Partou Playaway Day Nursery and Pre-school, Harrogate

✨Playaway Open Day✨

Today we open our doors to welcome new families to come and see our lovely nursery and we cant wait.

🎈🌈Happy birthday Partou 🌈🎈

What a wonderful coincidence that Partou's birthday fell on the international day of play! Play is at the heart of what we do, helping children develop their confidence, creativity, communication skills, problem solving abilities and friendships while having lots of fun.

To celebrate, we enjoyed a colorful party filled with dancing, parachute games, and lots and lots of bubbles. The children also tucked in to a special party tea and showed off their baking skills by making delicious gingerbread.
As a gentle not to Partou's Dutch origins, we eve created our own windmills! It was so much fun watching them spin in the wind.

🌊🐚World Ocean day with our babies.🐚🌊

Our babies have had a great morning exploring the sea animals in the sparkly blue glittery water, discovering different textures and animals through sensory play.
They have also been moving with blue ribbons and scarves swishing and swirling like the waves in the sea 💙

🌊🐠World Ocean day 🐠🌊

Today the children at Playaway celebrated World Ocean day inspired by one of the children's favorite stories, The snail and the whale

The children explored a wonderful sensory ocean tray filled with sand, water, shells and sea creatures. Through their play they developed curiosity, communication skills and understanding of the natural world as they investigate textures, discussed what they could see and created their own adventures.

We also got creative and decorated out own Tiddler fish using tissue paper, glitter, feathers and glue. This develops fine motor skills and self expression.

In group time we looked through a David Attenborough book all about the deep blue sea. The children were fascinated by the wide variety of Ocean creatures that we found out about.

What a great day

Our babies have been busy little explorers.

We collected natural treasures from the garden including sticks, leaves and flowers then used them to create beautiful painting and marks using paint. We linked this activity to the story "In the garden and enjoyed a lovely alfresco story time together in the sunshine.

What a wonderful way to explore nature, creativity and language.

The lovely baking activity this morning then inspired our afternoons fun using sand and water with various authentic kitchen items such as scoops, pots, pans and jugs. Using real recourses teaches the children how objects look, feel, sound and work as well as promoting imaginary play.

Babies have had a wonderful time today baking bread. They have explored the different textures, mixing the intendents together and watching their creation rise we then gave it to our chef Ewan to put in the oven to make delicious bread for the whole nursery to enjoy. Activities like this promote curiosity, develops fine motor skills and an early understanding of simple recipes and cooking process. Well done babies nursery smelt amazing

The toddlers have enjoyed scooping in the mud and filling up the plant pots with soil. They then added some artificial flowers on top. The children did some really counting of how many flowers were in their pots. 🌸

🐅🐅The babies have had a lovely morning exploring the jungle themed sensory tray, they have been matching the animals to the pictures in the book. Following on from this activity this afternoon they enjoyed using their fine motor skills to create tiger paintings, finished with the story the tiger who came for tea 🐅🐅

Today our babies had a fantastic time baking cakes. Baking is a really good hands-on activity for babies and great for their development, it encourages them to measure, pour and mix which also enhances hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Well done our little bakers. 👨‍🍳👩‍🍳