Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Cake Sale for Dennis
Tue 25 Mar 2025Supporting Dennis – Cake & Biscuit Stall Fundraiser
To help raise money for our sponsored child, Dennis, who lives in Kenya, we will be holding a Cake & Biscuit Stall at collection times on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th March.
🍪 How it Works: We will have a donation pot available – parents can contribute as much as they wish, and in return, enjoy some delicious cakes and biscuits! Please remember to bring along some change on these days.
About Dennis & How We Help
The money we raise at nursery goes directly towards Dennis’s education, providing him with textbooks, uniforms, school fees, and access to a Child Development Centre for:
✅ Health check-ups & medical care
✅ Education on health & hygiene
✅ Nutritious lunches
We are working with Compassion UK and have committed to raising £28 each month. If each child brought in just 50p a month, we could easily achieve this goal while teaching our children the value of helping others. Ongoing Support Any small donations throughout the year are greatly appreciated!
Children can put their contributions directly into the money boxes for Dennis within their bases or donations can be added via parent pay.
Thank you for your kindness and generosity! 💙
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Neuro Hub
Thu 26 Oct 2023Four new community neurodiversity drop-in hubs have opened across Derbyshire to support children, young people, their families and their carers.
Local charities and voluntary organisations are providing advice, support and guidance to children and young people – and to their families and carers – as part of a plan to improve services.
Neurodivergence includes conditions such as autism spectrum, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, foetal alcohol syndrome, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and social anxiety.
The aim of the service in the new “neuro hubs” is to help provide early support – without the need for an assessment or diagnosis. This will help to prevent any impact from the condition from getting worse and will support children, young people aged up to 25, their families and carers to manage their condition successfully.
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Join the smile squad!
Thu 19 Oct 2023
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Diary Dates - Term 1 September 2023
Thu 05 Oct 2023Diary dates for Term 1
Thursday 21st September
Dennis day -We have organised a fundraising day which children can come to nursery wearing their favourite colour on Thursday 21st September! We ask that children could bring a £1.00 donation for Dennis which will be added to parent pay or can be collected at base time.
Tuesday 26th September
Music Exchange in Nursery – We are part of the Musical Exchange project and are working with Music Leaders to give the children MusicBud sessions in nursery.
Tuesday 3rd October
Nursery individual photographs. Our school photographers (JSSP) will be in nursery all day. If you child does not attend nursery on this day and you would like them to have their photograph taken please email kerry.hartwell@ripley-nur.derbyshire.sch.uk or call 01773 745014 to arrange a time slot to come into school.
Wednesday 4th October
Childcare individual photographs. See above.
Tuesday 10th October - Music Exchange
Tuesday 17th October – Music Exchange
Wednesday 18th October - Inset Day - Nursery and childcare closed all day for training
23rd – 27th October – Pumpkin Competition. Carve, paint or decorate your one of a kind pumpkin and bring it into nursery or childcare week commending 23rd October, £1.00 per entry – more details to follow!
27th October – Last day in nursery before we break up for half term
30th October – 3rd November – half term break for Nursery.
6th November – Nursery reopens
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Ripley Nursery and Childcare CLOSED, Friday 10th March due to the weather conditions.
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Open Day - 31st March 2023
Tue 07 Feb 2023Open Day
Friday 31st March 2023
By appointment only
An opportunity for new parents to take a tour of nursery and enjoy some fun activities as well as an opportunity to meet our nursery team and view our fantastic nursery environment.
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World Book Day 2023
Tue 07 Feb 2023World Book Day takes place on Thursday 2nd March and we would like to invite you to join us in helping your child to make the most of this special occasion. The day will be spent engaging in activities in celebration of World Book Day to promote the value of reading.
Our theme for world book day is bedtime stories. We would like all children to come to school dressed in their pyjamas or onesies.
Join us in our ‘Get Caught Reading’ photo challenge. Children need to ‘Get Caught Reading’ in unusual locations and will need to ask a family member or friend to take a photograph of them which can be emailed into Nursery. We will create a display showing off the most unusual places our children have been reading and a prize will be given to the child who has been caught reading in the most unusual location. Photos need to be emailed into school by Wednesday 15th February. Please email kerry.hartwell@ripley-nur.derbyshire.sch.uk.
We would love to know your childs favourite bedtime story, if you could also take a photo of you both reading at bedtime and post it to your childs learning journal we can talk about the childrens favourite books in Nursery during the day.
We will use this day as an opportunity to raise funds to replenish our books and story props. We will be asking children and staff to each donate £1.00. The donation will be added onto parent pay.
You can join us in building your child’s enthusiasm for books well beyond World Book Day by reading together regularly and joining your local library if you are not yet members. For more information about World Book Day and ideas on sharing books at home, please visit worldbookday.com. Children are never too young to start their journey with books, and the benefits of reading are enormous. We hope, like us, you will use World Book Day to celebrate it with your child.
Thank you again for your continued support
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Jungle Jo Visit
Wed 25 Jan 2023Nursery Visit - Jungle Jo
On Monday 6th and Thursday 9th March we have a few special visitors coming to see us in Nursery. Jungle Jo and a few of her friends will be here to introduce themselves to you!
This will be a great opportunity for the children to learn about mini beasts, with animal handling for the brave!
The activity has been paid for by FORNS (Friends of Ripley Nursery School) for the children but we are asking for a small donation of £2.00 per family to support the cost. This will be added to parent pay by the end of the week.
Visits to bases will be as follows;
Monday 6th March
AM Session 9.30 - 10.15am Hedgehogs & Owls
AM Session 10.30 - 11.15am Squirrels & Rabbits
PM Session 12.30 - 1.15pm Childcare
PM Session 1.30 - 2.15pm Squirrels & Rabbits
Thursday 9th March
AM Session 9.30 - 10.15am Hedgehogs & Owls
AM Session 10.30 - 11.15am Childcare
PM Session 12.30 - 1.15pm Hedgehogs & Owls
PM Session 1.30 - 2.15pm Squirrels & Rabbits
If your child does not attend Nursery for any of the sessions listed above and would like to take part in the experience please contact the office on 01773 745014 or email kerry.hartwell@ripley-nur.derbyshire.sch.uk.
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Harvest Festival
Fri 07 Oct 2022A big THANK YOU for all of the Harvest Festival donations!
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Pumpkin Competition
Wed 28 Sep 2022
