Nursery Category: Extracurricular

  • Gardening and Growing in the Allotment

    Gardening and Growing in the Allotment

    Our little friends have been having lots of fun gardening and growing in our Nursery Allotment. Back in May, Blaise Nursery Bristol kindly donated us lots of seedlings and herbs to share with our children. We planted lots of yummy fruit and vegetables that the children have been taking care of, and we were rewarded…

  • Christmas Round Up

    Christmas Round Up

    December was full of magic and sparkle here at BS3 Community Nurseries! Our Nursery children, along with our older friends from Monday Club got stuck into lots of crafts to help us put together a beautiful grotto for the Winter Festival on 30 November. The artwork included memories of Christmases past from Monday Club and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…