The babies attending our Dewsbury nursery have been celebrating Eid, exploring many different textures of dough, developing their manipulation, control and strength in their fingers. These are important skills that are required to develop future skills for writing. We celebrated with an Eid lunch of curry, rice and naan bread, followed by a party tea later [...]
The children at Barkerend have enjoyed junk modelling today, by having open ended resources the children have gained confidence and imaginative skills to create their own models.
This week the children in the toddler and pre-school rooms at Dewsbury have been learning all about Ramadan. The toddlers listened to stories from a book called My First Ramadan, the practitioners introduced lots of cultural to help the children learn all about this celebration. Some of the children enjoyed roleplaying with the tasbeeh and masala, [...]
The children attending the Woodland Holiday Club had a fabulous time. The club was for children aged 5 to 8 years. The children took part in lots of exciting woodland activities; they enjoyed nature bingo, nature collections, planting and lots of group games. The group also did some Easter activities, baking, made pizza, had an egg [...]
The children in the Heaton toddler room have been watching our tadpoles grow and change. The tadpoles have now developed legs and their tail is getting shorter and they have almost turned into frogs. We have now taken the froglets to a pond, so they are able to hop around freely in their natural environment and [...]
The children at Dewsbury have been learning about the traditions that different families and religions take part in at Easter widening their knowledge about different cultures within the community and their friends and families that they know. We then had a super fun day of hunting for eggs in the garden using our creative thinking skills [...]
Our Dewsbury Nursery are very proud to announce that they have maintained their 5* rating for Food Hygiene. Congratulations!
The Pre-school children at Daisy Hill visit the woods weekly. The children have enjoyed going on a mini beast hunt and playing hide and seek this week. The wood visits give the children the opportunity to explore the woodland environment, learn about trees, plants and animals and be healthy and happy in the great outdoors! #woods [...]
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 [...]
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.
