Bristol in Bloom Gold Award for our garden
Chris Curry recently collected the Gold Award for our garden from the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Faruk Choudhury. The Judge's comments were as follows: "It was so good to see how the garden is continuing to be developed by an excellent staff team to create an innovative,...
Ofsted Report published
As you know the Ofsted Inspector (Alex Baxter) visited the School on 25 and 26 September. A copy of the Ofsted Report can be downloaded here. Thank you to all the parent/carers who completed the questionnaire as Ofsted, and St Philip's Marsh Nursery School, values...
St Philip’s Marsh Open Day enjoyed by all
Last Sunday saw a very successful St Philip's Marsh Open Day. Ex-residents of the 'Island' (so called because of its location between the Feeder Canal and the River Avon) wanted to celebrate 50 years since the last member of the community moved out of the area. The...
St Philip’s Marsh Open Day – 22 September
The School was once part of a thriving community that closed down in the early 1960s. Wedged between the Feeder Canal and the River Avon, this 'island' population of six thousand people lived in rows of terraced houses, survived two world wars and the austerity that...
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...