Ripley Nursery - A Toad Hall Day Nursery in Ripley

Our last week at Ripley has been such an emotional one, it has been so sad to say goodbye to all of our wonderful children and parents, and the rest of the hardworking team. Thankyou so much for your kind words and thoughtful gifts, I have so many wonderful memories to take with me. I wish all of you the best of luck in your new nurseries, I’m sure the children will settle quickly and have a wonderful time in their new settings. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Lots of love Alex xXx 🥰😢🎄🥳

Our Owls have been having so much fun on their last day; dressing up, face painting, reading the story of the gingerbread man and then decorating and eating their gingerbread men for snack!

Our elves have been very busy at Ripley overnight... they have hidden candy canes around the nursery for the children as a special treat. The elves will be heading back to the North Pole this evening to help Santa finish getting ready for the big day! Goodbye elves! 🎄🎁🎅🏻🤶🏼👋🏼

Our children couldn’t believe what the elves had been up to when they arrived today! The elves had been ‘helpful’ and tried to fill up the children’s water bottles! What a mess! 💧💧💧💧💧

We had a fantastic Christmas dinner with all the trimmings today! A big thank you to Nessie for cooking such a feast! And hats off to Emily for designing the adult Christmas hats! We finished it all off by singing some Christmas carols. What festive fun we had! 🎄🎅🏼🦔🦉😄

Look at what our elves have been up to this week! On Monday we caught them helping themselves to our breakfast, on Tuesday they were being very cheeky with the connecting stars and made a big mess! Today they only went and wrapped our Christmas tree in toilet paper! What cheeky elves! 🎅🏼🎄😱😆

Our elves have been very adventurous, swinging from the Christmas lights! Let’s hope they make it back down safely! 😱

Our elves have been busy doing their washing and hanging it out to dry! They must be getting ready for the Christmas party this afternoon! 🎄🎅🏻🎁

Ripley’s elves have been busy in Owls role play area overnight.... making paper aeroplanes! What a mess they made! 🎄

Last night our elves brought some snow back from the North Pole and had a snowball fight in Hedgehogs room! What cheeky elves! 😊❄️☃️🎄

Those cheeky elves have been getting up to all sorts of mischief while we’ve been away for the weekend... Look at what our children discovered in their dining area this morning! ❄️☃️

Those cheeky elves have been busy causing more mischief on Owls bathroom again... look what they did to toilet number one! 😱

Uh-oh, those naughty elves used up all of our toothpaste last night! How will we brush our teeth today?! 😁 🦷

Our Christmas postal service is up and running for the season, the first Christmas cards have been posted! If you would like to send a Christmas card to anyone at nursery please post your cards in the post box. Owls will be checking and delivering every day at circle time! 😊🦉🎅🏼🎄💌📮

Ripley’s elves have been busy helping Santa wrap all the Christmas presents.... they did such a good job in the office! What a fantastic surprise for Alex this morning! 🎅🏻🎄🎁🤣🤣

It was so cold when our Owls went in the garden this morning that it even started to snow! We had such fun playing in the snowstorm created by Emily’s snow machine! We tried to make snowmen and used our trikes to make marks in the foam snow! ❄️🦉❄️

Our elves have been up to mischief overnight again here at Ripley! Yesterday the children thought the elves might like to draw pictures.... they couldn’t believe it when they arrived this morning! 😂🎄

Santa’s elves have been busy making a special treat for all of the grown ups at Ripley, a thankyou for all of their hard work over the year! 🌟🎄🌟

We have had some special visitors over the weekend here at Ripley... Two of Santa’s elves snuck in and made a snowman in the children’s bathroom! The children were very surprised! I wonder what they will get up to tomorrow! 🎅🏻🎄⛄️

Hello Everyone,
I would like to say a massive thank you to each and everyone of you for today.

I have had an amazing time at Toad Hall Ripley, i have made so many memories that i will cherish!

I wish you all the best for the future.

It would be lovely to keep inn touch

Thank you again,
Candice
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Calling all Daddies & Grandad’s,

Can anyone help with being our Father Christmas 🎅?

Our children will be really sad if we dont have someone volunteer 😢

🎄 We will need you on the 13th December from 3pm - around 4pm

Thank you in advance.

Candice

Here are the pictures from the Owls teddy bears picnic on Friday for Children in Need 2018! The children made their own sandwiches for tea and even helped to make the hedgehogs tea too! Thank you to everyone’s kind donations we raised £50 to give to those in need.

Our Hedgehogs have enjoyed taking part in lots of children in need activities this week and today we had a teddy bears picnic tea! What a treat to share tea with our teddies! 😊🦔🐻

The Owls have had a great week raising money for Children in need. Today we had a Dressing up day with face painting. We have also had a cake sale during the week, making Pudsey cakes to take home to our families and other activities such as a scavenger hunt, magnets, hats, masks and much more. We are looking forward to our Teddy bears picnic and lots of fun games tomorrow!

🦉If you are in Tomorrow, Don’t forget to bring a teddy in for our Picnic. 🦉

Yesterday in Owls one of our children shared their interest in the moon during snack time. We discussed where the moon is and how to get there. The children watched some YouTube clips of rocket launches an were surprised about how noisy it was! We learned about the astronauts that fly the rockets and watched some clips of an astronaut living on a space station. We were amazed to see how he floated around, and learned how to brush teeth in space, what water does in space and how an astronaut goes to sleep in space - he floats in a sleeping bag tied to the wall! We made paper aeroplanes and pretended they were rockets, trying to fly them over the banners hanging around our room. One of our Owls was particularly fascinated by how astronauts sleep in space, so decided to make a picture - she drew an astronaut bear, his sleeping bag, the zip, and made the space station he was on out of masking tape! Space is amazing! 🚀🌓

This afternoon the owls have made their own tea! The children have buttered their own bread and picked their own fillings, they even tried to cut their own sandwiches. The owls found it a bit difficult to butter their bread but with some determination and encouragement they managed to butter both slices of bread, the owls have enjoyed making their own sandwiches.

Here are some photos from Friday where we paid our respects to all of our fallen soldiers. The owls made their own medals, made poppy cookies and drew their own poppy.

To start off our Children in Need week at Ripley the owls have made Pudsey Bear cupcakes!
We have got lots more exciting Pudsey themed activities to do this week to raise awareness for Children in Need.
On Tuesday we will be holding a cake sale at the nursery, on Wednesday the children will be making their our Pudsey Bear fridge magnets. Thursday will be a dress up day, come in as much yellow and/or spotting clothing that you can! On Friday we will be hosting a teddy bears picnic, so don’t forget to bring your favourite cuddly toy!

Tomorrow we will be wearing red at nursery to honour our fallen heroes, please wear as much red as you can!

Apologies for the delay of our Halloween party post, it has taken time to gather pictures of all the spooky activities that took place.
All the staff at Ripley want to thank all of the witches, skeletons, pumpkins, cats, Hulks and parents that came to our Halloween party and made it a spooktacular time for all!

Yesterday our Hedgehogs were feeling very independent as they served their own pineapple for snack, and helped to pour themselves a drink of milk or water. Well done Hedgehogs! 🍍😊🦔

Our Hedgehogs made some beautiful bright paintings yesterday to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights! They used lolly sticks and their fingers to explore mark making. 🕯