Young Tots Nursery

Happy Easter!! 🐣

We have enjoyed using various skills to create our Easter cards! The 2 year olds and preschool children have been using pipettes to squeeze the paint onto our cards and then splitting the paint to create different marks!

We have been exploring different textures in our Easter sensory tray, enjoying scooping, pouring and creating different shapes.

We also enjoyed an egg hunt in the garden!

We hope you have a lovely Easter break! 🐣

✂️ One of our Parents who is a hairdresser very kindly came in to nursery.
Stacey brought her children's cape, and showed us how she gently sprays and combs hair with water. She then cut her daughter's hair using special hairdressing scissors.
Stacey reminded us how only the hairdresser or grown ups cut children's hair.
Thank you so much Stacey for such a lovely visit, we really enjoyed it !✂️

🌟🌟🌟Job vacancy 🌟🌟🌟

We are looking for a qualified Nursery Practitioner to join our small, friendly Nursery. Young Tots Nursery was established in 1986 and is a purpose built Nursery with an exciting outdoor environment.

The successful candidate will be qualified at level 3 or above with a sound knowledge and understanding of child development and the EYFS framework. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting nursery staff to provide a wide range of exciting and stimulating activities to support the children’s learning and development. Experience of completing online learning journals would be an advantage and being able to work as part of a team, as well as using their initiative.

Young Tots Nursery is committed to safer recruitment so an enhanced DBS will be essential, cost to be met by candidate

If you have great enthusiasm, lots of energy, the ability to have fun and the flexibility to adapt to children’s needs and interests, we would like to hear from you. Please only apply if you are qualified at level 3 in childcare or above, we are unable to consider applicants without an appropriate childcare qualification. Please note, the candidate must be available to work Monday to Friday.

Thank you 🤩

Subject: St Patrick's Day Facebook

Happy St Patrick's Day! 🌈 🍀🇮🇪

At nursery we like to celebrate all of our children's cultures so have been exploring different symbols of St Patrick's Day this week.

We have been talking it in turns with our friends while exploring our St Patrick's day themed sensory rice tray! Manipulating the different materials by scooping, pouring and threading!

We used different materials to decorate a four leafed clover or an Irish flag 🍀🇮🇪

A big thank you to all of our lovely Mummies who joined us to celebrate Mothers Day, we had such a nice get together! ♥️😊
The children presented their Mummies with their beautiful rainbow cards which they had worked very hard to create over the last couple of weeks.🌈
We hope you all have a very Happy Mothers Day! 💐🌷

🧩 We had so much fun taking part in ‘National Puzzle Week.’ 🧩
The children completed lots of puzzles and even made their own puzzles! 🌟

1. Fine motor development
Jigsaw puzzles help to develop and refine a child’s fine motor skills. In order to play with a jigsaw puzzle, children need to pick up, pinch and hold pieces, move them around and manipulate them into the correct slots.

2. Hand and eye coordination
Playing with jigsaws requires trial and error. If a piece doesn’t fit, a child must put it down and try another one. This is all fantastic practice for developing a child’s hand and eye coordination.

3. Problem solving and logical reasoning
Completing a jigsaw puzzle successfully can’t be cheated so your child needs to use critical thinking, reasoning skills and problem solving – all skills which are valuable in later life.

4. Spatial awareness
Clinical trials* have proved that by working out how smaller pieces fit into the bigger picture children develop their skills of movement, depth and distance perception – known to neurologists as visuospatial functioning!

5. Cognitive skills
Jigsaw puzzles come in a wide array of topics. Which is a great way of arousing children’s interest in a subject but also committing information to memory – known as subliminal learning or learning through play.

6. Improved memory and attention span
Jigsaw puzzles are especially good at reinforcing existing connections between our brain cells and therefore improving short-term memory.

7. Self esteem
“I did it!” Completing a jigsaw puzzle gives children a great sense of satisfaction and pride in themselves. It’s a great boost to self-confidence and self-esteem, which will give them confidence to take on other bigger challenges whilst keeping a positive growth mind-set.

8. Teamwork
By working together as a family or collaborating with a friend over a jigsaw puzzle, a child is practising valuable life skills, such as communication, sharing, turn taking, allocating tasks in order to succeed, and lending support to their team member.

9. Meditative benefits
As children concentrate on a jigsaw puzzle their minds are completely focussed. Whilst tasked with searching for colours and shapes, they’re allowing their brains to let go of any stresses and anxieties, creating calm and well-being.

10. Last, but not least – It’s FUN! 🧩

💤 During Safer Sleep Week (9th–15th March 2026) we’re highlighting the importance of safe sleep for babies.
All of our staff are fully trained in safer sleeping practices to ensure every baby in our care rests safely and comfortably. 💤 😴

https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Safer-sleep-guide-for-parents.pdf?fbclid=IwRlRTSAQYLpZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEewp38U7c8atl0vq3NSJEQbteHfP55C6HcdWuYGK-P1s5rB1B1eJ02dBi88y8_aem_tLi6nLt5PuSdnRuOtvAg6Q

www.lullabytrust.org.uk

📚 World Book Day 2026!

We had a fantastic day dressing up as our favourite story characters and bringing in our books to share!
Throughout the week the 3 and 4 year old's focus stories were 'Handa's Surprise' and Handa's Hen' The children made their own rattly shakers.
The 2 year olds focused on one of their favourite stories 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. They created their own beautiful butterflies and explored the Hungry Caterpillar tuff tray.

National Storytelling week 2026!
We listened to lots of wonderful stories read by our Mummies, Daddies, older siblings, Aunties and Grandparents.
We want to say an enormous thank you to everyone who came in, it means so much to our children to have their family members reading their favourite stories to us. 😊

Our 2, 3 and 4 year olds focused on two of our favourite stories - The Gingerbread Man and Superworm!
The children took part in lots of activities linked to the stories. We baked Gingerbread men, as well as creating and decorating our own Gingerbread men collage, exploring Gingerbread playdough, and making our own Wizard Lizard's magic flowers!

We are really enjoying our sports sessions with ‘James’ from ‘Super star sport, north Lincolnshire.’
The children made rockets this week from cones and after a big loud, ‘5,4,3,2,1 BLAST OFF! The children all kicked their rockets (balls) into the sky!
EYFS Guidelines
Super Star Sport meet the EYFS guidelines by teaching skills in various sports including Football, Rugby, Gymnastics, Athletics, Tennis and Basketball. They help children with ball skills, space and obstacles, solving problems, using equipment and much more. 🌟