Overbury Grasshoppers News

On a very wet and windy Friday evening the leavers of  2020 returned to the nursery garden to receive their leaving memory books and say good bye to the staff. This celebration had been postponed from the summer during the height of the corona virus pandemic.

The Summer has come to an end and the children decided they would like to make burgers and chips for their lunch today to celebrate.

The children have been busy helping to raise money for children in need, we have been talking about children who aren't as lucky as we are. 

We had a beautiful day for our visit to the CountryTastic show at the Three Counties show ground. 

Today the children had a very special visit from Zoo Labs where we got to meet a variety of animals.

The children have been raising money for Children in need by dressing up in their pyjamas and selling cakes. We have managed to raise over £150.00 thanks to the generosity of the parents. 

This year the school children were at school for Pancake Day (it often falls in half term). The older nursery children were invited across to school to have a race of their own! Some of the children were a little reluctant at first,but joined in with support from one of the organisers and members of staff. The nursery children had their races...

Christmas is all about celebration and the giving and receiving of gifts and the children at Grasshoppers had plenty of opportunities to experience all of these.We had our second Christmas lunch, provided by Class Catering http://www.classcatering.co.uk. Last year's Christmas lunch resulted in our deciding to have cooked lunches cooked at...

Our Inaugural Nativity was so well received last year http://www.overburyenterprises.co.uk/2014/12/our-inaugural-nativity-play/that we decided to do it all again (more stress grey hairs for the staff but all worth it in the end)!!We only practice for a couple of weeks and never get the full cast together until the performance! But the parents...

At Grasshoppers, to ensure that nobody missed out, we had a whole week of pyjama days to raise money for Children in Need! Fun for Pudsey's great and small http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/childreninneed     We did lots of baking and sold our cakes and biscuits. We also asked everyone to bring in their spare change to ' cover Pudsey...