Discover Inspirational Stories and Activities at Grace Dieu Nursery

As the year draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on what a truly magical and memorable year it has been at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. From exciting celebrations to outdoor adventures and everyday learning, our children have embraced every opportunity to explore, create, and grow.  One of our favourite highlights has been seeing the children bring stories to life in Forest School. Our “Room on the Broom” activities had children in both Upper

December was a busy month here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. As well as all of the important learning, we made sure we enjoyed lots of fun Christmas activities. We had a wonderful time at our annual Christingle service. Rev Darren told the Christmas story, we sang Away in a manger and Twinkle Twinkle.  We also talked about advent and the meaning of a Christingle. Then, Santa Claus himself, paid a visit to Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Char

November was a busy month here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. We've learnt a lot, played a lot and most importantly, made sure we're getting into the Christmas spirit. In honour of Remembrance Sunday, the children have been learning all about remembrance and even tried to do a minute’s silence!  The children at Charles Booth Pre-School went over to St Andrew’s church for a remembrance service. We were lucky enough to be visited by one of our pa

We've had a spooktacular October here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. The Halloween activities began by making potions and spells by  mixing creepy spiders, pumpkins and skulls.    We had a wonderful day for our Halloween day at Broom Leys Farm! The children enjoyed a tractor ride before feeding the animals and wandering around the corn maze. We encouraged the children to dress up the week of Halloween, all of the children looked fabulous in the

We're back with our monthly round-up, we're praying for a little bit more sun in August! As always, we had lots of fun here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. We started off July with our summer fete!  Thank you again to everyone who joined us, we were also joined by lots of amazing businesses. Despite the weather, we had a great day. A big thank you to those that provided raffle prizes, we had lots of happy winners. The children have been busy pic

Another month with no sun... we didn't let that get us down though, we still had lots of fun here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. Our most recent theme has been 'The Tiger who came to Tea'. T he children loved making Play-Doh cakes, filling and pouring cups of tea in our water play area and painting tigers. We were also lucky enough to be joined by the wonderful Ray of Stars who hosted a lovely workshop. The library van came to visit! Mrs Simpso

We have had another busy month here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School.   Our bug topic continues with stick insects. The children have enjoyed watching them and learning about the things that they eat, how big they would get and how to look after them.  We have made the most of the sunny weather and  enjoyed lots of time outdoors with water play, outdoor painting, bikes, cars, construction toys and the children have continued to look for bugs outsi

Spring has finally sprung here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School!

Considering February is the shortest month of the year, we’ve had a busy one!

December highlights

We had a very busy November here at Grace Dieu Manor Park Nursery and Charles Booth Pre-School. Here's our November 2023 Round-up. We started off the month celebrating Bonfire Night. The babies and toddlers enjoyed getting messy with paint and painting fireworks using their hands. We celebrated Diwali and Remembrance Sunday. Our upper pre-school children learnt about Diwali and Mrs Baghra told them the story of Rama and Sita. They were able to make beautiful Diwa lamps to c