Nicky Agar

Bristol Early Years held a long service and thank you celebration at City Hall for practitioners who have worked in early years settings for 20 years or more. Justine, Diane and Sally have collectively worked in early years for 91 years! So, they were very pleased to be invited to the event to see colleagues …

Merry Christmas Pen Pals! The Court House has been making Christmas cards for their pen pals at Stokeleigh Lodge. Some of the children chose specific residents while others chose to write to the retirement home. The children used a variety of different resources to make their cards including stickers, tissue paper, and coloured pencils. All …

It snowed recently, but there wasn’t enough to make a real snowman! The children at Mornington House made white play dough instead and designed their own snowmen.  

Linda and Derrick the Dinosaur came to see us for our Active Kids session recently at Mornington House! We had fun pretending to be different types of dinosaurs, dancing and doing our stretches. Then we practised using pegs to pick up the dinosaurs and finished off with the parachute!

At Mornington House, one of the children in Preschool’s Mum is German and Dad is Hungarian. This means that he can speak three languages! His Dad came to read ‘Zog’ in Hungarian and Mum read a ‘Peppa Pig’ story in German. The children sat so quietly and listened really well to the stories in languages …

At Mornington House, we wore pyjamas and made cakes and biscuits to raise money for Children in Need. We also did painting activities and made Pudsey ears.

The Priory were very lucky to have a visit from a police officer recently. The children were fascinated by the flashing blue lights and the different types of helmets. All the children tried on the large fluorescent jackets and explored the police car with lots of buttons and the horn.