Three’s a Crowd at the NMT Awards
Hot on the heels of Christina Noton’s award last month, we’re delighted to announce some more exciting awards news. Three practitioners from our fantastic Snapdragons teams are finalists in the National NMT Nursery Awards 2018.
The NMT Nursery Awards is an annual event organised by Nursery Management Today, a leading business publication in the nursery sector. The Awards are designed to reward excellence in childcare and celebrate the very best people in the Nursery Sector so it is a great honour to have no fewer than three finalists.
Max Bendall & James Fulford
Weston’s Max Bendall and James Fulford from Snapdragons Weston are finalists, where they have been nominated for NMT Room Leader of the Year and NMT Childcare Practitioner of the Year respectively.
Alice Hill
Alice Collard (nee Hill), from our Keynsham nursery, is shortlisted for NMT Personality of the Year.
These are highly regarded and competitive awards and our three finalists will be heading up to London on Friday 19th October to be interviewed by a panel of judges who are all experts in the industry. We wish them the best of luck and know that they will make us proud.
The winners will be announced at a Gala Evening at the Hilton London Metropole on the 1st December 2018 and all three of our finalists will be travelling up to share the excitement of the night.
Christina Wins at Nursery World Awards 2018
Christina receiving her award from the judges
Christina Noton, our brilliant Atworth Manager, has been crowned Early Years Teacher of the Year at the national Nursery World Awards 2018. She was presented with her trophy at a glittering ceremony in London which is designed by Nursery World magazine to celebrate and reward the best practice of individuals and companies in early years education across the country. Christina has worked for Snapdragons for nearly five years and has recently been promoted to manager at Snapdragons Atworth. She has completed her Early Years Initial Teacher Training with Best Practice Network, who have rated her an outstanding practitioner. Christina came in for special praise for her willingness to embrace new ideas, sharing them with her team, and her close partnership with parents which enables all children to access nursery life to the full.
Nursery World’s judgement
Celebrating the Nursery World Awards in London
The first open days at Redland
We are delighted to announce that we will be officially opening our doors to new children at Snapdragons Redland on Monday 3 September. Before that, we’d love to show you around at one of our open days where you can see the nursery, meet the team and get answers to all of your questions. There’s no need to make an appointment, just pop in on one of the days and times below. We can’t wait to meet you!
- Wednesday 22 August, 17:00 - 20:00
- Friday 24 August, 09:30 - 16:00
- Saturday 25 August, 09:30 - 13:00
If you can’t make any of the open days, please drop us an email and we’ll make sure you don’t miss out.
Announcing Snapdragons Redland
Update: Our open days are now scheduled for the end of August. Find out more here.
We're delighted to be able to announce the newest member of the Snapdragons family - Snapdragons Redland!
Based in the beautiful area of Redland, just 1.5 miles from Bristol city centre, the nursery takes over from Redland High Junior School, based in two late 19th Century Victorian buildings.
Whilst these buildings will require a full refurbishment over the coming year, there is also a lovely modern cabin, constructed in 2014, that will allow the new nursery to open in just a few weeks, in September 2018.
We're all very excited to get things started at Redland and would love to show round lots of new families when we first open the doors for visits in August.
To read a bit more, head on over to our Redland page.
The taste of summer
We've welcomed in summer with open arms, just as we always do at Snapdragons, and have lined up another selection of tasty summer treats for the children to enjoy whilst at the nursery.
The new menus have just the sort of foods you'd hope to find on a summer lineup, including beef burgers, pasta salads, Moroccan tagines, pizzas, and copious amounts of juicy fresh fruit like watermelon and strawberries. Our mouths are watering just thinking about it.
Our featured magazine recipe is Veggie-Packed Spanish Rice and you can find details on how to make this right here on our website.
If you'd like to take a look at the menus, including the weeks they will be running, pop over to our Healthy Eating page.