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Our New Nursery!

Thu, 04 May 2023 11:24:19 GMT

Olive Barn Nursery Steeple Bumpstead - Opened February 2023

We are extremely proud to introduce our new nursery in Steeple Bumpstead, Essex.

Based in a beautiful barn, offering all year round care and education to children from 6 month to 5 years.

Please get in touch if you would like some further information - info@olivebarnnursery.co.uk

We look forward to hearing from you!

Food For Life Early Years Award

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:19:05 GMT

We are so proud to be working towards The Food For Life Early Years Award!

Here at The Barn we are proud to providing the nutritious food that plays a crucial role in a child's development as well as creating the foundations for a lifetime of good food choices.

Harvest

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:51:44 GMT

Its Harvest time!

The children have really enjoyed watching the combine cutting the corn outside the nursery this week.

The children asked lots of wonderful questions and watched in amazement as they learnt that the crops would be used to make their bread!

Queens Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:01:55 GMT

A banquet Fit for the Queen!

An absolutely wonderful day celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee with all of our children and parents in our forest area. :)

Mud Kitchen

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:37:54 GMT

We all love playing in our messy mud kitchen.

There’s mud on my shirt, ��
and leaves in my hair. ��
There’s mud on my boots ��
but I really don’t care. ��

Football Class

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:36:24 GMT

The children within the nursery had a great morning practising their football skills with Coach Gary. ⚽️

Hatching Chicks

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:34:37 GMT

Baby room eggs have hatched!

Baby room have been hatching their own chickens for the nursery farm. Now they are a little bigger they have been moved into a bigger house in the baby garden. ��

Preschool are also hatching eggs, and have just 17 days until their ducklings are here! ��

New Outdoor Resources

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:32:06 GMT

As previously shown, we have continued to develop our well loved outdoor areas. Outdoor play is one of our main focuses at the nursery and we always continue to improve our environment using the childrens interests. We have recently added an art easel to the garden area, with clear Perspex, the children love painting watching their friends either side.

Mummy Monday <3

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:25:37 GMT

Celebrating Mother's Day at The Barn Nursery

For Mother's day the children and staff at the nursery invited all of their Mums to an afternoon tea. Children within each class made sandwiches, scones, fruit platters, jam and cakes for everyone to enjoy. Staff served hot drinks, and decorated our outside environment with pink blossom trees and seating. All of the Mummies enjoyed their afternoon spent with the nursery and their children. Thank you to everyone who came, it was so lovely to spend time with you all.

Barn Kids Easter Holiday Scheme

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:51:13 GMT

Join Barn Kids for a fun packed two week Easter break!

Barn Kids are offering two whole weeks of Easter holiday cover. As well as covering local school's teacher training day on Tuesday 23rd April. The Easter Break begins on Monday 8th April and runs until Tuesday 23rd April. The holiday scheme consists of trips to local parks, forest school activities, sports coach and more. Our Barn Kids cabin has lots of fun games for all children to play, and we also offer Breakfast, Snack and Tea. If you would like further information on our holiday scheme programme please contact us info@thebarnkids.co.uk

Sessions Available:
School Day 9:00-3:30 £25.00
All Day 7:45-6:15 £32.20

Playground Plans

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:16:15 GMT

Follow The Barn Nursery's playground transformation

Part of our on-going efforts to improve our provision for children is our playground revamp. We have been observing how the playground is used by children and staff, the opportunities it presents as well as how often children use this space to free flow. Parents and carers of the setting wanted to see some changes, and supported this through fundraising events. We found that our space was mainly being used to support physical development, as children chose to ride bikes and scooters. Centred around this theme the playground has been decorated and reorganised to support this interest. We are also having the large floor space changed as soon as the weather brightens, and it will include fun road markings for the children to follow.

Jack and the Beanstalk

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:35:25 GMT

We have recently been focusing our learning around Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have shown an interest in the story book and so our activities and panning have then centred around this theme. Today, preschool used their imagination to milk a cow and used their math skills to sell the milk for gold coins, just like Jack and his Mummy. We have also made our own giant, grown beans of our own, made bread and cooked beans on the fire at forest schools.

BARN NURSERY & SAMPFORD PRIMARY

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:28:17 GMT

The Barn Nursery have regularly been visiting Great Sampford Primary School to participate in fun and exciting events. At our latest event pre school class met some amazing owls called Bindi, Taiga the great grey ow l. The birds flew around the hall above the children of the nursery and the school. Did you know that owls ears are so good at hearing they can hear a mouses heartbeat? Preschool children who are getting ready to start school in September 2019, thoroughly enjoy vising Great Sampford School and we look forward to visiting again for a BMX show!

February Holiday Scheme

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:17:32 GMT

Join Barn Kids for our exciting holiday scheme programme. We are also open on Friday 15th February for Thaxted Primary Schools inset day.

Kindness Week

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:14:58 GMT

Let's celebrate kindness

The children at The Barn Nursery have been celebrating Valentines Day through our very own 'Acts of Kindness'. All children have been participating in activities that promote kindness and well being. Kindness acts include helping each other cut up our food, sharing toys from home, praising each others achievements and helping our teachers prepare for the day like filling up our drinks bottles. Their acts have been rewarded through a choice activity of baking brownies and Forest School.

Exciting Recruitment Opportunities

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:04:24 GMT

Fire Lessons at Forest School

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:30:21 GMT

Nuts About Nature

Forest School lessons are planned to promote risky play, and that is exactly what we do here at The Barn!

Alongside last weeks lesson on using tools the children all made their own small fire one to one with our Forest School lead Kate. At the end of the session the children then made a 'magic fire'. By adding a very special potion to the fire a little at a time, we watched the flames roar with different colours.

The Preschool children filled with confidence and enthusiasm independently stood in front of their class and sang a song of their choice around the campfire.

Christmas 2018 Holiday Scheme

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:14:34 GMT

Join Us!

Barn Kids will be holding this years Christmas break over three days. Exciting crafts and activities have been planned, as well as a giant Yorkshire pudding contest!

Opening Hours
Wednesday 19th December 7:45-6:15
Thursday 20th December 7:45-6:15
Friday 21st December 9:00-3:30

Fees
All Day Session 7:45-6:15 = £32.30
School Day Session 9:00-3:30 = £25.00

If you would like to book onto our Christmas Scheme please email Molly via info@thebarnkids.co.uk

Remembrance Day

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:53:34 GMT

Art work created by Pre School Class

The whole nursery recently took part in making wreaths and poppies in remembrance of World War 1. Pre School class travelled to Saffron Walden and Great Dunmow to explore the towns remembrance displays.

Boogie Woogies

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:45:57 GMT

Music, movement and sensory experiences.

Once a fortnight here at The Barn all children take part in Boogie Woogies music workshop. Sarah from Boogie Woogies has worked with us over the past three years providing fun and exciting music experiences. The children always enjoy taking part and look forward to her next visit. Activities include singing, bubbles, dancing, sensory lights and musical instruments.

Story Box Challenge

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:43:04 GMT

The staff at The Barn Nursery recently took part in a Story Box challenge to further support speech and language development for all children. Each Story Box contains exciting resources and props to bring the story alive! The boxes are available for each room to use and for families to take home. We are also extremely proud to know that our boxes have been featured in childcare magazines; Nursery World and Essex SEND News.

The winning story box was 'Freddie and the Fairy' and was created by staff members Kay and Faye. The story is based upon a Fairy with a hearing impairment.

Autumn has Arrived

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:30:29 GMT

Welcome to Autumn at The Barn Nursery...

The children at The Barn have been exploring our wonderful Autumn environment. We have been experimenting with Pumpkins by carving, cooking and sorting them. Each class have also collected items from the garden and forest to make an Autumn Wreath. Most importantly, we all enjoyed taking part in picking our pumpkins from the vegetable patch as we have been watching them grow for some time. We are very impressed with how big they have grown!

Forest Schools

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:29:00 GMT

Forest School at The Barn Nursery with Nuts About Nature

We are so very lucky here at The Barn to have so much amazing outdoor space. One of our outdoor areas is a large woodland named 'Wonder Woods', we make sure we use this space to its full potential by regularly providing Forest School classes for all children. Forest School enables our children to discuss new things, problem solve, work in teams, interact, risk taking and most of all confidence. The childrens favourite activity is to make a camp fire and toast marshmallows!

Pre School Graduation & Open Day Success!

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:05:39 GMT

"Thank you all for such a lovely graduation day, it was so nice!" R.Sinnott

On Sunday 5th August, The Barn Nursery put on its first ever Graduation Party and Open Day for the families of the nursery. It was such a successful day, with nearly all of our families attending showing their support for the nursery. Pre school performed their Graduation Songs so well and were sure to make everyone proud. We continued our celebrations over to our Wonderwood Forest where we enjoyed a BBQ and games.

Thank you to all of ours new and existing families for being so supportive and to our great staff here at The Barn who gave up their time to attend the event making it enjoyable for all.

Summer Holiday Programme

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:01:03 GMT

Join Barn Kids for a fun packed six week holiday programme!

BARN KIDS SUMMER SCHEME 23RD JULY 2018 – 31ST AUG 2018

Ages 4-11 years

School Day Session 7:45-3:30 £25.00 All Day Session 7:45-6:15 £31.50

Contact us to book your place info@thebarnkids.co.uk 01371 831262

Open Day

lauren.green21@hotmail.com (Lauren Green) — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:51:39 GMT

Sunday 5th August 2018 11:30 Onwards

The Barn Nursery and Kids Club will be holding an ‘open day’. This will be an opportunity for EVERYONE to visit us. Staff will be available to provide you with information on the Nursery and Kids Club as well as registering your interest. The Open Day will be full of fun outdoor activities for all to enjoy and we will also be providing a BBQ with dishes from our own Summer Menu. We look forward to seeing as many people as possible on this day.

Halloween at The Barn Nursery

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:44:20 GMT

In Celebration of Halloween

Date: Thursday 26th October 2017
Time: 4:30pm – 6:00pm
The Barn Nursery, Stanbrook, CM6 2NJ

Contact person: Vicky Ledgerton / Molly Rogers
Phone: 01371 831262
Email: info@barnnursery.co.uk

RSVP form download

Please RSVP by 20th October 2017

Autumn Newsletter 2017

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:44:20 GMT

Dear Parents

Welcome to our termly newsletter. There is definitely an autumnal feel in the air and our beautiful outdoor environment is looking decidedly mellow with a wonderful array of orange, red and russet tones in the leaves and trees.

We said ‘Goodbye’ to our Pre-School children who have headed off to ‘big School’ and have welcomed many new children and babies to the nursery.

Staff News

It is with great happiness that we can announce that Claire Simpson our Deputy Manager and Pre-School Room Leader is expecting her first baby at the end of February 2018. Claire is very excited at the prospect of being a ‘mummy’ and we hope she continues to blossom throughout the remainder of her pregnancy.

We welcomed Emma Townsend to the team at the end of July. Emma comes with a wealth of knowledge and experience as she has recently completed her BA Honours in Childcare and Education. Emma’s last role was working as a Teaching Assistant at Stebbing Primary School. Emma will work Monday-Thursday alongside Lorraine Lewis and Kay Hannay.

Staff Training

We have staff currently booked onto the following training for the autumn term: Risk assessments, Role of the ENCO, Designated Safe Guarding level 3 and Promoting Positive Behaviour.

Employee of the Term

We have introduced a reward scheme for the nursery team and we are pleased to announce the employee of last term was Kelly Goldsmith. Kelly has almost completed her level 2 training (2 months ahead of schedule) is hard working, conscientious and injects fun into the activities she sets up for the children in the pre-school room-

Room Alterations

We are very excited to inform you that we have plans in place to make alterations to some of the rooms in the nursery which will give us more scope to develop our Tweenies and Pre-School room. We will keep you updated with the progress of this project…..please watch this space!

Parents Evening

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all parents that managed to attend our parents evening at the end of June it was a great success.

No Shoe Policy

Due to the change in the weather and the fact that we have smaller babies that are crawling we have decided to implement a No Shoe Policy in all rooms from October. Please see attached letter.

Halloween Party

We are planning a Halloween party for all children on Thursday 26th October 4.30-6.00. Please see attached invite.

Website/ Permission Information

We are currently updating our website with new pictures; if you have previously not given permission on your Enrolment Form for your child to be on line but have now changed your mind then please speak to a member of staff who will happily change the stored information we have on file.

Reminders

May we please remind all parents that your child does need a named hat for the colder months and if you could please supply a warm jumper and rain coat which is clearly marked with your child’s name, we no longer supply hats due to the risk of head lice, thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Could we please remind you that we do require 4 weeks’ notice if you wish to change or terminate your child’s place at nursery in writing after consultation with the Manager (Vicky) or General Manager (Molly) in line with our policy, thank you.

If you have any changes in your details e.g. address, phone numbers or emails, then please obtain a change of details form from the main entrance; it is of utmost importance that we have correct and relevant contact information.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your ongoing support, it is very much appreciated, and as are any ideas or suggestions you may have e.g. a favourite meal at home, please feel free to share it with us!