We are all getting very excited about our trip to the Duthie Park soon.  Please remember that Grandparents, younger siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins etc can join us at the bandstand at 12.15pm for a picnic lunch.  Please bring your own picnic.  Races will begin after lunch and will be lots of fun for all! 🙂

We have been having lots of fun exploring new environments as we prepare for the transition to Primary 1.  We have been getting quicker at eating our snacks outdoors and have been spending time in the big playground.  We have also been spending time in the P1 classrooms and we have all been delighted to find similar play contexts to nursery and lots of new and exciting toys.

The morning class have experienced eating in the dining room and were very interested in hearing what they might get for lunch.  The afternoon class will have the opportunity to do this soon.

There will be no forest sessions this term due to difficulties in getting enough parent helpers.  Thank you you everyone who has offered to help this year.  Sorry for any inconvenience caused.  The nursery will be planning for outdoor mini-beast experiences in the garden instead of our forest sessions. 

Thank you.

We had lots of fun celebrating Easter.  We decorated eggs and took them to the field to roll them down the hill.

There was a lot of problem solving taking place as the children worked out how to smash their eggs when the soft grass wasn’t breaking the shells.  The children were delighted to get a visit from the Easter bunny and all searched the garden to find their chocolate treat!

We hope you all have a wonderful relaxing and a chocolate filled Easter when it arrives.  Thank you for another very busy and successful term!

Miss Stephen, Mrs Gordon, Mrs Bartlett, Mrs Ogilvie and Mrs Duncan 🙂

AM Class

PM class

We had great fun on our trip to Fittie Beach and play park.  Thank you to all of those who attended and helped to make the trip a success.  

The trip today IS going ahead! We are looking forward to seeing you all there at 10am! 🙂

It was lovely to see so many parents and siblings visit the nursery on Friday.  The children all enjoyed having their special visitors and were excellent hosts! 🙂

Please ensure you have returned your open day feedback to nursery.  We use this feedback to continue to make improvements and to keep doing the things that you found beneficial.

The morning class were involved in another treasure hunt.  This was a great opportunity for them to develop their early numeracy skills.  They started by writing numbers on the treasure and then hid them in the playground.  It was then a competition between Team Ogilvie and Team Stephen to see who could find the most treasure.

We hope to do this with the afternoon class after the holidays.

We have been learning about babies.

A group of us planned a baby topic using a talking tub.  We looked at different things a baby uses and spoke about what we would like to find out.  Please see our planning wall to find out what we have planned.

We have been very lucky to have two beautiful babies come to nursery to visit us.  Sarah’s baby sister Abigail came to visit the morning class and Freya’s baby Oscar came to visit the afternoon class.  We all gave the babies a cuddle and asked lots of questions to find out more babies.  If your child was heavily involved in this they will have an ILD upload.

We have also been using drawing and writing materials to explore this topic further.  We have been creating our own baby vests and drawing baby faces using the TouchTV as a stimulation.  We will continue with our baby topic after the holidays.  We hope to organise visits from more babies and from a health visitor.