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Mark Making With Gloop!

19 August 2024

This morning we have enjoyed making some gloop to mark make and practice name writing! 

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6 May 2024

Home-Made Fun!

Here are some easy recipes for some fantastic home-made fun!

14 March 2024

It's Thankful Thursday!

As it's Thankful Thursday we thought we would share one of the reasons we are thankful here at Blackbrook! We have had some lovely reviews from our parents and careers over the last few months, and we love to hear what you think about the service we provide to you and your little ones! 

30 January 2024

We're Going On A Bear Hunt

"We're going on a bear hunt, we're going to catch a big one... we're not scared!" 

11 December 2023

Polar Express Day!

Today it was Polar Express day, and we have all had so much fun!

3 November 2023

Dear Zoo...

The Children love the story Dear Zoo so much that they ask for it everyday. Well today the children were in for a treat, one of our lovely young men decided he would take over Sarah's job of story teller and delivered an engaging and very informative retelling of Dear Zoo.

20 September 2023

Autumn Leaves

"Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down, Autumn leaves are falling down, red, orange and brown!"

1 August 2023

Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

Yesterday it was Harry Potter's birthday and the children created their very own witch and wizards hats and magic wands!

19 April 2023

National Early Years Teacher Day

Happy National Early Years Teacher Day!

20 March 2023

Mothers Day

Thank you so much to all the Mums who came to join us for our Mother's Day Tea Party at nursery!

20 January 2023

Penguin Day!

We had a lovely day celebrating Penguin Awareness Day in our Early Learners room today! We used a variety of of tools with playdough to make penguin faces and we learned a new song about a penguin...

29 November 2022

Ready, Steady, Go!

We have had lots of fun in the garden this morning racing the cars down the slide! We used our sharing skills and we each took turns to have a race against one of our friends.

1 August 2022

Good Luck in Big School Class Of 2022!

Well what a day it's been! Happy Graduation Day to our 2022 school leavers! 

21 June 2022

Garden Fun

What a fantastic morning we have had! This morning whilst in the garden, we explored mixing colours when making marks on the easel. We also learnt that we could create marks and shapes in the sand using different tools.

11 May 2022

A Busy Week On The Farm!

What a brilliant week at the farm we are having so far in our Reception room!

1 April 2022

Fun in the Garden

Our Early Learners had so much fun in the garden today! We have been using our physical skills to ride on the bikes, negotiating the space we have and moving around obstacles.

3 March 2022

Bugs n' Pancakes!

This week the Reception room has been very busy learning all about the bugs in our environment and listening to a variety of bug stories such as The Hungry Caterpillar, Norman the Slug and Super Worm.

16 February 2022

Dear Zoo

This morning our Early Learners have been enjoying listening to one of their favourite books, "Dear Zoo", by Rod Campbell.

6 January 2022

Big Schools' Birdwatch

Yesterday was the start of the 'RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch' at nursery! Why don't you join in at home? Here is a check list with a few questions you might ask your child to support your child's learning at home. 

16 December 2021

A Very Special Visitor

Look who happened to pop by today to meet all the boys and girls and have a Christmas sing-a-long! Father Christmas has only gone and sent his Christmas Elf Bubbles McSparkle!

18 November 2021

Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse!

Did you know that's its Mickey Mouse birthday today?

20 October 2021

A Special Report on Franchising

Evolution Childcare owner, Sue Jones, called upon her considerable experience in the field to contribute to a special report on Franchising in October's issue of Nursery World online magazine.

20 September 2021

Ooo Arr It's Talk Like A Pirate Day

Ooo arrr me hearties! We had a great day yesterday for International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

27 August 2021

Detectives, Dentists and Dancers!

What an amazing week we have had this week, being detectives, dentists and dancers!

24 May 2021

We Have Butterflies!

A month ago we had a very special caterpillar delivery for the Early Learner and Reception children! Five little baby caterpillars arrived in their own special food container, which had everything they needed to grow and transform into beautiful butterflies. We were all very excited to start learning all about a caterpillar's life cycle and watching them all grow and change each day.

20 April 2021

What a T-Rexciting Day!

We had a very special visitor for Prehistoric Day today...

11 March 2021

We're Going On A Bug Hunt!

We're going in a bug hunt,
We're going to catch a creepy crawlie!
What a beautiful day,
We're not scared...
Uh-uh legs!
Long wiggly legs!
We can't catch it,
We can't chase it,
Oh no!
We can just look at it!

12 February 2021

The cold won't stop the fun!

Its been a very cold week this week but we have not let it stop us learning and playing in our outdoor area!

20 January 2021

Happy Penguin Awareness Day!

We can not wait to learn all about penguins today!! Did you know that there are 18 different species of penguins? And some are now endangered!

Today we will be learning and researching about penguins and their habitats. We have black, white and orange playdough with penguin playdough mats to create our own playdough penguins. We stretched and pulled, prodded and poked to create our desired shapes. We also mixed the colours together and discovered that black and white made grey.

22 December 2020

Merry Christmas & Fingers Crossed for 2021!

Well what a year 2020 has been. It's brought challenges none of us have had to face before but we are so proud of how we have all pulled together as a team, as an industry and as a country to somehow make it to Christmas, whatever that may look like this year. We hope that you all have a very happy Christmas Day and we are all looking forward to a happier and healthier 2021.

Remember, don't look back, you're not going that way...

13 November 2020

A Bedtime Story, By Danielle

It's Friday night and it's time for our bedtime stories.

This week's story is "We're Going On A Bear Hunt" read by our nursery manager Danielle.

6 October 2020

Our Super Spectacular Space Day!

Today we have been learning all about space! We used books to learn about the different planets in our solar system and created our own Aliens with glue and coloured paper. We also turned the lights off and used our torches and binoculars and blasted into space. We used our imaginations and flew to the moon!

6 September 2020

One More Sleep!

That's it! The day is almost here! Just one more sleep until we re-open!I don't know about you but I think we may be too excited to sleep tonight!

6 July 2020

Happy Birthday NHS!

Happy 72nd Birthday to our wonderful NHS! Thank you for all you do and continue to do!

25 February 2020

Let's Bake with Blackbrook!

We have some super exciting news to share with you all!!

Each month we will be holding a FREE Let's Bake with Blackbrook Session! Our first session will be on Friday 6th March at 10am. We have limited spaces available for 2- 4 year olds so don't waste any time, get booked on today!

3 January 2020

A Great Start to 2020!

What a way to start 2020. Our Whitley Nursery, The Stables has been named one of the Three Best Rated® nurseries in Warrington!

Three Best Rated® was created in 2014 and handpicks the top 3 local businesses over a variety of business types (including nurseries, health care providers, restaurants etc) in any city in the UK.

 

3 December 2019

A Christmas Visit

It looks like the Christmas Elves and Fairies must have heard about all the exciting Christmas games and activities that are happening at the Evolution Childcare nurseries over the next few weeks...

 

4 November 2019

A Spooktacular Week at Evolution Childcare

What a week we had for Halloween at Evolution Childcare.

We have had so many weird and wonderful costumes, pumpkins activities and food, we had to share some of our photos from some of our Nurseries...

 

24 September 2019

Vote for Leanne!

We are very proud to announce that Leanne, our wonderful manager at Evolution Childcare @ The Stables has been shortlisted for the National Nursery Recognition Awards, for the category of Personality Of The Year!

These prestigous National Awards give recognition to the best nurseries and nursery staff across the UK. The finalists were decided by an independent panel of judges, but the winners are decided by YOU!

10 September 2019

Our Chinese Graduates

Our nursery setting in Hangzhou, China is now open and in full swing.

In fact, we have already had our first set of summer graduates! Time flies when you are having fun...

23 August 2019

A Million Dreams

There was not a dry eye at The Stables today as we say goodbye to the Graduating Class of 2019.

It has been a pleasure to look after each and every child, many we have known since they started in the baby room, helping them all to grow into the wonderful little people they have all become. Each child has a special place in our hearts and we will not forget any of them.

16 July 2019

First Aid Refresher

Our dedicated staff at Evolution Childcare have been refreshing and gaining new skills this week for the first day of their 12 hours course.

 

10 June 2019

Evolution Childcare Grand Opening in China!

We are so excited about our new Evolution Childcare nursery opening in Hangzhou in China.

20 May 2019

It's British Sandwich Week!

The Early Learners at The Stables (our Whitley nursery), had a wonderful time making their own sandwiches for tea today for British Sandwich Week!

What a wonderful way to introduce self help skills and decision making.

23 April 2019

Happy Easter!

It has been a fun-packed fortnight at Evolution Childcare!

Our Nurseries have all been very busy taking part in lots of Easter activities, from Easter Bonnet competitions and parades, to making chocolate nests and marshmallow cakes, decorating and hunting Easter eggs, egg and spoon races... and to top it all off, the Easter Bunny hopped over to visit the children to give out lots of yummy chocolate treats!

26 February 2019

Adventures Down Memory Lane

Watch this space, something very special is coming soon!

Evolution Childcare's multi-talented owner, Sue Jones has written a lovely series of educational story books, beautifully illustrated by Sue's childhood friend Emma Bryan.

23 August 2018

Check Out Our Latest Offers

Amazing offers for both new & existing parents!

9 May 2017

A Boy Like Ted

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the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure:
"they have been selected for inclusion in the scheme"

30 April 2017

Congratulations Shadsworth!

Congratulations and good luck to Sarah and the Team at Shadsworth Business Park – they have been shortlisted for The Newcomer Award at the 2017 Hive Awards!