Inkpots Day Nursery

We hope you are all enjoying your long weekend.
We will see you all again on Tuesday 😊

🐇Happy Easter to all of our amazing children and their families!! 🐇
I hope you all enjoyed eating too much chocolate 🍫 today topped off with this amazing weather ☀️
Don’t forget we are closed Easter Monday and Tuesday ... reopening at 7.15am on Wednesday morning 😊

'Hoppy' Easter everyone! 🐣💜
Here's a little snippet of what our Babies and Tiddlers have been upto this past week.
We've had an 'eggcellent' time 🤪😂

Toddlers have been super busy this past while! 😁
We have had a keen interest in painting activities so we have focused our activities based around this! 🎨🎨
We used natural materials as our mark making tools and took our painting outside to design some rocks. 🎨👌🏻
... We even squeezed a visit in to see the chickens!! 🐣🐣 fun times all round 😊😊
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After-School's took themselves off to Carnfunnock for their first Easter trip this morning. 🐥🐰
What else would you do when your After-School Leader was in the scouts other than build a hut?? #OutdoorSkills #GreatFun 🌱🍃🌿

A little insight to what Pre-School have been up to recently. 🎨😃
I think some of our staff had just as much fun as the children "monkeying" around in the park also! 🤪🐒

Spring has sprung! ☀️🌺🌸💐🌼🌷
Tiddlers having lots of fun outside, we have been showing off our particularly impressive balancing skills on the planks! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Tiddlers have also been enjoying lots of sensory play! (especially when there's something tasty involved to explore with!) 😋🍭🍫🍒🍓🍍
Lots of creativity sparked throughout. ✨⭐️

Babies having lots of fun outside ☀️💐🌸🌺🍂🌿

Have a look at how busy our babies have been the last while 🤩🤩
We've been having lots of fun getting super messy and using our senses to explore what is around us. 😃
Exploring with our senses helps us develop in a variety of ways such as language development, motor skills and social and emotional skills. ✅⭐️

⭐️We are recruiting⭐️
We are recruiting for the following post:
Afterschool Assistant... ✨30-40 hours per week, permanent.
Candidate must: ⭐️Have experience working with school age children.👧🏼👦🏽🧒🏻 ⭐️Hold a relevant Level 2 qualification or willing to work towards.👩🏼‍🎓👨🏼‍🎓 ⭐️Be creative and think outside the box⚡️ ⭐️Always be up for having lots of fun! 🎉 ⭐️Be inspiring and unique with a sprinkle of positive thinking🤔....
Safeguarding, First Aid and Food Hygiene is preferred however this training can be offered.
Candidate preferably over 25 with a clean driving license for Nursery Vehicle Insurance but not essential.
Does this sound like you???
📞Please call Kelly-Lee or Claire on 02828277809 between 8am and 5pm for a chat and an application pack or email: info@inkpotsdaynursery.com and leave us some information about yourself and contact details and we can get back to you 😊
⭐️Closing date Wednesday 24th April at 12pm.⭐️
⭐️Please tag and share.
🍀Good luck🍀
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Tiddlers had the best time mark making outside with the chalks this morning, our garden is definitely looking a lot brighter now that they have got their hands on it! 🖍💜❤️💙💚💛🧡
Lots of fine motor, hand-eye coordination and creativity shown. We discussed the colours of each piece of chalk and modelled the makaton sign for each colour. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

💕Another little video of our visits to Gillaroo Nursing Home... this just shows how much the residents get out of this as well as the children! This session was ‘Pimp my zimmer’ Check it out 😜

💕Happy Mother’s Day to our amazing mum’s and our staff who also have little ones! I hope you were all spoilt rotten 😊💕

Here’s a little snippet of our time with Gilaroo Nursing Home. We are so lucky to have this ongoing Intergenerational Project funded by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Look at all of those happy faces!! We just 💖 it!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1BxfN5VvJg

The leprechaun's paid a visit to Inkpot's yesterday and left lots of golden chocolate coins behind. Our Afterschool children went out to see if they could find any.
They had to look high and low. We even had to shake some of the trees for them to fall out.
What a magical afternoon ☘️✨

"Baking with children is not just about the ingredients, recipes and baking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment and creativity." 👩‍🍳💕👨‍🍳🥰🧁

Babies and Tiddlers have been loving messy play recently! have a look at what we've been up to 🥰
"Messy play allows children to... build, imagine, experience, investigate, explore, create, observe, predict and use the senses. Best of all - it's heaps of fun!" ✨🎨😃