Nicky Agar

For lunch at The Court House, babies, twos and preschool all enjoyed a family meal time by having a picnic lunch together in the pre-school! Sarah made some delicious food – cheese and cherry tomato quiche, ham and cheese quiche, potato salad with lemon zest and mint, coleslaw with a Greek yoghurt dressing, mixed garden …

The whole nursery at Mornington House love being visited by Elise from Woodland Makery. The focus this visit was summer. Elise started by singing the Forest School song which is about using tools safely and taking turns. We made wooden bead necklaces by peeling bark, pushing holes in the wood and threading wool through the …

On Friday it was the Summer Solstice, which is the longest day of the year.  As a staff team at Mornington House, we discussed that Summer Solstice is an opportunity to let go of what no longer serves us, such as habits, relationships, negative talk, commitments and worry.  It is also an opportunity to re-connect …

All of the pre-school school-leavers at The Court House had such a wonderful time at the museum on Wednesday! We even managed to find Alfred the gorilla, Doris the dinosaur and the dodo that Alex spoke to the children about. The children especially loved looking at the dinosaurs and animals! After we finished at the …

A few weeks ago Elliott’s mummy, Alex, came into The Court House to talk to us about Bristol Museum. She brought in objects and photos of her four favourite things you can find at the museum, these were; Doris the dinosaur (which can be found hanging above the canteen), a unicorn (which if you look …

At The Court House last week, the whole nursery was busy with dinosaur activities! In Baby Room, we started the week by incorporating small world dinosaurs into our sand play as this has been a media of interest recently. We encouraged the children to look at the marks the dinosaurs left with their feet in …

Lily, our Twos Room apprentice at Mornington House, celebrated her 18th birthday recently.  Rhianna made a delicious cake and we all sang Happy Birthday!

At The Priory, the preschool children enjoyed bubble painting. We had such fun creating the biggest bubbles we could blow : ) “Bubble, bubble, bubble. Bubble, bubble, bubble…Bubble…Bubble…Bubble…POP!!”  

The Court House had so much fun with Elise from Woodland Makery! Elise taught us lots of new, fun things about spring and the environment. We had four different stations. Outside we went on a bug hunt to see what bugs and insects we have in our garden and we were making leaf prints using …