Smarties Day Nursery and After School Club

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We are seeking a talented and competent practitioner to join our family run nursery.
We are looking for someone who is excited about taking on a new role with excellent opportunities.

Full training will be given for this role with opportunities to develop and expand your knowledge. This is also an ideal opportunity for a qualified level 2 to gain experience and training to advance their qualification.

If this is for you, then please contact us by emailing your CV to [email protected]

Key responsibilities:

To provide inclusive play and learning opportunities for all children attending the nursery.
Maintain a safe, stimulating, and enjoyable environment for the children.

Supporting the management team to ensure records, planning, activities, evaluations, observations, and next steps are of the highest standard.

Requirements:

Minimum Level 2 or 3 Early Years Education and Childcare qualification or equivalent.
Experience of working in early education and childcare.

You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check if your current certificate is not subscribed to the update service.

Hours:

Full time 4 days a week 8am & 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Part time may also be considered.

We left a tray in the garden this week and have been observing it during the changes in the weather. This morning we have brought it in to explore further ❄️☃️❄️

❄️⛄️Do you want to build a Snowman?⛄️❄️
We are feeling very festive today in Preschool with loose parts play doh and present wrapping. Both of these activities have been set up to help strengthen our fine motor skills in preparation for strong pen control and writing skills later on 👍👌🏾🖐🏼

Children do say the funniest things!

Yesterday during our last practice before our nativity Mary asked "Can I have a real baby from baby room to put up my dress? They will be a better Jesus than a doll, and I do love real babies!" ..... Ermmmm no😆😆

When playing sleepy giants I told the children it was my turn and stood up to sit in the middle of the circle...... one of my little darlings said "Move back everyone Linsey will need a bigger circle" ..... thanks for that ! 😳😳

When coming down stairs from washing our hands some of the children were trying to rush. I explained to them that we come down the stairs slowly and always hold on tight so that we don't fall, when one of them kindly pointed out "You should have done that too then you wouldn't have broken your foot and been on crutches, were you being silly on the stairs?"..... Very true Preschool..... I wish I had been holding on! 😂😂

You are all so funny I love you so much. If your little one has come out with something recently that has made you giggle please let us know in the comments below 👇🙈🤗

What a fabulous Christmas Nativity/Party. You should all be super proud of yourselves you did an awesome job!!!

Thank you to all the families who came to support the children it wouldn’t have been the same with out you!

And of course a big thank you to a really lovely Father Christmas, you helped to make it very special!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

We have been using our loose parts in a different way today…..To create our own Snowman inspired by the 1982 classic The Snowman that we enjoyed earlier on ❄️☃️

There have been many cases of Strep A lately, luckily none of our children have been affected, but as it can turn into a serious illness if your children display any of these symptoms please seek medical advice xx

Why not have a go at home?? 🎄🎄🎄🎄

Preschool are getting busy in the messy room exploring the loose parts play doh and the Christmassy themed water tray. Children are great at learning from each other, as soon as one of our friends created Rudolph everyone else had a try too. Sharing ideas is a great way to test out new ways of using items 🎄🎄🎄

We are enjoying some Christmas themed yoga this morning. As we are lieing in reflection at the end of the session we use this time to have a think about all that we are grateful for at this special time of year 🎄

A little rain doesn’t stop us from enjoying the outdoors! We have been practicing our climbing and balancing skills while strengthening our bodies. We have also been working on our team work by helping each other on the balance beams and pushing each other on the swings 🥰

Loose Parts Christmas Trees 🎄🎄🎄
The beauty of loose parts play is that children can be creative over and over again, finding all different ways to use the items, this makes the play last a lot longer than when we stick the parts down. Great job everyone!

This week in Butterflies we are extending on one of our children’s interests in all things Disney!

We have built Elsa’s castle from ice cubes…

Enjoyed a spot of drama with our ‘Woody’s Coming!’ game….

Explored Mowan’s sensory beach scene…

And strengthened our fine motor skills by cutting Repunzels hair!!

The children are fully engaged with this topic and it has encouraged some beautiful role play situations 🥰

We are very proud of our kitchen staff today for earning us our 5 rating for food hygiene 😁🍽

Let the Christmas Crafts begin !!

We are seeking a talented and competent practitioner to join our family run nursery.
We are looking for someone who is excited about taking on a new role with excellent opportunities.

Full training will be given for this role with opportunities to develop and expand your knowledge. This is also an ideal opportunity for a qualified level 2 to gain experience and training to advance their qualification.

If this is for you, then please contact us by emailing your CV to [email protected]

Key responsibilities:

To provide inclusive play and learning opportunities for all children attending the nursery.
Maintain a safe, stimulating, and enjoyable environment for the children.

Supporting the management team to ensure records, planning, activities, evaluations, observations, and next steps are of the highest standard.

Requirements:

Minimum Level 2 or 3 Early Years Education and Childcare qualification or equivalent.
Experience of working in early education and childcare.

You will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check if your current certificate is not subscribed to the update service.

Hours:

Full time 4 days a week 8am & 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Part time may also be considered.

We would like to say a big thank you to one of our children’s families today for coming in and teaching us all about the meaning of Thanksgiving. We enjoyed a story, adding to our gratitude turkeys and tasting some homemade pumpkin bars which were delicious! It is lots of fun learning about different traditions, if you would like to come in and share your families traditions please speak to your child’s key worker 🥰

We are very busy this afternoon in our outside classroom planting all the bulbs from the Interest Sack, thank you so much for bringing them in to share 🌺🌸🌹🌼

Our babies have a very cute Billy Goats Gruff tray to explore today as it is one of our babies favourite stories. We will use the puppets to help give visual clues when reading with them 🌳🐐🐐🐐🌳

Preschool have had lots of fun today exploring one of our children’s interest sack. They have filled it with all sorts of gardening equipment as they love to spend time looking after their own garden with their Granny. This is special time that they spend together and they have told us that it gives them happy memories when they see pretty flowers 🌺 How cute!

This is why loose parts play is so important....because it allows the imagination to run wild 🤺🐎🚣‍♂️🎸⛷

Our baby room is all set up ready for them to explore their favourite books on Monday morning 🥰

Preschool have enjoyed making their own chilli tacos this afternoon, they were a big hit with the whole nursery and they have asked for them to be added to our menu! Well done everyone 🌮💃

We have enjoyed a painty sea life tray today as one of our little one loves animals. This has encouraged lots of role play and extended language and was lots of fun!🐬🐠🦞🐋

Lisa has prepared us some tasty chicken burgers for lunch today with some salad on the side 😋😋😋 Yum Yum!!

This morning Preschool have been learning how to use a world map to locate where Frida Kahol lived. We have been learning which countries are islands and why, and how far away different countries are from England.

The children were also very interested in learning where some of their families come from who aren’t English. We have families from America, Hungry and Iraq. We found the Ukraine 🇺🇦 too which is where our new teacher is originally from.

After this we explored Frida Kahol’s Art Journal and had a try at guessing what the art work means and what she is trying to tell us through her marks and colours 🎨

*****REMINDER*****
As it is Children In Need next week we are inviting the children to come in dressed in spots or pjs or anything colourful! There will be a donation pot in the porch 😊

🧠🎨🏀🧩Our Planning Next Week…..


🌻As the Preschool children have found learning about Frida Kahlo really interesting this week we will extend on this next week. We will be looking into Mexican culture and creating a traditional dish for our lunch 🥙. We will explore one of her Art Journals to learn more about her life and explore her unique style of clothing and jewellery.

🦋Our butterflies will be having fun with everything Children In Need related! From freeing Pudsy from blocks of ice to creating their own Pudsy headbands.

🐛Our Caterpillars will be getting messy exploring their topic of Bubbles! All of our babies love bubbles and we will have a Fun Time Bath Time tuff spot set up full of rubber ducks, silly soap and the bubble machine 😍

If your child has an interest that they would like to explore please let us know!

The whole nursery have visited St John’s Church today to pay our respects to all of the fallen and all of the serving. We thank you 🙏

This afternoon Preschool are adding to their Art Gallery Wall in our Messy Play Room. We have already created a Picasso, Po***ck, and Matisse, so today we looked into Frida Khalo.

We learnt about her early life of wanting to be a doctor in her home country of Mexico but that her dreams were dashed in a terrible bus accident on her way to school.

Whilst in a full body cast and bed bound her father (a painter himself) gave Frida her first set of canvases and paints to help cheer her up.

Frida found she loved painting so much that in just a few short years became and international selling Artist.

She painted mostly self portraits to show different events in her life.

The children loved the painting of her surrounded by leaves with a monkey perched on her shoulder so we decided to recreate this one.

I must say I am very impressed with the end result 😃🎨

Our Butterflies are spending their morning learning their colours and improving their fine motor skills with this poppy themed tuff tray 😍

Lest We Forget Written by Kerry Brown & Illustrated by Isobel Knowles & Benjamin Portas

Lest We Forget is a lovely story to share with your little one this week. It is about a Grandpa talking to his Grandson about days he loves to remember and other days that he would prefer to forget. Have a talk afterwards about days you have shared together that you like to remember, and maybe some that you don't 🧡

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As one of our babies love to fix things with our tools kit we have set up a Bob the Builder tray for them ready for Monday morning 🚧

We are so lucky to have such a beautiful park right on our door step to test out our climbing skills 😍

The children have enjoyed making some traditional chocolate/toffee apples as it is nearly Bonfire Night. We have been teaching the children about fire safety and what to do in case of an accident 🍏🍎🍏

We were all super excited today to join in with Jo from Kidslingo for our first Spanish session. I must say preschool you all did a fabulous job! It was lots of fun, we especially enjoyed the dancing 💃

As one of our preschoolers have filled the Interest Sack with trains so we took a little walk to the station to see if we could spot a few. The children were interested in the signs and kept pointing out the letters they spotted from their names 🚂

Our babies are using their tuff tray to explore different textures, jelly numbers and soft flour, and to begin to make simple shapes using their fingers 🎨