African Caribbean Day a roaring success
The sun shone magnificently for our annual African Caribbean Day. The children enjoyed a day of workshops including making necklaces, shakers, flags, clay models, palm trees and collages, listening to music and stories from Africa and the Caribbean and having their...
Nursery garden awarded Gold Medal in Bristol in Bloom Competition
The Committee thanked the Nursery for entering the Bristol in Bloom's School Garden Competition ('Learning Through Gardening'), run in conjunction with Bristol City Council Allotment Section. The Judge's comments were: "It was so good to see how the garden is...
Police visit
Thank you to Police Community Support Officer Ben and PC Stuart King from Trinity Road Police Station for visiting each class this week. The children learnt how the Police help us and what equipment they use. You can see the photos here.
Sing-a-longs enjoyed all by
Thank you to the parents/carers and visitors who joined us for our sing-a-longs last week. The children and staff had been working hard to learn them over the last few weeks and I think you will agree we were all in fine voice! We hold sing-a-longs termly and the...
Gromit transformation
As the School is taking part in ‘Gromit Unleashed’ , we asked the children to come up with ideas how we could decorate our very own Gromit. The overwhelming theme was 'rainbows'. Over the last few weeks, every child in the School (including the children from Stay...
Our new enchanted jungle walk
The children have been patiently waiting and watching whilst our new enchanted jungle walk was being built by the Garden Doctor (www.landscapingbristol.com). The exciting new wooden area in the garden gives the children an opportunity to explore, have adventures...
Mounted Police visit Nursery
There was great excitement as two Police Officers and their horses ('Redland' and 'Thomas') from the Mounted Police Section visited us this week. The children were able to stroke the horses and feed them apples. The children asked lots of questions and we found out...
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 caterpillars and, in our special butterfly nets, we saw them change into pupa. We waited patiently until they were...
mmmBOPP visit Nursery as part of our ‘opposites’ theme
As part of our 'opposites' theme we were lucky enough to have Kelly and Becky from 'mmmBOPP' visit the Nursery this week and spend time in each class. The children thoroughly enjoyed singing, playing instruments, moving to music and extending their knowledge of...
Lord Mayor of Bristol unveils photo competition
We are very proud to have welcomed the Lord Mayor of Bristol to unveil our photography competition images. We had a wonderful selection of pictures submitted and 12 have been chosen by our judge to be blown up to A1 size and they will be hung in the reception area of...
Nursery’s 4th photo competition
Thank you to the pupils, staff and parents who have submitted their photos for our 4th photo competition here at St Philip's. This year's themes are 'changes', 'play' and 'my family'. The photos will be judged by Arran Hodgson who is a photography teacher at City of...
Children using iPads in School
At St Philip’s Marsh Nursery we use a lot of ICT with the children, not only to introduce ICT use to children, but also as a tool to develop language and creative play. ICT is embedded throughout the School, not just part of a separate ICT lesson. We recently wanted...