Little Elms Pre-School Oxton

"Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery!"

It appears that a local setting loves our early years recruitment job advert so much, they have decided to copy it almost word for word!

I do hope it brings them the same amazing level of quality educators that we have!

"For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you!"

Take a look at some of the wonderful things our babies have been experiencing whilst in our care.
If you are looking for a setting for your baby, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to welcome you for a visit.

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What is that I hear? We have some baby places available for September! If your child is aged between 6 and 15 months in September, we would love to show you around Little Elms. Our babies enjoy being in a specially designed baby room alongside going on adventures to our woodland, the park, the stream and a number of other exciting places.

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0115 9654627

Funding for 9 month olds

Parents of children aged from 9 months can apply for their funding code from tomorrow 12th May ready for the roll out of the scheme in September 2024.

From tomorrow, eligible working parents of children from 9 months old will be able to register to access 15 hours of governement funding childcare per week (38 weeks per year) from the term after their child turns 9 months old. I will be sending the parent declaration forms home with your child from tomorrow. Please could you complete this and return it to me as soon as possible.

Register here:-

Childcare choices Information targeted at Parents

The J9 logo you see displayed in our windows at Little Elms lets people who are experiencing domestic abuse know, that this is a safe space to access helpline information and to use a telephone to contact support services, police or someone they trust.
Due to the controlling and isolating nature of domestic abuse, those who have experienced it say that they never got the chance to tell someone or get support.
J9 changes that!

Our garden renovation is finished. Thank you so much to Super Grass Nottingham for the amazing work you did turning our garden from a muddy mess into a place where our children can explore, play and learn. We still have lots of natural areas for the children to play and learn, including our allotment area, our growing area and our mud pit digging area, not including our woodland.
Thank you to all of the wonderful people that helped to make this possible, by donating to our go fund me page. Including Andy Melaugh window cleaning services. Your donations really did help to make this possible, when early years budgets are so tight.
As you can see from the photos our children loved to watch the renovation process from start to finish!

This looks good fun!

Come Dine with Dinosaurs this Saturday! Grab a drink or a bite to eat and meet our animatronic Velociraptor & Triceratops friends and say hello to our mini Dino Babies!

Happy Easter everyone. We hope you enjoy a beautiful day with your family and friends! 🐣

The Easter Egg hunt is all set up ready for you to search around Oxton! Good luck! Please try and take a photo of you with your egg and where you found it, and post it on our page.

Happy hunting!!

It is getting towards Easter time, so we are all ready for hiding 6 Easter Eggs around Oxton for some lucky people to find. If you are lucky enough to find one of our hidden eggs, it would be fabulous if you could post a picture of you with your egg and where you found it, to our page.

Happy Hunting!!

🙋🏼‍♀️It’s that time of year again when mini eggs are lining the supermarket shelves. But, did you know that, just like grapes, they are the perfect size to block a small child’s airway and choke them? And, their hard shell can make it difficult to dislodge with standard first aid techniques.

With whole grapes we advise cutting them in half lengthways and ideally into quarters to create thin strips. But chopping up mini eggs isn’t as easy. So, what can you do?

1. Hide them from the children and eat them yourself – good luck with that!

2. Put the mini eggs into a sealable plastic bag and smash them into small pieces with a rolling pin. Or, crush them in a pestle and mortar.

3. Opt for a different treat. Larger, hollow eggs are much safer for little ones.

Visit the choking hub to learn more about common choking hazards and what you should do in an emergency: https://capt.org.uk/choking-prevention/

Playing hide and seek isn’t just fun — games like it are a vital part of the toolbox that contributes to a child’s development in their early years. This age-old classic encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. In addition, it helps to promote important life skills such as communication and teamwork.

"Most of what children need to learn during their early childhood years cannot be taught: it's discovered through play." Ruth Nilson

https://gofund.me/a82ef010
If anyone feels that they are in the position to help, we would be extremely grateful. Thank you.

Our outdoor play area., organized by Little Elms Pre-School We are very sad to say that our beautiful outdoor area is no longer as beautiful due to… Little Elms Pre-School needs your support for Our outdoor play area.

- We are so thrilled with the amount of enquiries we have had.
- We are now full in the pre-school room every morning until September 2025. We do have some afternoon spaces available in this room.
- We have some limited capacity in our toddler room, this is dependent on your child's date of birth.
- We now have limited space on some days in our baby room.

If you would like your child to join Little Elms, please do contact us sooner rather than later to ensure that your child gets their place. We have bookings now for the baby room for 2025!

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0115 9654627

The worry worms have been delivered across many villages today. We hope they bring some joy to the people who find them.
Please do let us know if you are the lucky person to find one. We would love to know who they are going to be living with!

Children’s mental health week is coming up at the beginning of February. One of our main aims is to ensure that our children are happy and healthy and we support our children in any way we can.

Mental health issues can affect so many people at any time so we would like to support our local communities in any way we can.

Over the next few weeks we will be placing these little worry worms around our local communities to hopefully bring a smile to someone’s face and help people to realise that there are people out there that care.

Thank you to Kelly’s amigurumi for creating such lovely little worms for us!

If you find one, please post a picture on here to let us know which one you have found 😊

I’m a little worry worm, made especially for you!
I carry happy thoughts with me, in case you’re feeling blue.
Sometimes life is hard, but your burdens we can share….
You’ve found me at the perfect time, to show you that we care. 🙂

We are very sad to say that our beautiful outdoor area is no longer as beautiful due to the harsh rain and flooding. As you know pre-schools are not huge profit making organisations and any money we have, always goes straight back into making the environment better for the children.
Does anyone know of any companies that could help us out with some artificial grass or something else that would be longer lasting than grass? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We are in search for that very special person to join our outstanding team for 12 hours a week. The days of work will be on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 12pm-3pm. The hours include all term time weeks, plus four weeks holiday cover in October, Easter and Summer

We are searching for a dedicated and committed Early Years Educator/Assistant to start with us as soon as possible. You will be someone who demonstrates a mature attitude and who is experienced and focused on delivering excellent standards of care and early years education with a natural ability to work as part of a team. Your role will be to provide lunchtime and Planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) cover throughout the pre-school and nursery.

- Previous experience of working with early years children.

- Qualification in Early Years and Childcare is absolutely essential, (or willingness to work towards a qualification) No application will be considered without.

- DBS certificate on the update service/clean criminal record.

- An ability to demonstrate responsibility and flexibility and use your own initiative.

- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the EYFS.

- Excellent knowledge and understanding of learning journeys and observations.

- You must have a warm smiling face that makes every child feel special.

- You must be able to laugh at jokes that you don’t understand, or you don’t find funny!

- You will preferably have a little bit of quirkiness. If a child requests that you be a captain of a pirate ship, you will be the best pirate you can be!

- You must feel comfortable telling everybody in the same room as you, that you are going to the toilet!

- The ability to sing in tune is not necessary, however, the ability to sing out of tune in front of a crowd is essential.

- You must be able to distribute warm hugs as required.

- You will possess the skills required to rapidly count the heads of numerous moving small people. This is of the utmost importance.

- You must be comfortable entering public places on the way home from work, with unknown substances on your clothing.

- You must have a high level of comfort around talking about bodily functions. You must have a strong sense of smell to enable you to respond to said bodily functions.

- You can pretend to eat playdough creations realistically and drink numerous cups of pretend tea.

- You must have the ability to read a ten page fairy tale, upside down, with at least four interruptions per page.

- You must be prepared to have lots of fun in the workplace. Laughter is something that you can expect to engage in for a large part of your working day.

- Finally, you must be prepared to feel loved, special and important to our many young children and their families.

There is simply no other job quite like this one!!

Ho ho ho! The children at Little Elms had a fabulous party day today. Even Santa popped in with a gift for each child. The children loved telling Santa what they would like for Christmas and playing party games.

Wow! Our children were amazing in their nativity this afternoon. We hope everyone enjoyed the performance!

We are so proud of Lucy and Melissa as they both graduated as Early Years Teachers today! We hope you both had a fabulous day xx

Merry Christmas from the Little Elms team 🌳 We had a fabulous Christmas party last night all together having some well deserved fun! We couldn’t ask for a better team 🥰

GONE!

Free to a good home!

This would make a good project for someone.

It does have some mould on the outside around bottom of the tent which will need treated along with the green moss on the main part of the tent. The zips on the bottom of the outside layer need looking at. It is still waterproof.
Tent already dismantled and ready to go.

Come along this Weds or Thurs to the fabulous and be prepared to cheer, boo and sing along with Alice, the Queen of Hearts, Mad Hatter & many more… the louder the better!

Grab your ticket from Oxton Post Office or
www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxton-amateur-players

Weds 29 Nov - 7pm - £5
Thurs 30 Nov - 7pm - £6
Friday 1 Dec- 7pm - SOLD OUT
Sat 2 Dec - 2pm - SOLD OUT
Sat 2 Dec - 7.30pm - SOLD OUT

Free parking in Oxton village hall car park

We are on the look out for a fabulous person to join our ever increasing team! We would love someone special to become our kitchen assistant at Little Elms. We are a thriving new Pre-School and nursery with over 80 children from 6 months to 5 years who love their food, especially their puddings! We are open term time only with holiday weeks including one week in October, one week at Easter and two weeks in the Summer, where you will be required to work.

You must have a warm smile that makes everyone feel special.

You will preferably have a little bit of quirkiness and possess the skills required to rapidly count the heads of numerous moving small people.

You must be prepared to feel loved, special and important to our many young children and their families.

The skills needed will be:

- Basic food preparation for snacks and a light bite tea.

- Cooking the pre-prepared meals and then serving to the children.

- Pot washing and keeping the kitchen clean and tidy. (Don't worry, we do have a dishwasher too!)

- Keeping on top of the laundry eg washing facecloths, tabards and bedding.

- Be organised and efficient.

Previous experience of kitchen work is desirable alongside a health and food hygiene certificate. For the right person, we can help with any necessary training.

Job Types: Part-time, Temp to perm

Contract length: 12 months

Salary: £10.42 per hour

Schedule:

Day shift
Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:

Southwell: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:

Kitchen experience: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Nursery kitchen assistant

Little Elms Pre-School is now full in the Pre-School room (27 months-5years) until September 2024.
Our Sprout room (17 months to 27 months) are full Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and only have a small number of places available on a Monday and Friday. We still have some capacity in our baby room (6 months to 27 months)
If you would like your child to join Little Elms in the future, please contact us as soon as you can because our places go very fast, alternatively, we can add your child's name to our waiting lists.

[email protected]
0115 9654627