Abbey Childcare

Abbey Childcare Childcare facility located in Abbey Primary School. We are offering a variety of services from 8am-6pm Monday-Friday for children aged 2-11 years of age

🎃 Happy 1st October 🎃Here are some dates for your diary and some days we will be looking at in childcare this month 🙂
01/10/2026

🎃 Happy 1st October 🎃

Here are some dates for your diary and some days we will be looking at in childcare this month 🙂

25/09/2026

🤗 Happy Friday 🤗
-- Friday Catch Up --

We hope you've all had a lovely week! it's been a busy, fun packed week here at Childcare

🍁 We've had lots of different autumn tuff trays to explore with different textures for our sensory exploration. We've had rice, pasta, tea bags and shaving foam. Each tuff tray has helped develop the children's material skills through counting and number recognition, communication and language skills through group discussions and learning new words and social skills of sharing.

👩🏻‍🍳 Cooking has been a popular activity this week at the setting. The children practiced buttering some bread made of cardboard with their shaving foam butter, they played with cracked eggs (egg shells and shaving foam) and cut up some vegetables to make vegetable soup! Cooking has even expanded to the mud kitchen where they made cupcakes and to our stone area. Role play cooking helps develop imagination and those life skills needed as an adult!

Other activities this week have included apple painting and playdough pressing with loose parts. Today we had a Bluey day, the children got to create a giant Bluey on the cupboard top and find Bluey characters hidden amongst the Bluey pasta! The children created their own acorn pictures by colouring, sticking and gluing. All of which helped develop the children's physical development, social skills and imagination.

🕷️ We made a friend this week at childcare, there's been a spider hanging out in our window. The children have been checking on her every day and earlier this week we learnt that she is a Wasp Spider! She's been very interesting for the children to watch and it's opened up lots of conversations about how spiders live and has helped develop the children knowledge and understanding of the world around them.

Have a lovely weekend! 👋🏻
We'll see you all Monday 💕

💕 Family Photos 💕We are asking if families would like to send in some family photos ...- family photos of our children f...
24/09/2026

💕 Family Photos 💕
We are asking if families would like to send in some family photos ...
- family photos of our children for our home corner wall, it will help give the children a sense of belinging
- photos of children specifically with their grandparents for grandparents day in October
- photos of our childrens pets to make a little display
- Photos of our childrens front door to pop on to building blocks to help with the children's building and imagination

-- Photos can be sent in with the children already printed out or if it easier you are welcome to send them over the phone and we will print them out for you 🙂--

We can't wait to see everyone's photos!

💕 International Sign Language Day 💕Acknowledging this day in a childcare setting is a lovely way to promote inclusion, c...
23/09/2026

💕 International Sign Language Day 💕

Acknowledging this day in a childcare setting is a lovely way to promote inclusion, communication, understanding and belonging from an early age.

Using sign language or signalong within the setting is important because..
- It helps children understand that people communicate in different ways.
- It supports children who have communication difficulties, by giving them another way to express their wants and needs.
- It is a way to encourage all children to communicate, it makes the setting become inclusive. It becomes natural amongst all children
- Celebrates different forms of communication
- Supports independence
- Creates a sense of belonging. Helps children feel valued, understood and heard

We have created some Signalong posters for our room, that we will be using on a daily basis with the children.
We will be focusing on every day signs, colours, animals and the alphabet
You are welcome to try them at home with the children too! If you get stuck, YouTube is a good place to go for help! 💕

🍂 Autumn Equinox 🍂It's officially Autumn! Happy Autumn Season! 🍁In our corner we have a seasonal tree with real leaves t...
22/09/2026

🍂 Autumn Equinox 🍂
It's officially Autumn!

Happy Autumn Season! 🍁
In our corner we have a seasonal tree with real leaves the children collected themselves that have been laminated and put up for them to admire 🪾🍃
There are pumpkins for counting and autumn animals to learn the names of and where they live.
We have Welsh words for the children to learn throughout Autumn.
In our story basket is a book and some items to match the story that the children can enjoy exploring.
In our crates we have little candles, small pumpkins, conkers and acorns in sensory bottles and various items relating to Autumn 🦉🦡

Our Autumn corner will help build knowledge and understanding of the world and seasons. Will build communication and social skills as well as building imagination and curiousty. The children are able to learn through hands on play and explore through tactile objects.

⭐ Spaces Available ⭐Come join our childcare and be part of the family! 💕At our setting we encourage, independence, confi...
20/09/2026

⭐ Spaces Available ⭐

Come join our childcare and be part of the family! 💕
At our setting we encourage, independence, confidence, fun, curiousity, stimulating play for every child and friendship 🫶🏻
Our staff are dedicated to helping and supporting children along their development journey through play and fun interactions 🤗

If you would like to know more please contact us!
You can either email or phone the setting and our Manager or Deputy Manager can give you more details 😀

Hopefully we'll see new friends soon!

19/09/2026

🤖 It's Robot Time 🤖

How mangnificent does our robot made out of recycling look?!
Thank you to everyone who brought their recycling in!
The children had so much fun making their new friend! They worked together as a team deciding what pieces to put where and what he should look like. They looked at different sizes and shapes of recycling to decide what they wanted to use. The children let their creativity flow when it came to painting and decorating him. It was a great opportunity to develop social skills, fine motor and gross motor skills, communication, imagination and role play 💕

19/09/2026

🍄 Happy Saturday! 🍄
Here's our Friday Catch Up

Hope everyone has had a lovely week, we have had a fun busy week here in childcare!

🌈In honour of National Playdough this week we had different playdough opportunities. In our playdough was added templates, loose parts, cupcake cases, animals and cutters. Based on the children's interests the children enjoyed making cakes, stamping the cutters to see what Disney characters they could make and making bugs! All the while working their physical development, social skills and building new vocabulary while playing.

🔢On our tables tops we've had some very exciting play opportunities from getting messy to working on our pen control with colouring and drawing. The children couldn't wait to get stuck into the shaving foam table! They made different patterns and marks with their fingers, hands and cars. They made their own coloured car tracks with the cars and painted and practiced their numbers with tracing. The children developed their mathematical skills through colour learning and counting while having fun.

🍂Our tuff trays provided some fun opportunities to develop maths skills of counting and colour recognition, alphabet learning and fine motor skills development using tweezers and pippets. The children enjoyed exploring our sea tray and autumn tray using their imagination and play skills

Have a lovely weekend!
See you all Monday 💕

11/09/2026

🍄 Friday Catch Up 🍄

Happy Friday! 😊
Hope everyone has had a lovely week and is now settling back into the school and childcare routine 😊

We have had a lovely week settling back in, with some fun opportunities of play.
In our tuff trays we've had sea animals, loose parts, The Tiger Who Came To Tea ☕ 🐅 and The Dark Dark Night. Through our tuff trays the children are able to develop their senses through touch and smell and learn new words such as smooth, rough, hard, soft and spiky. Our beach tray opened up conversations of the beach and who visited it during the summer holidays. Our story trays was a lovely opportunity to bring the books to life and listen to them in a fun and interactive way, it was great for role play. Our loose parts helped with our maths skills with shapes and sizes.

We worked on our fine motor skills and colours using our coloured counters with the matching bowls. We children developed their pincer fraps holding the tweezers to pick up the counters and pop them into the correct colour bowls. We also learn shapes through placing them on rods, seeing how many we could stack on one rod.

This week we had our first little walk of September, we visited the horses who seemed very happy to see us and we were excited to see them again. Little walks are great for little minds, physical exercise and wellbeing.

In our playdough we used bugs, numbers and different shapes. We practiced our numbers to see if we could make them and tried copying our bugs. Playdough is good for developing those fine and gross motor skills. It helps develop the muscles needed in fingers, hands and wrists to hold pens and pencils for writing. It's also a great activity for social skills and communication development.

We practiced our first aid on our dolls and each other , in honour of First Aid Day on Saturday. The children enjoyed trying out the bandages and wrapping them around themselves. It's great role play to help with doctors visits and making those little moments seem less scary.

Have a lovely weekend everyone 💕

Address

Heol Penlan
Neath
SA107LB

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 3pm
Tuesday 10am - 3pm
Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Thursday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

+447375891886

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