Happy Days Nursery, Exeter, celebrate as their Nursery Chef is a NMT Nursery Awards Finalist!

Happy Days Nursery, Exeter are delighted that Phil, their Nursery Chef, has been shortlisted for the NMT Nursery Chef Award, with the winner being announced at the Awards Ceremony on 30^th November.

Phil demonstrated his exceptional ability in providing well-balanced, nutritious and delicious food that takes into account individual needs of children along with how he helped develop menus for the nursery, giving special attention to the nutritional needs of under-fives in order to be chosen as a finalist for this prestigious award.

Sophie Stedman, Nursery Manager, stated, “Phil is our chef extraordinaire who has previously cooked in care homes, garden centres and hotels. He is extremely diligent and gives 110% every day to make sure the children are fuelled with nutritious meals that they enjoy and cater to their individual needs. We are extremely proud of him and regardless of the result at the award ceremony, he will always be a winner in our eyes!”

Sam Richardson, Early Years Operations Manager, added, “We are over the moon that Phil has been shortlisted for this award, he truly deserves this recognition. The children and parents adore Phil, not only for his delicious meals and recipes, but for his commitment and dedication to ensure every child’s individual needs are met and enjoys his nutritious and tasty food!”

Along with demonstrating his skills and menus, Phil also received some amazing testimonials from staff, parents and the children – well done Phil!

Hello and welcome back to another episode from the Happy Days Nursery Podcast. This season is all about how to prepare your early years child for school.

We’re super excited about this episode as we’ll be discussing more activities you can do at home whether your child is attending nursery or not, how to start shaping a routine with your child and what to do leading up to the final stages before starting school / full time education.

Hello and welcome back to another episode from the Happy Days Nursery podcast, this season is about how to prepare your early years child for school.

On our last episode we touched on why a positive transition to school is so important, this time we want to go into detail on activities you can do at home or alongside nursery to develop those key skills needed for full time education/school.

Hello and welcome back to another season of the Happy Days Nursery Podcast. This time we’re discussing how to prepare your early years child for school!

In this episode we’re going to explain the how’s and why’s of a positive transition from nursery to school. Hopefully by the end of this episode you’ll understand why preparing your child for school is so important, whether your child is in nursery currently or not.

Last week the pre-schoolers found a bee in the garden who had got wet in our water tray, the children were so excited to see the bee and showed care and concern to rescue it from the water tray and learn how to look after it.

This week following our interest in this the children in preschool have been learning all about Bees this week, we have busy learning about their different body parts and talking about why bees are SO important.

We have also been getting crafty and creative using our fine motor skills and imagination to draw, paint and explore making our own bee pictures, models and creations. We also used threading needles to make our own bee pictures by threading.

We made yellow playdough with different black items such as buttons to construct our own bees, we played the honey bear circle game to practice turn taking and explored a sand tray with other mini beasts!

Some of us have even worn yellow and bee themed clothes to nursery!

Fun Bee Facts:

Honey was found in the tombs in Egypt and it was still edible!

It only takes about 1 ounce of honey to fuel a bee to fly around the world!

Every 3rd mouthful of food is produced by bees pollinating crops

Bees depend on flowers spring, summer and Autumn, be sure to include nectar sources for all seasons in your garden!

#BEEEEEHAPPY