Apple Day success
The School celebrated Apple Day on Friday 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 apple bird feeders, made...
We won the cup
In June 2014 the School entered Bristol in Bloom's School Garden Competition 'Learning Through Gardening' which is run in conjunction with Bristol City Council Allotment Section. We were thrilled to be judged 'Gold Medal Overall Winner'. On Friday 3 October, Mr...
New vegetable beds
Over the summer our vegetable beds were replaced with permanent concrete ones. Pat Fitton (who was a teacher and Deputy Head at the School for many years until she retired) has been very busy over the last couple of weeks painting the vegetable beds and is currently...
Come to our Apple Pressing Tour
Apple Day is an annual celebration, held in October, of apples and orchards in the UK. As we grow apples here at St Philip's Marsh Nursery School we are holding our own apple celebration on Friday 17th October. The children will be taking part in apple-related...
ZooLab visit the Nursery
On Tuesday Georgie from ZooLab came to introduce us to some of her special friends. ZooLab deliver exciting, memorable and high quality animal handling experiences within the education sector. ZooLab's classic Minibeasts Workshop is designed for nursery age children...
Our second exciting adventure to Forest School
Our second Forest School adventure took place on 9th July and, again, it was an amazing day. This time, as we had morning children, all day and afternoon children the logistics were quite complex but we were helped out by Tony Turner's Coaches who provided a coach to...
African Caribbean Day a roaring success
The sun shone 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 and collages, listening to music and stories from Africa and the Caribbean and...
Gold Medal and Overall Winner for our garden
We are delighted to announce that we were the overall winners in the Bristol in Bloom's School Garden Competition. The judge had the following to say about our garden: "The Commitment of the Head Teacher is reflected in his members of staff; parents are kept up to...
Bristol Post’s ‘win a minibus’ competition
We have entered the Bristol Post's 'win a minibus' competition. The minibus will be won by a group drawn at random from all completed entries. We will need to collect 100 tokens per entry. The more tokens we collect, the more entries we can make and therefore the...
Releasing our 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...
Our exciting first adventure to Forest School
On Wednesday 25th June we had our first adventure to Forest School. On arrival the children were able to do butterfly drawings as registration took place. We then had a 'welcome time' of songs and a game, followed by the important head count and 'buddy allocation'....
Photo competition draws high standard of entries
Thank you to all the children, parent/carers and staff who entered this year's photo competition. This year's categories were patterns, colour and light and celebration. We had some amazing entries. This year's photography competition was judged by Dr Shawn...