Date posted: 29/03/18
Last week Burgess Hill Nursery hosted our first Easter Coffee & Crafting Morning. It was wonderful to see both parents and children get stuck into the crafting with the lovely Aneka (known for her Bing Bunny YouTube clips). There were some very fancy Easter bonnets created and then proudly shown off by the
Date posted: 09/03/18
We were delighted to have a visit from CBeebies star, storyteller and performer Katy Ashworth at our Nursery, Infant and Junior School Open Day last month. Katy hosted an interactive singing and dancing show and met girls, boys and parents. You can see all the individual photos taken with Katy after the event on our Facebook
Date posted: 21/02/18
In this news we explain the 30 hours free childcare scheme, how it works generally and then how it works at Burgess Hill Nursery. what is the 30 hours free childcare scheme? For some time now parents of 3 year olds have been able to claim 15 hours a week free childcare for 38 weeks
Date posted: 21/12/17
We hope you enjoyed the Christmas build-up as much we did this year? There were so many exciting events that we felt we had to document them all. So here goes! It all started with the gorgeous Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 performance of Baboushka. Browse all the images on our Facebook or watch this
Date posted: 06/06/17
This week we had a very special visitor to our Nursery. Matilda (Tilly) the 7 month old Labradoodle first visited us when she was just 3 months old…the children were astonished by how much she had grown. The visit gave the children the opportunity to ask lots of questions. We discovered that Tilly likes cucumber,
Date posted: 06/06/17
Our youngest class (Hedgehogs Class) love exploring water. Water play releases energy, it can be both invigorating or relaxing and calming for young children. We have noted that water play really increases their ability to concentrate on one activity when presented as a tranquil and repetitive activity (scooping, pouring and running their hands through water).
Date posted: 06/06/17
Our older Nursery Children have started to become interested in playing team sports. This week we introduced cricket and focused on ‘batting skills’. This involves a complicated sequence of hand eye co- ordination, spacial awareness, motor control as well as following rules. They did really well and worked as a team with a bowler, wicket
Date posted: 05/06/17
We waved bye bye to our butterflies this week. The children really enjoyed watching the metamorphosis of their caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. The children thought it would be best to release them into our wild garden where they would have plenty of flowers to eat and drink from.
Date posted: 22/05/17
Burgess Hill Nursery are excited to be going to the Teddy Bears’ Picnic on Wednesday 7th June 2017 at St. John’s Park hosted by the West Sussex County Council and Sure Start Children’s Centre. Come and see Mrs Roberts, Nursery Manager and her team – they can’t wait to meet you. They will be showing
Date posted: 12/05/17
This week we’ve started practicing to perfect all the skills needed for our sports day in July. We are using one of our many open spaces available to us in the grounds of the school. This is our favourite running track, behind one of the boarding houses.