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July 17,2019

Messy Day

The children in the Tweenie room have had lots of fun this week participating in a variety of messy play activities. We have explored different textures with wobbly jelly, gooey slime, crunchy cereal and shaving foam sand. We experimented with different colours in the playdough. Outside we used wate

July 12,2019

STEM Day

The children enjoyed a fun filled STEM day at nursery this week with lots of stations to discover and explore throughout the day. Here are a few of the things we did- Coke and Mentos experiment Weight distribution Construction Volcanos Static electricity Balloon rockets Rainbow rain clouds We all ha

July 10,2019

STEM Day

This week the Tweenie children have been participating in STEM experiences. We have carried out a variety of science experiments to explore cause and effect. We also investigated and tinkered about with a variety of technology resources. We have had lots of opportunities to play with large blocks, l

July 03,2019

Fun with paint

The children in the Tweenie room have been very creative this week. We worked on our fine motor skills making a pasta necklace and sorting rainbow rice into the different colours. We tried a new colour paint experiment with Chloe this week. We mixed different colour of paint and added a variety of t

June 28,2019

Graduation

It has been a very emotional week for our older children and the ladies. We had our pre-school graduation on Tuesday. The children demonstrated some of their learning and favourite memories from nursery. The leaver’s song left some of us very emotional. The children received a certificate and a bo

June 26,2019

This week the Tweenie children had a fabulous adventure on a trip to playbugs. The children had great fun exploring the exciting physical play environment and enjoyed a healthy snack in the party room. We would like to thank Orla’s daddy, Mark, for helping to organise transport, party food and ent

June 21,2019

Community Spirit

Our older children have had an exciting week. We made flags and went out to celebrate Marches day on Tuesday. We also made special flowers for our friend Erla at Tesco for her special Gala day arch. We popped along to Tesco on Friday to see the finished arch and Erla gave us a big […]

June 14,2019

Exciting News

By Gillian Mustard
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The older children have had lots of fun at sports day this week. The children were in teams and worked their way around 6 activity stations. The egg and spoon was tricky but the hurdles presented the most difficulty! The highlight was the mummies and daddies race with the children cheering and clapp

June 12,2019

Fathers Day

This week the children have been celebrating Father’s Day and some of the daddies have been in nursery to have a play session. The children loved exploring with their daddy and showing him some of their favourite things to do at nursery. We would like to thank the daddies for coming into nursery a

June 05,2019

Bread making

By Gillian Mustard
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To follow our growing interest in STEM experiences, the children have chosen to make bread. We followed a recipe and added all of the ingredients to the bread maker. We explored the different textures of each of the ingredients. Once the bread was ready it smelt delicious, so we cut it up and had it