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May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 by riverside

The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration

A royal tea party to celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday.

We were thrilled that all the children came to our party in honour of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday.

The nursery team did amazing job transforming our toddler room into an old-fashioned royal street party, complete with long tables and colourful Union Jack bunting and flags.

We sat down to a wonderful party tea of sandwiches, crisps and fruit followed by fun party games.

The children dressed regally for the occasion, coming as Princes, Princesses, Kings and Queens.

Congratulations to Eden and Arvind (Pre-school winners), Albert and Rosie (Toddler winners) and Daisy and Florence (Baby winners) for scooping prizes in the best costume competition.

Pippa wearing her finest Frozen attire

Tucking in at our street party for the Queen’s 90th Birthday

Ella enjoying our royal street party

April 20, 2016April 25, 2016 by riverside

We’re the Kings of the Castle!

As part of our Castles theme we’ll be visiting Windsor Castle.

Emma Yarrow, The Riverside Day Nursery’s Manager said: [pb_blockquote] “We went to Windsor Castle last year and really enjoyed seeing the Queen’s house. We thought we saw the Queen looking out of one of the window at one point. The children were thrilled!” [/pb_blockquote]

The trips to Windsor Castle will be made in smaller groups – please keep an eye out for permission slips which will be distributed in the coming weeks.

To mark the Queen’s 90th birthday we had a street party and made a huge Birthday card from all the children at the Riverside nursery, Windsor.

We’ve also been talking about the different elements of the Queen’s life, including her homes, her family and her royal duties.

Other exciting castle related activities coming up in the next few weeks include:

• Castle DIY – we’re going to decorate our big castle in the pre-school room, including printing bricks and working out how many we need to cover it completely.

• Artwork fit for a Queen – making all things fit for a queen including, crowns, flags (perfect for our street party on the 21st April) and soldiers – just like the ones guarding Windsor Castle!

• Lego Castles – We’ll be building Lego castles and towers and using our bricks to work out how high/tall long/short our castles are.

• Our Favourite Books – we’ll be reading our favourite books, including The Queen’s Hat and The Queen’s Handbag.

Our beautiful castle