World Book Day
World Book Day is March 5th, we are celebrating it on Wednesday 4th March 2015. Your children are invited to wear their pyjamas to school, bring their teddy and donate £1. The money raised will pay for new books to be sent to Africa.
Welcome to our new neighbours Fox Moving and Storage
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new neighbours Fox Group (Moving and Storage) Ltd located in the unit next door to the School. Fox Moving and Storage are a full service removals and storage company. They offer all the services you would expect such as...
URGENT – Proposed parking restriction on roads around Nursery
The Bristol City Council's Highways Service has recently issued a Public Consultation document which sets out proposed improvements for pedestrians and cyclists along the Feeder Road by way of widening the footway. Widening the footway will involve restricting...
Our busy Christmas week
This week has been extremely busy at the School. Family and friends joined us on Monday and Friday for our sing-alongs which included some of the favourite festive songs we have been learning. Thank you to the parents/carers who helped us at our Christmas parties on...
Froglets feature in Bristol Standard Celebration Stories
Our before and after school care in the Nursery (Froglets) recently featured in the Bristol Standard Celebration Stories booklet commissioned by Bristol City Council. "We are proud to have been awarded the Bristol Standard which highlights our commitment to play and...
Information, Advice and Guidance Surgeries available at Nursery
John Stinchcombe is the Children's Centre Information Advice and Guidance Worker for East Central Bristol and can assist parents with children aged 0-5 years in: identifying appropriate registered childcare options; helping to source funding to pay for childcare;...
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...