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Essential Early Years

essentialearlyyearswirral

esSENtial Early Years is a private day nursery and pre-school providing care for children aged 0-5 with special needs.

🩹 First Aid 🩹 Yesterday some of our amazing staf 🩹 First Aid 🩹 

Yesterday some of our amazing staff completed their refresher course on all things First Aid related. All staff on site are already fully trained, however, we know how important the safety of our children is so we ensure to always keep this refreshed and up to date. Well done girls!
🧠 Mental Health UK 🧠 As you know, we are raising 🧠 Mental Health UK 🧠 

As you know, we are raising money for the amazing Mental Health UK charity as part of children’s mental health week during February. Our first activity was a Toy Story themed pizza planet party! The children enjoyed lots of Toy Story themed mark marking activities, investigating alien slime, fancy dress, creating their own floating pizza planets and of course… eating pizza! Thank you to everyone who’s donated so far!
🌳 Forest School 🌳 We had lots of very wet fun in 🌳 Forest School 🌳 

We had lots of very wet fun in Forest School this week as we embrace all things water play and weather explorations!
🌷 What Can We Grow? 🌷 Investigators have had a s 🌷 What Can We Grow? 🌷 

Investigators have had a super busy week investigating their direction for learning: "what can we grow?" They have used their senses to explore a range of different plants and herbs, enjoyed a sensory veggies tuff tray complete with edible soil and planted their own Iris flower bulbs to take home. What a brilliant week for our Investigators!
🥒 🍇 Fruit and Vegetables 🍇🥒 Across the nursery w 🥒 🍇 Fruit and Vegetables 🍇🥒 

Across the nursery we have been fully engaging in our direction for learning "Fruit & Veg" We went to a local produce stand to pick out what we wanted before taking everything back to nursery to explore. We have engaged in a range of activities including chopping and threading, printing veg in paint, investigating fruit inside jelly and making our own delicious root veg soup and yummy carrot cake! What a fantastic couple of weeks everyone!
🌟 esSENtial Experiences 🌟 We have made our retur 🌟 esSENtial Experiences 🌟 

We have made our return to 2 firm favourites from our "esSENtial Experiences" programme; the HIVE and the Callister Garden. The children have thoroughly embraced their return and we can't wait to have lots more fun here during 2026!
🥳 Happy New Year 🥳 Welcome back! Happy 2026 ever 🥳 Happy New Year 🥳 

Welcome back! Happy 2026 everyone- we have had a busy few weeks with everyone settling back in to nursery life. It is lovely to see all of our returning children happy and healthy, and a big warm welcome to our new children and their families who are just starting with us. We are looking forward to sharing this year with you and celebrating all of the childrens amazing achievements!
💧 Water Play 💧 Across the nursery, we regularly 💧 Water Play 💧 

Across the nursery, we regularly engage in water play activities. We know that this is a very popular activity for our children as they develop their understanding of shape, space and measure. Inventors noticed that leading up to Christmas, some of their resources were looking a little bit glittery from all the arts and crafts.. so they decided to give them a good clean!
🧑‍🍳 Sensory Cooking 🧑‍🍳 Sensory cooking is an em 🧑‍🍳 Sensory Cooking 🧑‍🍳 

Sensory cooking is an embedded part of our curriculum here at nursery, and is something fully inclusive that all of the children enjoy. The children are encouraged to use all of their senses to explore a range of ingredients, investigate them in their raw and natural states, and then observe the differences once cooked. The children love to measure, chop, pour, mix and roll!
🎵 Musical Explorations 🎵 Musical explorations ar 🎵 Musical Explorations 🎵 

Musical explorations are a vital part of early years learning. They help our children to develop their communication and listening skills, support their social and emotional well being and create opportunities to develop rhythm and co-ordination. Our children particularly enjoy nursery rhymes, their daily "music and movement" sessions and engaging in ring games with their friends.
🌟 Imaginative Play 🌟 Inventors have been develop 🌟 Imaginative Play 🌟 

Inventors have been developing their imaginative play skills. They are enjoying using their role play kitchen to cook up a range of treats, also utilising their sensory tuff tray to transport resources back and fourth when they are exploring food based play. It is lovely for us to see these skills developing, watching the children make connections between their play and real life scenarios. Great job Inventors!
🦒 Animals 🦒 The entire nursery has embraced lear 🦒 Animals 🦒 

The entire nursery has embraced learning about animals! Investigators have loved investigating sea creatures and using their entire bodies for water play. Explorers have explored special sensory trays, using animals to make marks in different textures. Inventors have been inventing their own animal foot prints and patterns using stencils and paint. Great job everyone!!
👻 🎆 Halloween and Bonfire Night 🎆 👻 Halloween an 👻 🎆 Halloween and Bonfire Night 🎆 👻 

Halloween and Bonfire Night! we have had lots of fun in nursery decorating our classrooms, making chocolate apples, pumpkin printing and making bubbly cauldron or sparkly fire work pictures. The children have loved listening to different Halloween songs and using spooky photo props!
🥣 World Porridge Day 🥣 Last week we celebrated w 🥣 World Porridge Day 🥣 

Last week we celebrated world porridge day! We explored oats in our tuff trays using spoons and bowls of different shapes and sizes. We sang "When Goldie locks went to the house of the bears!" and enjoyed a sensory story sack together.
📕 💆🏼‍♀️ Story Massage 💆🏼‍♀️ 📕 We are very proud 📕 💆🏼‍♀️ Story Massage 💆🏼‍♀️ 📕 

We are very proud to be a Story Massage Centre of Excellence!
🚗 Vehicles 🚗 Inventors have fully embraced vehic 🚗 Vehicles 🚗 

Inventors have fully embraced vehicles week! They have really enjoyed reading stories about different vehicles they might find out in the community. They have been working very hard with a range of fine motor activities including vehicle inset puzzles, connecting train track and creating traffic light skewers in their sensory cooking session!
🌟 esSENtial Experiences 🌟 This week we made our 🌟 esSENtial Experiences 🌟 

This week we made our return to the HIVE for our esSENtial experiences programme.
🚗 Vehicles 🚗 Explorers have embedded their vehic 🚗 Vehicles 🚗 

Explorers have embedded their vehicles direction for learning by getting super busy over the last 2 weeks! They have enjoyed using the giant garage and creating their own car wash in the garden. Lots of explorer children have also shown interest in the fiddle boards and toys this week, we love to see the development of your hand eye co-ordination. Well done everyone!
🎨 Colour and Texture 🎨 Inventors have been busy 🎨 Colour and Texture 🎨 

Inventors have been busy finishing off their colour and texture learning this week. They have engaged in sensory cooking to make vanilla biscuits, using different shaped cutters and then choosing their own colours to make icing to go on the top. They also demonstrated lots of curiosity whilst painting with bubble wrap! Observing how the paint changed shape and creating new patterns when they printed with different brushes and rollers. Brilliant inventing INVENTORS!
🎨 Colour and Texture 🎨 Investigators have loved 🎨 Colour and Texture 🎨 

Investigators have loved colours and textures fortnight! This week they have been using their whole bodies to discover the difference between resources that are liquid, malleable and solid! They have also really enjoyed engaging in this weeks story massage time with Sarah; "1, 2 buckle my shoe" Great investigating INVESTIGATORS!
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