A magical place to play, explore, learn and grow - with all the fun of the farm
News and Updates
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Childcare Sufficiency Assessment
The CSA is a county wide review which includes the supply and demand of childcare and early education places, accessibility, quality and cost of provision.
Brook Farm Children's Nursery have introduced ParentZone, an interactive app that allows parents a safe network to access information about their child’s day at a time that suits them. Our team upload videos and photos and parents can then log on and view their child’s activity. At the same time, parents can contribute to their child’s learning journey and make notes for their key person, helping to build relationships between families and the nursery. We have had great feedback from our parents who’ve said they love to be able to get a full insight into their child’s day at the touch of a button.
Dates for your diary
Walk and Talk
Family Day
Pumpkin Carving Bash 2022
We are really astounded by all of your fang-tastic and spook-tacular creations for our Pumpkin Carving Bash of 2022
Food Hygiene Rating 5 !
We would like to say the biggest thank you to Rachael our Nursery Cook and Christine our Kitchen Assistant for their continued hard work and commitment to ensuring our kitchen facilities and hygiene are maintained to the highest standard and the children receive delicious home-cooked meals everyday!
Today we had our annual food hygiene inspection. The inspection was carried out Lancashire County Council's Environmental Health Team. We are pleased to announce that we have maintained our 5 rating. A 5 is the top of the scale and it confirms that our hygiene standards are very good and fully comply with the law.
WELL DONE RACHAEL AND CHRISTINE!
25th October 2022
The children at Brook Farm Children's Nursery are getting very excited for the Pumpkin Carving Bash 2022
LANCASHIRE WALK AND TALK CAMPAIGN
Walk and Talk is a new Lancashire campaign to promote the importance of communication and language for our youngest children.
Their campaign aims to encourage families to go outside and communicate with each other. Lancashire will be providing lots of resources for us as practitioners to share with you and how we can get involved as a setting.
Starting in September 2022, over twelve months Lancashire will be sending out information that we can share with you such as:
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top tips for communication and language
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discussion ideas for different places such as the park, the woods and the shops
As the year progresses, Lancashire hope to build up a library of discussion prompts for local places that families can visit such as Williamson's Park, Lancaster or Longton Brickcroft.
Please click on the icon below to find out a little more information about this fantastic campaign:
Talk like a Pirate Stay and Play
Our stay and play sessions are always popular, with loved ones enjoying the opportunity to join us for an hour and find out more about life here at Brook Farm Children's Nursery.
But if you haven’t been to a session before you might not know what to expect.
You’ll be asked to sign up beforehand so we know how many parents or other family members to expect – and everyone is welcome (although please let us know in advance who is attending!).
This stay and play session was planned all around 'Talking like Pirate'. The Parents and Carers joined their children in nursery, they went on a treasure hunt, decorated pirate swords, had their face painted but most of all had lots of FUN!
The aim of our Stay and Play sessions is to give Parents and Carers an insight into the different activities we carry out whilst your children are at nursery but also why we carry out those activities!
It’s also a great opportunity for you to get to know the team working in your child’s room – we try and give you as much information as we can every day but we know it can be a rush when you drop off or pick up your child, so we find these sessions give you a chance to spend more time with your little one’s key worker and the other staff members working closely with them.
We would like to thank you all for sharing photographs
of the amazing sunflowers you have grown from your Brook Farm Sunflower Seeds
BROOK FARM PUMPKIN COMPETITION 2022
Monday 31st October 2022
Pick a pumpkin orange
Pick a pumpkin green
Pick a pumpkin with a happy face
Pick a pumpkin with a face that's mean
Pick a big pumpkin
Pick a small pumpkin
Pick a skinny pumpkin
What is your favourite of them all?
Please bring your pumpkin entries to nursery by 9am on Monday 31st October!
Prizes to be won by the most creative, child decorated pumpkins!
ACCREDITATION: Elklan Communication Friendly Setting
We would like to say a huge congratulations to Sam and Joanne who taken part in some intensive Level 4 training designed by Elkan to strengthen our practitioners skills and knowledge. Sam and Joanne have achieved their level 4 certificate through carrying out training with our full team of practitioners to equip them with the tools they need to support children and young people's ability to understand and communicate with adults and their peers. Click on the link below if you would like any further information.
Home Learning
At Brook Farm Children's Nursery we like to work with Parents and Carers to support their children's learning and development at home. Click on the links below to access some simple yet fun activities promoted by the Hungry Little Minds Government Campaign and 5 minute mum who shares some amazing activities to support home learning!
Brook Farm
Piglets
On Wednesday 7th September; very cute little female piglets joined our Brook Farm family.
CONTACT
Brook Farm Children's Nursery
Harden Road
Kelbrook
Nr Barnoldswick
Lancashire
BB18 6TS
Telephone
01282 841221
