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Oooh a 'heated bodywarmer' sounds fab - team that up with a good balaclava and you will be proper toasty! 🤣

I could run with that..... ❄️ (I have just bought myself a heated bodywarmer 😂

Would it be okay to stay indoors from now until March - asking for a friend 🤣

I know those conversations Mousie! Christmas was at my sister's and New Year's was just quiet. Bitterly cold here too but so glorious with the sunshine and bright, clear skies. Went for a lovely walk at Calke yesterday with a friend and today was just errands around town. I've decided to try and keep a nature journal - the intent being to help keep me moving and getting outside regularly! Started a new pair of socks today. It's a textured pattern with patterned yarn which means it doesn't show up brilliantly but I am really trying to use up some of my stash of yarn! Having said that I did get yarn money/vouchers for Christmas so have a couple of bigger, new projects in mind!

Oh Mousie - I remember it well 🤦‍♀️

No snow but freezing 🥶 So looking forward to the Monday morning -4 degrees conversations … Me - “you must be cold, where is your coat”? parent - “they wouldn’t put it on when they got out of the car” (no of course they wouldn’t) Me - “do you have it”? parent - “I left it in the car, will they need it?” 🙇🏻‍♀️ hope you all manage to dodge the real stuff ❄️

You’re welcome, good luck with it, search Early Years curriculum Cumbria, not my county but it had useful information on creating an EY curriculum.

Snow here too, not enough for the old skiing off the roof we did in the old days - what a gang we all were - but definitely balaclavas out of storage weather! Happy new year to you all. Xxxx

Thank you for your reply, yes we do I never thought of doing that! 🤣 I will do I'll sit down with the team and we will work on it together. Thank you so much for the advice it's much appreciated 😊

Good morning - 'tis Friday. Happy New Year! Christmas was lovely for us - we were with eldest son and family on Christmas Day and youngest son and family on Boxing Day... Tuesday of this week we had a bit of an adventure (!) we travelled up to London by train as Mr S had a hospital appointment, well two in fact, all was going swimmingly - train on time, taxis readily available but then when we got back to St Pancras we got caught up in the chaos of the 'tunnel' being shut - it was fine but it did give us a sort of 'what the heck is going on here' moment...poor people who were trying to travel via the Eurotunnel, I felt so sorry for them... Other than that it has been a fairly quiet week - not a complaint - I am all for the quiet life! Quite looking forward to getting back to 'normal' next week with my usual activities re-opening... Oh, we had a 'smattering' of snow overnight - but nothing much - think we are currently under a yellow weather warning but although very, very cold we have a beautiful blue sky Hope everyone is okay Take care all xxx

Hope 2026 is a very happy and healthy year for all.

Happy New Year to you all!

What Mousie said! 🤣

Hoping everyone had a happy & healthy Christmas and wishing you all the very best for 2026 x

That’s a big ask if nothing is in place already to start from 😞 We met as a team and thought about what we wanted all children to achieve in each area of learning, not just in Pre-School, but generally for life skills, using our own judgement supported by Bto5 and DMs we broke it down into what we’d expect the 2-3yrs, 3-4yrs, 4+yrs to be achieving in each area (progressive curriculum), if you have a curriculum from your previous setting for one age group could you use that help you with what you would expect chn to be achieving before and after that age group? I’d say include your team so that they ‘own’ it too, and hopefully actively promote it.

Thought I commented on the Christmas festivities already 😮 Lovely time here too, very low key this year- but actually really nice. Now gearing up for the 6th Birthday celebrations tomorrow 😂 One very hypa young lady at the moment! I mean 6 years!!! Where did that time go 😳 Good to hear you are over your flu Zigzag, and I hope your son's visit went/is going well. Happy New Year to everyone.

I have just moved to a new nursery as a manager and from what I can gather the planning is more 'in the moment' as I have been unable to find any evidence of a curriculum. How do you plan a Early Years curriculum for 2-4 year olds in one room? 😪 Thanks 😊

Hi, from what i can gather the setting was more in the moment planning as I have been unable to find any evidence of a curriculum. I have basically just been 'left to it' by a former manager and i feel as i am starting from scratch basically so I have a lot of work to do 😪. Thank you 😊 How are you planning for your 2-4 years olds in one room? Thank you for the reply

I am thank you. Took me a good week after being able to get out of bed before I felt ‘normal’ again. So really lost 2.5 weeks to it. Never want it again! Thank you for asking lovely Sunnyday. Xxx

Are you fully recovered?

Hope everyone had a happy Christmas. Ours was quiet but lovely. Looking forward to my son coming down for a few days now before new year.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Yes! Happy Christmas everyone 🎄🎅 xx

Just popping in to say 'Merry Christmas' to my Friday friends x

Hi Chloe Sorry it’s a late reply, congratulations on the new post. Do you know how your new setting plans already? maybe it already works, maybe not. We are also 2 to 4’s in one space, we moved to In the moment planning a few years ago, with an experienced team it was great, with a less experienced team it wasn’t working (even with training and mentoring) so we have returned to a slightly more formal way without it creating a lot of work.