We were very fortunate that BAND (Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare) offered us the opportunity of a 3 hour Music Workshop with Bill the Music Man. The babies really enjoyed Bill’s visit. They loved all the exciting new instruments he had brought for us to explore. He sang lots of our favourite songs and taught …
Court House Palaeontologists
The children have shown an interest in dinosaurs. So, we decided we wanted to make our own dinosaur bones using salt dough. We made the salt dough together; we spoke about the instructions how to make salt dough what we need and the amount we needed. We took it in turns to stir the dough. …
Pizza making in the Twos Room
It was pizza for tea on Thursday and we wanted to make our own! Louise prepared the dough and we took turns to roll it out using a very big rolling pin and used our special children’s knives to chop the peppers. We felt all the ingredients and smelled them too and worked together in …
Dark Den at Mornington House
The preschool children have been very interested in space and this week have been learning about constellations. Mae wanted to create Libra and she used a screwdriver to make the holes in the card. We drew the constellation, with dots to represent the stars. Mae then used a ruler to join the stars, so that …
Aspiration Training’s Childcare Employer of the Year
We are delighted to announce that we have been named as Aspiration Training’s Childcare Employer of the Year 2021! We were presented – virtually – with this award just before Christmas, and you can watch the video made about us here. Aspiration Training state: The theme for 2021 was ‘Improving people’s lives through education’. 2021 has …
Downs Walk
Jo, Megan and Rhianna took the babies for a lovely long winter walk on the downs. They wrapped them up warmly with hats and blankets and set off for a couple of hours to enjoy the fresh air, trees and views to the suspension bridge. They were very ready for their cottage pie on their …
Reindeer Food
The Children made their own reindeer food to take home before Christmas. They mixed Oats, Glitter and Lavender and poured their ingredients into their own drawstring bag ready to put out on Christmas Eve.
The Priory Christmas Party
On Wednesday we had our Christmas Party at nursery. The Children sang to him as he arrived and a gift was given to everyone!! Merry Christmas to you all from the Priory.
Advent Pass the Parcel
This year in preschool at Mornington House their advent calendar is a little different! The children worked with Sally to write the numbers on the bell template. Jemima wrapped 24 little presents into one parcel so that every day leading up to Christmas the children can unwrap one numbered layer and receive a small gift. …
Supporting the use of reusable nappies
On Friday 19 November, staff from the babies and twos rooms at The Court House attended Cloth Nappy training with Sarah from Bristol Cloth Nappy Library. Bristol Childcare has a trial pack of reusable nappies which has been put together with the support of Close Parent, Tots Bots, Easy Peasy Nappies and South Glos council. …