December 2014 – Page 2 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Sticky Kids Christmas Show

Great fun and laughter was had by all at the “Sticky Kids” show this week. It was lovely to join children from other local nurseries in a super Christmas celebration of singing and dancing. As you can see, several of our children showed great confidence to go on stage as part of the show and everyone sang enthusiastically along with all the songs. Thank you to all those families who contributed to the children’s calendar enterprise project which paid for this show. We really appreciate your support and the children all had a brilliant time.
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Award Winners

Here are the proud recipients of certificates from last week. Both children received their awards for being particularly kind and helpful when we had visits from the children who will start Nursery in January. Well done both of you. We are sure that you made our visitors feel welcome on their first visit to Nursery.

Deferred Year

The parents of those children who have birthdays between September and February, and are due to start school in August 2015, should now have a letter explaining the options re a deferred year in Nursery.
An information leaflet and application forms will be available soon in Nursery for those who wish to apply for a deferred year. Please ask staff for copies if you are interested in this option. The final application date is normally in mid January.
We hope that you take the opportunity to speak to staff if you are unsure about your child’s readiness to move to Primary 1 next year as we will be happy to discuss this.

Family Learning Comment

Sophie’s Mum enjoyed the Family Learning activities and kindly left us a comment:

“I think us grown ups had more fun than the children. Sophie really enjoyed her reindeer sandwich, she described it as delicious.”

There’s no doubt that those reindeer sandwiches were popular. Good idea Eileen!

Sticky Kids Show

We hope that everyone is looking forward to the “Sticky Kids” show tomorrow in the school hall. It should be great fun joining lots of children from other nurseries in a Christmas sing-along so get your voices warmed up to take part in a great show. Nursery sessions will run at normal times and the children will be provided with their snack.

Family Learning

Kacey’s Mum commented on the Family Learning photos:

“Kacey had great fun making things at the family time, my favourite was the reindeer sandwich.”

I thought the reindeer sandwich was lovely too – almost too cute to eat.

Reindeer Sandwiches

Thanks must go again to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing super Christmas activities for children and their families to enjoy together. There were reindeer sandwiches, Christmas cards and decorations on the go in the Family Room and they all looked like good fun. It’s lovely to see so many families participating, despite everyone being so busy at this time of year, and we really appreciate Eileen offering so many sessions. Even Steve the Star from the Sunshine Room made an appearance and seemed to be very interested in everything. We are already discussing the next Family Learning activity so watch this space early next term.
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Starting School

As we now have the school enrolment dates in January, parents of those who are moving on to Primary 1 in August 2015 are warmly invited to attend our information sessions on Tuesday 16th December. Come along to the school library to find out more about our school from Mrs. Alexander, our Headteacher, and Miss Campbell, Primary 1 and Acting Principal Teacher. We look forward to seeing you there to give you an insight into life at Hecklegirth Primary.

Christmas Enterprise

Thank you to everyone who has placed an order for calendars. The children have been working hard to make all the orders to help raise money for their Christmas party and the “Sticky Kids” show and some calendars are now being sent home. We hope that, at £2.50, you feel that this is a bargain present for family members and we are delighted that we currently have orders worth over £250 which will pay for the show and help towards the cost of our party. We would like to thank you very much for supporting the children to take part in this enterprise project.

Nursery Visitors

Sophie’s Mum left us a comment about our new children visiting us:

“Sophie really enjoyed welcoming new friends to the nursery today. Looks like they were having great fun.”

We had more lovely little visitors in Nursery today who seemed to enjoy their taster session. We are looking forward to you all joining us in January.