African Caribbean Day – a roaring success

Luckily the weather stayed dry for our annual African Caribbean Day.  The children enjoyed a day of workshops including making (and eating) fruit kebabs, necklaces, shakers, flags, clay models, palm trees, hats and collages, listening to music and stories from Africa...
Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

We were delighted to learn that our garden was awarded a ‘silver-gilt award’ by Bristol in Bloom’s School Garden Competition 2015 ‘Learning Through Gardening’, run in conjunction with Bristol City Council Allotment Section.  Chris Curry and Pat Fitton...
Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

Travelling Light Theatre story telling

The Travelling Light Theatre Company visited the Nursery on two occasions to run story telling sessions with the children.  Firstly the children had to shout their names out and these were ‘caught’ in a paper bag.  The children were then enthralled with...
Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

Harvesting our vegetables

We have been busy harvesting our vegetables this week.  We planted the seeds and seed potatoes earlier in the year and have been tending and caring for our beans, peas, turnips, radishes and potatoes over the last few weeks.  Finally our hard work has come to...
Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

Releasing the butterflies

To fit in with our themes of ‘changes’ and ‘patterns’, the children learnt about the life cycle of the butterfly.  The children observed them grow from tiny caterpillars to large caterpillars and change into pupa (chrysallis).  At this stage we transferred them to...
Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

Bristol in Bloom Silver Gilt Award

We were delighted to hear that our garden was awarded a ‘silver-gilt award’ by Bristol in Bloom’s School Garden Competition 2015, run in conjunction with Bristol City Council Allotment Section.  The judge’s comments were: “The Forest...
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