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Welcome to the Leaps & Bounds Blog. Here you’ll find our latest nursery news and useful information from the world of early years education, childcare and parenting.
Welcome to the Leaps & Bounds Blog. Here you’ll find our latest nursery news and useful information from the world of early years education, childcare and parenting.
Leaps & Bounds Nursery
161 Gillott Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham B16 0ET
0121 246 4922
Email us here
Our nursery is open
from 7.30 am to 6.15 pm
Monday to Friday.
(Closed Bank Holidays,
Public holidays & from
Christmas to New Year)
Leaps & Bounds is a nursery & pre-school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16, offering childcare near Harborne, Ladywood, Bearwood & Smethwick.
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Game-Changing Childcare Funding Announced
Signs of Spring for Little Ones to Discover
There’s no better time to start spotting the signs of the changing seasons with your children than whilst on the journey to nursery. Spring arrives on the 20th of March* each year in the UK and is a wonderful antidote to the cold winter months and short, dark evenings. It’s a time when you know warmer weather will soon be on its way. Evenings are getting slowly longer too. Best of all, a myriad of little miracles are starting to happen around you, as flowers and shrubs reawaken and plants can be seen shooting up from the ground. Many birds will also return to the UK from their foreign travels around springtime, often having travelled thousands of miles to get back to the UK. So, why not make your child’s journey to and from nursery a bit more exciting — and educational — by encouraging them to spot and identify some of these natural delights. Below are a few plants and creatures for children to keep an eye out for around the end of winter, signalling the welcome start of springtime …
Healthy Snacks for Toddlers
12 Benefits of Reading Out Loud to Little Ones
Top Tips for Potty Training Toddlers
Home Learning Activities to Help Under-5s
With this in mind, today we outline a variety of activity ideas that all parents can undertake with children when at home. Such ‘home learning’ activities will support the progress of children’s learning and development while at home, whilst also supporting the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that children are working to at the nursery/pre-school.
The ‘Progress Check at Two’ Explained
The ‘Progress Check at 2’
The Progress Check at 2 is important because it helps to ensure that children are progressing well in key areas of development, at what is a very significant age for them. It is a collaborative effort between …
12 Reasons to Learn a Musical Instrument – for under-5s
Top 10 Childcare Funding Schemes
Today, we shine the spotlight on what we believe are the top 10 childcare funding schemes, available in England, for eligible children. Many also apply across the whole UK or at least have similar schemes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some of the options are widely available, meaning easy, free funding with no need for families to jump through difficult eligibility barriers. The first two childcare funding options, for example, seem to be by far the easiest to obtain for most families. Others may suit in certain circumstances, for example if you are on benefits, studying as a student, and so on. Take a look …
Amazing Money-Saving Deals for Families
There’s no doubt that things are getting tough for families right now. However today, in our antidote to inflation, tax increases and the recent cost-of-living crisis, we bring families news of some absolutely brilliant deals, offers and ways that families can save money. What we’re talking about today may improve quality of life a little — even with something as simple as being able to afford a meal out with the kids. We were astounded by some of these discoveries, so we hope they are good news for you too.
A few examples will help to introduce the type of money-saving offers and deals that we’ve unearthed for you in today’s post:
Did You Know?
It’s amazing what’s available if you know where to look, and that’s exactly what we tell you today. We hope you find it useful …