Eco Schools Blogs

Although the weather in Northern Ireland does not always support outdoor play, we do our best at Ballymena Nursery to get outside as often as possible! We are very lucky...

On Friday we had a teddy bears picnic in order to raise some funds for Pudsey bear and Children in Need. We had taken some time throughout the week to...

Every Monday we learn about road safety using our calendar but for road safety week we will also enjoy new resources from Brake for “Beep Beep Day” **Our road safety...

To celebrate the world around us, the first country that we learn about is here, home, Northern Ireland. At Ballymena Nursery we begin the new year with a renewed emphasis...

Children grow up so fast, and our job is to nurture them and support them as they grow. At nursery we allow children to investigate how other things around them...

It’s a good idea to keep things simple when working in the gardne, limiting structured time to 5 minutes or so, and have other activities up your sleeve to extend...

Help your child develop the motor control they need for future writing skills at home. Fine motor development involves the use of small muscles in the hands and fingers and...