Nursery Category: Chessel Centre

  • Navigating Family Dynamics and Celebrating PRIDE with Young Children

    Navigating Family Dynamics and Celebrating PRIDE with Young Children

    Jess Wilkins talks to us about PRIDE “PRIDE is simply saying that there are people that are different from us, this is what makes them different – we can accept them and we can be friends with them, and I think that’s nice.” Find out more with Jess In celebration of Pride Month and Bristol…

  • Little Seasons – Spring Time Fun

    Little Seasons – Spring Time Fun

    April April saw us celebrate Easter in style with a large selection of creative activities and many egg hunts. Our staff got to do what they do best, setting up lots of engaging play trays and providing opportunities for our little ones to explore creatively. We also focused our attention on World Earth Day, thinking…

  • 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…

  • We went on a Bear Hunt!

    We went on a Bear Hunt!

    Thank you to everyone who came to our Bear Hunts at the Chessel and Southville Centres last week. We hope you enjoyed our immersive take on Michael Rosen’s lovely book, working your way through the swishy, swashy grass; cold, deep river; squelchy-squerchy mud, through the big dark forest, the swirling-whirling snowstorm and into the deep…

  • A brand-new Pearl Room

    A brand-new Pearl Room

    Following a brief summer holiday to the Southville Centre, our Pearl Room friends are now back at the Chessel Centre and thoroughly enjoying exploring their new room. As well as swapping sides with the Ruby Room preschool, the room has been opened up and expanded to incorporate a brand-new sleep and sensory room for our…

  • Redesigning the Chessel Centre

    Redesigning the Chessel Centre

    We are delighted to announce that the Chessel Centre has been awarded a Capital Grants Fund by Bristol City Council. The purpose of the grant is to ensure that our facilities can be best structured to support children at each stage of their development. We have been awarded the grant in order to: We have…

  • 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.…

  • Fun at Forest School

    Fun at Forest School

    We have loved getting back to Forest School with some of our preschool friends forour final block of 2024. Yvette, our Forest School friend, has been running bespokesessions for our preschools for three years, inviting us to learn out and about inDame Emily Smith Park. As well as exploring our outdoor surroundings, our ForestSchoolers have…