Steady Steps Nursery and Pre-School

🌿 **Limited Nursery Places Available** 🌿

We are delighted to be welcoming new children into our nurturing, term-time early years setting.
Our nursery provides a warm, play-based environment where children feel safe, build confidence and develop a love of learning from the very start.

✨ Welcoming children **from 9 months+**
✨ Morning, afternoon and full-day sessions available (7:30am–4:00pm)
✨ Term-time only provision
✨ Government funded childcare available from 9 months–school age (15 & 30 hours for eligible families)
If you are beginning to think about childcare for your little one, we would love to show you around and introduce you to our friendly team.
Contact the setting to arrange a visit or request more information.

Last week, Mrs. Hooper organised a fantastic "push and pull" activity in our Dolphin Room (Babies aged 9m - 18m). 🚗🚗🚗

The children had a blast with push-and-go cars, sending them down a ramp in the garden, and pulling bags of toys around, even dragging cuddly toys behind them using a scarf. 🚗🧸

🏔 Snowdon 2026 - Raising funds for Steady Steps....🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️

I thought you might like to follow our progress as we prepare to summit Mount Snowdon in May, the second highest mountain in the UK at 1085m high!! (3560ft)

Tuesday 17th February: Walking boots at the ready 😊

Team Snowdon will be out training this morning on a hike with 800 feet of elevation.

Look out for photos later 📷

Please get behind us by sharing our GoFundMe page with your family and friends.... https://gofund.me/00ad8cbd7

Thank you 🙏🏻

Wish us luck 🍀

Donate to We’re Climbing Snowdon for Our Children, organized by Julie Pickthall One Mountain. One Mission. During May half-term, some of our early years staf… Julie Pickthall needs your support for We’re Climbing Snowdon for Our Children

Our children have demonstrated a strong affinity for circle time and the stories our grown-ups have been reading. Over the past fortnight, our "over and over" books, "Dear Zoo" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear," have captivated their attention. They have actively participated in listening and engaging with these stories, utilizing props to accurately associate animals with the narrative. This engagement has extended beyond the nursery focused time, as they have independently re-enacted circle time scenarios with their peers in session and their families at home too! 📚

Over the past two weeks, during our bird watching activities, the children have had the wonderful opportunity to explore the diverse sounds, colors, and unique characteristics of various birds. They have creatively used colorful feathers and glue to adorn bird templates, crafting beautiful birds for our indoor trees. Furthermore, the children were able to feed birds outdoors with birdseed and observe them through binoculars in the garden. Indoors, they engaged in making bird feeders using cereal and pipe cleaners, demonstrating excellent hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills as they threaded the cereal. These feeders were then hung in the outdoor trees for the enjoyment of birds and squirrels alike. The children also delighted in creating their own chocolate bird nests using shredded wheat and melted chocolate. They enthusiastically used their hands to crush the shredded wheat, and then poured, mixed, scooped, and placed their nests into cake cases, finally selecting a wafer bird to nestle in the center. Throughout these adult-led activities, the children have shown remarkable attentiveness to instructions and a commendable "can-do" attitude.

Three weeks to go… 31 August is the deadline to have applied for Working Families funded childcare to start from September.

Apply now for your pre-school child to take up their funded hours from September.
https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/
Or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0B7F3eMG0Y

Hampshire Parent Carer Network Hampshire SENDIASS

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In the Pre-School we have been further exploring the children’s interest in living creatures, and with today being ‘World Snake Day’ we were very fortunate to be able to explore a real life snake skin, which had shedded from Mrs Pickthall’s cornsnake called Fluffy! We could see the eyes, nose, scales, mouth and tail. We even had the opportunity to watch a short video of Fluffy moving around her vivarium! We then explored lots of information books to gain further knowledge and understanding about snakes, their habitat and how they grow from snakelet to snake! Interesting fact…Did you know not all snakes lay eggs?

Are you about to have a baby, or will have a baby that's 9 months between Sept-Dec 2025?
Are you looking for a Nursery in January 2026 ?
Come and view our Baby Provision at Steady Steps Nursery and Preschool.
We would love to show you around.

𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁,
𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗢𝗻𝗲,
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆!
𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱….




This week our Sponsored Bear Hunt event took place, where the Dolphin, Nursery and Pre-School children took on great bravery and skills to accomplish our very own ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ obstacle course, going through; the swishy swashy grass, the deep cold river, the thick oozy mud, a big dark forest, a swirling whirling snowstorm, until…they finally reached a narrow gloomy cave. To find a 🐻 not just any ordinary bear. A kind bear, that gives the best hugs!

A 𝗕𝗜𝗚 well done to all the children, who took part. You did an amazing job 👏🏼

What a beautiful sunny morning ☀️
4th Gosport Squirrels have asked us to share this with you.
Squirrels are open for boys and girls from 4 years of age.