Oakhill Church School and Roots Nursery

Please spread the word 😀 if you have any books that you would be happy to donate, the donations will go to helping us raise funds for our forest school area 🌳🧱
At Shepton mallet Tesco 😃

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NURSERY AND SCHOOL CLOSED TODAY

Due to the weather conditions! We can’t wait to hear about your snow adventures ☃️

✨What an invitation to play… we carried on the love of suspended painting play to this and what fun we all had! 😃 Getting all those muscles working from our shoulders, arms, wrists and fingers💪🏻👋🏻🤲

The best end result 😃 🎨🖌️👩‍🎨🧑‍🎨

Nursery room change about 😃 It’s always lovely to see the children accessing our provision in different ways when the room has had a change around. What a lovely space for our 2-4 year olds ✨

We have an exciting opportunity for an early year’s practitioner to join our lovely team 🥰
The position is fixed term until the 21st of July 2023 for 11 hours a week, on a Thursday and Friday. This position is open to anyone who enjoys working with children, whether you are qualified or unqualified. For more information and to apply please follow this link https://www.bwmat.org/early-years-practitioner-oakhill-church-school-rad/index.asp

We wanted to say a big thank you to some very generous parents that gifted nursery a new dolls house and car garage! The children have loved exploring these new toys 😀

Scarlet fever/group A strep throat is going around.. please keep an eye on your little ones!

We had a lovely stay and play for all our lovely families last night. Building up the fire, roasting marshmallows, hot chocolate, biscuits and singing songs around the fire. Thank you so much to everyone that came😃

Any shares much appreciated 😀

Nursery fun ✨
Play gives children the chance to practice what they are learning 🤍

✨Reminder✨
We are closed Monday the 19th!
Sending our love and respect to Queen Elizabeth II 🤍

We have spaces for 2-4 year olds at Roots Nursery ✨✨
Take a look at our outdoor area below!
Are you looking for a nursery space for your 2,3, or 4 year old? Why not look at Roots Nursery and book a show around of our small, nurturing and family feel nursery, which has great links to the school and grounds.

✨We are open 7:45am-4:15pm
✨We are term time only
✨Hot meals are cooked on site for lunches😋
✨We are based in our own one room building where all the ages play and learn from one another
✨Small seperate room dedicated for circle times and interventions
✨Skilled, knowledgable and a fun team to support your child through the most important stage of early years ❤️

Email [email protected] or call 01749 840426 option 2.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We’ve been working hard to create this amazing enhancement to our inside environment! We can’t wait to welcome back our roots children and watch all the amazing exploration of our indoor sand role play area ⌛️🫗🪄🪵

The Queens platinum Jubilee 👑👸💂‍♀️
What a lovely week celebrating!
Roots nursery has loved learning about the Queen.
We had a street party 🎉
Drew the Queen and wrote her special letters 📮
Made the Queen and ourselves some afternoon tea sandwiches 🥪
Built our very own bucking palace 🏰
And joined in with the whole school jubilee church service.
What a lovely end to the term, have a lovely weeks break everyone 😃

Some fine motor skills for those little fingers 😄

We had the cutest visitors to nursery today! And enjoyed the best cuddles 🐐 🐥

All the important skills that get your children ready for writing ✍️

Fun fun fun here at Roots nursery 🌳🌿📦🎨🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️
Children learn as they play. Most importantly in play, children learn how to learn! 💚

Happy Easter 🐣 🥚🐰🌼
We hope you have a lovely Easter and that the Easter bunny brings you some treats as yummy as the Easter egg shortbread we made before half term 😋

A not so sunny week here at nursery ❄️🌧 So we brought the sunny sea side, inside to us! The children loved listening in the shells to see if they could hear the sea, feeling the texture of the sand, mixing different textures together and telling us about their shark 🦈 experiences!
We have also kept cosy in the reading 📖 area, looking at books together📚.
Carrying out mark making on the easel, can you spot the letter ‘T’ …
And some Friday cooking… chocolate rice crispy cakes for an afternoon treat😋

This afternoon we had a ‘Stay & Play’ where we invited all of our families to come and play. Here are some of the activities we had set up ready to explore! 😊

Thank you to all of those who came. Have a lovely weekend 🌞 ⭐️

It’s been feeling like summer this week🌞 we have made the most of being outdoors and enjoying the lovely weather.
•Exploring under the sea 🌊
•Digging away in the sand pit
•Building a house 🏡
•Baking chocolate cakes 🍰

We have spaces for 2-4 year olds!
Have a look at some of the things we have been up to this week 😄
•Exploring our new water wall
•Making mud pies in our outdoor kitchen
•Making marks in the sand pit
•Bug hunting in shredded paper
•Pattern challenges on peg boards

Please do get in contact for a show around or more information about what we offer at Roots nursery 😃

🍁 Introducing you to the Roots Nursery team! 🍁

🌞 We’ve had a super busy week and it’s only Wednesday! 🌞

We have enjoyed building our fine motor skills using tweezers, mark making and building with blocks. We’ve made cocoa playdough, as well as enjoying small world play, and investigating water 🍋🦒🧱🚂

Happy world book📕 📚 day!
Can you guess what some of our children dressed up as today ?😁
We enjoyed reading some of their favourite stories from home today at circle time.
Here is some other activities we have had out for the children to explore 😊
•Nature train ride🚇
•Using fruit to draw and talk about shape, size and colour!🍍🍋🍎
•Getting the scales to balance through trial and error
•Strengthening our fine motor muscles by cutting play dough ✂️

*Nursery Closed*

Storm 💨🌪⛈ Eunice has meant that we are closed tomorrow (Friday 18th February) due to the severe winds expected in the south west. Amber and red weather warnings issued by the met office. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, the safety of our children and staff is paramount.

See you all after half term😀
Roots Nursery.

Happy Valentine’s Day from us all at Roots Nursery💖

We are still here, having fun and creating lots of special activities for all our children 😀
Here is some pictures of the lovely things our children have done at nursery today…
•Love potions
•Chocolate covered strawberries
•Water painting
•Love slime for dinosaurs
•Tracing shapes and some special love hearts

We explained to the children that today is all about showing love to the people that are special to us, whoever that may be.

Nursery Practitioner maternity cover vacancy.
See below for more information. Come and join an amazing team 🤩

We have been looking at light and dark this week using a variety of activities, the children have used their senses to explore the differences and the changes that can be made.

Last week we had a visit from Steve, from Somerset Road Safety, who talked us through being safe whilst we are near the road. He told us 4 very important rules, which are: 1. STOP 2. LOOK 3. LISTEN 4. THINK.

After our visit from Steve, we made our own zebra crossing. Today, we had our lollipop lady, Mrs Stringer come to nursery to help us use and cross our zebra crossing safely!

🌟 Big thanks to Steve and Mrs Stringer 🌟