Posted in family

Meet Our Family Pets

This is Bramble our gorgeous Collie. She is eight years old and we have had her since she was a puppy. Having a dog around our setting helps to teach the children how to handle dogs, care for them and we encourage dog safety. 

Bramble

This is Fizzy, she’s our moody black cat! She is also eight years old like Bramble. She thinks she’s a dog and growls at everyone! But really she’s a softy.

Fizzy

Now, this is Flora. She is two years old, black and white, and total a whirlwind. She thinks she’s one of the children and loves to play! She’s very nosy, noisy and fun-loving! She joins in with play and games, often nicking the dice or balls we are using. She’s so daft she will let the children walk around with her and dress her up! At story time, she comes and sits on the carpet to listen or curls up on Tracie’s lap while she reads to the children. 

Meet Rosie, she’s our timid calico cat. She is two years old and likes to curl up anywhere it’s warm. She watches everything we do but likes to keep out of the way. 

Rosie

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Spooky Goings On

We had lots of fun at a Halloween party for the ‘Jazz It Up’ fundraising event. We started the day getting our outfits ready, painting our faces and body parts with blood and guts!

We began with six lovely children and ended up with a fearsome cat, a scary clown, a bloody school girl, a spider boy, a spider girl and a wolf!

The children decorated Tracie up as a moody pumpkin and made her go and sit in the pumpkin patch for a photo!

Pumpkin Tracie

We had fun joining in with spooky games, dance competitions, find the spider, balloon popping and enjoyed eating fingers in rolls with sticky blood!

We enjoyed ourselves so much we decided to have another spooky day. We made pumpkin prints, played spooky snap and had afternoon tea, with wiggly worms, creepy eyeballs, long fingers, pumpkin soup, and spider cakes. Yuck!

Pumpkin Prints