Little Pippins
Skelton-on-Ure, Ripon
North Yorkshire HG4 5AJ
After a volunteering spell looking after children in Asia and a stint at her mum’s friend’s nursery, Jemima Kitching has decided that childcare is the career for her and has joined Little Pippins as our newest apprentice. Jemima, who joined us in January, spent three months...
Roxy Fox is demonstrating that it really is child’s play when it comes to gaining qualifications in record time. Roxy recently ended her apprenticeship with Little Pippins Montessori Nursery one year ahead of schedule after successfully passing her Level 3 in Childcare, with a Distinction. The 17-year-old...
Little Pippins welcomed two new members of staff to the nursery for the start of the 2025/26 term. We are pleased to introduce Miss Lizzie Miss Zoe to the nursery family. Lizzie, 23, is a trained teacher who worked in a school teaching English before deciding to...
The children certainly stood to attention when they were visited by soldiers from a local army barracks. 4th Regiment Royal Artillery made the short trip from their base at Alanbrooke Barracks in Topcliffe to see the children recently It formed part of our ‘people who help us’...
Little Pippins Montessori Nursery was pleased to welcome some very special guests this month. On Friday 15th November, we were visited by Sir Alec Shelbrooke, the MP for Wetherby and Easingwold, his Chief of Staff Ryan Stephenson, Lucinda Compton, Owner of the Newby Hall Estate, Thomas...
Roxy Fox initially thought she would be a midwife after leaving school, but work experience undertaken at Little Pippins has now taken her career in another direction. It’s not a complete U-turn she has taken given working with children is very much front and centre in...
Little Pippins Montessori Nursery School is delighted to now be operating from a former school building near Ripon which had to close due to falling rolls in 2023. In September 2024, we relocated from our former premises at Topcliffe to take over occupancy in the 155-year-old...
It has been a marathon not a sprint for children at a Baldersby Park Montessori Nursery School who are leaving to start ‘big school’ in September. Twenty-one children are leaving the nursery and to mark the occasion they took part in a sports day before donning...
We are planning to relocate to an historic village school in North Yorkshire which closed 12 months ago due to falling rolls. A change of use planning application has been submitted to North Yorkshire Council with a view to the nursery moving into the premises vacated...
It has been a busy start to the year with lots of new children joining our nursery family and settling in really nicely. Children in our Caterpillars room have been enjoying the 'Winter' topic exploring lots of different sensory tuff trays with oats and rice and...