Hi everyone. As you know we haven’t had a blog for the past 3 weeks due to our website being redesigned so there is a lot to say and a
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During the past week the children have been really enjoying themselves on our new ‘open ended resources’ in the garden. They are crates, planks of wood and tyres which the
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The late Summer has certainly continued this week and the children have been making the most of it in our beautiful garden. For the first time in a little while,
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Well the Autumn rain has been pouring down this week but we certainly haven’t let that dampen our spirits – it’s been another wonderful week at Young Friends. Each group
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We have reached October somehow, the year is flying by! The Chimps and Howlers have ignored the cold weather this week and enjoyed their beautiful beach scene role play with
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The new rabbits have been fussed over all week and have new houses and toys etc and the children have been stroking and cuddling them – not deterred by the
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What a fantastic week it has been at Young Friends. Firstly, a big thank you to all the parents who have brought in pumpkins this week for Halloween. It’s going
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What a week at Young Friends! Not only did we have our usual amounts of fantastic fun but we also had a super special visit from the Fire Service on
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Happy Halloween! This week has been imaginative and spooky at Young Friends, full of super activities and enhanced by some weird and wonderful Halloween parties and games with prizes galore
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The Chimps. This week has been very exciting for our youngest members. They have been making patterns by rolling cars in paint and then across paper to make beautiful colourful
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We’ve all had a wonderful time at Young Friends this week, highlighted by our very special visit from the Police on the Tuesday. The children got to meet a real
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This week the Chimps have been exploring all kinds of different textures, ranging from giant freezing slippery ice balloons in their builders tray to squeezing squishy shaving foam through their
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With both Parents Evening approaching and Christmas homing in on it has been a bustling week at Young Friends. The children have all started learning their very cute Christmas songs
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It was Parents Evening this week so it was a chance for all our parents to come and see and hear in detail how their lovely children have are getting
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Goodness we have been so busy I had better get straight into it… The little Chimps have been playing with all sorts of shiny bracelets and other jewellery in the
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It is hard to believe we’re nearly half way through January already but it has been a steaming start to the year at Young Friends. We have had lots of
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The week began with normal weather conditions and ended in some very excited children on Friday squealing in the garden in the snow. How lovely. So straight to it…. The
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The cheeky little Chimps this week as you can see from the pictures had a really lovely time doing some painting rolling balls around in paint and making patterns. They
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Our lovely little Chimps have been doing hand paintings in preparation for making their fantastic Chinese New Year snake which we cannot wait to see! They have been playing ‘knowing
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Our Chimps this week were playing with their lovely wooden small world shops and teddies. They were taking teddies for walks and buying them things. They also did some very
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Around The World Week has, for want of a better phrase, been pretty momentous. For this reason we really hope you, our valued parents and carers read this blog and
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After such an amazing ‘Around the World’ theme last week, we had a lot to live to this time around but once again, the staff have ensure it’s been another
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The first week of March saw the children (and team) running out into the garden playing in the sun at the start of the week and splashing in the puddles
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This week was Eco Week and Red Nose Day. It was super busy and full of activities for both. So far we have raised £101.64 through selling cakes and red
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This week the Chimps have been having lots of fun in their beautiful new interactive sensory area. It looks lovely. Carly and Julie set up a lovely baby bathing area
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Well despite the cold we have been out in the brisk weather and getting lots of fresh air. Wishing that Spring weather to arrive! There have been Eastery activities, music,
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“Exploring Their New Sensory Jeweled Mosaic” Our cheeky little Chimps have been playing with ‘moon sand’ this week. This is a rather fantastic-feeling combination of sand, baby oil and cornflour
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Week beginning 8th April… This week we have welcomed a few lovely new children who have been joining in all of the fun both at nursery and out on trips
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Week beginning 14th April… Well this has been an absolutely amazing week for Young Friends Nursery. Everyone is quite rightly on a high after we were inspected by OFSTED on
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“Naming Body Parts” The Chimps have had a week of naming, pointing to and working out body parts. They have been reading stories and doing giant paintings on the floor
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Week beginning 29th April… The Spring sun has played a starring role this week and the children have made the most of our amazing garden, spending lots of time outdoors
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Week beginning 6th May… This week as you are well aware has been a mixed bag of sunshine and showers but of course the children never really care either way
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Week Beginning 13th May… We’ve all had a wonderful time at Young Friends this week, with the Baboons kicking off our Summer trips and the nursery full of fun filled
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Week beginning 20th May… It’s been yet another action packed week at nursery. We’ve gained a special new friend this week, Noemi our Japanese persona doll. Irene recently undertook persona
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Week beginning 27th May… We may not have had much mid-week sun but we’ve definitely seen the month of May out in fine style at Young Friends this week. We’ve
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Week beginning June 3rd… What an amazing sun kissed week we’ve had and we have made the most of every last bit of it. The garden has been an absolute
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It’s been a super week at Young Friends with an amazing set of fun filled and educational activities, with the role play areas stealing the show. We’ve had ‘Pirate Ships’,
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June 17th 2013… We’ve had some lovely afternoons in the sun this week, with the children enjoying the fresh air, tending to the vegetable patch, hiding and going on adventures
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This week has been another supersonic themed week at Young Friends. It has been ‘Things People Do’ week and we cannot thank our wonderful parents enough for giving up their
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Well we have certainly kicked off the month of July with a bang at Young Friends. There’s been sports relays, oodles of healthy cooking, wonderful artwork and days full of
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Well we have had a scorcher of a week and the children have coped well. We have decked out the rooms with fans where needed and made sure the children
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The nursery of course, despite the fans, has been really hot this week so we have been letting the children jump in and out of the garden spray to keep
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Thursday was a very special day at Young Friends this week, we had a wonderful Parents Evening. The sun was shining and we were lucky enough to be able to
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We’ve welcomed some new children in many of our nursery groups this week and there has been an excitable and fun filled atmosphere throughout each day. The garden has been
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There’s been lots going on at Young Friends this week. The children have had their usual amounts of fantastic creative activities, fun garden games, amazing group times and much much
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Week beginning 19th August… We’ve had trips to the beach, the most amazing role play areas, wonderful creative activities and fascinating sensory experiences this week and the children and staff
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The lucky Young Friends children have made homemade ice-cream, created junk modelling vehicles, created giant fabric artwork, explored frozen ice balls and much much more this week. Here is a
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This week our little Chimps have been rocking and bobbing and playing instruments whilst Amber and Carly sing their (the children’s, not theirs) favourite songs with them. They have also
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So, another fabulous week at Young Friends has whizzed by again. The team have once again ensured the children have had masses of fun, laughed a lot and done lots
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What a fantastic week we’ve at Young Friends. The lucky children could not contain their excitement when they saw their new animal bouncy hoppers. There are two dragons and a
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Our sweet little Chimps have been getting messy with bright blue spaghetti this week. They used it to do some wiggly and squiggly paintings. They have been washing babies in
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Rainy Outdoor Play This week we have been joined by lots of new friends in all of the groups and the children have made them feel very welcome. Saying hello,
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Autumn is beginning to show and our nursery groups have been making a start on their seasonal displays with some wonderful Autumnal activities this week. We’ve also had some absolutely
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Squeaky Toy Hunt: The Chimps have been having a blast hiding and finding all sorts of squeaky toys around the room. They have also been crawling up and down and
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Theatre Time: Our lovely Chimps have been practicing walking with their baby walkers and toppling over and trying again. They have been developing hand eye coordination by sitting in a
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All our groups have gone for it with a really spooky themed experiences and environments this week. We stock piled spooky resources and everyone made brilliant things. We had spooky
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Campfires and Lightshows: So let’s start with our little Chimps….. They sung lots of songs at group time and looked at big pictures relating to the songs whilst they were
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This week has been full of Children in Need and we wish to thank you all for supporting us in our fundraising efforts. The Argus came in today to see
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Our little Chimps have been having a great time singing ‘If You are Happy and you know it’ and nodding, waving and clapping – clever things. They have been making
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This week has been full of sensory exploration for our gorgeous little chimps! They’ve been digging in the sand pit for sea shells, exploring new textures whilst getting messy with
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Our little chimps have had a great time this week welcoming in this festive month! They’ve been getting involved with all things sparkly whilst playing with glitter in the water
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This week the Chimps have been getting festive, messy and creative making their Christmas bags ready for their mummy’s and daddy’s to take home. They have been making Christmas tree
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This week the cheeky chimps have been celebrating a few 1st birthdays on our first week back.f We’ve been getting creative rolling balls in paint and printing shapes with potatoes.
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This week the cheerful chimps have been having a lovely picnic with lots of teddy bears and encouraging them to sign ‘more’, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. They have been using
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The Chimps have been exploring squishy strawberry smelling jelly and prodding it with straws. The team have been really practicing Makaton signing with the children and they are getting used
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Cooking, making and emotions… Our little Chimps made some delicious pepper parcels this week. They were smelling and tasting and rolling and having a lovely sensory time. The team in
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Sensory Overload: Our lovely little Chimps have been making fabulous sensory squidgy bags with sealed bags, glittery sequins and colourful buttons. They had great fun with them. The Chimp team
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The Chimps started off their new week by experimenting with fruits. They squashed strawberries, blueberries and raspberries on paper to create marks and feeling new textures – of course a
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Schema Play: Our rather fabulous Chimps have been doing so much this week I am surprised they have been able to keep up. To begin with they have had a
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Pasta, Diggers and First Steps: Our Chimps this week have been playing with sand, water, funnels and wooden implements in their sand tray. They splashed and scooped and filled up
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Gruffalo Picnic: Our Chimps made a right old noise all week with lots of keyboards ‘at their fingertips’. They used their ‘Makaton bag’ which they picked out and did the
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Dinasoar Role Play: Our rather wonderful youngest ones, this week, have been using multi-coloured feathers to do ‘bird collages’. They had dinosaurs out in small world but they basically went
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Well thank goodness the children, just as the sun has shown it’s long awaited face, have been able to play in our lovely garden. What a lovely sight it has
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Crystal Balls: Our fabulous Chimps this week have been singing an array of counting songs and doing actions to Three Currant Buns, 3 Little Speckled Frogs and more. They have
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Our little Chimps have had a really exciting week seeing the last bits of the soft play conservatory come into being. We all crossed our fingers as the soft flooring
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Soft Play and Music: Our cheeky Chimps have been having a great time rolling balls to each other and the team this week in their new conservatory. They showed sweet
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So, this week has been full of Eastery Springy activities and everyone has had a great time. Our Chimps have been singing Easter-themed songs like Peter Rabbit and I’m a
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Our lovely Chimps this week read and did the actions to their ‘Eyes, Nose and Cheeky Chin’ book which they had a lot of fun with. They played with jelly
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These girls have certainly got somewhere important to go – wow. This week has been an abolute pleasure at Young Friends. The team and children have been happy and relaxed
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Our baby Chimps this week were singing songs in different languages – well they enjoyed the staff singing them anyway. They did painting and blowing the paint with straws and
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Our Chimps made their own play dough this week and loved rolling it and making different patterns with their different implements. They also did a key and purse activity where
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Our Chimps this week played with balloons of all different shapes and sizes which was really good fun until of course a couple popped and the activity had to be
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This week the Chimps have been exploring materials flexing their stretching and pulling muscles and playing a little game of hide and seek. The chimps have been supporting themselves with
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This week our Chimps have been marvelling at giant bubbles. They also had different coloured bags with matching coloured objects and they were really interested in picking out the objects
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Our little Chimps practised tidying all the activities up all week that they had out whilst singing the tidy up song.They did an activity where they laid out lots of
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This week our Chimps have been playing with musical instruments in the conservatory. They loved the piano, the guitar and crashed the life out of those tambourines! They had lots
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The garden has been the main place of action this week. It is just lovely at the moment and the children are having a wonderful time in it looking after
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Well the whole nursery has been getting sporty this week doing all sorts of things from circuits classes to javelin. Our Chimps have not been the exception to the rule.
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Hi everyone. Please note this blog was written before our sports day on Friday afternoon (due to having no time to do it on Friday) so the photos and summary
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The Chimps this week have been practicing putting on their own shoes and socks. They proudly matched pairs and with help were very good at it. They had cups and
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The Chimps this week have been playing with their multitude of coloured balls floating in water – blowing them, pushing them and using different implements to move them around. They
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This week our Chimps have been using binoculars to look around and focus on objects, things in the sky etc. They have been building sand castles in the sand tray
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The Chimps looked at Makaton signs with animal pictures this week and did impressions of the animals and did the signs. They coloured their water with vivid paint in their
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Chimps – Whoever heard of a baby pirate? Well, the Chimps have been sailing the open seas with their pirate role play with all the little ones enjoying climbing the
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The Chimps…. Well, last week they were pirates and this week the Chimps have become little hairdressers. There was some observing. There was some flouncing. There was definitely some hair
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We have been a day short of a full week but the Chimps have still managed to cram five days worth of fun into the four. They have been creeping
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This week Chimps have had babies on the brain and why not? They have all been very carefully helping staff prepare their nappies for the nappy routine. They have been
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Can you find your nose? The Chimps have been spending the week having a good, long, hard look at their faces and pointing out features from pictures. There has been
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Chimps – Who doesn’t love splashing around in the water? Well our Chimps certainly do! They have been making waves in the water tray. Literally. Sam, Carly, and Maria borrowed
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Our little Chimps had a lovely time this week making ‘Fruit Sticks’. They did a lot of tasting and threaded the fruit onto the sticks with a bit of help
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The Chimps this week have been making some wonderful lego prints and mark making with flour and glitter. Some of the little ones were quite amused with erasing the grown-ups
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Well the weather has not been very kind to us this week, but it hasn’t stopped the Chimps from having oceans of fun in their room. They have enjoyed some
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In the Chimp room there has been lots of walking as the team got out the colourful sensory walking mat to entice the crawlers. Their mark making has been chalks
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The Chimps have kicked off our Halloween spirit with a spider sticking activity and a fun free for all with the big trucks and white paint as they rolled them
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Boo goes there? Spiders, bats, cats, and rats!Happy Halloween! (Week Beginning 27th October 2014)…..
The Halloween spirit has been in full shriek (see what I did there?) this week and the Chimps have kicked off the festivities with some Pumpkins have been the thing
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Fireworks everywhere! The Chimps have been creating their very own fireworks with toilet roll stamps and then bonfire collages with tissue paper and sticks. This week the soft play blocks
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It’s been all hands on deck this week in support of Children in Need and even the Chimps lended their culinary talents to make raspberry and plum jam with Caz,
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The Chimps have been rather creative with our baking trays this week as they have used them for a varied problem solving activity, adding milk bottle lids and balls so
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This week was ‘Multicultural Week’ and your children were treated to the richest educational, vibrant and fun week that they could have hoped for. Thank you to all you parents/siblings/grandparents
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This week has been all about those budding professionals and hobbyists and the Chimps have been singing about poorly Miss Polly who needs a doctor to take care of her.
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….But in the Chimps it’s been ever so delightful as they have been gearing up for our party week with some very merry Christmas activities. Putting their hands and feet
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The Chimps this week are back in full swing and have been meeting a few new friends who have come to join the nursery. In the mark making area, what
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The Chimps have been tearing, stomping and crinkling their way across the chimp room as they’ve had a session of tin foil dancing this week. The small world animals have
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The Chimps were not particularly impressed with our snowy white garden or the sub-zero feeling temperatures, so they’ve snuggled up to their animal toys and practiced conversing in each animal’s
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The Chimps have been glub, glub, glubbing with all the slippery fish this week as they explored their slippery fish discovery bag. They even created fish tanks using gloves and
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It’s been a creepy crawly week in the Chimp room. Butterflies were fluttering from their caterpillar and butterfly sensory bag. After having a good look at the butterfly picture cards,
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The wheels on the bus go round and round…… Our Chimps took a trip to Palmeira Square to watch them do just that as they waved to the square’s never-ending
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Well it’s Chinese New Year (Year of the Goat) this week and the Carly, Carla and Angela have kicked it off by helping your little Chimps create some beautiful blossom
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It may still be a bit chilly for water play outside but the Chimps have been having all manner of fun with it indoors. Their group time focus this week
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Poor old Carly has broken her foot so our Chimps have very carefully crawled around their injured leader while she still led the week (well most of it) through some
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This week has been a rather mixed bag of activities in the Chimp room. The little ones loved their sombreros so much last week that they have carried on with
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The chimps were off to the farm in the small world area this week and it was quite the sensory experience. Pigs were in the mud, sheep were on the
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Well Carly’s foot has been feeling much better. So much better, in fact, that the Chimps took a sunny stroll to St. Anne’s Park this week for a change of
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To celebrate Easter week the Chimps have donned their fluffy bunny ears and started things off with some hard-boiled egg painting. It’s going to be hard to tell children not
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Our lovely little Chimps have certainly been enjoying the warmer sunnier days and have ventured to the garden quite a few times this week to mingle in with the big
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The Chimps have been basking in all the glorious sunshine and it’s just as well since their song of the week was all about bumble bees. They practiced their buzz,
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We all love a bit of corn flour and the Chimps have been exploring this wonderfully kooky texture all week. They were given a bowl of corn flour and another
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Earth Week. Tissue paper, volcanoes, marble planets, and recycling (Week Beginning 27th April 2015)…
You will hopefully notice an ‘earthy’ theme throughout this week’s blog. Last week’s national ‘Earth Day’ was just not enough for Young Friends so this week we went one better
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The week was a little shorter but the Chimps couldn’t have noticed as the activities were enough for a full five days. They were in their squeezy-hands element as they
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This week the Chimp room became a pop-up bakery and the little ones were loving it. Following on from their successful bread making last week, they branched out with additional
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The Chimps have been particularly curious about each other’s toys and objects so their group time focus this week has been a Chimp variation on pass the parcel. With Makaton
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The week has been jam packed with activities starting in the Chimps’ group time area where the little ones learned, among other things, the Makaton for wheelchair and watched as
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Text to be completed…. X-factor here we come! The Chimps have been gurgling, warbling, and shouting out their favourite sounds into their role play paper microphones and have had a
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The Chimps have been working on their exploratory skills this week as the Chimp team unveiled their brand new sensory board. There’s been pinging of door stoppers, the clink of
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Typically this week our charming young Chimps got stuck into an array of sensory and imaginative activities. They made their very own ocean out of coloured water and cleverly compared
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Well the weather has been ever so kind to us this week. Perhaps, a little too kind as the sun beamed down like a laser, so the Chimps had a
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The Chimp band has been cranking out some summer tunes in the conservatory this week using maracas and castanets among a full instrument stock. In the sand tray, they have
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The Chimps have been a very busy bunch this week kicking things off with some bouncy ball games. They’ve been rolling and tipping balls down tubes and a couple of
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The Chimps have put on their good listening ears this week with a selection of sound focused activities. Using tin containers, they placed a selection of materials (water, pasta, herbs,
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Space travel guidelines have grown a bit lax of late as our littlest friends in the Chimp room have been moonwalking and space hopping in their space station role play.
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The Chimps have had a jam packed four days of fun and frolics. Their new favourite song has been Ebone’s specialty, “The Crocodile Song.” They’ve practiced snapping hands and rubbing
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Happily the sun hasn’t abandoned us just yet and the Chimps enjoyed some rather lovely days in the garden this week. At the top of the hill, they enjoyed rolling
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It was all hands on deck as the Chimps came together and painted a junk modelling shape sorter box. After drying time, the Chimps seemed very pleased to have yet
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“Twinkle, twinkle” and all that jazz… our fabulous Chimps have borrowed the Howler song board ( no surprise they had their beady eyes on that one – there are moveable
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The Chimps have turned into mirror reflections of each other as they copied adults’ actions in the group time area. It was all very quiet and concentrated. Perhaps, this is
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Well it’s all been very quiet in the Chimp room this week as many of our littlest ones are graduating to the Howler room. They’re now old pros at the
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This week the Chimps got their chef hats out to make sweet potato bread. They poured, they mixed, they probably sampled, all of their ingredients, exploring the various textures. In
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Everyone’s in full autumn/Halloween swing as all the rooms have been enjoying some seasonal crafts and activities. The Chimps have been navigating cobwebs to find spiders for their sensory activity.
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Witches and wizards everywhere and the Chimps more than relished the opportunity to don hats and get all dressed up for the role play cave. Using gloop and foam, the
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On your marks! Get set! Go! The races have begun as our little movers and shakers had a walker race through the Chimp room. The little ones were bursting with
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Well this week has been rather amusing in a raising money for a good cause kind of way. There’s nothing like spending a day in your jammies and our little
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Those little Chimps of yours love an interactive song and this week they were playing a cute little game of singing ‘3 Little Ducks’ first with rubbers ducks and then
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Though not officially launched, the Gibbons children have been none the wiser as they have been enjoying both their newly resourced (new
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The nursery is all aglow with the spirit of Christmas and the team are kicking their feet like ducks in water as we jam pack the week full of crafts
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Well quite a few of the Gibbons have returned from our break triumphant with some new walking skills as they toddle around the green and white rooms. At this time
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The newly named ‘White Room’ floor has looked rather convincingly like the Gibbons have taken a hayride as they explored their small world farm complete with straw and sawdust for
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It’s all been rather cool in the Gibbons rooms this week as their theme was winter and the Arctic. The role play has been overflowing with bubble wrap for their
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The chilly weather isn’t letting up so the Gibbons have been making their own winter hats. Nothing so warm and fluffy as their real winter hats, but they quite enjoyed
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The Gibbons have been surfing it up beach boys style in their beach role play. They’ve even had to avoid the jaws of the blue shark, although most were quite
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It’s the Year of the Monkey and our little Gibbons kicked off Chinese new year celebrations with a trip through Chinatown as their windowsill was transformed into a cityscape fit for a car
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Our Gibbons love nothing more than a little shake about so this week they’ve been making all manner of shakers in their creative areas, exploring and linking sounds. For their
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Never too young to save lives, the Gibbons have donned their doctors’ garb to take of the poorly, which we’re never in short supply of around here. A few of
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As it was World Book Day on Thursday, Jodie, our storytelling rep was hard at work on creating a new stock of story bags for the groups. We now have
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The Gibbons never let a minor thing like not a lot of hair keep them from giving the best hairdressing service around in their hairdresser’s role play. They’ll have the
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Our little princes and princesses in the Gibbons have had their coronations this week in their castle role play. All but their sceptres were missing in the royal proceedings, but
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The Gibbons have been skipping to and fro in a springtime meadow with all of their spring crafts this week. Using empty tubes, the Gibbons created bunnies and chicks for
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Since we were down a day, the good times were ramped up this week in the Gibbons. Of course, it can sometimes be a bit difficult returning to nursery from
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The Gibbons have been visiting their small world rock pool this week and having a blast naming all their different creatures and feeling the textures. They’ve even created a few
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The Gibbons have been unrecognizable this week in their Fancy Dress shop. The team borrowed the Baboon’s costume rack and the Gibbons really enjoyed pulling items of hangers and choosing
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The Gibbons morning group times for this week deserve a bit of an accolade. Those imaginative so and so’s made an amusing looking monster and the children delighted in feeding
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It’s all been a whirr of sensory activities in the Gibbons this week and they had only four days to cram them in. In the White room, the little ones
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The Gibbons have gone stamp crazy in their post office role play this week. Not only have they used potatoes to stamp on envelopes but they also have been experimenting
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Our little ooga booga cavekids have been having a stone age blast for our history week. The small world tray was a place of inspiration as the little ones moved
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The Gibbons have left no shaker unturned as they rattled their way through their sound box this week. They even made some new shakers using rice, pasta and dried beans
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The Gibbons have been tossing bean bags for music and movement this week. The older ones were throwing them into a box, and the little ones gave them a little
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The Gibbons caused a bit of a stir in their kitchen role play this week as spatulas, giant spoons, and tongs were waved around like flags. Cupboard doors and pans
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The Gibbons have been singing along to the Tiny Caterpillar song bag – inside are little props for the children to pull out and cling to proudly throughout the song. At
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With all this English summer rain, perhaps the Gibbons had that Incey Wincey Spider on their brains because this week, they made like arachnids and crept their little fingers along
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What a mess! If we weren’t in the nursery game we would be spitting feathers – our pristine Green Room was awash with shaving foam as those ‘hilarious’ children
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The Gibbons have got their senses all abuzz this week, starting things off with spice painting, using cinnamon, turmeric, and tarragon. Once the paper dried, it turned into a bit
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The Gorillas have been learning to work as part of a team and in partners whilst following directions of Nadeem, our very own qualified sports coach, in the park. The
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The preschoolers made a right old mess this week printing car tracks… Not only did they go off road and cover a mass of A4 but they also covered a
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Our little Gibbons have been making a right old noisy racket in the Green Room… they have had the giant round drum out along with shakers, xylophones and scrapers. They
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This week our garden, drenched in afternoon sun, became host to the vibrant Hindu festival, Janmashtami. All three groups met in the garden on Thursday afternoon to listen to Anika’s
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This week the Gibbons have been immersed in so many adventurous activities. One of their absolute favourites was playing exciting games with the parachute. An object would be hidden under
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The Gibbons have been striking their poses this week putting on their own fashion show in their role play area. Those Gibbons excitedly chose the clothes they wanted to wear
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The Baboons have been catapulted back to the Jurassic period 199.6 to 145.5 million years ago this week with adventures discovering which dinosaurs lived in what type of landscape. With
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The Gibbons have been very creative this week – the clever little so and so’s created their very own Young Friends town! Using small world toys, boxes and cushions, they
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The Gibbons have been progressing their healthy cooking skills this week. They explored the different textures of lots of different vegetables before using them to cook scrumptious vegetable omelettes. They
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Your little Gibbons played at street art as they took to the walls with spray bottles full of paint. They created a rather colorful splash of art which they all
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In the Gibbon room this week the children have making their very own spiders for their new autumn display board. They painted paper plates, stuck on googley eyes and glued
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The nursery has been abuzz with the sights and smells of Halloween and autumn fun. The Gibbons have been getting into the spirit of things with some of our favourite
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In preparation for Bonfire night, the Gibbons have been making cotton bud bonfires with brown, red, and yellow paint. Still in the Halloween spirit, the little ones have been practicing
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This week, the Gibbons have been using their natural materials to do some print painting. They observed the effects of painting with a variety of objects including conkers, pine cones,
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This week saw the start of Switch off Fortnight, which Young Friends threw itself into with gusto. In line with our eco-ethos, we to get involved in this and your
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It is Thanksgiving over in the US of A and our Gibbons have created some festive turkeys using plastic cups and googly eyes. Gobble, gobble. Their physical activity was animal
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The Gibbons have been chasing marbles around this week (under the team’s very watchful eyes) as they practiced how to take turns using the marble runs. Their sharing is a
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It’s all feeling a lot like Christmas this week as all the rooms have gone full steam ahead with their winter activities and singing – we hope you are all
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It’s the most wonderful time of the yeeeeeear…. Gibbons – …there’ll be parties all week, full of toddlers and treats, and lots of good cheeeer! Except, perhaps, for those Gibbons
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The children are all amped up this week with Santa’s big sleigh ride looming (he’s visited some of the children already. Must be on account of population growth). The Gibbons
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Welcome to 2017! Your little Gibbons have jumped straight back into their fun-filled, messy, routines like they’d never been away. In the White Room, the Gibbons have been putting their animals
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The Gibbons have been very busy in the kitchen this week. They have been exploring the textures of food and even mashed their own boiled potatoes and vegetables and ate
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Your gorgeous Gibbons have been using different materials this week to create artistic designs from little ladybirds to black, white and red Aztec colleges. Sticking pictures and materials to make
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The Gibbons tried baby gymnastics this week for the first time. The children balanced on beams and did role-polys with help on our brilliant new gym matts. From gymnastics to
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Shake it like jelly on a plate! The Gibbons made strawberry and blueberry (vegetarian) jelly this week and then made the jelly into very wobbly shapes using different cutters. After tasting
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Sssshhh! The Gibbons played sleeping bunnies this week which they enjoyed pretending to be bunnies however there more excitement then pretending to be asleep. Jodie’s marvellous puppet show came to
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Please see our multicultural blog in the Friday email for a more detail of all activities that happened this week during Around the World Week! Wow – What a
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Lemon faces! This week the Gibbons made refreshing lemonade. They mixed together a spoonful of honey, sparkling water and lemon juice and practised storing it all together. Everyone tried the
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From witches to frogs to princesses, the Gibbons went to the dressing up cabin this week and tried on all different costumes and fancy dress all in the name of
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Yummy healthy treats were made by our talented Gibbons this week – cornflake cakes with yogurt and fruit. The Gibbons love getting their hands into cooking and everyone loves eating
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Holi Festival (Hindu) was this week and the Gibbons have been getting stuck into celebrating it by throwing paint onto large sheets pf paper and create big splashes of colour
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Apples and pears and all types of delicious fruit pictures were cut up and stuck to make fruit collages in the Gibbons room. The Gibbons talked about the different yummy
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Teddy bear picnic… Let’s have a teddy bear picnic! The Gibbons put on a lovely spread of rice krispies and cornflakes for their teddy bears too munch on, with cups
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Gibbons go to Space… The Gibbons recycling box has seen a lot of action this week (like always) but this week especially as it had been transformed into an ‘Aliens
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Easter eggs everywhere… With the week build up to Easter Weekend, the Gibbons brought their carrot baskets to the chick farm in their Small World and collected lots of lovely
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Sowing sunflowers… The Gibbons were joined by Louise on Tuesday to start their sunflower plantings. The Gibbons lined up pots and poured soil into them. In 80 to 120 days
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Make sure you take a look at the photos from this week – there are some great allotment pictures this week of the children with their new friends the frog and the
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Attack of the Jellyfish… Jellyfish creatures were swimming around in the Gibbon room as moulded blocks of ice with colourful pipe cleaner tentacles and big googly eyes. The Gibbons loved
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Can you stretch tall like a giraffe…? The Gibbons whipped out some great animal poses in their yoga sessions from standing on their tip-toes stretching tall like a giraffe, to
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All pictures of the last week are up on the website please enjoy. There are some great allotment pictures this week capturing their new friends the frog and the slowworm
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Bunnies… Joyful sounds of music and singing were heard from the Gibbon rooms all week, with the children dancing to several action songs like sleeping bunnies, sandy girl and wheels
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Sleeping bunnies… Joyful sounds of music and singing were heard from the Gibbon rooms all week, with the children dancing to several action songs like sleeping bunnies, sandy girl and
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Aloha Gibbons… A new puppet show story was narrated to the children this week about a girl travelling the world and getting all sorts of international/cultural presents from the people
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Ladybird finger, ladybird finger how do you do… Singing their bug finger song that they sang in the Jolly Post Kids play, the Gibbons made ladybird plates using paper plates,
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Gibbons have a Pea Party… Frozen peas aren’t just for eating, out Gibbons have a frozen pea party mashing, rolling around the peas and even eating (of course). The frozen
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There’s a drumming noise coming from the Gibbon room… Because normal drums are old hat these days, the Gibbons used tin cans to practise their drumming skills on and listened to the
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Gibbons with ribbons… Twirling ribbons in the air, seeing streams of assorted colours weaving in the air, the Gibbons enjoyed ribbon dancing to different multiculturalism music. Throwing the ribbons in
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Berry-licious Gibbons… Chopping bananas, adding frozen berries and blackcurrants from the allotment, the Gibbons made an amazing berrylicious tasting smoothie. With adult supervision whilst learning to safely chop and cut
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Animal Sanctuary… Enjoying the small world animal sanctuary with a wide range of animals from cheetahs sprinting across the savannah to pigs rolling in the mud on the farm. Each
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This week our lively Baboons have be