Early Learners Nursery - Widnes

The whole nursery is looking forward to celebrating Mother's Day on Friday. Please let the staff in the rooms know if you will be attending. Baby Room - 9.30am - 10.30am Toddler Room - 9.30am - 10.30am Tweenie Room - 1.30pm - 2.30pm... Pre School Room - 2pm - 3pm
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Last Friday (22/03/2019) Pre School and Tweenies had a very exciting visit. Two police officers came in to talk to the children about what they do in the community and how they help us. 🚓
They brought in some police uniforms for the children to try on. The children then went out side in small groups into the car park where the police car was parked and got the chance to sit inside it and look at the flashing lights.
Once all the children had looked at the car we went and sto...od on the opposite end of the garden so that they could put the very loud sirens on. The children all got very excited and ran to the fence to get a closer look.
We would like to say a big thank you to the officers for taking the time to come out and see the children they all really enjoyed it.
If any other parents or grand parents would like to come in and talk to the children about their jobs please talk to the staff in the rooms. The children enjoy having people for out side come in and speak to them.
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Today at Early Learners we have enjoyed celebration World Book Day.
A big thank you to all the parents the children all look brilliant and have loved showing off their costumes to their friends.
In Baby Room we sat in Evie's Place enjoying all the touchy feely books and reading a special story about Princess Evie. We then coloured in pictures of the characters we came dressed up as.
... In Toddler Room we loved showing off our favourite stories and sitting down and reading them, we also enjoyed watching The Gruffalo story on the computer.
In Tweenies we were busy using the props to retell some of our favourite stories and we made special pizza's for our tea. We also enjoyed having a little dance.
In Pre School we have liked sharing the stories we like with our friends and using our imaginations to retell the stories our selves with out any grown up help. We liked telling everyone what we were dressed up as and have enjoyed listening to new stories we haven't heard before.
We have all had a lovely day in nursery today - we hope you like looking at all the pictures.
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During February we have had lots of exciting things to do.
On Tuesday 5th February we celebrated Chinese New Year. We tasted lots of Chinese foods such as spring rolls, noodles, prawn crackers and sweet & sour sauce. Some of us really enjoyed it but some of us didn’t really like the Chinese food. We also did lots of craft activities based around Chinese New Year. We made lucky money wallets that said ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese writing on them with Helen. We made little Chin...ese dragons with Drew, using the pens to colour them in and following instructions to put them together. With Debbie we made Chinese lanterns, decorating them using glue and sequins to make them nice and sparkly.
For valentine’s day we baked heart shaped chocolate chip cookies and made lots of different crafts for our mummies and daddies. We followed instructions and used our own ideas to decorate things. On valentine’s day some of our parents and grandparents came to do some lovely things with us. We played in the water, filling and pouring with heart sequins, we made peg butterflies, heart wands and decorated heart biscuits.
Following the children’s interests we have also been looking at healthy eating. We created some healthy food plates with Michelle, sticking different materials on plates to represent fruit and vegetables. We looked at all of the different types of foods, sorting them into healthy and unhealthy foods. We also did a food tasting activity, following on from Chinese New Year; tasting different types of fruit. We discussed which fruits we had, looked at the colour and discussed the texture of them. Linking to healthy eating, we also do lots of different types of music & movement to talk about how it affects our bodies and practice moving in a variety of ways.
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Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day and if your child attends nursery they are more than welcome to come in dressed up and/or bring their favourite book in so we can read it throughout the day.

Last Thursday we invited all our Pre School children and families to join us to celebrate Valentines Day. We hosted a loved up stay and play with our sweethearts. It was lovely to see so many of our parents join in with the event.
The children enjoyed creating jam hearts to take home, they used red icing to roll out and make small hearts to go with their jam tarts and used edible writing pens to add the name of who is special to them. Another activity was for children to mak...e and design their own love heart to give and heart shape printing. In the water tray we had rose petals, heart shaped sequins and red food dye, and in the reading corner we created a cosy spot for our children to have a picture taken with their family member, Pre School sweetheart or best friend 😊 Little fun props were added such as a rose, hearts hanging and ribbons, crowns and confetti balloons.
At circle time we spoke about Valentine’s Day and what it meant, we read a beautiful story titled ‘There’s no one I love like you’. This was a firm favourite to read and share. When the families were leaving the children picked a heart sticker for mums, dads and granddads, they chose a love heart chocolate or a love bug to give and their love heart collages too. The children loved the balloons and wanted to take them home, the room was decorated with spreading the theme of the day, love. Lots of hearts were displayed and the children’s artwork hanging too. The Pre Schoolers all commented that they loved the decoration in their room and wanted to keep it forever. We did other activities leading up to the special day such as drawing hearts, people who were special to us, red scented play dough with heart shaped cutters, listening to Valentine’s music for kids and dancing to this for movement and dance time, love heart bath bombs in the water tray to watch them fizz around and go smaller in size and shape, this was exciting for the children to see.
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Following on from the success of running Sports club for the last 3 terms we are excited to offer it again from 19th February 2019. This is for the Pre School and Tweenie's children and will be run on a Tuesday afternoon from 1pm - 1.45pm.
This is a separate company who will be offering a range of sports activities at a small cost.
... Little Superstars Sports Club would like to start their fun, active and instructive multi sports sessions at Early Learners Nursery. Scott would be your coach. At Little Superstars Sports Club we provide coaching in 20 different sports. The sports covered include football, rugby, basketball, lacrosse, golf, baseball, racket sports and many more. All equipment is provided and is age and sport specific. Our sessions start with a structured fun and active warm up which is followed by instruction in our featured sport for that week and finish with a cool down session. Each session lasts 45 minutes and costs £2.50 per child per week. All the classes are taught by our specialist, experienced and qualified Sports coaches, who are all enhanced CRB checked. Little Superstars Sports Club are aware that not all children are motivated by sport; however we do believe that every child has in them the capabilities to reach their own sporting potential. All children are therefore included and encouraged equally regardless of ability. We believe that children who take part in sport at an early age will also grow up to appreciate sport rather than avoiding it. We fulfil this aim by positive reinforcement of all achievements.
The dates for the Second half term is as follows:
Tuesday 19 February until Tuesday 2 April - 7 weeks
We have changed the way we take payment to give more flexibility for you to be able to do this at a time convenient for yourselves
Use the following link and you can book and pay for your child online by either card, BACS or childcare vouchers.
https://superstars.class4kids.co.uk/info/ 66
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ATTENTION ALL PARENTS OF 3 AND 4 YEAR OLDS
All 3 and 4 year olds are entitled to 15 hours free childcare from the term after their 3rd birthday. From September 2017, the free entitlement was increased to 30 hours per week for working parents.
... To find out if you qualify and apply, go on-line to: www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
To ensure you can claim 30 hours free childcare from April 2019, HMRC are encouraging parents to apply before the end of March at the latest, as any applications received after 31st March 2019 will not be eligible to claim the additional hours in April.
To be eligible for the additional 15 hours from April 2019, both parts of the criteria below must be met:
• The child must be 3 or 4 years old before 31st March 2019; and • Working parents must have applied for the additional hours and been issued with an eligibility code from the above website, before 31st March 2019
Please let us know your code and what hours/additional hours you want to use as we have limited availability on some days. We have sent more information to the parents of children that have or are turning 3 this term but if you haven't received it or want more information please get in touch with April (manager) or Joanne (secretary).
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Today in toddler room we were joined by some of our mum's to celebrate Valentine's Day ❤ We had lots of fun activities to do, Gina, Jane and, Sandra had set up some printing for us to do using the heart shapes to paint 🖌 We also enjoyed messy play with the shaving foam that had some red food colouring in and some petals and we enjoyed decorating and icing biscuits 🍪 using red food colouring and sprinkles.
Yesterday Heidi and Emma also enjoyed playing in the gloop and custard and making lots of mess exploring the texture of it and having lots of fun.
We hope you like looking at our pictures and can join us for our next stay and play.

Today in the Baby Room we held our stay and play where we invited our parent’s to come and join in with some Valentine’s day activities. We set up three different activities. The first activity we did was some shape printing using the love hearts. The children enjoyed exploring the paint using their hands as well as joining in with the printing. The children also used the paint brushes to carry out some free painting 🖌 Once the children had finished we moved onto the next tab...le where we made some lovebugs 🐞 We painted the children’s feet to make them into ladybirds. With a bit of reassurance the children allowed us to paint their feet. Ruhaan was unsure but allowed his dad to paint them. Once we had finished with our painting we started on our gloop play. With a lot of encouragement the children would come over and touch the gloop. Caleb thought it would be fun to add some balls into the gloop and was playing ready steady go with Brody. Ruhaan’s dad was trying to encourage him to explore the gloop and he kept putting his fingers in it. We all had lots of fun as you can see from our pictures ❤ We hope you can make it to our next stay and play as we have lots more fun activities planned.
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Over the last couple of weeks on Toddlers we have been busy exploring lots of messy activities such as Weetabix play, fruit tasting and fruit printing, stencil printing, shaving foam play with the dinosaurs and making bracelets with pasta and exploring colours with sand pictures.
We have been learning about colours, shapes and numbers. We are also in the middle of updating our all about me display and the children love looking at the pictures of their families and pointing out who is in the pictures. If you haven't already can you please bring in or email over a family picture for the display, Thank you.
We hope you like looking at the pictures of the activities we have been doing we have had lots of messy fun 🖌🖍

On Tuesday in Toddler Room we celebrated Chinese New Year.
We made lanterns using sequins and glue, decorated biscuits using red icing and explored noodle play with chopsticks. We also enjoyed our noodles, sweet and sour chicken and prawn crackers for dinner.

Wednesday was a special day ,we all woke up to a blanket of snow, which meant only one thing SNOW DAY at nursery with Nicky, the Pre School children all very excited about coming to nursery to be able to play out in the garden. We got ready, we needed to be all wrapped up with our hats, gloves and scarves to keep us warm whilst having lots of fun, We had snowball fights throwing snow at our friends then we worked together to make a snowman, Olivia found some sticks for his ...arms, Ezra found a bit of scarf to keep him warm and Frankie B come up with a good idea of using blocks for his eyes, Max thought snowy would be a good name for the snowman because he was made of snow, all the children were very proud of snowy the snowman. It was time to finish off in the snow, so we went inside and got changed into our dry clothes and Nakita had made us hot chocolate to warm us all up.
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We are asking parents to help their children to create their own Easter Bonnets and to join us to show them off in our parade.
There will be a prize for the most creative bonnet in each room.
Baby and Toddler Room's will hold their parade at 9.30am - 10.30 am.... Tweenie and Pre School Room's will hold their parade at 1.30pm - 2.30pm.
If you have any questions please ask a member of the team.
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At Early Learners Nursery we are excited to get dressed up as our favourite book characters and hope all the children will join us to.
On Thursday 7th March we are asking the children to come in dressed as a story book character and bring one of their favourite stories in for us to read through out the day.

Early Learners would like to invite all our Mum's and Nan's into nursery on Friday 29th March 2019 to celebrate Mother's Day.
All the rooms are holding stay and play sessions at different times - this information will be sent in a notification.
If you would like more information please ask a member of the team.

Weather Warning – Snow
Early Learners will do it’s utmost to open on time and offer a full service. Due to safety we have needed to shut the car-park. We are sorry for this inconvenience.
The recent snow fall conditions is considered hazardous in some areas for children, families and staff to travel. In the event of heavy snowfall during the nursery day a decision will be taken by the manager whether the service should remain open, taking into account the safety of the ch...ildren and staff travelling.
Early Learners sees snow as an opportunity for play and exploration. Please ensure that your child is suitably dressed for going outside during play time. We will only keep the children inside if conditions are unpleasant or unacceptably risky.
In the event of an extreme weather warning, we will update parents to any operational changes either by either notifications (pre-warning), telephone, email and social media.
We appreciate your co-operation and understanding with this matter should this unpredictable situation occur.
Kind regards
Early Learners Team
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All 3 and 4-year-olds and some 2-year olds in England are currently entitled to up to 15 hours a week free childcare for 38 weeks of the year (during school term-times). All children in England get 570 free hours per year. We spread this free entitlement over 12 months (instead of 38 weeks), to help spread the savings throughout the year. You may be able to get up to 30 hours free childcare (1,140 hours per year, which you can choose how you take). The ‘30 hours free childcar...e’ scheme is great news for eligible families, who could claim up to double the amount of free childcare they are currently entitled to. This could take your free childcare entitlement from 570 hours a year up to 1,140 hours a year. If you’re eligible for the extra hours, you can simply sign up online to get a code to give to us your childcare provider to reserve your place. You’ll get the extra hours once the next term starts. For more information please click on the link below:
http://www.earlylearnersnurseryltd.co.uk/ 30hrs-free-early-e…
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You send your kids to a nursery in the hope that your kid's wont be just looked after but genuinely cared for, in my experiance you get so much more than that from early learners, everytime I pick my son up I'm told how much he's loved! We like it so much we appealed our school admission so we could continue using this nursery for breakfast/ after school club come September! More than happy leaving my children in their care x

My son was in the nursery since he was 9 months old .. the staff are amazing my son has come on so well they have helped him learn and have fun with it hes a funny kid who had amazing bonds with helen and all the staff there curtis is heart broke now hes left he dont ubderstand he cant go school at 1 oclock no more 2 see helen thank you again x love alwayz curtis

A.K.A Ginge xxxx

My son loves it here the staff are fantastic. Highly recommend

My little girl started in the pre-school room last April, she has loved every minute of it, the pre-school staff are fantastic, she's finished today and will miss it so much, fantastic nursery world recommend it

My little boy goes to the holiday club. He has been going for about 2 years now on half terms he really loves it and enjoys going.. all the staff are lovely and there's so much for him to do for the whole day.. as a mum you feel guilty for working and leaving them but when you collect your child and all they do is have great things to say then you know you have signed up to a great nursery.. I really can't fault them.. they are always on point and always gives you a hand over when I collect him.. I'm just glad I have a great holiday/ nursery to drop him off too and know I can feel calm at work knowing I'm going to pick up a happy boy.. thank you for the great care my son receives.

You send your kids to a nursery in the hope that your kid's wont be just looked after but genuinely cared for, in my experiance you get so much more than that from early learners, everytime I pick my son up I'm told how much he's loved! We like it so much we appealed our school admission so we could continue using this nursery for breakfast/ after school club come September! More than happy leaving my children in their care x

My son was in the nursery since he was 9 months old .. the staff are amazing my son has come on so well they have helped him learn and have fun with it hes a funny kid who had amazing bonds with helen and all the staff there curtis is heart broke now hes left he dont ubderstand he cant go school at 1 oclock no more 2 see helen thank you again x love alwayz curtis

A.K.A Ginge xxxx

My son loves it here the staff are fantastic. Highly recommend

My little girl started in the pre-school room last April, she has loved every minute of it, the pre-school staff are fantastic, she's finished today and will miss it so much, fantastic nursery world recommend it

My little boy goes to the holiday club. He has been going for about 2 years now on half terms he really loves it and enjoys going.. all the staff are lovely and there's so much for him to do for the whole day.. as a mum you feel guilty for working and leaving them but when you collect your child and all they do is have great things to say then you know you have signed up to a great nursery.. I really can't fault them.. they are always on point and always gives you a hand over when I collect him.. I'm just glad I have a great holiday/ nursery to drop him off too and know I can feel calm at work knowing I'm going to pick up a happy boy.. thank you for the great care my son receives.