Mansbridge Community Pre-school & Nursery

10/07/2026

MANSBRIDGE FESTIVAL 2026 ☀️🎶🕺🍹

10/07/2026

Following the last few weeks of scorching weather, it only felt right to have lots of water play and paddling pools out to play! Our books the past couple of weeks were all about the sea/beach and summer. 🏖️

Take a look at some of the fun we’ve had in the warm weather, finding ways to keep cool! ☀️

09/07/2026

Last week, in support with the current World Cup competition happening, we held a ‘football day’ to celebrate and support England ahead of their Wednesday night game.

Staff and children dressed up in red, white or blue and even lots of England kits, we had great fun with football snacks, football crafts and football activities! ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

22/06/2026

22/06/2026

Last week our theme was based around the book: the very hungry caterpillar 🐛 a strong favourite here!

The children learned all about the life cycle of a caterpillar/butterfly and we even got to see the start of this first hand as we watched our caterpillars turn into cocoons 😄 now to wait for the magic to happen… 🦋

12/06/2026

This week was all about fruits, vegetables and all the colours of the rainbow! 🌈
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The book was called ‘I can eat a rainbow’ and the children loved talking about their favourite fruits and vegetables and what dinners they have like toast dinners!

We also took an opportunity to look at lots of different fruits and vegetables, feeling them, smelling them and tasting them!

We also helped the children learn all about how to use a knife safely to cut up fruit and veg, both as an activity and for their snack.

09/06/2026

Last week was all about online safety and staying safe with our bodies and private parts.

Our two books were pantosaurus and chicken clicking, both are books designed to explain those things for small children.

We did lots of activities and discussions around our bodies and pants about how to keep safe and why it is important to keep parts of our bodies to ourselves and that it’s okay to say no. This book is really good at explaining to small children and has a website with songs and activities to support.

Chicken clicking is a great book to explain the online world that children have more and more access to nowadays. It goes into detail about how not everyone is who they seem online.

09/06/2026

01/06/2026

We’re back tomorrow after a lovely half term week and a staff training inset day today.

Staff took part in training about safer sleep for children under 12 months following the new guidelines. Everyone also completed ‘Level 1 Baby Care’ which focussed on lots of aspects of caring for babies and toddlers such as hygiene, safe eating, safe sleep, developmental milestones and more!

This is all in preparation for our exciting new adventure in September where we open up an additional room to take babies from 3 months 🤩