The new Nursery will be offering 60+ childcare places for children from 0-5 years in a wonderful purpose built day nursery where every child is encouraged to explore, use their imagination and reach their full potential!

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We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate staff to join our team to help make a difference to a child’s early education! Please see our Staff Tab to link to what job opportunities there are at our new nursery which are now released for our Blackberry House Day Nursery (Peterborough).

The children at Blackberries are able to explore our wonderful woodland play areas discovering the early spring flowers and feeding the birds.

The children and their families at Blackberries had a wonderful morning of festive cheer with the children singing Christmas jingles, the parents enjoying tea and mince pies as well as looking around the nursery at the art work and a chance to buy handmade decorations from the children, raising funds for the nurseries. The children then had a chance to visit Santa’s grotto and each child received a gift!

Mrs. Santa visited the children and families at our March setting.

At Blackberries we pride ourselves in reaching out to the community around us and enjoy sharing information and offering family evenings for parents to meet and make new friends.

Our Polish families enjoyed celebrations and traditional games and food for St Andrews Day in November 2011. Children and parents joined in activities and crafts with Magdalena Laba bringing a taste of Polish culture to the children. Other daily activities like cooking an story time are attended by parents where English is a second language and for all children it is a chance to learn, hear new sounds and have fun.

Blackberries pre-school children visited a local garden centre to choose the nursery Christmas Tree. The children enjoyed looking at all the trees and touching the pine needles and seeing how soft or pointy they were. With busy parents and work schedules many children today miss out on the preparation for our busy festive season. The nursery staff and children and a great morning wondering between the rows of trees and choosing two small trees for the nursery Santa grotto and seeing them go into the big machine that wraps the trees ready for home!.

Blackberries pre- school  children enjoy time getting out and about in the local community. It is important that young children enjoy and begin to understand everyday life experiences linking to Knowledge and Understanding of the world around them.

The children have recently visited the locacl market and shopped for local grown fresh produce. The children came back to the nursery and talked about the trip, the food and then prepared some homemade recipes making  coleslaw with cabbages and onions and vegetable soup.

Pre-School Children visited Blackberry Farm to pick apples and listen to the popular story book by Jane Pilgrim about Ernest Owl at Blackberry Farm. Blackberry Farm is the birth place of the Blackberries Childcare Group where children were cared for in the home environment by childminders that began the Blackberry House Day Nursery journey. The wonderful gardens and orchards were explored by the children and bags of apples were taken back to the nursery to bake apple pies!

Blackberries enjoy being out and about in their local community discovering where food comes from and how it arrives in our supermarkets. This is part of Blackberries Food for Life programme. Pre-school enjoyed another trip to Oakley Farms, Outwell this year to see the Pumpkins. Children saw pumpkins of all shapes and sizes and how they get form the fields to the supermarkets. Each child received a small pumpkin and the nursery benefitted for larger ones to make pumpkin soup and Jack O lanterns.

National family week was celebrated at Blackberry House Day Nursery this past week with events held for parents to join their children for Breakfast, Bike Day, Art Morning, Polish Information evening with Blackberries bilingual nursery nurse Magdalena Laba and the “Big Lunch “ on Sunday.



Families joined nursery staff for a big family lunch and fun day. Blackberries is participating in the Food for Life programmes and was supported by local farmer Peter Lankfer who brought a “little red Tractor” for the children to explore. Local fresh produce supplier who deliver weekly to the nursery Fresh Appeal donated a Fresh Fruit Basket for a raffle which raised £25.00.

 Children enjoyed Story Time in the nurseries outdoor reading area with “Snow White” costumes courtesy of March Fancy Dress Hire Abracadabra.

Breakfast with our Mums and Dads was well received and as a result Blackberries has launched its first Breakfast Club for Parents and children daily between 0700-0800. Parents can join their child for a free continental breakfast and enjoy some time together before their day begins!







Our Polish Family evening was well attended and families were able to access information on Child Tax credits and Nursery Education funding for children. Traditional Polish snacks were served by Blackberries Polish Nursery Nurse Magdalena Laba.




Our Family Bike afternoon was a great success with children and their families joining in and cycling around Blackberries roadway.

Bookstart Packs
NOW available from Blackberry House Day Nursery

Bookstart aims to provide free packs of books for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Each pack contains free books to share with your child, as well as advice, information and resources. To get your FREE Bookstart pack, please ask your child’s key worker.

Join us at Blackberry House Day Nursery for a week of family events celebrating the joy of sharing stories, books and rhymes

Blackberries Nursery Events: W/c Monday 6th June 2011

For more information please see our Newsletter.

For events in your area visit the Book start website: http://www.bookstart.org.uk/

A right royal good time at Blackberries

Blackberries at March and Wisbech enjoyed the Royal Wedding on 29th April 2011






Children at both settings enjoyed role play, baking and learning about the Monarchy to celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.

Food For Life Programme at Blackberries

Blackberries is promoting Healthy Eating.

Blackberries will be participating in the Food for Life programme in growing its own vegetable/salad patch encouraging the Children to understand where food comes from, how it grows, how we can eat it in our daily diets and incorporating this into family life at home.

This project follows on from our in-house nursery projects growing in our environmental area last year.

Blackberries is revamping its menus and offering more choice to children and staff. Yes Staff too will be joining this new project and eating with the children from our new menu and salad bar.

Parents are invited to join the group for cooking and gardening clubs as well as join us in our awareness programme of special diets and food allergies

Blackberries will celebrate our Healthy Eating Project with a Big Lunch on Sunday 5th June 2011.

Please follow this link for more information


       

Blackberries raise over £120.00 for Red Nose Day

The staff and children enjoyed a fun packed day with games, face painting and baking.

Christmas Jingle

Blackberry House Day Nurseries celebrated with parents a Christmas Jingle in our outdoor twinkling wonderland.

Parents joined the nursery to hear the children sing a Christmas melody and visit Santa’s grotto. The grotto was a first for Blackberries and the children had helped to decorate it and the Christmas trees supplied by Goldings Feeds and Nursery in Outwell. The successful morning raised £55.00 in total for nursery equipment for the children at both March & Wisbech settings by selling plates of festive cakes made by the children.

The children received a gift and magic reindeer dust and the parents enjoyed homemade mince pies and coffee.

A big thank you to all the families who joined in our celebrations and wishing everyone a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year “/ “ Zdrowych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku” .

Blackberries raise money for Children in Need

Blackberry House Day Nursery has supported the charity Children In Need today at both nurseries. So far £120.00 has been raised with the number rising!

All Children and Staff at the Wisbech nursery dressed in pyjamas had fun and games and have donated money by means of wearing PJ’s and selling homemade cakes.


 
Children and Staff at our March setting had a Spotty Fun Day with the children to raise money for children in need.

Blackberries visit a Pumpkin Farm

We took some of our Pre-School children on a visit to Oakley Farms Outwell to see the pumpkin farm. The children saw hundreds of orange pumpkins and watched how the farm workers washed, labeled and boxed ready for the supermarket loaded into enormous lorries.

They touched and felt them, carried them , very heavy! And stuck labels on their own small pumpkins to take home courtesy of the Farm. This was a fantastic opportunity for the children to discover how the pumpkins actually arrive in the supermarket and to see how many different sizes there were. This will help with Blackberries real life themes.

Head of Pre-School Lauren Kelsey  ( dark Haired) said this was great to bring pumpkins to the children in a real environment and understand the environment of their local community forming part of the Foundation Stage Curriculum Knowledge and Understanding of the World.