Melrose Day Nursery School

Happy Easter! We hope you have a fab day. Much love from the staff team x

Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mums , Grandmas, Nanas, Great Grandmothers .Have a fabulous day ladies 💐❤️💙💚💖💛

Some photos from last week...all the Preschoolers loved celebrating Pancake Day and really enjoyed our annual Pancake Race :)

Be my Valentine...we have been spreading the love all week with hearts, flowers, love potion, our beautiful Tree of Love and let's not forget our love letters

What a great and busy week we've had in Preschool...here is only a small selection of activities we enjoyed :)

This afternoon our preschoolers are going to find out what's behind those fairy doors 🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️🧚

Busy week in Preschool...It's only Wednesday and we have already practiced our writing skills, made amazing Fairy Soup, created Jurassic park, played indoor Hop Scotch, explored colour mixing and many many more....

Tots have been busy this January with some lovely activities. Here are just but few that they have participated in.

Some Jan Activities from Pre-school and Lower Pre-school at the start of the New Year

Supporting Your Child’s Social and Emotional Wellbeing | Trafford Directory

Trafford have put together some FAO's regarding children's mental health due to covid-19 restrictions.
https://www.trafforddirectory.co.uk/kb5/trafford/fsd/advice.page?id=QIeCUz-EGkQ

trafforddirectory.co.uk The past few months have been extremely tough on parent/carers and their children. Lots of parent/carers have voiced concerns about the impact of Covid-19 on their child’s social and emotional wellbeing. We have put together some Frequently Asked Questions aimed at helping parent/carers to support...

As the weather becomes more autumnal so do the activities. Some of the activities we had going on for a group of children this morning. This is my favourite time of year, what's yours?

Good Luck to all our Melrose Graduates starting primary school this week ...we miss you already 💓

Covid 19 Graduation 2020- we did it!!! Graduation like no other

WONDERBOOKS from Save the Children - Save the Children

I thought i would share this with you all as it seems like a wonderful scheme. https://www.wonderbooks.org.uk/

wonderbooks.org.uk Make your kids' world a little bigger, and a little better with real life bedtime stories. Start this childrens' book subscription today and support Save the Children's life-saving work around the world.

Some of the fun pre-school are having today.

Play is everything and time spent playing with your child in a playful state will fill their attention bucket and make your child/ren feel valued.

Pre-school as ever are busy outside in the garden. Yesterday was a spa day where they painted nails, created crazy hair, had lovely foot soaks in flowers, made a face mask from avocado and banana, they explored rainbow unicorn and fantasy tuff tray, created some amazing teas and generally had so much fun. Happy children, happy spaces. Outside is made of win!

Some of the fun things that the baby and tots have been up to recently. We do say 'Clean children aren't learning and clean children aren't having fun'. children learn best when they don't know they are learning. Let's make early years special.

Our wonderful nursery have places available in September for all age groups. Your child could be part of this fun filled family environment. We have a spacious outdoor area, where we really embrace being outside and letting children explore and create in this amazing space. We accept 2 and 3-4 year old funding and try our best to be as flexible as possible to make childcare work for the parent and child. Please contact Jen on 0161 9697754 or email [email protected] for more information.

Who wouldn't enjoy our amazing pick 'n' mix tea. A firm favourite with children and staff.

We now have our very own instagram account. Melrosedaynursery. Why not follow us and see all the fun activities we get up to.

Outdoor Construction Area ready 🏗🚧🔨🏗🚧🔨

Our Magical Woodland 🌲🌳🌲🌳 ready for our preschoolers 🌿🌳🌲

Another project completed this week ...our preschoolers have this beautiful “Nature kitchen” to explore 🌿💐🌳💦

What a fabulous first month(and a bit 😂) back we’ve had ...Watching the children reunite with their friends and seeing smiles on their faces was just priceless...They have all adopted to a new “normal” with great ease....We have been working hard to make up for lost time 😀 here is only small selection of activities we have enjoyed so far 😀

Some new outdoor/ indoor areas created for our preschoolers and parents. What do you think ? 😀

It has been a fun filled first week back. We now have a handwashing station at the front door. On dry days this will be outside and we ask if you could please support your child washing hands before coming in to nursery. On wet days we will have it in the porch and we will help handwash.

We are re-opening our doors on the 1st June to ALL children. We can accommodate small groups of children in their own space and have places available. Please contact Jen on email at [email protected] or after the 1st June ring on 0161 9697754 to discuss.

Sunshine Pre-School

Some great tips for school leavers 🌈🌈🌈stay safe boys and girls and hopefully see you soon

📚 School Leavers 📚✏️

Lots of children will be getting ready to attend school in September, we have put together a list of things that we believe will massively support children to be ready to enter reception 🥰

⭐️Self care⭐️
▪️I can use the toilet independently 🚽
▪️I can wash and dry my own hands 🖐🏻
▪️I can blow my own nose 👃🏻
▪️I can ask for help if I feel unwell 🤒

⭐️Independence⭐️
▪️I can put my own coat on and off 🧥
▪️I can put my own shoes on and off 👟
▪️I can get change out of my clothes and put different ones on 👚
▪️I can pour my own drinks 🥛
▪️I can open my packed lunch box and eat independently 🥒
▪️I can use a knife and fork 🍴
▪️I can sit at a table when I eat 🪑

⭐️Social and Emotional⭐️
▪️I am confident being away from my mummy, daddy or main carer 👨‍👩‍👦
▪️I am able to express my emotions, thoughts and needs to be met 💬
▪️I am willing to try 👍
▪️I am able to turn take and share 🤝
▪️I can interact and play games with others 🎲
▪️I try to be a good friend
▪️I have persistence 💪🏻
▪️I can problem solve 💡

⭐️Gross and fine motor skills⭐️
▪️I have gained good muscle control in my hands ✋🏾
▪️I can hold a pen comfortably ✏️
▪️ I have good balance 🤸🏼‍♀️
▪️I am confident within climbing, jumping, and running 🏃‍♂️
▪️I am learning to manage my own risks ⛔️

⭐️Listening and understanding⭐️
▪️I can follow boundaries and routines 📋
▪️ I am able to sit still for a short while and listen👂
▪️I can follow instructions 💭

⭐️Literacy and Speaking⭐️
▪️I am understood when I talk 💬
▪️I am able talk about myself, my thoughts and feelings
▪️ I am exploring and interested in books, pictures stories, and music 🎶
▪️I am practicing to recognise my own name when it’s written down

⭐️Maths Skills⭐️
▪️I am aware of numbers and counting 🧮
▪️I join in with number words, songs and play 🎱
▪️I experiment with emptying and filling sand/water containers ⌛️
▪️I can recognise some written numbers 🅾️
▪️I look at numbers in my community 🏪

⭐️Routines⭐️
▪️I have practiced getting my uniform on and being ready to leave on time ⏰
▪️I have a good bedtime routine so I am not tired for school 😴
▪️I am learning to eat at the same time as I would at school 🍏
▪️I am making sure I have breakfast before I leave for school 🥞

Morning boys and girls ...did anyone see that beautiful double rainbow 🌈 🌈 yesterday ? I know how much you love rainbows and how much you love our science experiments -so today we would like you to try this “Rainy Rainbow Experiment” 😀🌈 all that you need is water, food colouring, jar, pipettes/syringe and shaving foam.

Activities for babies, toddlers and children - BBC Tiny Happy People

Tiny Happy People is a brilliant way from the BBC to help babies, toddlers and children with communication. Please check out their resources.https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people

bbc.co.uk A chatty child is a happy child, so Tiny Happy People is here to help you develop your child's communication skills through simple interaction and play.

Photos from Melrose Day Nursery School's post

Stretch n Grow Manchester West & Sale

Reminder you can find stretch and grow online . It is very popular with the children https://www.facebook.com/stretchngrowmanchesterwest/

Health, Fitness & Nutrition programme for children

Morning guys ...we hope everyone is well and staying safe (we also hope our parents staying sane 😂) We decided to post some school readiness activities and tips for our reception leavers 🎓 Today we chose Listening and Following Directions games. Red light, green light, Simon says ..., I spy .... Obstacle courses and Do as I say, not as I do .... Enjoy 🌈🌈🌈