Sconce hills preschool playgroup

🌿 Our Garden is Summer Ready! 🌿

After a few years of fundraising and overcoming a few hurdles along the way, the garden is complete.

As a charity-run playgroup, every improvement is made possible through the support of our families, staff, committee, and local community. Thank you to everyone who has helped us raise funds and make our garden such a wonderful space for our children.
We are proud to provide affordable childcare while keeping care, learning, and children's wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.

Thank you for your continued support – we couldn't do it without you 🫶🏻

Credit to Wagner Fencing and Landscapes
For our sandpit, planters, fence and putting together and installing our climbing frame 👌🏼 We appreciate you 🛠

Perfect opportunity for parents/carers to get advice, reassurance and information around speech, language and communication.
These drop-ins are a great way to access early support and intervention, especially while NHS Speech & Language Therapy waiting lists are so lengthy.
No referral needed – just pop along and have a chat 💬🧠

🎉 Family Fun Day 🎉

📅 Saturday 13th June
📍 Cleveland Square, Hawtonville
⏰ 11am – 3pm

CaroMax community cafe are hosting a Fun-filled day for the whole family! There'll be plenty to enjoy, so pop along, take your friends and family, and help make it a fantastic community day.
✨ Everyone is welcome! ✨

⚠️ Urgent warning for parents from Nottinghamshire Trading Standards ⚠️

❌ Please do not microwave squishy toys!

A dangerous social media trend is urging children to put silicone squishy toys in the microwave, to make them softer and more pliable. Please don’t let them do it.

‼️ The toys get dangerously hot inside, even though they remain cool on the outside. If squeezed they can explode, spraying boiling gel and leading to severe burns, hospital admissions, and lasting scars.

🗣️ Please talk to children about these risks and share this message to keep others safe.

We had a very special visit at nursery this week as we welcomed an animal therapy session for the children 🐾
The children absolutely loved getting up close and hands-on with a range of amazing animals. They enjoyed gently stroking, brushing and even holding some of them, building their confidence and curiosity along the way.
We met some fascinating creatures including millipedes, snakes, rabbits, guinea pigs, a bearded dragon, and even a Chameleon and Silver chicken 🐍🐰
It was such a lovely experience for the children, helping them learn about different animals in a calm and safe environment while also encouraging kindness, care and respect.
We are so proud of how brave and gentle everyone was — lots of smiles all round! 😊

Regrowing Vegetables & Fruit at Nursery! 🍓
Look what we’ve been up to!
The children have been exploring how we can regrow food from everyday kitchen scraps… and after just 2 days, we’re already seeing results! 🌱✨
We have been growing: 🍓 Strawberries
🍅 Tomatoes
🧄 Garlic
🥬 Celery
The children were so excited to see that by using items from our fridge, we can start to grow our own food again!
This hands-on activity helps us learn about: 🌍 Caring for the environment
🌱 How plants grow
♻️ Reducing waste by reusing food
We can’t wait to keep watching them grow! 🌿💚