Welcome to the Blog of St Mary's Nursery @ The Park.
The Pavilion Corporation Park
West Park Road
Blackburn.

We are open Monday to Friday 9.00 - 12.00 & 1.00 - 4.00 term time.

Contact us on 01254 677788.

Monday 15 December 2014

Mowgli's Adventures.

Mowgli had a lovely weekend visiting Maryam Sultan recently. Maryam was really excited about Mowgli's visit and he even had a bath there and came back to nursery nice and clean. He met a new teddy friend called Tommy and Maryam took great care of him, thank you Maryam.

Christmas Party Time

Don't forget it's our Christmas parties this week. The Morning children will be having their party on Thursday and the Afternoon children on Wednesday. Please dress in your traditional Christmas outfits, come as Shepherds, Kings, Angels or even in your Christmas Jumper. Don't forget to bring in your Christmas Party contributions x

Friday 5 December 2014

Preparing for Santa's visit


The morning children had a lovely time this Thursday taking some of our Christmas craft up to the conservatory. The children decorated the conservatory with Angels and baubles that they had created at nursery. The conservatory will be open for Corporation Park's Santa Visit on the 14th December (see newsletter) for you to view the children's creations. Ayaan, Azeem and Maryam S had their photo taken for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. A group of 3 and 4 year olds then went down to the main park entrance to watch Sacred Heart school children singing their Christmas songs.

Mowgli's Adventures

Last weekend Mowgli went to Anisha's house, they had breakfast together and Anisha did Mowgli's hair. One evening they had a lovely meal in Kebbabish. Mowgli had a drive in Anisha's bright pink car and had a trip into town on the train. Mowgli met Anisha's pet fish and had lots of fun, thank you Anisha.

Sacred Heart visit

The children visited Sacred Heart School for their Open Day, the children looked around the school and watched the Steel drums being played, they sat and had a drink and a snack. This was carried out to promote good transition for children when they go to school. They children had a lovely walk up to the School and enjoyed seeing the children, some of whom they are related to or friends with. Thank You to all the Mummies who helped us over the day.







Wednesday 26 November 2014

December

We have an exciting month of activities in store for the children. They will learning about the festival of Christmas and we will be transforming our home corner into a Christmas house with a tree for the children to decorate and real winter vegetables for the children to role play cooking. The deconstruction area will be transformed into Santa's workshop where children can wear their Christmas hats and aprons and help wrap presents and prepare for the busy Christmas season. Please ensure you read your latest Christmas newsletter telling you all the fun activities the children will also be involved with.

Mowgli's Adventures

Mowgli spent last weekend with Kenzie and his family, he had a happy time meeting Kenzie's cousins and family and enjoyed a tasty meal together. They had a fun play in the park together and Kenzie showed Mowgli the squirrels and rabbits. Mowgli helped doing some cleaning and played with Kenzie with his JCB. Thank you Kenzie x

Monday 10 November 2014

Mowgli's Adventures

This weekend Mowgli has been to visit Mariya, he has met her family and had some fun playing on her rocking horse. Mariya has made sure Mowgli cleaned his teeth and had some yummy food. He's enjoyed colouring, sticking and playing with dough. Mowgli watched Toy Story and had a treat of ice cream. Thank you Mariya for a lovely weekend.

Superhero Day for Children In Need

On Friday we will be having our Superhero Day, Staff and children are invited to dress up and pay £1.00 for Children In Need. Costumes can be home made and cover a wide range of Superheroes, including the Armed Forces, Police, Doctors, Batman, Wonder Woman or even their big brother, Uncle or Mummy! Please join us in the fun. The children will then be given some simple challenges to complete in keeping with the Superhero theme and there will be a certificate for all those children who take part. Which Superhero will your child be???????

Tuesday 4 November 2014

Halloween Fun










Autumn Term 2

Welcome back children and families. It's a cold start to the second half of our Autumn Term, the winter weather is definitely on its way. Please ensure children are dressed appropriately with winter coats, shoes, hats, scarves etc. All items should be clearly labelled with your child's name. We do have 30 children per session and if items go missing names will be needed for people to identify which items belong to each child.
The children had a lot of fun taking part in our Halloween themed activities at the end of last term. Well done all those children who dressed up for. Here are a few pictures of the activities.



Friday 10 October 2014

Fun Fruit Week

Next week the children will be sampling different fruits over the week, we will be talking about the fruits they like and don't like, naming fruits for children and talking about fruits that they enjoy eating at home with their families, we will also be exploring the story Handa's Surprise.

Handa is a little girl who decides to visit her friend Akeyo, and bring her a basket of delicious fruit. As she walks along the dusty road, she wonders which fruit will be Akeyo’s favourite. On her way, some cheeky animals spy fruit in the basket and find different ways to take it! There’s a lovely surprise at the end that will delight children for many years. The story has appeal for younger children as they watch the way the animals find their favorite fruit. Older children enjoy the expressive language such as the sweet smelling guava and the creamy green avocado and the surprise ending!

Smile 4 Life

The nursery children had a visit from Pluto this week, he came to talk to the children about how important it is to look after your teeth. Pluto encouraged the children to clean his teeth and feed him tooth friendly snacks, fruit and vegetables. Here are some photos of the children enjoying their visit from Pluto.




Wednesday 8 October 2014

Mowgli's Adventures

Last weekend Mowgli went to visit Iqra for the weekend. He had chicken pasta, went for a drive in the car, meeting Iqra's family and went into town. Mowgli had a fun ride on a train and even went for a walk in the park. Thank you Iqra for a lovely weekend.

Mowgli's Adventures

Here's Mowgli, the children's special nursery friend. Mowgli will be used at nursery to talk about special things with the children, promote positive behaviour and used to build relationships with children. Each weekend he will be invited to one of the children's houses for a special adventure. You will be asked to keep a short diary of Mowgli's adventure and include some photos which nursery will print off for you if you can provide a pen drive or send an email. Each week his latest adventure will be recorded on the Blogg for you to share with your children.

Monday 6 October 2014

Big Bake Sale


St Marys @ The Park, Big Bake Sale for MacMillan Cancer Support

 

Thank you for all your support in buying cakes for our cake sale, we have raised a total of £151.70 for MacMillan Cancer Support.

 

Friday 26 September 2014

St Marys @ The Park Big Bake Sale

All next week at nursery we will be selling cake and tasty treats to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support. This is a very worthy charity so please bring your spare change along and buy yourself a cake or two. Cakes and treats will have been made by the nursery children, donations from children's families and made by our resident baker Amanda. kgcakes Amanda Halstead on Facebook.

Eid Celebrations

The children have enjoyed a fun filled week of activities to celebrate the festival of Eid. We have made Eid cards, potato printing stars and moons, made samosas, created Mehndi patterns using writing tools on paper hands and henna on real hands and done lots of Asian dancing with bangles and scarves to enhance the experience. Ayyan, Husnain, Burhan and Zain's Mummy's very kindly came in to help us with our activities and the week ended with parties full of dancing and tasty treats, thank you to all our parents who brought food in for the parties. Here are some photos of the weeks activities