@BananaMoon - 2 days ago

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Nourishing our Future Award, we have achieved the first level!

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@BananaMoon - 6 days ago

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Reading and playing with our Dads

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@BananaMoon - 1 week ago

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Pantosaurus, the power of Pants!

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@BananaMoon - 2 months ago

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World Book Day Fun and our children all had a choice of books to take home

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@BananaMoon - 2 months ago

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Another 5 star food hygiene rating

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@BananaMoon - 6 months ago

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The settling process is important for the child as well as the parents. This is a snippet of what you will receive if you join us.

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@BananaMoon - 7 months ago

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We are delighted to share that our nursery cook was nominated for the Culinary Star of the Year Awards 2025, and on Saturday we were thrilled to attend the awards ceremony to celebrate this achievement. 'Gavin delivers consistently excellent meals, bringing both skill and warmth to the nursery kitchen.' We would like to congratulate Gavin for this nomination.

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@BananaMoon - 3 years ago

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Being empathetic is one of the key emotive features that make you a human. Empathy is the foundation for good relationships and for success. By teaching your child to be empathetic, he/she will be able to compassionately think about others’ perspectives. Empathy is all about “perspective taking” and being “compassionate”.

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@BananaMoon - 3 years ago

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How Baby Yoga Supports a Baby’s Development Baby yoga helps to support babies’ sensory development and integration through movement. Co-ordination, balance, and sensory integration rely on input from several sources in the body to enable effective movement and body control to develop. There are three main systems which are important in enabling movement.

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@BananaMoon - 3 years ago

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As the end of the academic year approaches, our nursery managers and early years professionals working with full moon children turn their thoughts towards helping children through their forthcoming transition to school.

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@BananaMoon - 3 years ago

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Have you always wondered what your child is thinking about when they pick up phone and pretend to be on a call with someone? Or thought about their creativity as they picked up a cushion and drove it around pretending that they were driving a car? There are fundamental benefits of children engaging in role play activities to support the enhancing skills that are required for their development. Along with these activities being fun, allowing the children to use their imagination within play improves their creativity, promotes better performance in their education and helps them to develop a strong problem-solving approach when resolving conflict. This is because it allows them to take up characters that act out real life roles.

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@BananaMoon - 4 years ago

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A mud kitchen area is often part of a nursery garden set up as it allows children of all ages to experience another example of sensory play and exploring different textures. Children can explore and discover together, gain new skills, show curiosity, investigate, use role play experiences and share space and resources with their friends. Consistency and textures can be changed by adding water to mud, adding natural materials such as herbs, flowers, seeds, and plants from around the garden.

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