The Toddler House

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The children have loved making some yummy fruit salads and fruit ice lollies. We talked about all of the different types of fruit and the importance of healthy eating.

We have been painting our clay butterflies and our beautiful animal canvas pictures.

The Toddler House updated their business hours.

The Toddler House updated their business hours.

The children have been creating some beautiful clay butterflies this week to paint and hang in our garden.

Today we welcomed our tiny and very hungry caterpillars to watch grow into beautiful butterflies.

Today we have been exploring Quail and Chicken eggs as part of our life-cycles research. We discussed their similarities and differences before having lots of fun cracking them open and using them to make pancakes.

We have been busy this week exploring primary and secondary colours. We have made beautiful rainbow stones and Fathers Day key rings using a variety of circles and stripes.

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30 Hours Places Available.
We have availability for 30 Hours Places, from Easter for families eligible for funding. Please email [email protected] for further details.
For Easter start parents will need to apply by March 31st 2020.

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UPDATE FOR COVID-19

Dear Parents

Nursery are constantly monitoring the government and local guidelines for the coronavirus crisis. All children and families that have a new persistent chesty cough or a high temperature will need to self-isolate for 14 days. Children showing these symptoms at nursery will need to be collected and parents will be contacted as a matter of urgency.

Following current government guidelines and advice from the local authority as of Friday 20th March 2020 nursery will be closed for all children in receipt of 15 hours funded sessions, both Early Learning for Twos (ELT) and Nursery Education Funding (NEF), this will also include any students in receipt of student funded childcare, until further notice.

We will endeavour to remain open to the remaining families with service provided as normal.

Please note as part of your nursery contractual obligations in the event we are forced to close this remains a chargeable period and as you will appreciate us being a small business we are reliant on the co-operation of parents to enable us all to get through these challenging times.
We trust you can appreciate the stress and upset that everyone is facing, and we will keep you up to date with any further developments at the earliest opportunity. For regular updates please refer to our page and website. We will update you with your child’s progress report and activity ideas for home via email in the upcoming days. Please note that Twinkl are providing a free online subscription for parents and carers, also offering activity ideas for you during this period.
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This term we have been exploring circles and squares through various artist's, these have been group projects. We have been looking at squares through the artist Piet Mondrian, we have used various coloured paint,glitter,felt and matchsticks to create squares on black card. We have also been looking at circles through the artist Kandinsky, we have used buttons,paint,sequins and circular shapes to create the circle shapes. While doing the projects we have been looking at the different sizes of shapes while using language of size to order the shapes from big to small.😊

Before the holidays we released our beautiful butterflies which the children helped and watch grow. The children would keep the caterpillars safe while they were getting ready to transition to butterflies. While we were growing our beautiful butterflies we looked at the lifecycle of a butterfly and had a discussion on the very important process which it takes for a caterpillar to become a butterfly and while doing this it supported the childrens knowledge and understanding for our natural environment while also developing the childrens communication and language skills.🐛

Reminder for parents/carers: our preschool graduation is this Thursday the 18th, children are to be in nursery for 11am for the graduation party and then over to open heaven church at 3pm for the ceremony. Children will be accompanied by nursery staff to the church hall where we will meet up with the parents. 🎓

Over the last term pre school children have been learning write dance songs which support and develop gross and fine motor movement in preparation for writing skills. The children start with listening to a short story then moving onto a dance which uses big movements, then we will repeat the song but use the actions to make marks in different materials. Today we have used foam,sand,crayons and flow paint. The children really enjoyed getting messy and building those pre-writing muscles.

Since the beginning of term babies have been looking at the adventures of maisy books, here are some pictures from when they looked at maisys garden. Our babies have been getting messy and exploring their senses while planting and looking at seeds. They have also been exploring materials and using mark making tools to make our very own collage of maisy the mouse. As well as having a garden centre role play and small world garden.🐭🌸🌷

Reminder for parents: we have the easter workshop coming up as well as our parent consultations, please speak to your childs key worker to book time slots for both.🐥🐣

For world book day we spent the week looking at the story of the three little pigs, we thought we would try and build our own houses for the three little pigs. We used clay,sticks,straw and wooden blocks to build our houses. We looked at different textures and materials while we also developed our creative and fine motor skills.🐷

We have been focusing on the story of the gruffalo so our children have worked hard to bake biscuits in the form of the gruffalos feet. While baking we have been learning an important life skill and of course the biscuits tasted yummy.😊

We want to welcome all children who will be coming into nursery tomorrow to wear something red for red nose day in support of comic relief.😃

The children have had a busy day today, they have been planting bulbs in the garden. We have been looking at the different sizes and shapes of the bulbs and the flowers they will grow into. We have also been talking about plant growth and the stages in the life cycle of a plant and we are going to be growing our very own cress🌷🌱

Before half term our children had been working hard creating a chinese new year dragon using paper plates and junk modelling. Also our toddlers had been reading the story of the hungry caterpillar and used a mixture of paint and materials to make our own hungry caterpillar. Children developed fine motor skills and gained more knowledge in colours and different textures while also using tools safely while focusing on scissor control.🐛

Our babies have been learning about 'we're going on a bear hunt' they have been using different senses to explore new media and materials. Developing mathematical skills by using wooden building blocks to build a cave for the bear.🐻

Our pre-school children took on the spaghetti challenge last week. Children worked together in teams to build shapes and towers using spaghetti and marshmallows. This activity supported the childrens communication and language skills while strengthening fine motor skills. Here are some pictures of the childrens teamwork😃

We hope everyone had a lovely christmas and new year,we are settled back into nursery and can't wait to show you what we are going to be getting up to this term.

The Nursery will be closed today - Friday 2nd March 2018 due to the adverse weather and dangerous conditions.

Nursery will be open tomorrow Tuesday 12th December. Please keep checking Facebook and website in the event of the weather deteriorating throughout the night.

Nursery will be closed Monday 11th December due to adverse weather conditions. Please keep checking for updates.

This week we've been making a variety of yummy, healthy fruit smoothies and ice lollies. They looked lovely and tasted even better!!!

A big thank-you to James for visiting us today at nursery. The children had a fantastic time exploring the police car, equipment and uniform😊

Our clever babies have made some beautiful butterfly cakes! Yum yum 😋

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Here's the link to check your eligibility for the 30hrs free childcare. If you are entitled to the 30hrs free from September please bring your 6 digit code into nursery before 21st July to enable early years to give us authorisation for your place.

https://www.gov.uk/childcare-calculator

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Don't forget we are having a teddy bears picnic Tuesday and Thursday this week, children can bring a teddy in with them 😊