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St Thomas Day Nursery will be moving (to Osney Island) in 2025! Why? The land our current nursery building is on has been sold by the Parish Council of St Thomas and St Barnabas. While they had initially promised to relocate us to a property on the church grounds, they came forward in November 2023 to […]
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The children were getting into the spirit of halloween by dressing up and making Witch’s potion. They used water, glitter and sequins to mix together. They also used droppers and test tubes to mix up a potion and then the wand to say ‘Abracadabra’.
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The older children were using Duplo bricks to match numbers and patterns. Some of them made tall towers to see how high they could make them. Others used 2 different coloured bricks to make patterns and enclosures.
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The children were very excited to have 2 very friendly Alpacas visit nursery. They were able to hand feed them and one Alpaca also like having cuddles. The children were fascinated by their soft coats. Some children thought they would be bigger like a camel!!
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It was time for us to say goodbye to Chris as she retired after 7 years. The children made and bought quite a few gifts, including a Japanese inspired painting of a tree and blossom made up of all the children’s fingerprints. We wish you well Chris in your retirement, you will be greatly missed.
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The children, and staff, have been glueing, sticking, cutting, making, glittering and overall having lots of fun decorating bags and making Christmas gifts to take home. Each craft has been lovingly made by individual children, so each one is individual and has a lot of hard work put into it. So look closely, admire greatly […]
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Caryn has been a dedicated member of the nursery staff for 30 years. Although she is retirement age she is staying at the nursery (for maybe another 30 years?). She was presented with a Pearl and silver necklace as recognition of her service and dedication to the nursery. She brings much joy, enthusiasm and love […]
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Calum Jarvis came to visit us at Nursery nearly 3 years ago and spoke to the children about his Olympic swimming dreams. Well this came to pass yesterday when he competed in the 4x 200 metre freestyle relay and won a gold medal. Well done Calum it was a pleasure to meet you and so […]
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  The children have been very interested in Maths in the environment. With the warm weather we have seen butterflies, bees and ladybirds amongst other wildlife. This has enable the children to look at different patterns, count spots and stripes, as well as looking at difference and similarities between different bugs. The older children have […]
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We had an amazing day on Saturday in 33 degree heat celebrating our Fun Day. The children were very excited to have a puppet show and balloon modelling as well as a bouncy castle Arts and crafts including tile painting, face painting, tattoos and painting nails There was fun for the adults and children for […]
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