Early Start Group

It's Red Nose Day on Friday 17th March! This year we would really like to take part in the fundraising and have signed up to a Just Giving page for the event. We are planning to host lots of fun activities from Wednesday 15th as follows:

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Wednesday 15th - Put your PJs on for nursery and let's read a bedtime story together 📖📖
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Thursday 16th - Fancy dress of your choice and Red Tea day 🦹🦸🧑‍🚒🧛
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Friday 17th - Wear red and Red Snack day 🍎🍎

We will also be doing lots of.fun activities across the week. Please, if you can, make a donation to this amazing cause via our link https://bit.ly/3Ytkr9O

It would be really appreciated!

Thanks so much Pippa, Martina and Sabina 😁🎉🎉

On Monday the nursery celebrated and learnt about the festival of lights Diwali! 🕯🕯🕯

The children learnt about the story of Diwali and its cultural importance.

How did you celebrate Diwali??? 🎆🎇🎆

Mini Olympics Family Sports Day

🏅Today marks 10 years since London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games!!!

🔥The Olympic Legacy continues to shine here are our Early Start Nurseries in Newham, the host borough of the and .

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 We were delighted to welcome families to our sports day to showcase how their children learn, develop and have fun through physical play.

🏅Thanks to the 10 Year Anniversary Small Grants fund we were able host lots of fun games and activities for the children, parents/carers & grandparents.

Some of the popular events on the day included the:
🥄egg & spoon race
🏃the long jump
🤸balance bean
🤾‍♀️and parents obstacle course.

We had a special edition of led by Layla from which included lots Olympic themed moves.

🏃‍♀️As the first nurseries to roll out The Daily Mile in Newham we are supporting children to meet their physical activity recommendations in a fun and energetic way. The children loved sharing The Daily Mile with their families. Thanks to The Daily Mile for our amazing Sports Day Medals!

🍉We were also joined by who created Olympic themed snacks and catered for our sports day and making sure everyone was fuelled and hydrated for our sports day.

What a week of celebrations 🥳 for the Queen's jubilee 👑👑
Both Susan Lawrence and Shrewsbury Nurseries enjoyed getting into the spirit with arts and crafts, songs and of course street parties !

Attention all qualified Nursery Nurses! Early Start Education is now hiring at its Shrewsbury Nursery. For more information follow the link here to see the job information: https://www.earlystartgroup.com/vacancy/nursery-nurse-early-education-practitioner/

Top tips for parents this - listening to your child will give you the best possible idea of how to support them. Not sure where to begin? Have a look at ’s suggested 'Conversation Starters' for parents and carers https://bit.ly/SID_Parents_tips

🎄 Nutrition Advent Calendar 🎄.

🎅We've had lots of fun opening interactive Advent Calendar with the children each morning. They look forward to seeing what recipe is behind each door!


The children have choosen some of their favourite recipes to recreate.
🥝 Kiwi Christmas Tree
⛄ Banana Snowman

Click on the link below for the recipes:
https://www.earlystartgroup.com/nutrition-services/nutrition-advent-calendar/

🎅 Santa Pizza 🎅

🤶How amazing are these Pizza creations from the children today!!

🍕They had lots of fun making these festive treats and there was lots of learning involved too.

👩🍳Each week our children take part in cooking activities. They get to be creative, try and learn about the ingredients.

🍽All our recipes contine to meet the guidelines

🍽 Recipe inspo

🎅 Santa has arrived 🎅
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🎄The excitement levels were high yesterday when Santa arrived at our Shrewsbury Nursery.

🎅The children had lots of questions for santa and even shared some of their carrots with Rudolph 🥰.

🐻 Children in Need 🐻

🐻 The children and staff at our Early Start Nurseries at Shrewsbury and Susan Lawrence had so much fun raising money for

We raises £44 which will go towards so many great causes!

⭐NMT Awards 2021⭐

Congratulations to all the finalists and winners at this year's awards!!

We had a great evening celebrating the hard work and dedication of our early years colleagues.

Thanks to one of the sponsors for the invite