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21st August 20

Today at nursery, our chef tried a new recipe for the children to taste.  The children had a choice of either beef and mushroom pie or sweet potato pie, served with new potatoes and brocolli. Below is the recipe which you might like to try at home: Beef and mushroom pie Ingredients:       …

12th August 20

Over the last few weeks we have been busy putting together our long term planning, loosely based on themes. Our planning reflects the interests of the children and includes child initiated, adult led and spontaneous activities and experiences. In order to plan for each individual child, staff observe children and challenge them to take their…

28th July 20

This year we have had to celebrate our preschool children moving onto school in a slightly different way due to the coronavirus pandemic. The preschool staff have created a fantastic video putting together songs, pictures and snippets of each child’s journey at Treetops.  The children thoroughly enjoyed helping to make it and loved being able…

22nd July 20

This week our preschool children have been learning all about the human body, following their recent interests and questions. The children particularly enjoyed our lung experiment where the children could see how our lungs work.  Each child had their own individual ‘lung’ made from sandwich bags and straws.  The children were very keen to try…

17th June 20

As we have welcomed back all our children into nursery, it has been fantastic to see all their happy and excited faces and we have all become used to a new way of working.  We all so proud of how the children have adapted and they have been busy this week, making Father’s Day cards…

21st May 20

What a lovely surprise from our lockdown staff to myself and Sarah. It has been amazing and an absolute pleasure to be working with such fantastic staff during this challenging time.  We are very much looking forward to welcoming all of our children back very soon. # Close as ever  

19th May 20

We were delighted last week to receive a letter from Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust thanking us for the support we have given them in looking after the children of key workers within the NHS.  The letter stated that the support we have given them is invaluable and has helped their staff to remain at work…

30th April 20

During a time when the world was told to separate, we stuck together.             To create a lasting memory of when our key worker children were all together during the coronavirus pandemic, we made this display of some of the children’s art work. The children chose from a variety of…

23rd April 20

At Treetops Day Nursery we have been busy celebrating St George’s Day.  The children have enjoyed making paper plate dragons, decorating dragon masks and creating knights shields.  We have also been enjoying listening to the story of George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell. For our children who are not at nursery due to the…

7th April 20

Here at Treetops Day Nursery it is very important for us to stay in touch with the children who are not currently attending nursery due to the Coronavirus restrictions. Every day, home learning packs are being sent to parents of each department; babies, toddlers and preschool with ideas for activities for them to do at…