We had a wonderful time celebrating the royal wedding.  We chose to celebrate the wedding after it had happened to enable the children to have greater understanding of what the wedding involved.

We wore our party clothes and had lots of fun dancing in the hall.  We also made crowns and flags.  We had a special British snack: cucumber sandwiches and, strawberries and cream.  We even had special wedding juice!

We have been finding out more about Primary 1.  In small groups we used a talking tub to help us share our worries and happy feelings about going to Primary 1.   The tub was full of resources related to being a big P1 including: school uniform, gym shorts, reading books, lunch cards, school bag etc.  We each chose an object and, with some careful questioning, were able to talk about its purpose and how it relared to everyday life in P1.  This helped us learn lots of new things and helped ease some of our worries.  We are all very excited about Primary 1!

(The afternoon class will be looking at the talking tub this week).

We have been working hard to improve our nursery garden.  We looked at photographs of other nursery gardens and made important decisions about what we need/want in our garden.  We wrote letters to a range of local businesses asking them for help locating different types of loose parts.  You can see more about this on the wall display in nursery.

Here are a selection of the fantastic letters that we wrote to different companies.

We have been visiting the Primary 1 classrooms every week in preparation for moving to P1 in August.  We have been finding out about the different play choices that are available and have been learning some of the rules and routines in the green unit.  We have been having our snack in the classrooms and are learning to become more independent when eating and keeping our tables tidy.  We have also had the opportunity to play in the different learning zones and have been lining up with the Primarys 1s and 2s when the bell rings.  We are becoming more confident playing with less staff support in the playground when the bigger boys and girls are outside at break times and lunchtimes.

Over the last few weeks we have all been working together to make our garden better. We wrote letters to shops, businesses and individuals to ask for their help.  Please look at our nursery display to find out more about this.

Alfie wrote a letter to Farmer Brian asking for a tractor tyre. Today it was delivered! Farmer Brian also brought his sheepdog and trailer to the nursery. We were delighted!

We were very good friends and welcomed Farmer Brian and sheepdog Lucy enthusiastically. We asked questions about farm life and were keen to help Farmer Brian transport the tyre into the garden.