Little Stars Nursery, Sacriston

11/11/2024

Little Star’s enjoying every resource in nursery!

11/11/2024

Last terms activities lots of fine motor, gross motor and creative play!

03/10/2024

📢📢We currently still have a limited number of spaces available.📢📢

Did you know that you may be able to receive funded childcare for your 2yr old if you are not working and receive certain benefits.

This is called the play and learn scheme, more information and how to apply can be found at

Some two year olds are entitled to funded childcare from the term after their second birthday at 'Play and Learn' sessions. This could be at a nursery, playgroup or with a childminder.

17/09/2024

Family Hubs are offering the following programmes and courses to parents of children aged 3 and 4 around speech and language and school readiness. These are suitable for any child where parents have concerned about their child’s speech and language development or worries about them starting nursery or school.
If you would like any further information you can contact the Family Hub team at [email protected]

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31335/WellComm-early-language-screening-session

Currently for children aged 3 and 4 years - WellComm is a tool to identify children who may be experiencing struggling with their speech and language development, and provide strategies and activities for parents to use at home.

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31336/Let-s-Talk-at-Home-course

Let's Talk at Home is a course for parents and carers of children aged three to four years.
These play-based sessions are fun, practical and filled with talking tips to help develop your child's speech, language and communication skills, at home using their favourite activities.

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31337/Incredible-Years-pre-school-course

This course is aimed at parents of children aged three to six years. It looks at how you interact with your child, and helps you to promote your child's social, emotional and language development to get them ready for school.

Family Hubs also have information for parents in booklet form and replicated on the website looking at understanding language, spoken language and speaking clearly.
https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31334/Courses-to-support-you-with-your-child-s-speech-language-and-getting-ready-for-school

All of these courses are free and families can request a place by clicking on the relevant link

WellComm is a tool to identify children who may be experiencing barriers to speech and language development, and provide strategies and activities for parents to use at home.

02/09/2024

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Just a little reminder that we will re-open on Wednesday 4th September and look forward to hearing what all our little stars have been up to over the summer holidays.

19/07/2024

Our little stars have enjoyed their last few weeks and had a great time at fun Friday 🤩🎶🤩🎶
We hope you all have a lovely holidays and look forward to seeing those who are returning to us on Wednesday 4th September 😁😁

12/06/2024

Children collected pine cones for our new outside area, creating and designing them themselves to hang outside x

12/06/2024

Enjoying the new outside area last week x

03/06/2024

The children are definitely enjoying our new outside area, we don’t think we’ll get them back in 😂😂😂
A massive thank you to DF Landscaping for a wonderful job 😁😁

15/09/2023

We’ve had a lovely first two weeks back after the summer holidays, with our little stars settling back into nursery. They’ve had great fun expressing themselves and making some new friends.

26/05/2023

What a lovely half term we’ve had 😁 some of the things our little stars have enjoyed are, making flags for the coronation, planting their own seeds and getting the garden ready for the when the seeds grow, learning about bees and making their own bee creations. They’ve been making most the most of the lovely weather and love to be outside playing.
Hope you all have a lovely half term and we will see you back on Monday 5th June 😁

21/04/2023

We’ve had a fantastic first week back. Starting the week off with Dawn’s special birthday, lots of discussions about what we have been up to over the Easter holidays and we’ve enjoyed the good weather 🎊🥳 🐣☀️