What makes us different

Congratulations to Sally who has worked for Bristol Childcare at Mornington House for 25 years. We are celebrating this as a team later in the month but as Sally joined us on 1 August all those years ago, we wanted to mark the occasion; we found this photo in the archives. Sally is an incredible …

This is Nicky, the Managing Director’s Assistant, who deliveres our bulk-ordered food, nappies and stationery to each nursery on Thursdays. We have recently purchased a second-hand electric van which we can charge using the solar panels at Head Office. We are really pleased to be making these small changes to try and reduce our carbon …

We are delighted to announce that we have been named as Aspiration Training’s Childcare Employer of the Year 2021! We were presented – virtually – with this award just before Christmas, and you can watch the video made about us here. Aspiration Training state: The theme for 2021 was ‘Improving people’s lives through education’. 2021 has …

On Friday 19 November, staff from the babies and twos rooms at The Court House attended Cloth Nappy training with Sarah from Bristol Cloth Nappy Library. Bristol Childcare has a trial pack of reusable nappies which has been put together with the support of Close Parent, Tots Bots, Easy Peasy Nappies and South Glos council. …

The 2’s decided to explore sounds and recording last week, weaving in different musical cultures and styles. As we enter into Autumn, we decided to centre the activities around the season. We looked at carnival traditions from around the world and noticed many of them included headdresses. So, in our theme, we collected leaves, attaching …

Abby came up with the idea that each room cooked for the Court House Bake Off 2021. All the rooms got to work. Baby Room made Biscuits. 2’s made a Marble cake. Rising PreSchool made Cake Cones. Pre-School made Muffins with Carrots on the top a gardening theme. At 11.30 15th April Natalie and Jackie …

During March, a team of 8 of us from the Baby Room and Twos Room enjoyed Makaton training with Nic Pike from Better Communication Bristol. We enjoyed learning new signs and the reasons behind them. We also learnt how to use Makaton in sentences and placement of signs. It taught us how to break it …

It was wonderful to see the lunch table looking so welcoming in the twos room at Mornington House.

Last week the children showed interest in our daffodils growing in the room, so we got them down to have a closer look. We introduced words such as petals, stalk, stem, leaf, soil and we discussed what flowers need to grow. To extend their interest we then painted pictures of the daffodils focussing on their …

The younger children explored paint with their hands and the animals mixing together yellow and red paint, while the older children explored the noodles and tried to use chop sticks. Both groups of children used stamps to create pictures and decorated masks for our race. We told all the children about the race that the …