Yellow Brick Rd Nursery Highwoods

Yellow Brick Rd Nursery Highwoods A home from home nursery in the heart of Highwoods offering quality care to Pre School children 💛

Well done to our leadership team across YBRN for attending the level 3 designated safeguarding lead training today. Safe...
29/09/2026

Well done to our leadership team across YBRN for attending the level 3 designated safeguarding lead training today.

Safeguarding everyone and child protection will always be our priority and keeping staffs training and knowledge up to date and refreshed is one of our ways of keeping children and families safe.


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For our highwoods setting our Designated safeguarding lead is Chelsey Soutter with Davina Palmer as deputy with support from directors and DSL’s Angie Craig and Georgie Goode.

Update *THURSDAY 15th* It’s time for our annual Halloween party as last years was such a success in our Little Dots baby...
29/09/2026

Update *THURSDAY 15th*
It’s time for our annual Halloween party as last years was such a success in our Little Dots baby room! 👻 🎃

We will have fabulous Halloween taste-safe setups and baby friendly snacks on offer, feel free to dress up too! 👻

Please comment below if you are wanting to attend, share this with friends and family ☺️

29/09/2026

Set ups in our Little Dots room today! 💛✨

We are fully embracing all the autumnal tuff trays 🍁🍂 We have been explaining the differences in the colours of the leaves, brown & green.

This week focus from the curriculum is : "Children will build essential physical skills to support independence, self ca...
28/09/2026

This week focus from the curriculum is : "Children will build essential physical skills to support independence, self care and early learning"

Today's set ups are as follows:
🪴 In the garden
• Scooping floating balls in the water tray - The children can scoop, transfer and drop the soft play balls in the water tray, using large spoons and fishing nets. This activity helps children develop and strengthen their fine motor skills, especially grasp and pincer control. Also boosts and improves children hand-eye coordintion and muscle strength and control.

• Making mud pies - This is an amazing sensory activity. Stirring, pinching and decorating the mud pies
with natural resources (leaves, bark and stones) builds strength in the children's fingers and hands. Also, moving around the outdoors mud kitchen area supports children in understanding how their bodies move and spacial awareness.

• 🌿Green leaves tuff tray - This activity mainly supports children fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and both sides of the body working together.
Children coordinate their hand movements and time by squeezing the tweezers perfectly to catch the leaves.
Children will have to use both of their hands at the same time which will improve their hand coordination.

During the week the children will have access to different physical activities, such as obstacle courses and engaging games.

🎨 In the art area we have sticking activity. The children need to stick colourful pieces of papers and cotton balls, in order to make their own storybook based on "We're going on a bear hunt" story.
This book is our focus story for the week implementing our knowledge from the "Making it real" program.
Sticking, picking up and gripping small pieces of paper, standing or squatting help children improve their fine and gross motor skills, visual tracking and spacial awareness.

🦺 In the construction area the children can use the toy cars to slide or roll them down or up the slide. Even though this activity is simple, engages the children to repeat the same movement over and over again, which lead to good workout for the children's bodies. This activity develops children's fine and gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination and spacial awareness and is perfect opportunity to promote sharing and turn taking.

🍴In the kitchen area the children can help clean all the dirty dishes. Standing, reaching and moving improves children's upper body strength. Using the sponges to clean precisely all the dirty spots of the kitchen utensils improves hand-eye coordination. Movements, such as grasping and twisting can boost children's fine motor skills.

✨️ In the playdough area the children can roll out and cut the playdough, as well as push it inside the cupcake cases and then decorate them with their choice of glitter. This sensory activity helps children build fine motor skills and practice imaginative play.

🎵 In the home corner the chidren can access freely and explore variety of toy musical instruments, make-up and dressing up areas, which are very popular at the moment.

Children will build essential physical skills to support independence, self care and early learning ✨In our small world ...
28/09/2026

Children will build essential physical skills to support independence, self care and early learning ✨

In our small world 🌍
We will have sea animals covered in gloop. This will help children with their fine motor skills by attempting to move the creatures through the gloop. This will promote early learning for the children by understanding the difference between land and sea, this will help with independence in learning and discovering.

In our reading area 📖
We will be building a bridge over the weetabix with lollipop sticks. This will be play on words from the bear hunt story “we can’t go over it”. This will help with independent learning with building bridges and fine motor skills and different sensory skills with the feel of the weetabix.

In our home corner 🏠
We will have a baby care area. In this area we will be having a baby (doll) cleaning station, wiping the babies. This will help promote self care amongst the children, but also help with an understanding of how to care for babies

In our sensory area 🎶
We will have musical instruments to promote independent creativity. This will help with early physical development and personal creativity. We have introduced rhyme time cards to encourage children to join in with visuals.

In our art area 🎨
We will have paint bags. This will help with independent play and encourage the children to develop their fine motor skills and mark making.

💛This mornings set up💛“Children will develop early literacy, numeracy and thinking skills through purposeful play-based ...
24/09/2026

💛This mornings set up💛
“Children will develop early literacy, numeracy and thinking skills through purposeful play-based learning.”

⭐ In the garden we have an activities to help support the children’s communication and language, colour recognition and experimenting colour mixing. Working on our fine motor skills by using the tweezers to pick up different materials. Also learning different mathematical language such as “heavier”, “lighter”, “more than” and “less than” when using the weighing scales.

⭐ In the kitchen area we are learning about different recipes, food and recognising words and letters in the book which supports early literacy. This activity also supports the children with using their hand eye coordination and using our different senses.

⭐ In the book corner we have the colour bear matching game where the children can work on their colour recognition, colour matching, different quantities and their finger grip.

⭐ In the construction area an activity has been set up where the children can make a cave for the bears. This activity relates to our book of the fortnight which is “We’re going on a bear hunt”, in this activity the children can work on working as a team. This activity helps to develop children’s hand to eye coordination and social skills

23/09/2026

Simple activities set up in our baby room today all based around our book ‘We’re going on a Bear hunt’ 🐻

After our trip to the country park yesterday, we expanded on this further by adding activities that will bring the story to life! ✨

21/09/2026

Monday mornings for us in Little Dots is about switching things up, changing the room around and new ideas and opportunities for the babies 💛

Our home corner was feeling a little unloved recently, we have organised, added resources and changed the layout 🏡

The babies have been drawn to it today and have spent lots of time pretend playing with cups of tea ☕️ and babies 👶

This week’s statement in our Little Dots room we chose “Children will learn about the wider world, diversity, creativity...
21/09/2026

This week’s statement in our Little Dots room we chose “Children will learn about the wider world, diversity, creativity and community, developing a good sense of belong and respect”. 💛

This statement fits in well with some of our activities to celebrate Yom Kippur which is a Jewish tradition. 🕎✡️

It is important for our Little Dots to experience different cultural traditions as it helps them begin to understand and respect the diverse world around them from an early age.

🌍 Small world area - Kindness and Peace Tuff Tray
This activity allows are Little Dots to explore different textures by touching feathers, scarves, shredded paper and cotton balls, this will help them to develop curiosity through sensory play, practise grasping and moving objects and hearing words such as "soft", "gentle" and "peaceful".

🏠 Home Corner - The Tiger who came to tea ☕️ 🐅 we created a cosy nook for children to explore and play imaginatively. This helps build their communication skills and hear simple conversations role modelled by adults.

🎨 Art Area - Sorry and Forgiveness Heart Painting
Our Little Dots can enjoy sensory painting with their fingers, strengthen hand muscles and coordination, begin to express emotions through creating, and hear simple conversations and be shown positive ways to talk to our friends.

📕 Book Corner - Autumn Train Track Tree
In our book corner we have a lovely autumn tree activity, our Little Dots can explore through touching, exploring, moving objects and hearing and talking about the different words.

🤚 Sensory Area - Menorah
This activity will expose our Little Dots to the jewish tradition Menorah, while being able to explore different textures, hear new words and colours.

With our activities we aim to cover all 7 areas of learning Communication and Language, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design.

Little Dots are set up and ready for the day ahead ✨ We love welcoming your babies to lots of fun, engaging activities f...
16/09/2026

Little Dots are set up and ready for the day ahead ✨

We love welcoming your babies to lots of fun, engaging activities for them to roam and explore 🔍

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Jack Andrews Drive
Colchester
CO49YN

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