Recently Ms Russell and some children delivered an invitation to the residents of Menstrie House inviting them to come to the Nursery for a tea party on Monday 20^th March.  Two members of staff, Catherine and Audrey, from Menstrie House accompanied Agnes, Janet, Maisie and Vera to Nursery. Our visitors enjoyed tea and cakes with some of the children. They enjoyed a tour of the Nursery and all children sang some of their favourite songs to them before they left. The children also drew them some pictures to take back to Menstrie House.

Come along and join us at the Sustainability Event in the Dumyat Centre on Thursday 23rd March. The event will be on from 2 – 6pm.

At the event, you can expect to see:

• Nursery to Primary 7 children and staff showcasing their learning
• Clackmannanshire Council Flood Risk Management and Emergency Planning Teams
• Scottish Flood Forum
• Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
• The Conservation Volunteers
• JBA Consultants Ltd.
• Tilhill Forestry Ltd.

Findlay’s Mummy very kindly brought in some frogspawn for us!

Mrs Stanners has helped the children to create a small pond in the garden.

We know that tap water has chemicals which may harm wildlife so we decided to collect some rain water.

Mrs Stanners helped the children to make rain catchers out of some recycled bottles.

The children then helped to create a risk assessment for a visit to Menstrie Burn. We walked to the Burn and collected some water from there too.

We are going to keep some frogspawn inside the Nursery and put some into our small garden pond.

We hope that they will grow into tadpoles and then grow into frogs!

Very well done to all children who participated in our sponsored cycle on Friday 3rd March!! So far we have raised over £1000!

This money will be used to develop our Nursery outdoor area.

Thank you very much to all parents who handed in the tear-off slip with their comments regarding transition to Primary 1. Mrs Stanners has used these to plan the transition activities for our pre-school children.

In order to ensure all pre-school children have the opportunity to take part in transition activities, Mrs Stanners and Miss Wright are currently working with four groups of children. These take place on Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday afternoon.

All pre-school children have now started their transition. During the first week (20.2.17), Mrs Stanners and Miss Wright spoke to children about going to school and children had the opportunity to ask questions and share what they already know about school. Last week (27.2.17) the children went for a walk around the school and had a chance to meet some of the school staff including the Headteacher, Miss Henderson, and the Depute Headteacher, Mr Horsburgh. This week (6.3.17) the children visited the playground, were shown the areas they are able to play in at playtime and lunchtime and talked about some playground rules.

Soon parents/carers will receive a piece of paper which gives details of how their child coped with certain activities. All children may not be able to participate in every activity, however, we will try to ensure that they participate in as many as possible.

If you would like more information on transition from Nursery to Primary 1, please see Mrs Stanners.