A parent, whose children used to attend Mornington House, is a Dental Hygienist and she visited us with one of her colleagues. She asked us what type of toothbrush we all used to clean our teeth and talked about how some are electric and some are not, but that doesn’t matter as long as you …
Sound Therapy at The Court House
We were lucky to have Juliana come into nursery and play and care for the children at The Court House. She brought in her singing bowls and did a session with each room. She talked about self-love and care, as this has been something all the children have been thinking about this month, talking about …
Visiting our pen pals
The Court House pre school recently made our first trip to Stokeleigh Lodge Retirement Home! The children all had a wonderful time. At first the children were a little nervous to meet the residents, but as time went on they became more confident! Both the children and residents enjoyed building with stickle bricks and throwing …
Safer Internet Day
At Mornington House we talked about Safer Internet Day. We looked at the book ‘Once Upon a Time Online‘ which explores the perils of the internet, sharing technology and how much attention it takes away from other activities. It explores how we can use the internet to help us rather than become consumed by it. …
Chinese New Year at The Court House
At The Court House we recently celebrated Chinese New Year. We talked about the celebration and looked at the animals that represent the years. This year is the year of the snake. We all decorated placemats to use at lunch time and Sarah cooked us a delicious Chinese stir fry. We enjoyed listening to traditional …
Weather watching at The Court House
At The Court House, the Baby Room participates in morning group time in which we sing ‘hello’ to everyone. We also look at the day of the week and the weather. The babies love the weather element so much that we decided to base our play around this. We started the morning singing “What’s the …
Children’s Hospital visit
We have been talking in Preschool at Mornington House about people who are kind and some of the children remembered when they had to go to hospital and how kind the nurses were to them. One of our children’s mums is a nurse at Bristol Children’s Hospital on Coastguard ward, which is a surgical ward, …
Woodland Makery at The Priory
Recently at The Priory we had another visit from Elise at Woodland Makery. The theme for this session was winter. We rescued pompom birds, made wild bird feeders and birds out of pine and spruce trees and dowel. Elise also brought bird puppets with her, which she placed around the garden, adding to the fun. …
‘The Smeds and the Smoos’
Recently the twos at Mornington House have been really enjoying our core book ‘The Smeds and the Smoos‘. We’ve used junk modelling to make rockets, play dough to make aliens and explored the wurpular woods tuff tray with sand and empty egg cartons. We also used wooden blocks to make rockets too. For lunch we …
New toy animals
The Twos Room at The Priory received some lovely new animals recently. These resources were introduced at circle time and it was explained to the children the importance of respecting and taking care of our things. To encourage this, the baskets were labelled with a photo that represents what’s inside and we have demonstrated to …