Nursery Category: Babies

  • From Planting Project to Plate

    From Planting Project to Plate

    Regular Fun Stuff readers will know that the Southville Centre Nursery Allotment has been back up and running since May this year. This is our third year taking part in the Planting Project in association with Blaise Nursery Bristol and it is already shaping up to be our best year yet! We have already harvested…

  • Reimagining our Worlds

    Reimagining our Worlds

    We were thrilled to take part in National Storytelling Week (1 February to 9 February) across our Nursery Rooms, enjoying sharing books together and exploring how stories can make us feel and increase our understanding of the world around us. This year’s theme was “Reimaging Your World”, which gave lots of opportunities to immerse ourselves…

  • Witch-ing you a Happy Halloween

    Witch-ing you a Happy Halloween

    We love Halloween here at BS3 Community Nurseries and took the opportunity to get up to lots of spooky fun. From renaming our Nursery Rooms (Skel-Leighton Room, anyone?!) to creating bespoke activities for our little friends in the Southville Centre garden and Jasper Room at the Chessel Centre, it was fang-tastic fun. We particularly loved…

  • Harvest Time Thank You

    Harvest Time Thank You

    Harvest is a wonderful time to talk to children about where their food comes from, to experiment in the kitchen and to try new tastes and flavours. For example, the preschoolers in Ruby Room have been making soup, baking bread and trying new vegetables. We also asked our wonderful parents and carers if they could…

  • Planting our Allotment

    Planting our Allotment

    Our plants are here! Following the success of last year’s planting project, we are delighted to be working with Blaise Planting Project at Blaise Nursery, who have once again donated us lots of seeds and saplings to grow fruit and veg with the children. We have chosen lots of yummy bits and pieces and are…

  • Good luck Team GB

    Good luck Team GB

    We’re super excited to watch the Olympics this summer and were delighted when the Olympic torch took a detour to the Southville Centre!

  • Ooh la la – French and Spanish with Kidslingo is back!

    Ooh la la – French and Spanish with Kidslingo is back!

    Anna from Kidslingo has come back from her summer holidays and is once again popping into both the Southville and Chessel Centres to teach French and Spanish. Bookable as an extracurricular on a termly basis, Anna’s sessions offer your children the opportunity to explore foreign languages in early childhood in a fun and engaging manner.…

  • Harvesting in the Southville Centre allotment

    Harvesting in the Southville Centre allotment

    All summer we have been growing fruit and veg in our allotment in the Southville Centre garden, learning about how to look after the plants. It’s been a bumper year, and whilst we have loved watching the fruit develop over the last few months, the best bit has been picking and enjoying all the yummy…