BrightStart Day Nurseries

Clough Road - K3

What a wonderful week we’ve had as we continued exploring our Book of the Month – Dear Zoo! The children have been busy getting stuck into lots of exciting, hands-on activities inspired by the animals in the story.📚❤️

🦁 We started our week off with Lion day. We enjoyed a special Stay & Play, explored where lions live, and took part in lots of lion-themed activities.

🐘 Elephant Day brought even more fun on Wednesday as we explored elephants and continued learning about the different animals from Dear Zoo.

🦒 Our little learners enjoyed counting spots onto giraffes using playdough, helping to develop their number recognition, counting skills and fine motor control.

💧 We had lots of sensory fun too, exploring trays with rice, pipettes and coloured water, encouraging the children to investigate, pour, squeeze and explore different textures.

👶 Our babies enjoyed their own Dear Zoo experiences, including a lion cereal tray and a giraffe rice tray, providing lots of opportunities for sensory exploration as well as continuing to build on their artwork making a giraffe for their wall to add to their other animals.

🎨 We have also been learning about colours and numbers through group and individual colour-by-number activities and exploring a variety of Dear Zoo-themed sensory trays and taking a closer look at each of the animals.

We can’t wait to see where our Dear Zoo adventures take us next! 🦁🐘🦒🐒🦊

Have a lovely weekend, from all at K3!

🌿 Bright Start @ Thorpes – Down in the Jungle! 🐒

What a fun-filled week we have had at Thorpes! We have been singing and dancing along to “Down in the Jungle”, learning lots of new animal names and sounds, and of course doing lots of boogie, woogie, woogieing! 🎶💃🕺

The children have enjoyed moving like different jungle animals, supporting their Physical Development and Expressive Arts and Design as they explored movement, rhythm and music.

🦓 Animal Patterns – We matched the animals to their patterns, helping to develop our Mathematical thinking as we noticed similarities, differences and patterns.

🧺 Washing Day! – We took our washing outside, washed our clothes and hung them on the line to dry. This was a lovely opportunity to develop our Understanding of the World, while also encouraging independence and coordination.

🦁 Jungle Fun – Through songs, actions and imaginative play, we have developed our Communication and Language, learning new vocabulary and joining in with familiar rhymes and repeated phrases.

It has been a busy week of singing, moving, exploring and learning through play – and we have certainly had plenty of fun along the way! 🌴🐒🎶

Happy Wedding Day to our Compass manager Emily 🥂 💍

Wishing you all the best on your special day from everyone at BrightStart # # #

🌟 What a wonderful week of learning at Dorchester! 🦁🐘🌍

We have had such a busy and exciting time exploring, creating, imagining and learning together!

📚 We enjoyed the much-loved story Dear Zoo, bringing the story to life through our animal rescue tuff tray. The children used their imaginations as they rescued and cared for the animals.

🎨 We got creative with animal collages, experimenting with a variety of materials and textures to create different effects. We loved seeing how different materials could be used to represent fur, scales, feathers and patterns!

🦁 In celebration of World Lion Day, we transformed ourselves into lions, exploring lion movements, sounds and characteristics before enjoying some fantastic lion-themed role play. Roars could be heard all around our setting! 🦁

🌌 Our curiosity took us beyond our planet as we investigated the solar system. We talked about the solar eclipse this week and used lights to transform our ceiling into our very own universe. The children were fascinated as they explored planets, stars, light and shadows. ✨🌙

🧮 We also put our maths skills into practice while baking delicious brownies! We explored weighing, measuring, counting and comparing, while developing our vocabulary through words such as mixing, scooping and weighing. And, of course, we enjoyed the very important job of tasting our yummy creations! 🍫👩‍🍳

What a fantastic week of learning through stories, creativity, role play, exploration and hands-on experiences! ❤️🌟

🌞🌑 NO ECLIPSE GLASSES? HERE’S A LITTLE HACK! 📱🌙

If you don’t have proper eclipse glasses for today’s partial eclipse, you can still capture it safely without staring directly at the Sun! 👀

⚠️ PLEASE DON’T turn around and look at the Sun while filming! Even during a partial eclipse, the uncovered part of the Sun can seriously damage your eyes

Turn your phone into selfie mode, stand with your back to the Sun, and photograph it while watching live on your phone's screen.

⚠️ Just take care not to look directly at the Sun while getting into position, and don't leave your phone pointed at the Sun for long. The concentrated sunlight can potentially damage your phone's camera sensor.

There will not be one again until 2081. 🌒

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The UK's biggest solar eclipse in 27 years happens today! On Wednesday (August 12), sky watchers across parts of Europe will be treated to an impressive celestial spectacle.

While those in parts of Spain and Iceland are set to witness a total eclipse that will transform day into night, those in the UK will see a partial eclipse of up to 94 per cent.

According to Royal Museums Greenwich, todays partial solar eclipse will be the most coverage seen from the UK and Ireland since the 1999 eclipse ☀️

Some of us can remember this SO vividly…. And now somehow it’s 2026?!

I guess this is something about getting older, there’s so many ages and stages of your life that you miss… there’s so many things you wish you’d taken more time to enjoy, to notice…. So many things you wish you’d said. You can’t go back and change any of it, but you can make sure you learn from it, cherish what’s yet to come. ❤️

We hope you enjoy the celestial event tonight with your little ones at around 7:10pm. Be safe and do not look directly at the sun. The eclipse will also be live streamed by NASA on tv. 🌒

K3 Parents & Staff

Please be aware the top of Clough Road is currently closed from the Bankside roundabout to Starbucks, we believe access is only available from Beverley Road end of Clough Road.

We will update if we see it re-open, however perhaps follow Humberside Police or other facebook groups for updates yourself.

Please be aware that the road closure on Clough Road, between Bank Side roundabout and Starbucks, is likely to remain in place until tomorrow evening (Thursday, 13 August 2026), to allow Humberside Fire & Rescue Service to continue to work safely following reports of a fire on Reservoir Road in Hull.

Motorists are advised to avoid the area and find alternative routes where possible, and access to Clough Road is only possible via Beverley Road at this time.

Thank you for your patience.

Compass

🐷🐐 A Fun Day at East Hull Community Farm🐄🐑

Today, our Pre-School children had a wonderful time visiting East Hull community farm 🌿 They had lots of fun seeing all the different animals and enjoyed talking about their previous visits, sharing memories and experiences with their friends and practitioners. The children also had a fantastic time exploring the sand and water play, developing their physical skills, creativity and confidence through hands-on play. 💦🏖️

We finished our lovely day with a Peppa pig ice cream 🐷🍦❤️