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2020
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Welcome to The Great Kindred Bake Off! Throughout August we will be setting our families, nurseries and staff a baking challenge. Weighing, measuring, learning about ingredients, kneading… the learning and development opportunities are endless. Why not join the challenge and find out how cooking and baking can help your child develop life skills, self-confidence, creativity and a time for you to bond together and have fun as a family.
During this sunny Easter weekend our Mayflower team in Billericay have been busy thinking of some lovely ways to decorate our houses to make everyone smile. Here's an activity for you all to try. Have fun!!!
Learning through play, is at the heart at we do. Annie Tierney, Head of Operations talks about how our rich, learning environments allow our children to be active learners and learn through ‘doing’.
Kindred wins 2020 NMT award and is shortlisted Nursery World awards
Kindred Nurseries wins NMT award after being shortlisted for three national awards. Beating competition from around the country.
We hope you have received the news you wanted yesterday and your little one has a place secured at your first choice school for September this year. Due to a lot of our pre-school children currently being at home with their parents, Annie Tierney, Head of Operations, shares some ideas for making those important steps towards school readiness. Don't forget to download our 'Journey to big school' and our parent 'Top Tips for starting school'.
Developing fine motor skills in children and enjoying activities that improves their dexterity, which will support their early mark making and emergent writing skills. Our 'Finger Gym' helps our children 'workout' those fingers!
Children love exploring new worlds, whether it is a land filled with dinosaurs, or a mini beast undergrowth this great activity is not only exciting to make, but also enables hours of fun exploring this strange new world! This simple activity can help build fine motor skills and help their future writing skills.
This activity provide an opportunity to explore a few different colours at a time and can be tailored to the child's age and development.
To celebrate all the male role models in our lives, we have created an activity pack for you to use at home. Filled with My daddy rocks (rock painting); My hero portraits and My Daddy is a smart cookie baking.