Introduce yourself… What is your name & role at Muddy Boots? Hi! My name is Karl & I am the deputy manager at Muddy Boots Poppleton What has your journey been when it comes to working in childcare? After getting my level 2 & 3 with adult learning service, I […]
As you hopefully are aware, at Muddy Boots we have recently opened a second Nursery and Out of School Club, on Askham Lane in Acomb. We have officially been in the new site for a couple of months now, getting to know all the staff and families, and have been […]
As you will have seen across our website and social media, we have just opened up our second Muddy Boots Nursery, which is on the grounds of Westfield Primary school. Although the site was already the home to a nursery when we moved in, we really wanted to give it […]
At our Poppleton Nursery we are part way through our Curiosity Approach Accreditation, as well as also developing the Acomb Nursery to follow this approach. What does it all mean though? This quote sums it up for me: “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” Albert Einstein Children […]
The renovation is all go go go at our new Muddy Boots Acomb site! The first area we have tackled was the big blue room, formally utilised for pre-school, but is now our brand-new discoverers baby room. We absolutely love this space! It’s a huge round room, which features a […]
As you may well have heard, we are expanding at Muddy Boots! Over the past few weeks we have started settling in to our brand-new site on the grounds of Westfield Primary School in Acomb. It’s a brilliant facility, with big open rooms for each age group, which each have […]
Phew, what a week it has been. A quick update of recent events; In the early hours of last Thursday morning we first heard about a fire in our building. We were devastated when we realised the extent of the damage and how much it had affected the nursery, mainly due […]
Over the past few months, we have been looking at the arrangement of the rooms at nursery and how they could work better for the children. A few weeks ago we therefore took the decision to permanently merge what were the ‘Cocoons’ and ‘Butterflies’ rooms, to create a new ‘Ladybirds’, with a […]
Well what a fantastic time we had on our Team Building Day. Almost everyone made it along with us to Dalby Forest, where we spent the day with Dalby Activity Centre (http://dalbyactivitycentre.co.uk/) to learn lots whilst having fun. Our main aim of the day was to build & strengthen the sense […]
Starting on Friday 12th September we are very excited to be opening our doors to any parents who would like to come along to our Baby Group. This will be hosted in one of our nursery rooms by Anna (the owner of Muddy Boots), every Friday during term time from […]
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