Merry-go-round

THANK YOU 💕😊

We have had a fabulous last day at nursery. We have been dancing to lots of Christmas music and getting in the Christmas mood. We had a little bit of party food for snack today too and enjoyed a visit from some special visitors.

Thank you so much to everyone who kindly bought in gifts for the staff. They are very much appreciated 😘

Can we just take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support this year. It hasn't been an easy one but we got through it together. We couldn't be prouder of our children for coping so well under the circumstances.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year ⭐🎄☃️🎅💕 See you on the 4th January.

From all the staff at Merry Go Round ❤

THANK YOU 💕😊

We have had a fabulous last day at nursery. We have been dancing to lots of Christmas music and getting in the Christmas mood. We had a little bit of party food for snack today too and enjoyed a visit from some special visitors.

Thank you so much to everyone who kindly bought in gifts for the staff. They are very much appreciated 😘

Can we just take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support this year. It hasn't been an easy one but we got through it together. We couldn't be prouder of our children for coping so well under the circumstances.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year ⭐🎄☃️🎅💕 See you on the 4th January.

From all the staff at Merry Go Round ❤

We continued our Christmas party in to the afternoon. We did some dancing with the disco lights and ate some yummy party food. We got to do some super exciting Christmas crafts too.

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LOOK WHO CAME TO SEE US ❤️

KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR THE VIDEOS.

A HUGE WELL DONE to all of our superstars who took part in today's nativity performance. You we're all incredible and we are so proud of you!

One more day to go. We have 2 special visitors in nursery tomorrow for our party day. We would be so grateful for any party food donations but as always, it's not compulsory!

See you all tomorrow ❤

PROGRESS REPORTS ARE NOW LIVE ON YOUR CHILD'S TAPESTRY ACCOUNT.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR CHILD'S REPORT SO AS THEIR KEY WORKER KNOWS YOU HAVE ACCESSED IT.

MANY THANKS
JESS

Just a reminder about our FESTIVE WEEK this week...

Tuesday - CRAFT EVENING 5pm - 7pm. Masks must be worn unless medically exempt. Tables will be spaced out and we ask that social distancing is adhered to between families.

Wednesday - SANTA VISIT. Santa will be joining us at 10am and 2pm.

Thursday - NATIVITY DAY! 2 parents per child, per peformance. Masks to be worn unless medically exempt. If you are able, please take a LFT before coming. Chairs will be spaced and we ask again that social distancing between families is adhered too.

Friday - PARTY AND MASCOT DAY! Elf on the Shelf and Mickey Mouse will be joining us for our Christmas party on Friday. Mascots will be taking LFT before attending. We would be extremely grateful for any party food donations, but please don't feel obliged.

CHRISTMAS JUMPERS WILL BE WORN BY ALL STAFF THIS WEEK, I HOPE YOU CAN ALL JOIN IN 😍

NATIVITY INFORMATION AND CRAFT EVENING.

Good morning everyone, please read until the end for information about next Thursdays Nativity performance and Tuesday's craft evening.

At the moment, we are allowing parents in. We are monitoring the covid situation very carefully and will have some protective measures in place. These will be as follows:

- Only 2 parents are permitted to attend the Nativity. This is so as we can try our best to keep households socially distanced and numbers at a minimum.

- Hand gel will be in dispensers upon entrance. Please use these before entering the main room.

- We kindly ask that if you are able, please take a LFT before attending the Nativity.

- We are also kindly asking that all parents wear a mask, unless medically exempt. No proof needed.

If anyone has any signs of illness, regardless of how mild. Please stay at home. We are trying our best to ensure that children are not missing out on experiences this year but this involves us all working together to ensure everyone is as protected as possible.

If you are unsure whether your child will play their part in the am or pm performance, please message Jess.

We also ask that parents take (if they are able) LFT before attending the craft evening and wear masks whilst in the building.

If this situation changes, you will be notified immediately.

I hope you can all understand why we have had to put these measures in place.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Jess x

Christmas photographs have arrived :)

We are having such alovely afternoon, we've put our wetsuits on and wellies and went in the garden with Katie and splashed in muddy puddles and then enjoyed measuring, filling and emptying water with jugs, cups, pans and furthering it we used drainers to make the water run through like rain comes down from the sky, we spoke about how it rained today and how cold the weather is and the sounds we can make together.

We enjoyed making our own Christmas light pictures with Julie and Katie. And during spoke about our own Christmas decorations at home.

Then we've enjoyed gluing and sticking with Laura and playing with dinasours with Beth.

For rolling snack we've had 🍊 orange and apple 🍎😋

What a lovely start to the week, we've been exploring our new goggles and pulling funny faces at one another, we have been role playing being chefs and mommy's and daddy's, some of us created our very own Christmas lights picture, and we have built towers and learnt about our construction vehicles, and we found our mischievous elf hanging from the ceiling 🤣🤣....

Good morning everyone 😁,
Todays child interest is based from some of the children talking about their Christmas tree and their lights they put on their tree. We furthered this interest through a fun and creative craft activity, using a variety of paint colours, glitter and sensory ball to dip into the paint and roll it over each child's chosen paper.

This activity encouraged fine motor skills, hand and eye co-ordination, communication & language, turn taking, sharing throughout.

Don't forget your Christmas jumpers this week. We have been seeing lots of you wearing them already🎄

We still have some spaces left for our festive events week next week. If you would like to book your child in for an additional session, please speak to Jess.

Our Christmas party day will be on Friday 17th December where we will be joined by Mickey Mouse and Elf on the Shelf mascots.

We've had such a lovely festive day. Some of us made some Christmas cards using a table full of different materials. We also tried snap peas for snack. They were yummy. Have a lovely weekend x

Don't forget, if you want to book on to our Baby Sensory session tomorrow to book online to reserve a time slot 👇🏼☺

Baby Sensory places still available for tomorrow! 40 minutes session for up to 4 babies and carers, in a relaxed, informal environment exploring our lovely sensory room. Book your place here for just £5. http://bookings.busybuildings.uk

We are having such alovely time, exploring the sea animals within the ice and melted snow together 😁 and balancing on our play frame and making our own Christmas tree🎄 pictures 😍🤩🎄, and for our snack choice today we had 🥝 kiwi and apple 🍎

We are absolutely loving to build a variety of structures with our magnetic Lego, along with being creative within the free painting station and exploring the puppet's and construction vehicles with our carers😁, just take a look......

We've been talking about snow ❄️ and how ice is created🤩😍 we have used our senses to touch, smell and explore both. We found out that both are cold and snow melts quicker then ice does. We also spoke about how we can play safely in and with ice and snow, and what might happen if we don't play and explore safely with both. We've all have loved learning whilst playing outside with carers, Laura, Katie and Julie.

Within our indoors environment we have created cosy Dens and enjoyed looking at books, and explored the wooden cars with Zuzanna and Chelsea.

Our self selection tables we've been learning our colours and numbers together 😁.
And enjoyed the choice of apple and cucumber.

Happy 😁 Monday everyone, we've enjoyed our child interest activity with Katie today, creating our very own Christmas trees 🎄🎄🎄, our carers Katie and Julie decided to further our interests, about us all talking about putting up our Christmas trees over the weekend, through a fun and creative activity, using a vibrant green paint colour chosen by the children and a variety of glitter, whereby we all had choice to choose our own glitter to decorate our handprint Christmas trees 🎄😁😁😁 take a look at us enjoying our activity...

We've been amazing having our photos taken by the photographer today. We finished off our day with a story about Santa and his reindeers. Have a lovely weekend everyone x

We've had a great day looking at different foods from Poland. We learnt how to say 'Hello' in Polish. Make sure to ask us, we've been practicing really hard. Thank you Zuzanna for sharing a little about your culture and the AMAZING Poland 😄

. 🇵🇱 P O L I S H T A S T E R D A Y 🇵🇱

. This is Zuzanna 👇🏼

She has been a valued member of our team since July this year following a long term student placement since 2019. Zuzanna was born in Poland, like a few of our fantastic children also and moved to England when she was 9 years old.

Zuzanna has been teaching us some Polish words recently and tomorrow we will be engaging in a Polish tasting session. We will be trying a variety of different foods and enhancing our knowledge on different cultures and traditions.

Here at Merry Go Round, we like to teach equality and diversity to our children every single day. This will also be a great opportunity for the children to develop a wider understanding of the world we live in and to experience the differences we share with other communities across the world.

Zuzanna - "My favourite part of Poland is the polish sea. I also love Kraków also known as as Cracow. Kraków is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596. Here are some photos of my recent visit."

JUST A REMINDER THAT THE PHOTOGRAPHER WILL BE IN NURSERY THIS FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER BETWEEN 9:30AM AND 1:30PM.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR CHILD PHOTOGRAPHED AND THEY ARE NOT NORMALLY IN ON FRIDAYS, PLEASE MESSAGE JESS FOR AN APPOINTMENT SLOT.

THANK YOU.

Take a look at us all having such a wonderful morning, we are having so much fun, both indoors and outdoors either our carers, to stay warm we've been spinning around with Chelsea & Laura & Katie, then inside we've been building and making Dens with Julie and Zuzanna 😍😍😍 we've had on out self selection table grapes & Kiwi 😋.

We are having alovely Monday morning at Nursery 😄 for today's child based & interest activity we enjoyed looking at different shapes, colours and patterns with carers Katie & Julie, we furthered our understanding of them through exploring shapes and objects within a variety of different colour paints, during some of us were really good at recognising our colours, and some of us knew our shapes, all the children learnt a new shape called, .hexagon'.'

Don't forget to book online!

Baby Sensory places still available for tomorrow! 40 minutes session for up to 4 babies and carers, in a relaxed, informal environment exploring our lovely sensory room. Book your place here for just £5. http://bookings.busybuildings.uk

CHILDREN IN NEED 2021 💛

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A huge thank you to one of our lovely parents for these AMAZING Pudsey cakes 💛

A huge thank you to one of our lovely parents for these AMAZING Pudsey cakes 💛

CHILDREN IN NEED 2021 💛

#FUNDRAISINGWITHMERRYGOROUND2021

CHILDREN IN NEED 2021 💛

#FUNDRAISINGWITHMERRYGOROUND2021

MERRY GO ROUND ARE FUNDRAISING FOR CHILDREN IN NEED 💛

Don't forget to wear your pudsey clothes or pyjamas tomorrow. We have a fantastic day with lots of exciting activities planned.

Please tag us in your photos and use the #FUNDRAISINGWITHMERRYGOROUND2021

Donations appreciated but not compulsory.

Thank you
Jess x

I spy with my little eye...
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BABY SENSORY PARENTS, PLEASE READ 👇🏼

Our new booking system is now up and running so to book your weekly slot, please visit http://bookings.busybuildings.uk and choose the session you require.

Sessions have now been increased to 40 minutes each so times are 9am - 9:40am or 9:50am - 10:30pm.

Places are limited so book in advance to avoid disappointment.

Thank you
Jess ❤

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JANUARY SPACES AVAILABLE for 2, 3 and 4 YEAR OLDS

If your child turns 2 before 31st December 2021, you may be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare under Wolverhampton's Terrific for 2's childcare scheme.

Who is eligible for a place?

To get a place you must have a child who is 2, or will be 2 before December 31st 2021.

Families in receipt of:
✅Working Tax Credit / Child Tax Credit and earn less than £16,190
✅Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
✅Income Support
✅Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
✅Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
✅Children who receive Disability Living Allowance
✅Children who have an Education Health and Care plan
✅Children who are looked after by a local council
✅Children who have left care under a special guardianship order.

Some parents may have been sent a postcard through the post,
similar to the photo below. This just needs to be passed on to the nursery as you are automatically eligible if you have received this.

Parents can check their eligibility online via: Early Years Support by following this link - https://early-help-support-parents.wolverhampton.gov.uk/apply/tft
Alternatively, you can contact them on 01902 554242.

We also have some spaces for 3 and 4 year olds too. If your child has turned 3 before 31st December 2021, you are automatically entitled to 15 free hours under the Nursery Education Funding for 3 year olds and above. Some parents will meet the criteria for 30 free hours and the requirements for this can be found on this website - https://www.gov.uk/30-hours-free-childcare

For any enquiries, please contact Jess on 07821955305 or email us at [email protected]

JANUARY SPACES AVAILABLE for 2, 3 and 4 YEAR OLDS

If your child turns 2 before 31st December 2021, you may be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare under Wolverhampton's Terrific for 2's childcare scheme.

Who is eligible for a place?

To get a place you must have a child who is 2, or will be 2 before December 31st 2021.

Families in receipt of:
✅Working Tax Credit / Child Tax Credit and earn less than £16,190
✅Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
✅Income Support
✅Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
✅Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
✅Children who receive Disability Living Allowance
✅Children who have an Education Health and Care plan
✅Children who are looked after by a local council
✅Children who have left care under a special guardianship order.

Some parents may have been sent a postcard through the post,
similar to the photo below. This just needs to be passed on to the nursery as you are automatically eligible if you have received this.

Parents can check their eligibility online via: Early Years Support by following this link - https://early-help-support-parents.wolverhampton.gov.uk/apply/tft
Alternatively, you can contact them on 01902 554242.

We also have some spaces for 3 and 4 year olds too. If your child has turned 3 before 31st December 2021, you are automatically entitled to 15 free hours under the Nursery Education Funding for 3 year olds and above. Some parents will meet the criteria for 30 free hours and the requirements for this can be found on this website - https://www.gov.uk/30-hours-free-childcare

For any enquiries, please contact Jess on 07821955305 or email us at [email protected]