St Thomas’s Day Nursery

🌍✈️ Around the World Holiday Club ✈️🌍

Join us this summer for six weeks of fun, adventure and creativity!

Children will explore different countries through exciting crafts, games, challenges and activities.

⏰ 7:30am – 5:30pm
🥣 Breakfast provided
🥪 Packed lunch required
👧🧒 For primary school aged children

To book your child’s place:
📞 01538 722208
📧 [email protected]

☀️ Sunshine & Sun Safety ☀️

We’re finally getting some lovely weather this week! 🌞

Please can we ask that all children come in loose, cool clothing and have sun cream applied before arriving each morning. We’d also really appreciate all children bringing a named bottle of sun cream in their bags so we can top up throughout the day 🧴

Please also remember:
🧢 A named sun hat
💧 A water bottle
👕 Comfortable clothing suitable for the warm weather

We’ll be making the most of the sunshine safely with plenty of water breaks, shaded play and cooling down activities ☀️

This week our pre-schoolers have been exploring celebrations inspired by our story The Family Book 🎉📚

The children made play dough birthday cakes and enjoyed mark making birthday cards, exploring counting, shapes and fine motor skills to support early maths and physical development. Talking about welcoming a new sibling to the family and caring for toy babies encouraged lots of role play, communication and social development.

Today we finished the week with a wedding celebration where the children made confetti, created beautiful flower bouquets using real flowers and ribbon, danced together and enjoyed a wedding breakfast 💒🌸🎊

🧪 MAY HALF TERM HOLIDAY CLUB 🧪

We still have some spaces available at our May Half Term Holiday Club at St Thomas’s School, run by St Thomas’s Nursery.

This half term’s theme is all things science, with lots of fun activities planned including baking, engineering, messy science and crazy chemistry experiments 🔬🧫

📅 Tuesday 26th May – Friday 29th May
⏰ Sessions available:
• 7:30am–5:30pm
• 9:00am–3:00pm

🥪 Children will need to bring a packed lunch
🥣 Breakfast provided

For more information or to book:
📞 01538 722208
📧 [email protected]

We’re all set up at Tean’s Picnic in the Park today, fundraising for The Christie Hospital 💛

We’ve got raffle tickets available, plus face glitter and balloons for the children 🎈✨

If you’re nearby, please pop down and say hello – we’d love to see you and support a fantastic cause together!

A beautiful sensory activity for our babies today 🌸✨

We explored flowers frozen in ice on our light-up table – tapping, scraping and watching as the ice slowly melted. Once melted, the children loved playing with the petals and water, exploring different textures and colours 💧🌼

Supporting:
• Understanding the World – noticing changes as the ice melts
• Physical Development – using hands to tap, hold and explore
• Communication & Language – early sounds, gestures and shared words
• Expressive Arts & Design – exploring colours and textures

Simple, engaging and full of curiosity 💡

🧪 SCIENCE WEEK IS COMING…

Our May Half Term Holiday Club is packed with messy science, baking, engineering challenges and crazy chemistry – the perfect mix of fun and learning for ages 5–11.

From bubbling experiments to hands-on building, it’s set to be a brilliant week!

Spaces are limited – message us to book

Please find the link below to purchase raffle tickets for our fundraising.

https://gofund.me/1648cce4c

🌞 Help Us Plan Our Summer Lunch Menu! 🌞

We’re currently creating our new Summer lunch menu and would love your help!

What are your child’s favourite lunch meals? 🍝🥘🥗

Is there a dish they always enjoy at home?

We’re looking for ideas that are:

✔️ Healthy and balanced

✔️ Suitable for lunchtime

✔️ Loved by your children

Please share your suggestions in the comments below or send us a message 💬

Thank you for helping us make our menu enjoyable for all the children!

🌼 Fundraising Raffle – St Thomas’s Day Nursery 🌼

We’re raising money for the amazing Christie Hospital 💛

🎟 Tickets: £2 per strip
📞 Contact us on 01538 722208 to purchase.

✨ Fantastic prizes include:
Port Vale tickets, Lower Drayton Farm passes, a meal at The Raddle, Cheadle Leisure Centre passes, Hygge Café vouchers, a Sweet Meadows floral basket, Jessie & Dot clothing voucher, and more!

📅 Draw: 4th May at the Picnic in the Park in Tean.

Thank you for supporting such a wonderful cause! 💛