Pirates and Princesses Day Nursery

P&P’s 5th Birthday Party!
We had such a lovely day celebrating our 5th birthday together with our current families, children who graduated with us and new children and families who will be joining us soon. We had lots of fun making pirate and princess crafts, pink and blue sensory tuff trays, pirate and princess small world, puzzles, tattoos and face painting. A big thank you to Kelly Facepainting by Kelly for the amazing face painting and Gemma Gemma Veale Catering for the very yummy food! Everyone also went home with a yummy home made cake!
Thank you to everyone who came today it was great to celebrate with you!
We have had the best 5 years and are looking to many more years of P&P fun!
Pete, Lisa, Shan, Kerry, Obi and Obia # # #

Job Vacancy!
We are excited to be looking for a full time qualified staff member to join our P&P Family!
We care for all members of our P&P Family (children, staff and families) as individuals and you will never be a 'number'. As part of the P&P Family you will be valued and listened too - we love to hear all ideas our team have for our children, the nursery or for team nights out! Some of our benefits include a paid day off for your birthday (or closest working day), you will never have to work between Christmas and New Year as we are closed, bank holidays off, attendance bonus schemes, Christmas meal and games nights, dedicated staff room and kitchen which is always stocked with drinks and snacks to refuel with on one of your three breaks you have during the day, pension scheme and plenty of training opportunities!
A bit about us!
We are a family ran day nursery owned and managed by Lisa and Pete alongside their oldest daughter Shannon. Kerry (our other daughter runs and manages our preschool room and is our nursery SENDco). We all work full time and we have an open door policy where you can come to us for anything. We also have two nursery dogs - Obi and Obia who join us daily and spend time with the children (and staff!). Caitlin is our deputy manager who joined us when we first opened in 2021 as our toddler room lead and after a little break she came back to the P&P Family as our deputy manager. Our under 3's room is ran by Shannon and her second in charge Alesha. Our preschool room is ran by Kerry and her second in charge Ella. We always ensure we are over staffed and work on a smaller ratio than the legal requirements to ensure our children have the care and dedication they deserve and time for our staff to complete any paper work and get fun activities ready! Although we can have a maximum of 49 children a day we rarely have this many children as we want to maintain our small, family feel. Our under 3's have a capacity of 17 children a day but average around 13 children a day at the moment and our preschool room has capacity for 32 but we aim for 24 children (similar to a reception class).
We have a vacancy for a qualified person to join our team full time (ideally a level 3+ but for the right person we will consider a level 2 qualification). We have flexibility to which room you would work in and will decide your room depending on your experience and preference.
If you have any questions please let us know by sending us a private message, email or by giving us a call. If you would be interested in an application pack please email [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you!

P&Ps 5th birthday party!
With P&P turning 5 this year we wanted to celebrate with everyone. If your child has attended P&P, is currently attending P&P or is booked in to join us we would love for you to attend! If you would like more details please comment, pop us a message or email us. 🏴‍☠️👑

Christmas Door Competition 2025!

Our children (and staff!) have enjoyed making a Christmas door in their key groups this week which we need your help to decide the best door! We didn’t set any rules apart from the rule that it had to be child led! If you could please send in your votes for your favourite door 😊. Voting is open from now until Sunday evening and we will be announcing the winner on Monday (as well as announcing which group made each door!)

Christmas Window at Wards Solicitors!
This year we were asked by Wards to decorate their window for Keynshams Winter Festival! We enjoyed making snowmen in our key group colours and lots of sparkly stars using lots of shiny materials and lots of glitter!!

Food Hygiene Rating! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
We are pleased to announce we had our unannounced inspection from the food standards agency as we have recieved another 5 - Very Good rating!

Lisas Birthday/ Disney Day!
Today we celebrated Lisas Birthday with a special day chosen by her which was the theme of Disney! We enjoyed wearing our Disney outfits to nursery as well as taking part of lots of Disney activities!
Mini Treasures:
We enjoyed lots of Disney toys throughout the days including our:
- mad hatters tea party with lots of pretend cake to eat and our Alice in Wonderland plates and tea cups where we enjoyed lots of roleplay throughout the day. - Lady and the Tramp inspired spaghetti and meatballs pretend making table.
- Jungle Book tuff tray with lots of jungle leaves and jungle animals.
- Lots of disney sensory bottles to make lots of noise with.
- Our Disneys Frozen table with sensory toys and Frozen characters.
- Princess dress up station with dresses, high heels and tiaras.
- We also had our Marvel superhero's.
Shan:
Enjoyed making princess tiaras and wands using felt tips, paint dabbers and shiny confetti during key group time and Shan planned our room set up and our Frozen inspired slime!
Alesha:
Aleshas group enjoyed a frozen tuff tray this morning during key group time with the frozen characters and different items for mark making. Alesha planned our princess foam tuff tray with lots of glitter and wands.
Daisy:
Daisys key group enjoyed decorating their own Disney castles this morning using a range of edible paints and Daisy made a water tuff tray with the Disney ducks for this afternoon!
Lucy:
Lucys group enjoyed making a Disney fireworks scene during key group time by using their hands to make lots of marks with different coloured paints.
Explorers:
We have had a fun filled day of Disney fun, the children have enjoyed a Nemo water table, a Disney Princesses tuff tray, a frozen set up with snow and ice cubes, Disney cars play mat and puzzles, telephones to call their favourite Disney characters (and the pizza shop) and much much more. We all came together to decorate Micky Mouse’s (It’s his birthday today too!) ears using gems, sequins and glitter, lots of glitter to create headbands. For key group time today:
Belle – The children made their own “Forky” from Toy Story
Ella – Colouring sheets from different Disney films
Kerry – Disney tuff tray including Frozen, Aladdin, Snow white, Princesses and Encanto
Lydia – Firework castle pictures

Children in Need 2025!
Today we have taken part in lots of Pudsey themed fun for Children in Need.
Mini Treasures:
Our under 3's have enjoyed a photo prop tuff tray, a colourful pom pom and circles matching tuff tray and a 'challenge yourself 25' table with this years theme being 'challenge yourself 25' so had lots of bricks and plenty of '25' themed tasks to work on! We also had LOTS of balls in our tuff tray which everyone enjoyed getting in and throwing balls around! For room activities we enjoyed colouring pudsey tablecloths which we used at lunch time, we played stick the bandana on pudsey, made pudsey inspired biscuits and enjoyed a yellow gloop and ball pit balls tuff tray.
Shan:
For key group time today shans group enjoyed finding hidden pudseys hidden under pudsey.
Tabs:
Tabs group enjoyed using the colourful paint dabbers to paint Pudsey pictures
Daisy:
Daisys children enjoyed making colourful pudsey headbands.
Sophie:
Sophies group enjoyed pudsey themed waterplay.

Explorers:
Our preschool children have enjoyed Pudsey colouring, a teddy bear pasta tuff tray, Pudsey pencil control, counting Pudsey's spots and finding Pudsey's spots. They also enjoyed finding the hidden pudsey pictures that were hiding around the room!
Lydia:
Lydias children enjoyed making Pudsey plates.
Kerry:
Kerrys children enjoyed making Pudsey ear headbands and explored a yellow tuff tray.
Ella:
Ella's group made Pudsey crowns using tissue paper dots
Belle:
Belles group made Pudsey biscuits and Pudsey plates.

Remembrance 2025
Mini Treasures:
Our under 3’s today enjoyed lots of remembrance themed activities including whole room activities of poppy waterplay – where we enjoyed scooping up poppies and splashing water everywhere! , edible poppy play where we used the scoops and our hands to pick up lots of red rice crispies that we filled our green cupcakes with. We also enjoyed making poppy handprint pictures and group colouring. In key group times Shans group enjoyed getting messy with a red mark making tuff tray with a range of tool to spread paint and mark marks (as well as using their bodies too!) which Shan then made into poppy wreaths, Daisys group enjoyed using puffy paint and glitter to create big poppies, Lucys group enjoyed making lots of marks with paint dabbers to create a poppy field and Sophies group enjoyed using a range of mark making tools to make a poppy headband!
Explorers:
Today preschool based their activities around Remembrance day, poppy's and the colour red. The children enjoyed lots of different activities including ‘can you make a poppy picture’ with loose parts, the red table with lots of different objects to explore and talk about and poppy pom poms. Preschool enjoyed listening to "Poppy's Promise" a book about why we wear poppy's and watched a short video from CBeebies "Poppies" showing war as experienced by animals allowing the children and staff to talk about the video. For key group time today Lydias group enjoyed making poppies by sticking tissue paper and pom poms, Ellas group enjoyed colouring poppy pictures and using tissue paper, Kerrys group made glitter poppys and green handprints to make a wreath, Logans group made poppies by with paint dabbers and gluing and sticking and Belles group used cup cake cases and handprint poppy pictures.

Plants and Trees in Explorers!

This month is teachers choice month for our topic and for the first week of November Lydia chose the topic of Plants and Trees for our preschool children! Everyone planned fun activities for their key groups and for the room to enjoy including:

💜Kerry:

Monday - Kerry’s group enjoyed decorating their own plant pots and talked about what flowers they were going to grow in the pots which lead to a conversation on what grows in pots and what grows in the ground.

Tuesday – Kerry’s group planted seeds in to their plant pots while discussing how plants grow and then made pictures of what they think their flowers will look like.

Thursday - The children created their own family tree’s by drawing their tree and then finding their own family pictures to add to the tree and showing each who they were sticking on.

Friday - the children looked at different types of trees and then made them out of cereal, talking about their size, shape and textures

💙Belle:

Monday - The children created their own flowers using different colouring resources and created a number flower by adding the correct petal to the correct number.

Tuesday – Colour by numbers, the children created lovely garden pictures by following the colours on the chart allowing them to use number and colour recognition.

Thursday – Belles group looked at weight today seeing how many seeds it took to be the same weight as simple object that the children found from the room

Friday – The children created their own trees using different types of colouring resources.

💚Ella:

Monday the children used sponges to create flower pictures, choosing which colour they wanted and taking turns in using them.

Thursday – The children worked together to count the correct amount of berries on the bushes and then to found the correct peg

Friday – The children gripped the pom poms using their pincher grasp with pegs to allow them to dip in to paint and create trees.

🩷Logan:

Monday – Logan’s group used their counting skills to count the correct number of petals to place on their flowers.

Tuesday – The children created their own flowers using playdough and different tools, which created different textures.

Thursday – Created a tree picture with different colours.

❤️Lydia:

Monday – The children decorated their own plant pots using different stickers to create funny faces. They then prepared some cotton wool with water to add their cress seeds too.

Tuesday – The children (and Ella’s group) made colourful trees using cotton buds allowing them to make different patterns, take turns and discuss what they were doing on their trees.

Thursday – The children made their own apple trees using their fingers to create the apples, they then took turns counting how many apples they had added to their trees.



For room activities we explored our topic in many different ways we used our tuff trays to create a flower garden, apples fallen from the tree counting activity, number flowers, adding the correct number of petals the flowers, sensory fruit and vegetable planting. Plant and tree puzzles and games, building a plant activity sheets and much much more.

Space Week in our Mini Treasures! 🚀☄️🪐🧑‍🚀
This month is teachers choice month for our topic and for the first week of November Shan and Sophie chose the topic of Space for our under 3's! Everyone planned fun space activities for their key groups and for the room to take enjoy including:
🧡Shan:
Mondays key group time we enjoyed making star pictures using animal feet to stamp to make little stars whilst working on our sounds in play as well as using gold paint and star shapes to make big stars! I then added pictures of my key children in a star outfit too!
Tuesdays key group time we made crafts based off a favourite space book 'Zoom to the Moon!' We coloured in rockets with a range of mark making tools and then added our groups pictures, painted moons with grey paints and space rocks and then used paint dabbers to colour in our astronauts (We then added one of current favourtie things - stickers!!) using a range of grips and grasps at each step!
On Thursday we enjoyed getting messy whilst making UFO crafts using a range of tools to decorate our UFO and then posing for group pictures to add to our UFO's. We also made rocket windchimes, space hats and alien canvases!
On Friday we enjoyed getting very messy with our yogurt, glow sticks and sprinkle galaxy where we had to find the hidden space pictures underneath encouraging sensory play and single words.
💜Alesha:
On Tuesday Aleshas group enjoyed a sensory space tray with a range of toys and textures to explore whilst making marks and learning new words.
On Thursday Aleshas group enjoyed an astronaut tray where they could crush, rip and explore the different items in the tray.
For Fridays key group time Aleshas group had lots of fun using balloons (a key interest for the group!) to make solar system pictures using a range of colours as well as colouring in space pictures to make a space hat!
💙Tabs:
On Tuesday Tabs group enjoyed learning their colours whilst colouring in their space rockets with paint dabbers taking it turns to choose and share colours.
On Thursday Tabs key group enjoyed stamping lots of stars to make a starry scene with a range of sizes stars and different colours working on using their pincer grip.
💚Daisy:
On Monday Daisys group had fun making their own paper plate planets choosing which colours they would like to use and how they would like to decorate them.
Tuesdays group loved their space water play with floating rockets to move around, pick up and lots of water to splash!
Thursdays key group time was body painting a rocket using their hands and feet!
On Friday Daisys group enjoyed a sensory tray with jelly planets and stars to explore.
🩷Lucy:
On Tuesday lucy planned fun water play for her key group to enjoy with glitter and stars. They enjoyed splashing water, exploring with their whole body and using the star pots to scoop and pour the water.
💛Sophie:
On Monday Sophies group enjoyed using stars and different coloured paints to make starry night skys and on Tuesday they enjoyed using a range of coloured felt tips to make astronaut masks and then using them to pose for pictures!
💎For room activities we enjoyed taking part in a moon sensory tray where we used astronauts, space rocks and our hands to make marks and explore, large scale colouring using rocket and planet shaped crayons to colour in aliens, planets, rockets and more! We also enjoyed a galaxy tuff tray where we made and copied patterns in the galaxy coloured sand using our star wands. We had space yoga working on our balance and coordination. We also enjoyed baking star cookies taking turns to help with each stage and then decorating them with icing and chocolate stars! We also enjoyed galazy space water, shooting star splatting activity and so much more!

Bright Colours Day!
Yesterday we celebrated bright colours day for bonfire night! Here is what our children enjoyed!
Mini Treasures (under 3's):
We had lots of fun with room activities where we made fireworks with playdoh and pipe cleaners, pencil control fireworks, cling film rainbow painting, sensory firework/bonfire tuff tray and edible sparklers! For our key group times Shans group enjoyed messy firework body painting with lots of paint and glitter and glow sticks, Aleshas key group enjoyed a firework tuff tray with foil and paint mark makers, Tabs Key Group had fun putting out a bonfire with sponges and water, Daisys group enjoyed a sensory firework tuff tray and Lucys group had lots of fun using colourful paint dabbers to make a lovely firework picture!
Explorers (preschool):
Our preschool children all enjoyed making edible sparkers and firework biscuits together, making firework pictures with a range of colourful materials including sequins, pom poms and buttons, colourful letter matching unicorns, colourful megablocks, number fireworks, sand mark making firework tuff trays and tin foil mark making creative table and we also enjoyed colourful stone making pictures. For key group times Kerrys group enjoyed making pretty firework pictures with lollypop sticks and star stickers, Belles group enjoyed making 3d rockets, Logans group made firework pictures with toilet rolls and Lydias group made fireworks with sticks!