Why Childhaven?
We are a unique and curious setting offering your child a wonderful world of experiences in their earliest years. We have recently achieved the Curiosity Approach accreditation and are the only setting in the area with this prestigious badge. Please see www.thecuriosityapproach.com.
Children are free to access a whole range of learning opportunities, indoors and out all year round. We operate on two floors of a unique and beautiful Victorian building, as well as offering a fantastic garden space which the children can access in all weathers.
We have a highly qualified teaching team, including qualified teachers, higher level and advanced teaching assistants. We have specialisms in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Speech and Language Development, beach schools, early reading, writing and maths, sensory play, heuristic play, and working with children for whom English is an additional language.
We also offer a range of enhanced activities, including…
Beach schools, food activities, walks and visits, Kathy Seabrook’s fun music, Yoga sessions, Jabadao (developmental movement play), nature club with our resident gardener, music and movement club with the Stephen Joseph Theatre and adults with dementia.
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Thursday is tea party day during our session time. We will be having lots of music to dance to and then sitting all together to have a little tea party. It will be a clean day so feel free to dress up. Please remember when sending lunch that we will have eaten during session as well.
Don’t forget on Friday we will be having a cake stall outside of nursery, we will have cakes available all through the day to raise money for an amazing charity of dementia uk. pop along to buy one or a couple. Please bring change as if it’s a note Donna said there will be no change 😂
Carrying on with our jubilee week fun. Wednesday is our sporty day, we will be having a obstacle course in the playground and races at the end of session time. Wear something sporty 🧘♀️🤸♂️🏋️♀️
Don’t forget that tomorrow is red, white and blue day. What are you going to wear? Miss Ingle will also be doing some fabulous face painting. Please let us know if you do not want your child to take part in the face painting 🙂
We are starting to hang our bunting up in nursery. Do you have any at home? Look at our lovely home made ones. Thank you for all of the hard work our knitters.
We do love our messy/sensory play in nursery, but it can be extremely messy 😂. We would be very grateful for any old large towels that you no longer use. Thank you 😊
We are planning an amazing week in nursery for the Queens jubilee. On one of the days we will be having a staff bake off and also a cake stall of products provided by staff to raise money for a charity that is very close to our hearts in nursery. Any donations will be very welcome. Don’t forget your money for cakes on the 27th May 🙂 also how amazing sabrosa are going to donate some cupcakes to sell oooh I hope there’s one for me 😍 Sabroso Burrito & Nacho Bar
Thank you so much everyone who has donated tea cups, saucers and plates to nursery. We do have special big plans for the next few weeks so we are still on the look out for more and also any cake stands. Thank you
Oh my goodness look what happened in nursery today. The Easter Bunny was so excited to receive a letter from all the boys and girls in nursery that he came for a visit. He must have really big feet as he can stomp really loudly. I bet you didn’t know that the Easter bunny is really shy so he knocked on the door and left us some lovely treats. The children brought home an Easter nest and chocolate or sweets to share with their families.
Do you have any cake stands or tea cups saucers or side plates at home, they do not have to match. We are trying to get as many as possible for nursery and would be very grateful 😊
Some of our very talented children have entered a competition to draw our Queen. The winning picture will become the front cover of a new book. Today we sent our pictures via email and every child received a lovely message from the author of the book.![]()
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I love the colour of the sparkly stars and gems you added to the picture!![]()
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I love the way you used your pencil and drew the Queens lips in a different colour![]()
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I love the way you used different coloured felt tip pens to draw the picture and the detail on the Queen's Crown!![]()
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I love the colour you chose and the way you used a paintbrush![]()
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I love your picture especially the little jewels you added![]()
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I love the colours you used in your picture.![]()
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I love your picture especially the Queen's curly hair![]()
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We are as always so proud of our children.
Do you think you could have a go at drawing the Queen for us? All pictures to be in nursery by the 28/03/22 👸 (this is open to everyone to have a go) it is the chance to have your picture as the front cover for a book and to win nursery some amazing prizes.
We have taken another very full car load of donations to start its long journey to Ukraine. For the time being they have STOPPED collecting. Thank you to everyone who sent some things in. ![]()
We will let you know if and when collections resume.
We are really interested in hair dressing at the moment. Do you have anything at home that we could use in this play. Thank you 😊
Dear families and friends of Childhaven![]()
Our hearts go out to the families in Ukraine and we are going to do our bit by becoming a collection point for donations and lending our support..... Please drop donations at the Londesborough Road entrance and we will organise where it needs to go. Thank you 💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙
We have had such a lovely week in the front room this week. We have had lots of love, baking, drawing, building, stories and dancing fun.
We are on the lookout for any tea sets, cups, saucers and tea plates. It doesn’t matter to us if they don’t match. Anything really for a lovely afternoon tea.
🌟Just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has sent donations in recently.🌟![]()
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We have received lots of items whether it be spare clothing, paper, craft essentials, teacups, and more…Everything is massively appreciated
We have been busy in the front room in nursery this week. Lots of baking, making pancakes, pizza, cakes and soup. All lovely food to share with our friends.
Do you have one of these coat stands or a standing lamp hidden in your garage or loft that you no longer need? We would love to make use of it in nursery, thank you 😊
We have been talking all about Scarborough in nursery recently. We have looked at maps, buildings and areas we love to visit. So much interest around our very own lighthouse and windmill. Have you ever been to either of them to have a look?![]()
If we know what street we live on we have also been marking off our homes on a map. ![]()
There is so much to learn about the wonderful town around us.
