As always we have a larger selection of pictures showing on the big screen in the reception area.

One of our Christmas highlights was a wonderful story telling session from local children’s author Thomas Docherty.
Thomas held the children (and grownups!) enthralled as he told us the stories of Ruby Nettleship and The Big Scary Monster.
Thomas’s books can be bought via Amazon and he has very kindly said he would sign any for children from St Philip’s Marsh Nursery. Here is the link to his books on Amazon if you are interested in buying any of his books.
Thomas Docherty Childrens Author

In September, Pat and Simon attended a ceremony at the Council House where we were awarded the Bristol in Bloom Learning Through Gardening Award.  The ethos of the competition was to encourage children’s awareness of their “natural” surroundings with a hands-on approach to learning.

The award can be seen in the foyer. 

You can see the full list of winners and the reasons why the judges voted us the winner by clicking here

The validation group were delighted that the school and the Froglets after school club worked so closely to provide exciting opportunities for the children’s play and development.  They felt that our schools commitment to supporting all the parents to feeling involved in the school community was inspiring and commented on the dedication of our staff to our children and their families.

We are very proud to announce that we have won a gold medal in the Bristol In Blooms Learning through Gardening competition and with a score of 87% we are the overall winners of the competition.

The judges commented that “The whole school ethos and and the involvement and enthusiasm of the staff team is reflected in the garden.  The curriculum is planned to integrate all the children’s activities both inside and out.  Everywhere  the school has created learning experiences, opportunities and lovely adventures for the children which is followed through in the classroom.  We were particularly impressed with the creation of a beautiful peaceful wildlife garden to commemorate a much loved school caretaker Tony. 

The standard and maintenance is excellent and we saw the young children busy watering the flowers. We feel this outside space is an oasis in the heart of an industrial estate.”

The Royal Photographic Society was founded in 1853 to promote the ‘Art and Science of photography’ a mission it continues to this day.  To find out more about The Royal Photographic Society click here.

 How do we select the pictures for the exhibition?  Each class chooses their 10 favourite pictures taken by their own class.  This gives us 40 pictures in all which we send to our guest curator.  They then choose 2 from each class.  These 8 become our exhibition.  We get these printed and hang them in reception.

All the prints will be available to buy.  Just ask Mr Holmes.
All the money raised by the sale is put towards the next exhibition.

 Click here to go to our gallery and view all the pictures and see if you agree with the final selection on display in the reception area.

Here are some quotes from parents:

“Brought tears to my eyes.  Amazing.  Very moving and powerful”.

“I love them: both in scale and content – so much nicer for being natural and unstaged.  They show the great relationship that teachers at St Philip’s have with the children …”

The costs are:

1 Day  £2.20

2Days £4.40

3Days £6.60

4 Days £8.80

5 Days £11.00