14July2011
Posted by bringingupbaby under: news.
Every Year, the Pre-Schoolers at Bringing Up Baby, Clapham that are soon to be leaving for ‘Big school’ have a special trip to say a very fond farewell . Although we are always sad that the children we have bonded with will be leaving, we try to make the transition to their first primary school a memorable one.
On the 20th June 2011 the current 8 leavers and their teachers walked down to Battersea Park to the zoo. On the way we were observed bus numbers and other interesting things happening on the street as it provided another wonderful learning opportunity
Once at the zoo the children enjoyed playing in the large sandpit and on the climbing frames. We also explored the Bear House tunnels and trampolines. Before exploring the further and doing some role play in the Fire Engine, we decided to stop for a snack provided by our own cook, Alice.
Once we had eaten, we walked around the zoo looking at all the animals and as well as stopping to pat the goats and pigs. We loved feeding the donkeys and nicknamed the pony ‘Unicorn’.
Best of all we loved the Meerkat enclosure as we could crawl into their enclosure and watch them in the centre of their habitat through the bubble hatch.
We hope the children that are leaving will remember the happy times they have spent with us and will also remember the fun times we had at the zoo before they moved on to their primary school. We will miss them!
Petra Rusere
Deputy Manager
Bringing Up Baby, Clapham
12July2011
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Brentford Day Nursery Charity Fundraising
Since starting in 1989, Bringing Up Baby has a long history of fundraising for various charities and our Brentford Day Nursery has contributed to improving the lives of others with its activities to raise money for good causes.
No matter how large or how small the amount, the staff, parents and children have been busy in the past few years with a number of activities.
In 2009 we raised money for The Barnados Big Toddle managing a total of £957.20, quite a feat for a small nursery. In addition, money was raised for The Wish House (£25.00) and The Rifles (£25.00) a charity which supports the widows of soldiers. Even though these amounts may be considered realtively small, we believe that in doing our part these small amounts will eventually add up. The Dad’s Day raised more than £250.00 for the Kid’s company in Camberwell, a charity which helps vulnerable and traumatised children.
In 2010 £125.00 was raised for Children in Need while this year 2011 £39.00 has been raised so far for the Brain Injury Centre.
Bringing Up Baby also has its own charity that it supports throughout the year and for 2011 our chosen charity is Mary’s Meals. Set up in 2002 by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow with the aim of setting up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education, Mary’s Meals is a simple idea – one meal given every day to an impoverished child at school.
For further details of how you can help us support this charity and to feed hungry children, please go to their website on www.marysmeals.org or email email hidden; JavaScript is required
21January2011
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Bringing up Baby is featured in an article about the charity 1moreChild in the December 2010 issue of Nursery Management Today magazine. The charity works with homeless children in Uganda and is looking to make links with nurseries in the UK. Anne de Zoysa, Managing Director of Bringing up Baby, is a trustee of the charity.
NMT Spotlight article (PDF)
10January2011
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BRENTFORD, CLAPHAM, KENTISH TOWN & RICHFORD STREET
Christmas Holiday 2011
The nursery closes on Wednesday 21st December at 6.15 pm and re-opens on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at 8.00 AM
VALE
Christmas Holiday 2011
The nursery closes on Friday 23 December at 6pm and re-opens on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at 8 AM
The nurseries will be closed on all bank holidays
11November2010
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Dates for our 2011 Christmas parties, lunches and parents evenings are still to be decided.
BRENTFORD
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CLAPHAM
Christmas Party:
KENTISH TOWN
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RICHFORD STREET
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9April2010
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The above phrase is how Bringing up Baby was described in Business Outlook 2010. More details in the flyer below:
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18October2009
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Bringing up Baby is delighted to be celebrating its
20th year in childcare in 2009.
On Friday 8th May each nursery celebrated this in their own way with duck themed parties for all parents, staff and children. Great fun was had by all and full details of the events can be read on our General News section.
A large party was held on 4th June and great fun was had and the dancing started late! It was lovely to have all our current and past staff and supporters there having a great time and enjoying the mojitos, champagne and cake.
You can download an article from Nursery Management Today magazine all about the celebrations (3.3Mb PDF file).
31December2008
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Over the past 6 months some of our nurseries have involved their parents and children in various activities to raise money for charity.
Our Brentford Nursery undertook the annual Big Toddle in their local park and raised £700 for Barnados
One of the dads at our Richford Street Day Nursery spent a day working with the Over 2s and they also produced a cook book of those foods that the children had been cooking at nursrey. This raised £400 for The Rose Ward at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Our Clapham nursery held their annual Pedal Push in Battersea Park and raised £556 for Childline.
We hope to continue with such events in 2009.
20November2008
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: childcare; finance; news.
Since 6th April 2006 Childcare Vouchers (to a limit of £55 per week or £243 per month) have been exempt from Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) for employees.
Childcare Vouchers can be offered to you by your employer in addition to your salary but are more commonly offered as a “salary sacrifice”. This means that you sacrifice a specific amount of your salary and receive that equivalent amount in childcare vouchers. This means you will only pay Tax and NIC on the reduced level of your salary. For more information on Childcare Vouchers visit www.daycaretrust.org.uk or contact us.
At Bringing up Baby we currently accept the following vouchers: Accor, Busy Bees, Care-4, Early Years, Fair care, Leapfrog, Kids Unlimited, Sodexho and individual company schemes.
31January2008
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A major development to our site built by
rad apple is the private area for parents and nursery staff. Each nursery has its own area where nursery staff can post news stories (or blogs) for parents to read. This allows us to upload pictures of parents’ children safely and securely, whilst keeping parents as up to date as possible with the development of their child. It will also save us on paper as we can deliver our news online!
Feel free to let us know what you think of our website!
