Birstall Preschool

Early Years practitioner in Calderdale?
Join our fully funded training day ‘Making the Most of 50 Things to Do Before You’re Five’

📅 Monday 15 June, 10am-3pm
📍 Eureka! The National Children's Museum

Learn how to use 50 Things to Do Before You’re Five to:
- strengthen the Home Learning Environment,
- build meaningful partnerships with parents,
- increase parents' confidence, and support them to recognise learning in everyday moments.

We’ll also explore the Less Screen Time, More Play Time resources and share simple ideas to encourage healthier screen time habits and more active play.

🧩 By the end of the day, you’ll have lots of simple, practical ideas, feel more confident, and have a clear plan for using this free resource in your setting to support children and their families across Calderdale.

👉 Book your spot: https://cutt.ly/ktCIhLyx

World Bee Day 🐝

What better way to spend world bee day than with Birstall Bee Man and Born Explorers Forest School!!!

We learned all about the different types of bees we are likely to see outside and how important they are to our environment, how honey is made, what a bee keeper is and we even got to try on a bee keeper suit! 💛

And after a taster session with lots of different flavours of honey, staff purchased some for home time! 💛

What a BEE-eautiful day!! 🐝 🐝 🐝

STOMP STOMP STOMP 🦕 🦖

Emma and her bucketful of dinosaurs stopped by to play today! 🪣

And lots of fun was had!

Officers from the Batley and Spen Neighbourhood Policing Team attended Birstall Pre-School yesterday morning, where they spoke to approximately 25 children about the role of the police.

The officers explained how the police help people and outlined some of the work they do.
They also covered basic stranger danger awareness and spoke about the roles of other emergency services.

The children were given the opportunity to see the police van and activate the sirens, which proved to be a big hit and was very well received.

🌸🌿 PLANT & PASTRY DAY 🌿🌸

🎉 A special moment to grow, share, and say farewell 🎉

📅 Friday 12th June

⏰ 10:00 AM & 2:00 PM sessions

💐 Join us for a beautiful and meaningful day!

Parents and children are invited to bring along a plant or flower of their choice to plant together 🌱

✨ New beginnings

✨ Growing memories

✨ A gentle farewell as children prepare for school

🥐 Enjoy delicious pastries

🌸 Create lasting memories together

🌿 Leave a little piece of your family at nursery

💛 Although this marks a transition for some,

ALL children and parents are warmly welcome to attend

and take part in this lovely shared experience.

🌷 Let’s plant, celebrate, and grow together 🌷

Please let us know on Famly if you are wanting to attend,

Many thanks

Birstall Pre school x

🌎 Celebrating our wonderfully unique planet with the wonderfully unique Emma from Born Explorers Forest School 🌎

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We didnt doubt you for a second, another 5 star hygiene rating in the bag ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well done to our head chef Linzi 👨‍🍳

And with that....our spring term has come to an end and holiday club commences! 🌼

What an amazing 11 weeks we have had, our staff have worked tirelessly to deliver an outstanding level of practice each and every day and deserve to be celebrated for everything they bring to our setting.

Because of them each day is filled with laughter, compassion and empowerment.

We are thankful to have the team we have.

We wish you all a restful and blessed Easter break and look forward to welcoming our families back in the summer term - Monday 13th April.

🐣 🐰 We had the pleasure of a visit from the Easter bunny yesterday morning who came to visit all the children 🐰🐣

Born Explorers Forest School