News & Events

December 2009.

To further improve the nursery, we have just started working on our quality assurance scheme. The 1st stage is planned to be completed by May 2010 with completion by the end of the year.

5 June 2009.

To celebrate our 3rd birthday, we went to Colchester Zoo for the day with the children, all staff and some parent helpers. We had a great day and the rain held off for us, just starting as we boarded the coach to come home. Phew..!! We would like to thankl the parents for helping and to our wonderful children of Woody's who behaved so well. We are so proud of you.

23 January 2009.

A big massive thank you to all the children, parents and staff who took part and donated money to our first charity cause of this year. We had a fun pyjama day in which we raised over £100 for the brain injury centre.

January 2009.

Woody's day nursery now have a group created on facebook. Join us there for online discussions or any further questions or enquiries you may have.

September 2008. AWARD WINNING NURSERY!!

We are proud to anounce that we have just won 'The most family friendly business 2008 award'. This was voted for by the local public and we recieved over half of the votes!! This is a great achievement for Woody's as our families of children attending the nursery are very important to us and this proves how much we care. We would like to send out a big thank you to all who voted for us. This means so much.

May 2008. New session available!!

Woody's is now offering totally FREE funded sessions for eligible 3 and 4 year old children. This session will run from 9 am to 11.30pm monday to friday. It is available in term time only with no top up fees. These sessions are limited so ring us now to check availability for your child if eligible. (please see parents info page for funding information)

Please note that any hours outside of these sessions such as school holidays or extra hours must be paid for.

November 2007, Children in need.

Well done to all the children who took part in our sponsored fancy dress bounce to raise money for children in need on friday 16th november. Every penny raised will be going to the charity to help other children in the uk. Well done to Ruby who managed 106 bounces in a minute!!! WOW!!

July 2007.

Thanks to the children, parents, staff and friends of Woody's, we have just purchased the newest revolutionary safety harness for the children at nursery. Our new Walkodile device is the newest invention on the market and we are one of the first nurseries in Essex to own one. The nursery staff and children did a sponsored 30 minute walk to raise funds to pay for the Walkodile. We would like to say a BIG thank you to all of those who sponsored the children and for those who helped out on the day. We managed to raise enough money to purchase the Walkodile and with the extra money raised we purchased some new giant building blocks for the children.

Here at Woody's, we take the safety of children in our care very seriously and this new harness will help keep the children even safer on trips out of the nursery. Please see the walkodile website for further information and details. www.walkodile.com .

Photos soon to follow on our gallery page.

TENDRING HUNDRED SHOW 2007.

On Saturday 14th of July, we took part in exhibiting our nursery children's beautiful work at the tendring show. The theme was 'the circle of life'. We chose to do three different themes for this. the first was the life of the frog, the second of a caterpillar and the third, sunflowers. On the tadpole to frog display, we made up some water crystals with poppy seeds mixed in which made it look and feel just like frog spawn. We had so many visitors to the stand saying how great it was. If you were one of those people who visited, thank you for taking the time to look at our stand.

We are really proud of what the children achieved for our display and look forward to exhibiting again next year. Please see gallery for pictures of the stands.

What a birthday treat!!!!

WELL!! WE HAD THE MOST GLORIOUS DAY FOR OUR BIRTHDAY PARTY. ALTHOUGH RAIN WAS FORECAST FOR THE WHOLE DAY, NOT ONE DROP OF RAIN CAME!! OVER 200 PEOPLE TURNED UP TO CELEBRATE WITH US AND WE THANK THEM ALL FOR THEIR SUPPORT. PICTURES SOON TO FOLLOW IN THE GALLERY PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE.

EVERYBODY HAD SUCH A GREAT DAY WITH THE BOUNCY CASTLES, ICE CREAM VAN, VARIOUS COMPETITION STALLS, BINGO SESSIONS, CAR BOOT SALE AND A SPECIAL APPEARANCE OF A PONY TO FEED!! WE ALSO SEND A BIG WOODYS WELCOME TO THE NEW PARENTS AND CHILDREN WHO BOOKED INTO THE NURSERY TO START IN SEPTEMBER WHICH IS FANTASTIC.

WE ARE NOW ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT YEAR TO COME.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF, FRIENDS, FAMILY, RELATIVES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY FOR COMING ALONG TO SUPPORT THE NURSERY AND TO HELP US CELEBRATE IN STYLE OUR 1ST BIRTHDAY. SEE YOU AT THE NEXT PARTY AT WOODY'S!!!

Saturday 9th June 2007.

We will be celebrating Woody's 1st birthday on Saturday 9th of June 2007. There will be lots of fun activities going on including bouncy castles, bouncy slides, FREE buffet food, drink and many craft activities for all children to take part in. There will also be various stalls including footy shoot out, raffle, guess the name, guess how many?, cake stall and lucky dip. Parents and friends can also pay a pitch fee for our car boot area. So clear out your cupboards and come along to earn yourselves some money!

Please ensure you put this date in your diaries and come and join us for the big celebration. We welcome you all and look forward to seeing you at the fun day. All new and existing customers welcome.

p.s. there will be a big cake!!!!!

March 2007.

As some of you may have seen in the local newspaper, Woody's Day Nursery has sponsored Kirby primary school's football team. This is the first time the team has ever had a sponsor and it has meant a lot to them. Let's hope the boys can score lots of goals in the new season with their new kits!! Go Kirby!!!!

Red nose day. 

16th March 2007, postponed to 23rd of March 2007 due to chicken pox outbreak!!.

Our red nose day had to be re-scheduled due to half the children being absent with chicken pox in the week of 16th of march. We held our fun day on the 23rd of march when the children were all better and not so spotty!!!

A big thank you to all staff, parents and friends of Woody's Day Nursery that helped to raise nearly £100 for comic relief. The children who came along for our fun day had a lovely time in their pyjamas, having a teddy bear's picnic, biscuit decorating, red nose funny face drawing and other fun games and activities that were put on. All staff joined in too by wearing their pyjamas and bringing in a favourite teddy. Well done everybody. Every little bit of money helps comic relief in their many projects for people all over the world.

28th Nov 2006.

We have just recieved our first ofsted inspection and we are very happy with the outcome. The report can be viewed on the ofsted website.

www.ofsted.gov.uk

28th Oct 2006.

We wanted to raise money for this cause as it is essential to the charity to help those affected by the illness. We would like to say a big thank you to everybody who helped and supported us with our 'Toddle Waddle'. We raised £325 which was all donated to 'The Menningitis Trust' Charity. Thank-you again.

August 2006.

Woody's day nursery entered Clacton carnival for the first time this year and come away with two rosettes.! A 3rd place and a commended for effort. We displayed the children's work on the float which was themed as 'Old macdonald had a farm'. Well done to all the children who helped to make the beautiful animals, scenes and our big red tractor.We were the only nursery to enter and got lots of positive comments on the childrens work.

It was a job well done!!!