- We’re Hiring – Level 3 Early Years PractitionerJoin our warm, supportive team here at Shaping Futures Day Nursery! We’re looking for a passionate and caring Level 3 practitioner to help make a real difference in children’s early years. Role overview:We are looking for a level 3 early years practitioner to join our team. You will play a key role in supporting the… Read more: We’re Hiring – Level 3 Early Years Practitioner
- Nursery AllotmentAs some of you may know, this year Shaping Futures has taken on the Community Garden Allotment in Warsop. The allotment is a 15-minute walk from the Sherwood Street setting and over the last two weeks children have been going up to visit and plant seeds. Today some of the children took a trip up… Read more: Nursery Allotment
- The Hatching experienceThe egg-citing time of year has arrived where nursery becomes home to 7 new fluffy friends. Over the next ten days the children will be lucky enough to witness the beginning stages of a chicken’s lifecycle first hand. We will be observing the eggs hatching, learning about the whole process, taking care of the newly… Read more: The Hatching experience
- People Who Help UsInvestigators have been learning all about people who help us, we’ve learnt about hairdressers, teachers, dentists, shopkeepers and more! Today we had an exciting visit from Nurse Rebekah, who explained how she helps so many people and how we can look after ourselves and others. The children learnt so much from this experience and have… Read more: People Who Help Us
- Welcome to the Investigators RoomWe are amazingly proud to announce that our brand-new Investigators Room at Sherwood Street is officially open for our 3 and a half – 5-year-olds to explore, learn, enjoy and thrive in. The Shaping Futures team have spent a long-time planning and investing to ensure this room is the perfect enabling environment for our oldest… Read more: Welcome to the Investigators Room
Sherwood Street Ofsted Inspection – January 2023
Click the link to read our latest Ofsted report – 50206516 (ofsted.gov.uk)
Church Street Ofsted Inspection – November 2022
Click the link to read our latest Ofsted report – 50201629 (ofsted.gov.uk)
A Trip to the Library – 16th September 2022
Tour De Britain – 8th September 2022
The children have enjoyed decorating bikes and bunting to display outside nursery ready for the race.
We made flags to wave in all the excitement whilst we watched all of the bikes go by.
Well Done to all that took part!
A Big Thank You! – Graduation July 2022
Wow! All of us at Preschool are absolutely overwhelmed by all of your kindness and generosity. We’ve definitely all felt emotional reading your lovely cards and we have certainly already made a dent in the massive selection of goodies we’ve received. Thank you so much it is so very appreciated.
It has been an absolute pleasure supporting and caring for every child and watching you grow into confident, kind, funny children. We know you’re all going to smash big school and we will miss you all so much
Thank you again and Good Luck
From all of the staff at Shaping Futures
Our Incredible Egg Experience – June 2022
What an incredible 10 days we’ve had observing, monitoring, caring and nurturing our chicks from 7 peacefully eggs to 7 adventurous little chicks!
Each individual child has gained so much from this experience and it’s brought us so many learning opportunities: we’ve made masks, copied the chicks movements and noises, recalled lifecycles, practiced our quiet voices and gentle hands and learnt lots of new words such as “incubator” “beak” and ”hatchling”.
Tomorrow our chicks will be leaving to continue growing in their new home. We are all looking forward to keeping guessing and wondering what they’re up to and I’m sure nursery will seem a lot quieter without their cute chirping.
Coming Soon!
Our Caterpillar to Butterfly Journey
Our children experienced first hand the life cycle of a butterfly. This offered so many opportunities for the children to observe and discover the wonderful stages of the cycle.
World Book Day 2022
Trip to Newark Castle
During our Jack and the Beanstalk project, We observed that some of our children had never seen a real castle before. During half term we arranged a trip to Newark castle. Our children loved dressing up as knights and princesses and exploring the grounds.
Random Act of Kindness Week
As part of random act of kindness week our children visited local care homes in the community and gifted flowers and homemade pictures to make somebody smile . Home made pocket hugs and hand picked flowers where also given to our children’s loved ones.
Community Walks
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Easter Activities
Celebrating Easter with our messy bunnies. April 2021.
Spring Planting
Planting and sowing in March 2021. Nurturing new life.
Mansfield Refurbishment
New laminate flooring and carpets. Re-decorated and new resources throughout. January 2021.
Covid 19
The NHS advises that symptoms of the coronavirus are:
- A Continuous cough
- High Temperature
- Loss of taste and smell
More information is available and recent updates at: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Please be assured that during these concerning times we are reminding and encouraging all of our children to adhere to good hygiene at all times.
We are singing songs at hand washing time ensuring the children are washing for at least 20 seconds. Hands are washed on arrival and departure to nursery, after sneezing coughing and blowing noses, after outside play, before meals and after going to the bathroom. We are encouraging children to catch their coughs and dispose of tissues. We are taking children’s temperatures on arrival. We are discussing with the older children about the corona virus and the 2m rule, helping them to understand what they will be hearing and seeing in the environment.
If you have any concerns or questions please do not hesitate to ask us, we are more than happy to support at this time.