mindfulness and wellbeing?
Do you have a specific skill/interest that you think you'd like to add to the teams cultural capital?
Then we are looking for you!!
To apply click on:
https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/early-years-practitioner-level-3-aylesbury-5934/5952/description/
We would love to meet you!!

TEAM AWESOME at Spring Nursery RAF Halton are looking for Early Years Level 3 practitioners!
Do you love to work in a nursery with a great team spirit, wonderful children, weekly Forest School fun that includes mindfulness and wellbeing?
Do you have a specific skill/interest that you think you'd like to add to the teams cultural capital?
Then we are looking for you!!
To apply click on:
https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/early-years-practitioner-level-3-aylesbury-5934/5952/description/
We would love to meet you!!

This afternoon we have been playing with the medical sets as one of our children has a broken arm.
We have been listening to heartbeats with the stethoscope “ I hear heartbeat” , “ I got poorly arm “ and using the thermometer to take temperatures “ you have temperature D, go home” . We have been bandaging each other’s arms and heads and exploring the other instruments.

Today in Forest School some of us did some whittling, we will be revisiting this regularly in our sessions to help build up fine motor skills and strength for our emergent writing. We also did some leaf rubbings using crayons, first we had to find some leaves that wouldn’t break up under the paper! There were also lots of examples of great team work to create dens and to build pretend camp fires. We could hear intense negotiations going on within various groups as they played discussing which sticks and logs to use and where to place the ‘fire’. Tree climbing was also popular today and with our binoculars we spotted some brave birds who came to say hello. We identified a Robin and a blue tit!

*permission for photo's obtained*

Today in Forest School we tried cooking some bread over our open fire. We revisited our fire safety rules, walking around the log circle, keeping our hands off and not going inside the circle unless we are called. Everybody had a turn, it got a bit smokey at times! We also made a shelter den as it started to rain, it was tricky to stop the cover blowing in the wind but we used sticks to thread through the eyelets on the tarpaulin. At the start of the session we practised our mindfulness by doing our breathing exercise and then listening to the sounds around us, we heard a bird, we thought it was our friendly robin.
🐦
This afternoon we ate our bread, it was…’nice, crunchy, orange juicy, like a French stick, tasty, tasty, like a pizza’. Sounds delicious!🍞🥖🧈

Have your say! Our Spring Parent Satisfaction Survey is now live and we kindly ask that if your child already attends our Spring Nursery, please fill it out for us at your earliest convenience. The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete and is crucial for us to be able to celebrate what we do well and work on any areas we are able to improve. Your feedback is invaluable to us.


You can find the survey here - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/F666FX6

FOREST SCHOOL

On Tuesday in Forest School we made some bird feeders using bird seed, mixed fruit and beef dripping. We mixed and scooped and filled some paper cups with our mixture. We will hang them up tomorrow after a night in the fridge! When we were not making the feeders we were digging, climbing and building a den which we then covered with a tarpaulin to make it even cosier! Some of us made some seats under the trees with some spare logs and then settled down to sit and watch out for some birds! We remembered to be quiet and our friendly Robin came to see us!🌳🌲🍃🌴🌿🐦🐦

*permission from parents received regarding child's photo*

TEAM AWESOME at Spring Nursery RAF Halton are looking for Early Years Level 3 practitioners!
Do you love to work in a nursery with a great team spirit, wonderful children, weekly Forest School fun that includes mindfulness and wellbeing?
Do you have a specific skill/interest that you think you'd like to add to the teams cultural capital?
Then we are looking for you!!
To apply click on:
https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/early-years-practitioner-level-3-aylesbury-5934/5952/description/
We would love to meet you!!

'When children play in natural spaces, they’re far more likely to invent their own games than in more structured settings – a key factor in becoming self-directed and inventive adults later in life.' Richard Louv

A few weeks ago we had lots of rain at the setting.
This did not stop our children enjoying their time in the garden.

They all got suited and booted and had such a great time exploring the muddy puddles. 🌧☔️💧

Inventors have been busy with many activities relating to Chinese New year these past 2 weeks.
They looked at pictures about the festival and its origin.
Practiced chopstick skills with playdough
Painted tigers and made tiger masks.
Studied Chinese numbers and tried to copy them.

All the children remembered that red was a lucky colour and that it was the year of the tiger this year. 🐯🐯🐯🏮🎐

A few more photos of our "We're going on a bearhunt" story activities!

Navigators are currently reading the Bear hunt story every day and the children are becoming really familiar with the flow of the story and certain phrases.
To follow on from this the children enjoyed a sensory experience using a variety of materials for them to act out the story.

The children also watched the video on youtube with Michael Rosen, who wrote "We're going on a bearhunt"
(Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds)

Inventors had a wonderful time using their imagination to create snowmen, Christmas tree and cakes with a variety of Christmassy materials.

Navigators Reindeer Antlers (see previous post)

On the 18th of November we took part in The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) which is a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”.

We invited Group Captain Dan Startup to come and help us plant a tree. He kindly agreed and together with the children planted a Beech tree and one of our own Hazel trees.

Photos: © Crown Copyright 2021

You can find our tree on the website's map:
https://queensgreencanopy.org/map-education-hub/qgc-map/#/

TEAM AWESOME at Spring Nursery RAF Halton are looking for Early Years Level 3 practitioners!
Do you love to work in a nursery with a great team spirit, wonderful children, weekly Forest School fun that includes mindfulness and wellbeing?
Do you have a specific skill/interest that you think you'd like to add to the teams cultural capital?
Then we are looking for you!!
To apply click on:
https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/early-years-practitioner-level-3-aylesbury-5934/5952/description/?_channelid=9
We would love to meet you!!

OPEN DAY OCTOBER 2021

We'd like to welcome you down to our Open day on the 16th of October 2021 between 10 - 1.
If you'd like to book a slot please give the nursery a call on 01296-622151 or email me on [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there.

At Spring Nursery RAF Halton we encourage parents to send us "Parent observation".
Because to be effective in supporting children's development, parents, carers and the children themselves should be included in the information gathered during the Observation and Planning cycle, as learning and developing does not only happen when the child is in the setting.

Parents are able to contribute to their child's learning journey with wow moments and they are encouraged to ask the nursery for support in certain area's of development.
For more information about how we use our Famly app please visit: https://springchildcare.co.uk/our-childcare/parent-communications/

AMAZING OPPERTUNITY TO BE PART OF TEAM AWESOME!

We are currently looking for a Deputy Manager at Spring Nursery RAF Halton.
If you enjoy working as part of a team, have a level 3 qualification in Early Years and experience in leading a team then look no further and apply now!

Click on the link below for more information and how to apply
We look forward to meeting you soon!!

https://careers.springnurseries.co.uk/vacancy/deputy-nursery-manager-aylesbury-5772/5790/description/

A lovely leaving gift for our setting from one of our wonderful parents.
Home grown herbs and plants.
Thank you so much! 🤩

Last week Inventors made Muesli balls.
They independently cut up their own dates, mixed the muesli with a little golden syrup and put the ball on the tray to go into the fridge.
During the conversation they talked about how sticky the mixture was, who's parents enjoyed eating muesli for breakfast and looked to see what was in the muesli - "Apples, raisins, orange bits and cereal"

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Ready for our Open Day July 2021 at Spring Nursery RAF Halton, proudly showing potential costumers our wonderful nursery.
Looking forward to meeting everyone!!
🥳🤩

🌿🍂🍃Bit of a tidy up before or Open Day this Saturday

Our Inventors made some yummy fruit loaf cup cakes today.
The children helped with measuring, scooping, pouring, mixing.
This time we also showed them what happens when the mixture goes into the oven and how it looks when it comes out.
Our children aren't usually allowed in the kitchen but we briefed them of staying safe and we had an extra staff member in there so we had one on each side of the oven to ensure the children were completely safe. They absolutely loved seeing the entire process of how things are made, from being fresh to and looking paler to browning in the oven and looking different coming out. Its so important for them to be a part of the whole process.

When one of our staff members was sadly posted to RAF Northold she kindly gifted us a Butterfly Kit.

The children helped and watched the caterpillars slowly latching themselves onto the lid of the pot provided and grow into their cocoon. Then one after one all 5 of them hatched into beautiful butterflies.

Today during Forest School Inventors let the Butterflies go free next to a particularly flowery FS area.

*Release video's to follow*

To tie this in with other areas of learning we also did some butterfly symmetry painting and read The Hungry Caterpillar and listened to the story of the Crunching Munching caterpillar.
In Forest School and in general conversation we talked about life cycles and how some animals look similar when they are born and how some look completely different.

Today Inventors baked bread rolls from scratch.
They learned about measures, mixing, rising time, portion size and they also had a discussion about healthy and unhealthy amounts of salt.
The language that was heard:
"soft, fluffy like a fluffy blanket"
"like a cloud, the flour and yeast"
Once the water went in we talked about absorption, where did the water go?
"…into the bread, in the clouds!"
When kneading the bread
".. sticky, like playdoh"
" oooh so gooey!"
"And it smells like bread and cupcakes, delicious!"