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 …
Christmas at Mornington House
One of our Significant Six statements in our curriculum is “To treasure and celebrate family life in all its diversity.” So this year in preschool, we asked parents to come in and talk about how their family celebrate at Christmas. This has been a wonderful and valuable learning opportunity for the children and adults and …
Christmas carols in the garden
At Mornington House, we had a lovely time singing Christmas Carols in the garden with children and parents. It was really cold, but we all wrapped up warm with hats, scarves and gloves. Afterwards we enjoyed hot chocolate and Lou’s delicious home-made mince pies. Merry Christmas everyone!
St Nicholas Day
Recently at Mornington House, we learned about St. Nicholas day, which is celebrated in some countries, like Belgium where Rachelle grew up. Now that Rachelle has her own child, she celebrates with her at home and thought it would be a lovely idea to talk about this with the children from the Twos room and …