Nursery: 2 Year Olds

Find out about "Our Fully Funded Childcare offer".

For more information please contact us on 0117 9030088 or email: nursery.seamillsp@bristol-schools.uk

Welcome to Term 2

We hope you all had a wonderful half-term break and enjoyed spending quality time together. We are excited to begin another busy and engaging term filled with opportunities for learning, exploration and celebration.

This term, we will continue to build on the children’s interests while supporting their growing independence, confidence and social skills. Through play, stories and hands-on experiences, we will encourage curiosity, creativity and a love of learning every day.

Thank you for your continued support. We value working in partnership with our families and look forward to sharing your child’s learning journey with you throughout the term.

Reminders

We will continue to be athletes using the outdoor classroom and trym trail at least once a week and remind you to bring in spare clothes and welly boots as appropriate, as we will be exploring the outdoor environments in all weathers.

Spare clothes

Please don’t forget to bring a bag of spare clothes for your child. Children at this age are always get wet and dirty through water play and messy play. Your child will really appreciate having their own clothes to change into. If your child has come home in any of our spare clothes then please send these back to us as soon as possible, or if you have any donations of spare clothes, these are always greatly received.

Interactive Learning Diary

Are you signed up to see your child’s learning diary? If you need any help accessing your account, then please let us know. If you are new to us, you will receive details of how to log on to see your child’s learning diary by your child’s key person. You are also able to upload pictures and information about things you do at home, which we always love to see!

Lunches

For the families that attend a 12pm session, whilst we understand that your children will become hungry before nursery, we would like to encourage you to give them a mid-morning snack so that when they arrive at nursery, they are ready to sit down with their friends for lunch.

Polite reminder about packed lunches. Please ensure that lunches are healthy, balanced and varied. Please remember that NUTS are NOT ALLOWED, and grapes need to be cut in half. No chocolate please (chocolate on biscuits is ok) 

We discourage any sugary drinks, No FIZZY (flavoured water is fine). We also provide milk and water during the session.

Please see the following link for some healthier lunch box recipes and inspiration, or speak to a member of staff if you would like some advice.

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes#lunchbox-recipes

Super Skills

Term 1 – Communication

Term 2 – Resilience

Newsletters

2026-27 Term 1 YN2 Newsletter

2026-27 Term 2 YN2 Newsletter

Makaton

Gemma has kindly made this Makaton video for our parents! We use Makaton in our Nursery to help with communication and understanding.  Why not watch and have a try!

Other Useful documents

Writing-at-home-booklet – Sea Mills

Need help with potty training and toileting your young child?

https://www.eric.org.uk/  This is a valuable website with lots of information to help you and your child with this learning.  Attached are some leaflets from the website to give you the information you need to understand difficulties children have with toilet training, with suggestions to support and what is important to look out for to keep your child healthy.

Downloads:

ERIC Thinking about potty training now your child is 2

ERIC potty training

ERIC potty training children with additional needs

ERIC Thinking about going to school

Speech and Language

Look at what we have been doing!!

Autumn Term 1 2026

Two Year Old Places

We are now offering a limited number of paid places for our Two Year Old Nursery room. You can choose a mixture of mornings and afternoons but there must be a minimum of 3 sessions per week.

£25.00 per 3 hour session (9am-12pm, or 12pm-3pm), £50.00 for the whole day (9am-3pm).​ Please speak to a member of staff in the Two Year Old Nursery (or Nursery Administrator) if you are interested or wish to reserve a place for when your child turns two

Some 2-year-olds in England can get free early education and childcare.

You must be getting one of the following:

• Income Support
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• support through part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act
• tax credits and have an annual income under £16,190 before tax
• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
• Universal Credit

Children are also entitled to a place if:

• they’re looked after by a local council
• they have a current statement of special education needs (SEN) or an education health and care plan
• they get Disability Living Allowance
• they’ve left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order