Diesel power station to be built near Nursery
Councillor Margaret Hickman has brought to our attention a proposed development of a diesel power station near our school. A London based company called Plutus Energy has submitted planning application. They intend to create a ‘Flexible Generation Facility’ in the St...
Children creating animation
Elle Dimond, a freelance animator and film maker, will be working with the children over the winter term. As well as working on her own work she delivers film making workshops to young people. She is currently working on behalf of Suited and Booted Studios who have...
Apple Day success
The School celebrated Apple Day on Wednesday 30 September which involved taking part in apple-related activities during the day and culminated in apple pressing in the afternoon. During the day the children tasted apple cake, printed with apples, made playdough...
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
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 collected the...
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 the making of...
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...
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
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 School is proving to be an...
Forest School 2015 success
The School has reported very successful visits to Forest School at Arnos Vale and expressed their delight at the opportunity to work with parents and children for the day in a wonderful outdoor learning environment. Luckily the weather stayed dry for us on all four...
Shaun in the City
We would like to express our thanks to Burges Salmon LLP (Solicitors) who kindly donated a Shaun in the City schools sculpture to the School. During Term 5 the children explored the theme of 'opposites'. Activities included weaving and sewing and learning new...
Visit from Maureen and AJ
There was great excitement yesterday when Miss Maureen Rowley (our Community Governor) popped in for a visit with AJ (her guide dog). Miss Rowley talked about how AJ helps her in her everyday life. The children had the opportunity to stroke AJ and throw his...