This year we have celebrated World Book Day throughout the week. We have encouraged children to bring in their own books from home to help develop a love of stories! In baby room they have been sharing stories from home at lunch time. In the twos room they have been creating salt dough dinosaur feet …
Pancake Day!
Recently we celebrated pancake day, with lots of yummy pancakes made by our cook. We got to choose the toppings we wanted on them. They were delicious!!
Storytime at The Priory
We love reading books and sharing stories at The Priory 📚Enjoying stories, songs and rhymes is one of the core elements of our curriculum and it’s wonderful to see the children so absorbed.
February sun!
The children at The Court House were having a wonderful time in the sunshine this week 😎☀️ The pre-school children introduced me (Saffia) to an “angry dinosaur” and the babies and staff really enjoyed a walk together.
National Pizza Day!
Recently we celebrated National Pizza Day. Louise helped prepare different toppings for our pizza. All the rooms made their own pizzas for tea! We helped the children to wash their hands and they chose their favourite toppings to add to the pizza base.
One of our Mums gave us a big Chinese knot decoration and some little ones too. The children filled a bucket with earth from the garden and Gemma cut down some of the bamboo. We then hung the small knot decorations all over the bamboo branches. Chinese knots are a traditional art of China and …
Chinese New Year
Gemma’s key group talked about the Chinese writing and symbols. She wrote the word rabbit as it’s the zodiac animal for this year in Chinese and asked each of the children to have a go at making marks to represent the word. We then started to look at dragon dancing on the tablet which sparked …
Julian Trust Night Shelter
This year, our Christmas collection was for the Julian Trust Night Shelter in Bristol. Various official surveys have suggested that Bristol has the largest numbers of homeless outside of London. Their website says: “One thing is certain – that those who are roofless, sleeping rough around the city, have the most appalling conditions to contend …
The Priory Christmas Lunch
The children and staff at The Priory really enjoyed their Christmas lunch. We would like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and look forward to seeing you all in 2023.
Court House Christmas Stay and Play
We had a great afternoon at our Christmas stay and play. We enjoyed lots of yummy food that Sarah made. All of us enjoyed exploring the nursery and the activities that were out in the rooms. We loved throwing snowballs at Steve the Snowman in the twos room. We all enjoyed Christmas dancing in pre-school …