Cashmore Early Years Centre

Cashmore Early Years Centre’s Hippo and Giraffe Groups have been exploring water play this term, using pipettes, ducks, and guttering to build fine motor skills, counting, and coordination while enjoying stories and songs linked to water 🦆💦

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Water Play and Duck Songs in Hippo and Giraffe Groups - Cashmore Early Years Bristol This term at Cashmore Early Years Centre, children in Hippo and Giraffe Groups have been enjoying a rich range of water play experiences, building confidence, coordination, and curiosity through hands […]

Tiger and Zebra Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre had a fantastic trip to Windmill Hill City Farm, travelling by train, exploring animals, and enjoying a day full of new experiences together 🐑🚆

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A Memorable Farm Adventure for Tiger and Zebra Group - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Tiger and Zebra Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre had an exciting opportunity to visit Windmill Hill City Farm across the first two weeks of Term 6. The children travelled […]

Term 5 at Cashmore Early Years Centre has been bursting with planting and growing! 🌱🐛🍓

The children have been planting beans, peas and cress, exploring natural materials with magnifying glasses, hunting for bugs and plants in the garden, reading brilliant books including Jasper's Beanstalk, Titch and Superworm, and welcoming Claudia from Children's Kitchen to help plant strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, peas and celery.
Watch this space for the harvest!

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Digging, Planting and Growing: Term 5 at Cashmore Early Years Centre - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Term 5 at Cashmore Early Years Centre has been all about planting and growing, and the children across all of our groups have been throwing themselves into it with real […]

Coming up in May's newsletter from Cashmore Early Years Centre you can read about a wonderful run of celebrations across both age groups, with the children throwing themselves into activities for both Eid and Easter with real enthusiasm.

In Hippo and Giraffe Groups the two-year-olds have been creating glittery classroom decorations, decorating biscuits with icing, making chocolate Easter nests, designing Easter eggs with tissue paper, and enjoying both Eid lift-the-flap books and Spring and Easter stories.

In Zebra and Tiger Groups the three-year-olds have been busy with an impressive range of creative activities including salt dough stars pressed with sparkly gems, henna pattern designs, loose parts art, and the beautiful book Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns for Eid, followed by salt dough Easter eggs, chocolate nests, and a brilliantly creative egg hunt in which all sixteen hidden eggs were found — including one inside a welly boot!

You can also read about the Big Brush Club toothbrushing scheme and the excellent feedback recently received, including the news that a free toothbrush and toothpaste pack will soon be coming home, as well as information about the family photo boards, the reception library, summer safety guidance, snack and plant donations, and important details about preparing for the move to primary school in September.

Newsletter – May 2026 - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Coming up in May’s newsletter from Cashmore Early Years Centre, you can read about a wonderful run of celebrations across both age groups, with the children throwing themselves into activities […]

Cashmore Early Years Centre had the most wonderful Eid celebration last term! 🌙✨

Tiger, Zebra, Giraffe and Hippo Groups all came together for music, dancing and delicious food, with the classrooms looking absolutely magical lit up with fairy lights and all of the children's beautiful decorations. A huge thank you to all the families who donated food and money.

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Cashmore Celebrates Eid! - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Cashmore Early Years Centre came together for a wonderful Eid celebration last term, and it was a truly special occasion for everyone involved! The classrooms looked absolutely beautiful, decorated with […]

Tiger and Zebra Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have had the most fantastic few weeks celebrating Eid and Easter! 🌙🐣✨

From glittery Eid decorations, henna designs and saltdough stars, to chocolate nests, painted Easter eggs and an egg hunt with one egg hidden in a welly boot, the children have been absolutely brilliant. Sixteen eggs found — every single one!

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Henna, Saltdough and an Egg in a Welly Boot: Eid and Easter in Tiger and Zebra Group - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Tiger and Zebra Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have had the most wonderful few weeks, celebrating both Eid and Easter with a brilliant range of creative and hands-on activities! […]

Giraffe and Hippo Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have been celebrating in style last term! 🌙🐣

The children have been making glittery Eid decorations, decorating biscuits with icing, reading Eid lift-the-flap books, making chocolate Easter nests, and creating their own Easter egg designs with tissue paper and glue. What a wonderful few weeks of celebration and learning!

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Celebrating Eid and Easter in Giraffe and Hippo Group - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Giraffe and Hippo Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have been marking two very special celebrations last term, and the children have thrown themselves into both with real enthusiasm! To […]

Local SEND support sessions are taking place at Wellspring Family Hub on Wednesday 20 May 💛 These one-to-one appointments with SEND and You offer advice on SEN support, EHCPs and related education questions and may be helpful for parents and carers from St Philip's Marsh Nursery School and Cashmore Early Years Centre. Booking is via the QR code on the flyer.

Hippo and Giraffe Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have been incredibly busy this term! 🚒🐷✂️

The children have been building fine motor skills with tweezers, threading, nuts and bolts and scissors, exploring vehicles and learning about people who help us, joining in with the Three Little Pigs, and singing counting songs like Five Little Ducks. So much wonderful learning packed in!

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Tweezers, Trucks and the Three Little Pigs: Term 4 Learning in Hippo and Giraffe Group - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Hippo and Giraffe Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have been having a wonderfully busy time, with fine motor skills, transport, people who help us and some brilliant books all […]

Zebra and Tiger Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have had a brilliant Term 4 exploring patterns and rhyme! 🎶🟡🔵

The children have been making ABCABC patterns using peg boards, threading and cubes, matching rhyming objects, spotting rhymes in stories like Hippo Has a Hat, and singing Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar with great enthusiasm. So much fun and so much learning!

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Patterns, Rhymes and Creative Play: Term 4 in Zebra and Tiger Group - Cashmore Early Years Bristol Zebra and Tiger Group at Cashmore Early Years Centre have had a fantastic Term 4, with patterns and rhyme taking centre stage in some really creative and playful ways! The […]