All of the pre-school school-leavers at The Court House had such a wonderful time at the museum on Wednesday! We even managed to find Alfred the gorilla, Doris the dinosaur and the dodo that Alex spoke to the children about. The children especially loved looking at the dinosaurs and animals! After we finished at the …
Bristol Museum
A few weeks ago Elliott’s mummy, Alex, came into The Court House to talk to us about Bristol Museum. She brought in objects and photos of her four favourite things you can find at the museum, these were; Doris the dinosaur (which can be found hanging above the canteen), a unicorn (which if you look …
Dinosaur Day at The Court House
At The Court House last week, the whole nursery was busy with dinosaur activities! In Baby Room, we started the week by incorporating small world dinosaurs into our sand play as this has been a media of interest recently. We encouraged the children to look at the marks the dinosaurs left with their feet in …
Lily’s 18th birthday
Lily, our Twos Room apprentice at Mornington House, celebrated her 18th birthday recently. Rhianna made a delicious cake and we all sang Happy Birthday!
Bubble painting fun
At The Priory, the preschool children enjoyed bubble painting. We had such fun creating the biggest bubbles we could blow : ) “Bubble, bubble, bubble. Bubble, bubble, bubble…Bubble…Bubble…Bubble…POP!!”
Woodland Makery at The Court House
The Court House had so much fun with Elise from Woodland Makery! Elise taught us lots of new, fun things about spring and the environment. We had four different stations. Outside we went on a bug hunt to see what bugs and insects we have in our garden and we were making leaf prints using …
New nappy recycling trial
Bristol Childcare is proud to announce that it is working with waste disposal company Green Bottoms to organise the recycling of nappies used at its nurseries, and support families in taking part in a trial scheme in Bristol to recycle nappies. Green Bottoms has partnered with Pura NappiCycle to organise for nappies to be recycled …
Forest School at Mornington House
Mornington House really enjoyed their Forest School experience with Elise from Woodland Makery. Elise sang us a song about being kind to bugs and insects. We looked at stinging nettles and tried some that were safe to eat. We then took turns to cut up vegetables, cut a log with a saw to make a …
Easter parent visit
At The Court House the pre school had a visit from Isaac’s dad, Tim. Tim came to teach us about why some people celebrate Easter. He told us about some of the things we might see at Easter time and what Christians believe in. He read us the Easter Story and some of us had …
Forest School with Woodland Makery
The wonderful Elise from Woodland Makery visited The Priory for another Forest School session. The children were captivated by the array of activities available and completely engrossed and engaged throughout the whole session. The children were shown how to make fresh nettle soup and bread and were involved in every step of the process, from …