Spring Fair Fun at Spring Cottage! In April, we held our Spring Fair to raise funds for our exciting Over 2’s Garden renovation — and what an amazing day it was!We were blown away by the support from our families and the local community With children’s crafts, face painting, local business stalls, and fun sessions [...]
Spring Cottage Spring Fayre
Spring Fair On Saturday 26th April 2025, Children’s Place, Spring Cottage will be holding a Spring Fair to raise funds for our exciting garden renovation! We are still looking for any local businesses who would like a stall with us - if you are interested please do drop us a message on Facebook Children’s Activities Tea, [...]
Autumn Term at Children’s Place Spring Cottage
The children at Children's Place Spring Cottage have been very busy this term. Besides learning about the autumnal changes, some of the children had the opportunity to visit the new Huddersfield Royal Infirmary A&E department and test out the children's waiting area. They met nurse, Tom and doctor, Mark who helped the children make their teddies [...]
Reflective Practice at Spring Cottage
After our amazing training day the staff team looked at the areas they would like to develop, they looked at how these would impact on the prime areas and made some fabulous changes.
NHS Big Tea Celebration
All this week we are joining in with the NHS Big Tea Celebration with all things tea related, we will be painting, smelling, tasting, guessing how many teabags are in the jar and decorating lots of yummy biscuits to go with our tea themed week. If you would like to make a donation towards this, there [...]
Cause and Effect
The children in our baby room have been experiencing cause and effect sticking cotton wool on sticky tape. Developing cause and effect is important as your baby learns that their behaviour and actions result in a response. This helps your child to develop early communication and cognition skills, which are necessary to understand the cause and [...]
Rice and Pasta Play
Spring Cottage's babies room have been exploring the qualities of rice and pasta play. Children's imaginations are sparked when they have the opportunity to play with tactile materials like pasta and rice. They make their own discoveries and this stimulates their curiosity and develops knowledge too.
Shape, Size and Measure
The children in the baby room have been exploring shape, size and measure. Shape and measure is an important aspect of mathematical development. Children need to learn about shapes in their environment and the concept of measure in order to gain spatial awareness and mathematical understanding. Learning looks a lot of fun!!
Ice Ice Baby!
The children in the baby room have been exploring with ice recently. Sensory play allows for many unstructured learning experiences for the freedom to explore and discover the world around them.
Jelly Time!
The Poppy Room children have being playing with jelly! Playing with jelly is a sensory activity for children to explore through their senses the many wonderful textures and qualities of jelly.