Bristol Early Years held a long service and thank you celebration at City Hall for practitioners who have worked in early years settings for 20 years or more. Justine, Diane and Sally have collectively worked in early years for 91 years! So, they were very pleased to be invited to the event to see colleagues …
Pen Pals at The Court House
Merry Christmas Pen Pals! The Court House has been making Christmas cards for their pen pals at Stokeleigh Lodge. Some of the children chose specific residents while others chose to write to the retirement home. The children used a variety of different resources to make their cards including stickers, tissue paper, and coloured pencils. All …
Snow Day!
It snowed recently, but there wasn’t enough to make a real snowman! The children at Mornington House made white play dough instead and designed their own snowmen.
Active Kids
Linda and Derrick the Dinosaur came to see us for our Active Kids session recently at Mornington House! We had fun pretending to be different types of dinosaurs, dancing and doing our stretches. Then we practised using pegs to pick up the dinosaurs and finished off with the parachute!
Storytime in Hungarian and German!
At Mornington House, one of the children in Preschool’s Mum is German and Dad is Hungarian. This means that he can speak three languages! His Dad came to read ‘Zog’ in Hungarian and Mum read a ‘Peppa Pig’ story in German. The children sat so quietly and listened really well to the stories in languages …
Children in Need
At Mornington House, we wore pyjamas and made cakes and biscuits to raise money for Children in Need. We also did painting activities and made Pudsey ears.
Police visit
The Priory were very lucky to have a visit from a police officer recently. The children were fascinated by the flashing blue lights and the different types of helmets. All the children tried on the large fluorescent jackets and explored the police car with lots of buttons and the horn.
Road Safety
At Mornington House we have been learning about road safety. We role played lots of different scenarios like debris in the road, stopping for the lollipop lady/man, crossing the road safely. We learned that you need to stop at the zebra crossing to check that cars are going to stop. We also learned about the …
Library visits
At The Priory, we have recently started taking small groups to the library, we had conversations about road safety on the way and the children were very sensible when crossing the road. We have enjoyed exploring the wide range of books and sitting down to read new and exciting stories. We also enjoy trying out …
Space Week
We had a very busy Space Week at The Court House! We used some of our new silicone spades and containers to talk about shape, space and measure and early science as we poured and measured the volume of water. This also added an element of art and design as we mixed colours. Chloë set …