Shining Stars Nursery

This year we created our own pumpkin patch at Shining Stars Nursery and invited all of our children and their parents.

We had a wonderful afternoon and we would like to say a big thank you to our families and helpers who made the afternoon a great success! 🎃

We have dived right into Autumn!🍁🍂

This is always a lovely time of year as it teaches the children all about change🌳🍂.

The children have loved watching as the leaves fall from the trees and change colour. They have enjoyed using these natural materials within their play.

TICKETS AVAILABLE

Thursday & Friday 9-2 at Coxhoe Village Hall or any Youth Club session

CASH ONLY

Tickets £1
Under 5’s go free

*All attendees will need to purchase a ticket inclusive of adults and under 5’s so we can comply with building capacity*

Message if you have any questions

Post updated:15/10/24

What a lovely Summer term it has been!

The sunny days finally arrived and we could enjoy our fun in the sun activities ☀️.

We had picnics in the garden, walks in the forest to release our butterflies and a very exciting water day! 💦🔫🦋

We ended the term with a very emotional graduation ceremony, saying goodbye to our nursery leavers. We wish them the best of luck and lots of fun in their next adventures 🎓.

Now it is time for us all to recharge our batteries ready for a new and exciting term ahead!

We welcomed The Bubble Man to our nursery on Tuesday 🫧

He showed us lots of different tricks involving bubbles and the children even got to go inside a gigantic bubble!

We would like to say a big thank you!

On Thursday we hosted our first Father’s Day stay and play. It was a huge success and we had a great response from our lovely Dads!

The children loved showing their Dads the lovely things they do in nursery.

We hope you all had a lovely Father’s Day!

What a fantastic experience our children had when we had a special visit from our local fire crew!

They talked to the children about their job and how they keep us safe. They showed us around the fire truck and we even got to spray the hose!

A big thank you to the firemen who came to visit us.

Over the last few weeks we have been learning all about bugs and minibeasts 🕷️🐛🐞

This week we have had Guy from bugsnstuff.com bring lots of exciting mega beasts to show us! It was amazing, we learnt lots of interesting facts and the children were so brave!

A big thank you to Guy for introducing us to all of those fabulous creatures.

Last week we started learning all about Space and it has really taken off! 🚀

The children built their very own rocket ship and with the help of their parents they chose a name. The name that was chosen was ‘Sparkle Rockstar.’

Our nursery has ran with this lovely theme and the children are loving finding out lots of interesting things! 🌎🪐

The children worked hard to make lovely bird feeder pizzas using oats, seeds and fruits as they we were learning about looking after animals during Winter time. 🐦‍⬛

They made choices of where to leave the bird feeders in the woods. We observed the birds up in the trees and down on the ground looking for food and this helped with their decisions.

We also found the Gruffalos Den! The children couldn’t wait to look for sticks to help finish the roof. We hope the Gruffalo was pleased with our work!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎅🏻🎄

The children have been very creative and worked together to create some wonderful Christmas decorations. We have made a beautiful Christmas tree out of boxes and decorated it, made magical reindeer dust and the elves have been super busy writing the good lists!

A very busy week indeed! ⭐️

What a perfect day we had to go and choose our nursery Christmas tree, it felt very festive! 🎄

The children chose the biggest Christmas tree and a beautiful garland for the nursery door. They helped to carry it back to nursery and decorate it with all of the beautiful decorations!

A big thank you to Gary at Coxhoe Garden Centre Parkhill for being very generous and helping us with this wonderful tree! Thank you for your support throughout the year.

Christmas has definitely arrived at Shining Stars! 🎄🎅🏻⭐️

Celebrating Remembrance Day at Shining Stars Nursery.

We wanted to share some of the lovely activities we did around Remebrance Day. We talked to the children about how the poppies help us to remember the brave soldiers who keep us safe.

This type of learning is a very important part of our Personal,Social and Emotional Development and our British Values curriculum. It helps the children to have a better knowledge and understanding of the world and important events.

What a fun day we had yesterday at East Grange - PYO Pumpkins & Christmas Trees! 🎃

The children enjoyed exploring the pumpkin patch searching for different pumpkins to take back to nursery. The children found big pumpkins, small pumpkins but their favourite of all was the goosebumps pumpkin!

It was a beautiful Autumn day and we enjoyed being out in the fresh air🍂🌳.

Thank you very much to East Grange Farm for accommodating us, we had a brilliant morning!

We are following on with our Autumn activities in nursery.🍁🍂

The children have enjoyed the story ‘After the Storm’ by Nick Butterworth. This inspired them to build their own tree house for our woodland animals. They used the small world resources to be creative and imaginative. What a wonderful tree house they made! 🌳

Firework display tickets are on sale NOW for all Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill residents.

Wristbands for all other spectators available from 16th October.

£1 per ticket available from Coxhoe Active Life Centre and Quarrington Hill Community Centre.

Back by popular demand Saturday 28th October, tickets available soon!

£1 Ticket Event

Coxhoe Village Hall
⏱️6pm - 9:30pm
🍻CASH AND CARD BAR FOR ADULTS

Autumn exploration has begun! 🍁🍂

We have loved welcoming all of our little Shining Stars back to nursery to continue their learning journey! ⭐️🌟

We have had lots of fun!

Good luck to all of our little Shining Stars starting school this week! We hope you have lots of fun ⭐️

We celebrated our first graduation ceremony this week! 🎓

It was lovely to see the children preparing for their next adventure. It is an emotional time as we are saying goodbye to some amazing children and their families!

We wish them lots of luck for the future and we will miss you!

Here are some fabulous photos taken on the day! 📸

As part of Art week this week the children have been exploring all types of art techniques and materials.

They have enjoyed using the mod rock to create sculptures, made a lovely mural using glue and lots of loose parts and they explored painting on different textures. The children also used their senses to make some lavender playdough.

We have lots of young artists in the making! 🎨🖌️

Please remember this can be a tricky time for our little ones who are moving on to primary school.

Here are some little things to think about 💭

Children's Art Week 2023 will take place across 3 weeks from 29th June to 19th July. The children will be taking part in lots of different art activities over the week to celebrate this! 🎨🖌️