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Friday Messages

Our Friday Message – 17th January 2025

In this week’s Friday Message from St Pauls Nursery School, we’re excited to share more from our ongoing Block Play Research with Bristol University, exploring mathematical patterns and symmetry. We have important dates for your diary and some essential tips and requests, including ways to make birthday celebrations more inclusive. We are also looking for musical parents to share their talents in our rooms.

Our Friday Message – 10th January 2025

In this week’s Friday Message from St Pauls Nursery School, we’re thrilled to announce our Executive Headteacher, Lucy Driver, has been awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List for services to Early Years Education! We also bid a fond farewell to Holly from Baby Room 1 after eight wonderful years. Plus we share some important dates. Finally, please read about our Core Books and watch our supporting videos on YouTube!

Our Friday Message – 20th December 2024

In this week’s Friday Message from St Pauls Nursery School, we want to thank everyone who attended our Winter Celebrations and Christmas breakfasts, making it a truly special time with your decorating, storytelling, and singing. Stay updated with our latest News from the Rooms post on our website and check out our YouTube channel – we’ll be uploading new Core Stories videos over the Christmas break. We wish all families celebrating Christmas a special day and extend our warmest holiday wishes to everyone.

News from St Pauls

St. Pauls Nursery’s Lucy Driver Awarded OBE

St. Pauls Nursery’s Lucy Driver Awarded OBE

We are delighted to announce that Lucy Driver, our Headteacher here at St Pauls Nursery School in Bristol, has been awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year's Honours List for her outstanding services to Early Years Education. This prestigious recognition reflects Lucy's...

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News from the Rooms

News from The Pod (Nursery Room 3) – December 2024

News from The Pod (Nursery Room 3) – December 2024

Make, Bake, Cook Cake We are curious. We are capable. We are collaborative! So full of absorption and perseverance – the children have been mixing and making, delighted in noticing the changes in ingredients as they mix them altogether delighted in their achievements...

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News from the Baby Room 2 – December 2024

News from the Baby Room 2 – December 2024

We Are BIG Bold Movers Movement Matters so much doesn’t it. Children are making all sorts of connections between their brains and bodies as they crawl and climb, push and pull, slide, and swing! Movement is so important for brains, for vision, for balance, for control...

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News from the Nursery Room 1 – December 2024

News from the Nursery Room 1 – December 2024

Mark Making Matters We love to draw… and write… and make all sorts of marks… with all sorts of materials! Pencils, pens, paints… crayons and chalk… have given us lots of tools and opportunities to make marks. Our scribbles are all sorts of investigations… they are...

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News from the Nursery Room 2 – December 2024

News from the Nursery Room 2 – December 2024

Mark Making Matters Our St. Paul’s Promise “I can use marks to communicate meaning” encourages children to experiment, explore, imitate, and invent all sorts of marks and writing. We are fascinated by children’s Mark Making journeys. And how the children are using...

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News from the Early Years 2 Room – December 2024

News from the Early Years 2 Room – December 2024

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? We are readers! We are storytellers! We love books! Our Core Stories help the children be confident readers and storytellers. Our Core Stories are revisited again and again and again… So children can wallow in the rhythms and...

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Ofsted - Outstanding!

We have achieved Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ in both our Nursery School and Children’s Centre and are now a partner in BEYTC (Bristol Early Years Teaching Consortium) and ‘Centre of Excellence for Under 3s’.

Children thrive in the setting as a result of the stimulating curriculum and the support and challenge which adults provide. They are exceptionally well prepared to move to the next stage of their education.

Ofsted Report 2019

Leaders make sure that children learn in a highly supportive and caring environment. The nurturing relationships between adults and children and the organisation of daily routines help children to develop positive habits and attitudes to learning.

Ofsted Report 2019

Family Support

Drop–ins
1:1 Family Support
Parenting Programmes
Training and qualifications for parents
Volunteer Programme

Early Education

Free Nursery Education Places for 3-4 yr olds
Free Daycare places for 2 yr olds who meet the governments criteria
Fee-paying Daycare places for babies, 2-3s
Afterschool clubs
Holiday clubs

Professional Learning Development

Training for EYs Practitioners
Research
Placements
Train to Teach
Setting to Setting support
Study days
Placements
Networking

Address

St Pauls Nursery School & Children’s Centre
Little Bishop Street
St Pauls
Bristol
BS2 9JF

Email

stpaulsncc@bristol-schools.uk

Phone

0117 903 0337
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Fax

0117 903 1046

Term Dates

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