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Montessori - Early Years Education - Inclusion - Relationship based - Independent - Community

02/12/2025

🌠 Come and work with us 🌠
We have two vacancies available at our lovely, term time only nursery.
The first is an exciting and rewarding support role, working with an individual child with additional needs to help them thrive in a nursery setting. The second is flexible work that can fit around you: joining our team of bank staff.

The 1:1 role is 10.30-4.00, Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is fixed term and linked to an individual child’s funding. It is likely this will be until July 2027.

The bank role is flexible and dependent on our level of need.

27/11/2025

✋ Learning through the hands 🤚 Today our children have been exploring our Christmas resources with their hands. Maria Montessori believed that ‘what the hand does, the mind remembers’. Children’s purposeful movement through hands on exploration helps them to develop coordination, refine their movements and improve their concentration. All of these skills support them to develop their independence which in turn, grows their confidence and self-esteem.

21/11/2025

📣 Bristol Early Years Practitioners 📣
Come along to this years first session of the forum, a safe and supportive space to reflect together on developing and maintaining our anti-racist practice. Everyone is welcome.

20/11/2025

🍐🥒 Food exploration 🍎🍌
We have been having such fun introducing food exploration as our morning snack now that the children are all truly settled.
Children have opportunity to explore fresh fruits and vegetables using all of their senses, building bravery and confidence to try new things. It’s all based on the ‘Sapere’ method of food education and is low pressure, fun and relaxed.
At the moment we are offering serrated knives for cutting, these plastic lettuce knives are great as children can refine the skill of sawing to cut safely. As they build their skills we will begin to introduce sharper knives.

12/11/2025

📣 Contact us to find out more 📣 admin@hotwellschildrenshouse.co.uk www.hotwellschildrenshouse.co.uk

05/11/2025

🍁 October 🍁
October was the month where we all (staff and children!) started to feel more settled. The routines of the new space bedded in, and everyone was ready to play and explore.
One of the things that has made the biggest difference to our provision is our own dedicated outdoor space. We love sharing a site with - but having our own spaces has meant we can be outside all day long. Next step is to get more planting in place - anyone have any good compost suppliers?!

17/10/2025

🚀 Going into space in a sellotape shuttle 🚀
This week we have been learning about Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to become an astronaut and travel into space. As part of this we have been making the Space Shuttle Endeavour out of a very large cardboard box. These two children had a wonderful time covering the entire roof in layers of sellotape, taking turns to cut pieces for one another and stick them on. There is so much learning happening, we can see collaboration, communication, fine motor development and much more! They showed very high levels of wellbeing and involvement throughout their self-chosen task!

09/10/2025

🎈Beautifully inspiring Bristol balloons 🎈We love our city; especially on sunny Autumnal mornings when the balloons are flying high. 😍

08/10/2025

📚 The library is open! 📚
We have set up our little parent library in our new space. It’s nice to be able to offer parents a book to dip into if they ask for help or advice.
We have started it with some of our favourites - recommendations for more are very welcome, what should we add next?

17/09/2025

🌻 September 🌻
September is such a busy month! We and our team are feeling rather like we want to relax like this well looked after doll who we found in our role play corner. We have been building relationships with our new children and families, it’s big emotional work that sits alongside us all getting used to our lovely new classroom. It’s always so beautiful to see children being put in touch with our environment, and starting to experience the freedoms and responsibilities of our Montessori method.

17/08/2025

📝 We’re thinking about you! 📝
It’s that time of year again - writing and sending out postcards to our new and returning little people. A tiny but important part of how we build connection, showing that we are holding them in mind even when they’re not at Montessori.
The picture is of our new classroom, Sarah sketched it last year when we first signed our lease, and we had it made into a rubber stamp to make our own Hotwells Children’s House cards and postcards.

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