On Friday 10 December we enjoyed welcoming parents and carers into nursery for our Stay and Play session. Lots of exciting activities had been set up across the nursery and Sarah our cook created a delicious buffet. It was fantastic to get to know each other better and a wonderful homely and supportive event. We …
Food Bank Donations at The Priory
Yesterday, the two’s helped pack up the food donations ready to take to the food bank. We are very grateful to everyone who has donated, we really appreciate it and know it’s going to make a difference this Christmas time.
Letters to Father Christmas
The preschool children had a circle time and discussed which present they would really like to have from Father Christmas. They then carefully wrote their letters, thinking about some of the sounds in the words they were writing, and put them all in a big envelope to send off to Lapland. Sally and Jemima took …
Food Donations at Mornington House
This year we chose our appeal to be for the Bristol North West Foodbank to help them provide Christmas food parcels for local individuals and families in crisis. Parents and staff generously donated lots of items requested on their shopping list and Louise, our cook, kindly took them to the local Foodbank.
Remembrance Sunday
On Sunday 14 November 2021, Priory staff member Ella Merrick took part in the Remembrance Parade in the centre of Bristol. Ella was taking part as a member of the Army Cadets. Ella says: “Lest we forget. We will remember you. On the 14th November 2021, I took part in town parade. It was an …
New Knives
We have some special new children’s knives to encourage independence and to support development in fine motor skills. The children in the Twos room and Preschool have been enjoying learning how to use them safely to cut their fruit for snack time.
Congratulations to Karenza!
Congratulations to Karenza, who works at The Court House, who has completed her Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification with Aspiration Training. This qualification is the culmination of 18 months of hard work and commitment so we’d like to celebrate this with Karenza and acknowledge this fantastic achievement.
Cuddles!
What a lovely circle time we had yesterday morning. We have been learning all about feelings and emotions recently really focussing on children’s mental health and awareness and the importance of looking after ourselves and others. For this circle time we passed a very special cuddle around the circle and ended with the biggest cuddle…to …
Halloween at The Court House
We had a great day at our Halloween fun day!! We all dressed up and ate lots of yummy foods, did some spooky dancing in the morning, decorated cookies and did magic potions, played with spooky gloop and creepy playdough!!
Happy Halloween from The Priory!!
The most enjoyable thing about today was for the children to dress up in their favourite costumes. The staff had fun as well! Throughout the week we have been carving pumpkins, creating our own pumpkins with glue and tissue paper and finding creep crawlies in the water and sand.