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Bright Start Nurseries Ltd updated their phone number.

Bright Start Nurseries Ltd updated their address.

Bright Start Nurseries Ltd updated their address.

Bright Start Nurseries Ltd updated their business hours.

Bright Start Nurseries Ltd updated their business hours.

This Friday we will be having another stay and play session for children who are going to St Mary's school in September. It will take place from 1:30-2:30pm and all children are welcome, whether they attended Bright Start or not.

If you'd like to bring your child along please let us know so we have an idea on numbers :)

Our outdoor berry-picking adventure

Minibeast DVDs have arrived!!!!!!!!!!! Please feel free to pop in and collect yours from today!

Photographs have arrived!!!!!! We will start handing them out today, however please feel free to pop in and pick yours up if you are not in for the rest of the week and would like yours ASAP!

It has been a busy day in the nursery today: there have been Eid-themed activities going on in preschool (and these will continue throughout the week) including henna-painting, face-painting and making sparkly Eid cards.

Tomorrow all of the rooms are going to have a chance to do some baking (there's fruit cake planned, samosas, oaty cookies, kebabs, chapattis and more).

We've also had a special visitor pop in to see us- Lauren with baby Tony! Lauren is looking very well and the children loved seeing her little baby.

Pictures will follow throughout the week of the children enjoying themselves with the different activities!

Timeline photos

Nursery photographs are available now in reception, and they are adorable! If you would like to place an order please let us know by Wednesday 8th July. Photographs are £12.00 each (if you are paying cash please bring the exact amount as we will not have change. Thank you!)

We'd like to say a big 'welcome' to Antonia, who has joined the Bright Start team today! Antonia has been in our Honeypot room this morning but will spend a little time in each of the rooms getting to know all of the children.

Next Monday and Tuesday we will be joined by a professional film-making company who will be turning your little ones into film stars for the day!

The children will be starring in their very own 'Minibeast Adventure" DVD.

A preview DVD will be ready to take home and view without obligation to buy on the day.

To help achieve best filming results please try and avoid dressing your children in green.

Just a reminder that we are having group photographs tomorrow. We hope all the children will come in ready to give us some big smiles for the camera!

Timeline photos

Making mud pies, scooping up mud gravy and competing to see who could make the biggest mud-splash!

Admission to primary schools - Buckinghamshire County Council

Is your child starting primary school in September? If you have received your school place and need advice then the web chat team are on hand to answer your queries until 5.30pm today

Admission to primary schools - Buckinghamshire County Council Information about starting school for the first time or transferring from infant to junior school.

Good luck to all of our parents who will be finding out about school places later today.

If you will be needing before and/or after school care please let us know ASAP so that we can make sure we keep a place available in our out of school club.

Fingers crossed for everybody!

The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds

This was really interesting, if anybody missed it and wants to catch up. Fascinating to sit back and just watch children play and work things out for themselves!

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-secret-life-of-4-year-olds

The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds This documentary follows ten four-year-olds as they meet at nursery, exploring how children make and break friendships, share, stand up for themselves, and find their place in a new social group

Mix 96 - Local Schools Status

How exciting- hopefully there should be lots of snow for the children to wake up to in the morning! We'll be open as per usual, however you can check the status of local schools here:

http://www.mix96.co.uk/schools/buckinghamshire/

Mix 96 - Local Schools Status Are local schools currently open or closed?

I'm Glad Someone Told Me

I'm Glad Someone Told Me We need to find a way to prepare mothers for the possibility that they may struggle, and that it doesn't make them bad mothers....

Meanwhile over in the Honeypot room the children were enjoying working together to complete a dinosaur floor puzzle. Afterwards they clapped their hands in excitement as they finished the puzzle, and were talking about how big the dinosaur was compared to the little toy dinosaurs on the table, they pointed out the dinosaur's tail, nose, eyes and other body parts, and laughed as they shouted out their best dinosaur roars!

Look at the state of the Beehive's floor this morning after the children enjoying drawing with chalk! Our floor was beautifully decorated with names, shapes, squiggles and body outlines and the children had great fun doing it!

Team Christmas Party 2014

Last night we enjoyed an amazing team Christmas party- a night out at an Italian Masquerade Ball in Milton Keynes! There were some amazing performances, a delicious 3 course meal and dodgems and a casino to keep everybody well entertained. It was a great party to mark the end of a great year that has seen the nursery go from strength to strength. Thank you to everybody for coming and making it such a brilliant night! (Please feel free to add your photos so we can all look back and remember the night without having to rely on my not-so-great photo-taking skills)

The photographs have arrived! Please ask in reception if you have ordered one of your child for Christmas

Speech & Language Therapy | Parents | Introduction

Speech & Language Therapy | Parents | Introduction Speech and Language Therapy

Call or email us now to book your playscheme sessions!

Now that the wet weather is upon us could children please be provided with a pair of wellies and waterproof coats for outdoor play.

Especially at this time of year it is really important that children can continue to enjoy lots of outdoor play and learning experiences. As long as they are wrapped up warm and have suitable footwear it is perfectly safe, and very beneficial, for them to be outdoors.

Watch out, Mary Berry, you have nothing on our Tweenies...

Our Tweenies had so much fun in the mud-kitchen today. They collected water from the water vat, watching how they could control how fast the water trickled out using the tap, and using jugs and cups to transport the water in.

Some of them delved into the mud-pile, using small shovels and rakes to mix up the dry mud and collect it into saucepans to place in the ovens. And the ovens were a real source of amusement as the children turned the dials and pretended to turn up the heat.

One of the children added water to a tray of dry mud and observed how the texture changed. After emptying it onto the floor a group of them took it in turns to roll it out using a makeshift rolling pin.

Another of the children was collected grass "chips" and putting them into the bowl to go in the oven.

Master bakers in the making!

We will be handing out the Bookstart Treasure Bags to all of our Preschool children today and tomorrow. Inside the packs will be a selection of stories, rhymes and songs for you to enjoy sharing with your children.

If you aren't here this week please don't worry- we will save a Treasure Bag for you to collect next week!

What fantastic imaginations children have!

This afternoon I was lucky enough to stumble upon some of our preschool children concocting a horse-making potion, which arose from a game of Cinderella. After doing all the chores, including cleaning the playhouse and washing down the tables and chairs, they fed the horses which then managed to escape!

So what did they do? Decide to make a horse-making potion, of course!

Each child in the group came up with something special to add to the potion. There were frogs, snails, carrots, and one little boy even came up with the idea of adding a helter skelter. (After Amanda asked him to put it in the mixture, he looked at her with a bemused face and answered, "Well I don't have it with me!" as if she was being totally ridiculous!)

They then went around the group to talk about how their addition would help the potion, and came up with the idea that the frogs would help the horses be able to jump, and the carrots would feed them.

The game carried on for so long as the children went wild with their imaginations and took turns in stirring the potion with their hands and pushing it all in using their feet. The helter skelter proved particularly difficult.

Amanda used the activity which had all the children captivated, to talk about shape and size, quantities, numbers and forces. The children were encouraged to listen to each other and take turns to contribute, valuing each other's ideas and being given the confidence to share their own thoughts.

The group gradually grew, from the original 2 children along with Amanda, to a sizeable number of boys and girls, younger and older children together.

And as much as the children enjoyed themselves, it was also great fun just standing back and listening!