Hotwells Children’s House

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📣 Bristol Early Years Practitioners 📣 Come along to this years first session of the forum, a safe and supportive space t...
21/11/2025

📣 Bristol Early Years Practitioners 📣
Come along to this years first session of the forum, a safe and supportive space to reflect together on developing and maintaining our anti-racist practice. Everyone is welcome.

20/11/2025

🍐🥒 Food exploration 🍎🍌
We have been having such fun introducing food exploration as our morning snack now that the children are all truly settled.
Children have opportunity to explore fresh fruits and vegetables using all of their senses, building bravery and confidence to try new things. It’s all based on the ‘Sapere’ method of food education and is low pressure, fun and relaxed.
At the moment we are offering serrated knives for cutting, these plastic lettuce knives are great as children can refine the skill of sawing to cut safely. As they build their skills we will begin to introduce sharper knives.

🍁 October 🍁October was the month where we all (staff and children!) started to feel more settled. The routines of the ne...
05/11/2025

🍁 October 🍁
October was the month where we all (staff and children!) started to feel more settled. The routines of the new space bedded in, and everyone was ready to play and explore.
One of the things that has made the biggest difference to our provision is our own dedicated outdoor space. We love sharing a site with - but having our own spaces has meant we can be outside all day long. Next step is to get more planting in place - anyone have any good compost suppliers?!

17/10/2025

🚀 Going into space in a sellotape shuttle 🚀
This week we have been learning about Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to become an astronaut and travel into space. As part of this we have been making the Space Shuttle Endeavour out of a very large cardboard box. These two children had a wonderful time covering the entire roof in layers of sellotape, taking turns to cut pieces for one another and stick them on. There is so much learning happening, we can see collaboration, communication, fine motor development and much more! They showed very high levels of wellbeing and involvement throughout their self-chosen task!

09/10/2025

🎈Beautifully inspiring Bristol balloons 🎈We love our city; especially on sunny Autumnal mornings when the balloons are flying high. 😍

08/10/2025

📚 The library is open! 📚
We have set up our little parent library in our new space. It’s nice to be able to offer parents a book to dip into if they ask for help or advice.
We have started it with some of our favourites - recommendations for more are very welcome, what should we add next?

🌻 September 🌻September is such a busy month! We and our team are feeling rather like we want to relax like this well loo...
17/09/2025

🌻 September 🌻
September is such a busy month! We and our team are feeling rather like we want to relax like this well looked after doll who we found in our role play corner. We have been building relationships with our new children and families, it’s big emotional work that sits alongside us all getting used to our lovely new classroom. It’s always so beautiful to see children being put in touch with our environment, and starting to experience the freedoms and responsibilities of our Montessori method.

📝 We’re thinking about you! 📝It’s that time of year again - writing and sending out postcards to our new and returning l...
17/08/2025

📝 We’re thinking about you! 📝
It’s that time of year again - writing and sending out postcards to our new and returning little people. A tiny but important part of how we build connection, showing that we are holding them in mind even when they’re not at Montessori.
The picture is of our new classroom, Sarah sketched it last year when we first signed our lease, and we had it made into a rubber stamp to make our own Hotwells Children’s House cards and postcards.

🚚📦 Moving Time 📦🚚 We have just come to the end of three long, busy days of work. We haven’t had a moment to stop and thi...
27/07/2025

🚚📦 Moving Time 📦🚚
We have just come to the end of three long, busy days of work. We haven’t had a moment to stop and think about the end of our wonderful first year at Hotwells Children’s House - time for reflection will come next week. We’ve dived straight into our final move and have been very excitedly setting up shop in our long-awaited permanent location at , now all freshly painted and ready for us. We took the opportunity to have a good sort out, get our woodwork resources out of storage and to build some IKEA furniture, Montessori style! As often happens, we ended up accidentally twinning in double dungarees.
Now it’s time for a well deserved rest we think 😴

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