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 …
Junk Modelling Fun!
Over the Christmas break, Sue, one of our founders, collected some items for junk modelling at The Priory. Sue took the items in and the children loved searching through the boxes to see what they could make. It’s amazing to see the children get so creative with items destined for the recycling!
Nativity at The Priory
We have no words to say to our amazing preschool children except WOW! What a show they put on for everyone. They have been so excited practising, rehearsing, singing, dancing and above all having so much fun! We were blown away with how brave they all were and truly put on the performance of the …
Julian Trust Night Shelter
Twice a year the staff and families from Mornington House kindly donate food and clothes for The Julian Trust, a night shelter here in Bristol. Bristol Childcare support this by donating some large tins of food. You can find out more about the The Julian Trust and their valuable work here.