Buttons and Bows Nursery

🛍️ Bags of taste 🛍️🌳🥬

Join the next free, funcooking course with bags of taste 👨‍🍳

Are you worried about the rising cost of food and how to eat on a budget? 🥕
Then join one of these free, fun cooking courses. Learn how to make delicious, healthy meals from all over the world whilst saving money?

* Free ingredients included🍅🥕🥔
* Free, flexible, Home-based short courses
* All you need is a kitchen and a phone

Our Family Support Practitioner, Jo, is currently taking part in the Bags of Taste cookery course herself, which means she has first-hand experience and a good understanding of how the course works. This puts her in a great position to support and reassure parents who may be interested in taking part.

Jo is able to explain what parents can expect from the course, how the sessions work, and the different types of support available. She can also answer any questions parents may have and help them to feel more comfortable and confident about getting involved.

Having Jo take part in the course also means that she can share her own experience with parents and provide practical information about what the course involves. If parents have any worries, questions or would simply like to find out more before getting started, Jo will be happy to talk this through and offer support where needed.

So if you have any questions, please catch Jo 😉

Registration is easy, click on the poster QR code on the noticeboard, phone, text or WhatsApp on 07751890912 or click on the link https://bagsoftaste.org/our-story/what-we-do/

Happy cooking 👨‍🍳🌳🧀🥕

Today was all about making soup with our Babies🥕🍅🥣

By chance, we had some lovely ripe tomatoes ready to be picked from our allotment. The children explored the tomatoes using their senses and demonstrated fantastic fine motor skills as they carefully twisted and picked the tomatoes from the vines.

Next came washing all the vegetables ready to make our soup. The children explored the different textures, colours, shapes and smells of the vegetables before having a go at chopping, with some support. They showed great concentration and were very proud of their efforts! 👏

Our allotment provides so many wonderful learning opportunities for the children. It allows them to experience where food comes from, develop an understanding of growing and caring for plants, and see the journey from seed to harvest and finally to the food on their plates. 🌱

Being outdoors and involved in the allotment also encourages curiosity, independence and responsibility. The children learn to care for living things, develop their physical skills through digging, planting, picking and watering, and enjoy the sensory experiences that nature provides.

And, of course, the best part… tasting our delicious homemade vegetable soup! It went down very well indeed! 😋

🌿 **Forest School Parent Sessions at Nursery** 🌿
We still have some availability for FOREST SCHOOL sessions for our under 3 families with our Forest School Leader, Lis.
These sessions are completely **free** and will give you a hands-on experience of what a typical Forest School session is like. It's a wonderful opportunity to explore nature alongside your little one and discover the benefits of outdoor learning.
Activities will include:
🍃 Mud play
🐞 Bug hunts
🧪 Potion making
🎨 Clay sculptures
🥨 Snack time
🧗 Climbing and exploration to support gross motor development and encourage safe risk-taking

**Session dates:**
📅 **Monday 24th August** – 9:30am–11:00am
📅 **Tuesday 25th August** – 9:30am–11:00am
Sign up for these sessions are on the parents notice board 🤗

The sessions will take place in our nursery Forest School area.
Please sign up on the parents' notice board. If your child attends on a term-time-only basis, please contact the nursery by email or phone to book your place.
We look forward to welcoming our baby and toddler families for a fun-filled morning of Forest School adventures at the nursery!

A few more pictures of our new forest garden that will be available for children of all ages to use in September 🌳🌿 It's still a work in progress but will soon be complete ☑️

Can anyone guess what it is yet??

🌿 **Forest School Parent Sessions at Nursery** 🌿

Our Forest School Leader, Lis, will be hosting two special Forest School sessions at the nursery for our under 3s and their parents/carers. 🤗

These sessions are completely **free** and will give you a hands-on experience of what a typical Forest School session is like. It's a wonderful opportunity to explore nature alongside your little one and discover the benefits of outdoor learning.

Activities will include:
🍃 Mud play
🐞 Bug hunts
🧪 Potion making
🎨 Clay sculptures
🥨 Snack time
🧗 Climbing and exploration to support gross motor development and encourage safe risk-taking

**Session dates:**
📅 **Monday 24th August** – 9:30am–11:00am
📅 **Tuesday 25th August** – 9:30am–11:00am

The sessions will take place in our nursery Forest School area.

Please sign up on the parents' notice board. If your child attends on a term-time-only basis, please contact the nursery by email or phone to book your place.

We look forward to welcoming our baby and toddler families for a fun-filled morning of Forest School adventures at the nursery! 🌳💚

Whilst the nursery has been closed this week for our annual Summer shut down, we have been busy having some super exciting work done ☀️😁 what do you think it could be❓️👀 We can't wait to tell you...more information will be shared soon - keep an eye out 📧📲💻

As it is the last day of term we would like to wish all of our school leavers who have left this week and leave over the summer the best of luck for the next step in their journey! It's always a sad time for us when we lose so many little ones to school but we are so proud of each and every one of them - they have all made so much progress and developed into such amazing little individuals 😊

We have the best memories of our time with your little ones and we hope you do too! Please make sure you keep in touch and please feel free to pop in and say hello 👋

We would like to take the opportunity to thank the wonderful staff team who work so hard day in and day out to do all of the above, they are so dedicated to children's learning and development and to see the children go off so confident and happy is a credit to them ❤️

We hope you all have the best summer, if you are back in the holidays we look forward to seeing you then. (little reminder that we are closed next week!) 🌞⛱️ If you need anything over the Summer we are open so please just pop in ☺️ See a few posts below for key dates over the Summer holidays ⬇️

If you are back in September with us, we look forward to seeing you when the term starts on the 1st September 😀

**Our Preschool Leavers' Picnic** 🌿💚

What a truly wonderful day we shared this week at our Preschool Leavers' Picnic in Christchurch Park. It was filled with sunshine, smiles, laughter and so many precious moments that we'll treasure for a long time.

It was so lovely to see our families spending time together, making nature necklaces, weaving, flower pounding, playing ball games, trying tin can alley and exploring on our scavenger hunts. Seeing everyone laughing, playing and making memories together was so special. We hope you all enjoyed the day as much as we did! 🤗

To our amazing school leavers, we are so incredibly proud of each and every one of you. It has been a privilege to watch you begin your early years journey with us, growing from tiny seeds into confident, kind and curious children, ready to blossom in your next adventure.

As you take this exciting step to school in September, we wish you all the happiness and success in the world. Keep being yourselves, keep smiling, keep exploring and never stop believing in yourselves. We know you will all do amazing things.

Although you're moving on, you'll always be a part of our preschool family. Please don't be strangers! We'd love to see you at our future fayres and events, and if you'd like to, send us a photo of your child's first day in their school uniform by email, or pop in to say hello💚

Good luck and shine brightly—we'll be cheering you on every step of the way. ✨