June 2020 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Messages From Mrs. Irving

Mrs. Irving has been looking at all the recent posts on our blog and has left some messages:

“Anthony, I love your self-portrait. What a super artist you are. How exciting it will be to see it displayed is school when you begin Primary 1.”

She loves the photos with the graduation certificates:

“How lovely it is to see all of these wee smiling faces! I can’t wait to hear about your adventures in Primary 1 where I know you will be awesome! 🙂 “

Mrs. Irving was delighted to see the photos of the bike art prize winners:

“Congratulations Freya and Jasmine! 🙂 🙂”

She also loved Sophie’s activity suggestion:

“What a super idea Sophie. We have been loving watching the birds and other wildlife in our garden and when out walking during lockdown. Last week we were really excited to see two beautiful deer on our walk.”

Mrs. Irving, like all of us, just loved the graduation video of all the children moving on to Primary 1:

“Watching this video has me grinning like a cheshire cat. How lucky we are to spend our days playing and having fun with these bright wee buttons. A big thanks to all of our families for sharing your children with us xxx”

Mondrian Art

The children in the Rainbow Room spent some time last term looking at the work of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist best known for his abstract paintings.

They thought carefully about where to position their lines and which sections of their art work to fill with colour. As well as using pens, coloured paper and solid shapes were used on slate to create work in the style of Mondrian in different ways and the children developed their skills in Technologies by taking photos of their work.

So Excited!

Anthony’s family has been looking at our photos and left a lovely message:

“Aww Anthony was so excited when Mrs Irving came to see him and give him his certificate and his shell to decorate. He was super excited to draw his self portrait. all the nursery staff are just amazing thank you for having Anthony in your class.”

Thank you so much. We have loved seeing Anthony’s progress in his time with us and hope that he has a wonderful time in Primary 1 when the time comes.

Self-Portrait

We would like to share these super photos of one of our children busy with his self-portrait for Miss Campbell and Mrs. Mahon. We think that they will be delighted to display this wonderful work in the classroom ready for Primary 1 in August. Very well done and thank you for sharing your photos.

We hope that those moving on to Hecklegirth Primary 1 are all remembering to post a self-portrait through the school door ready to be displayed in your new classroom. Imagine how exciting it will be to see your work on the wall when you arrive at school on your first day.

Starting School

Starting school will bring a big change for our children so, to help them prepare, you may wish to look at a book to comfort and reassure them through that transition. Scottish Book Trust has provided a list of beautiful books to support you when having conversations with your child about starting school.

Click on the link below to see their suggestions, several of which we have used with the children in Nursery in the past.

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/books-about-starting-school

Rhyme Of The Week

“Mary, Mary Quite Contrary” is our “Rhyme of the Week” for our last week of term. We hope that you enjoy singing along with the clip below.

Refresh our page to listen again.

Measuring

There are lots of different ways to learn about measuring and we thought we would share some photos from the past of the children finding out about it in various ways both indoors and out.

Scottish Virtual Summer Camp

We would like to share this link to the “Scottish Virtual Summer Camp” which will run from June 29th until July 24th. They will provide lots of fun-filled ideas to keep children active, creative and happy with suggestions for inside and outdoors. This is free and it’s easy to take part. Just click on the link below for more information.

https://virtualnatureschool.org/pages/summer-camp

Good Luck

We have messages to share from some of the Nursery staff who have been looking at the certificate photos.

Mrs. Kirkpatrick said,

“Aw this is delightful seeing the happy faces, well done everyone and good luck in P1. Mrs Kirkpatrick xxx”

She also wanted to pass on her congratulations to the bike art prize winners,

“Well done Freya and Jasmine x”

Mrs. Maxwell also left a message,

“Good luck to all the boys and girls going to p.1. It was lovely being able to visit some of you x”

Miss Fleming too wants to send you her best wishes,

“It is lovely to see all those smiling faces. Congratulations everyone on your Nursery Graduation. You will all be missed in Nursery. The very best of luck in Primary 1. You will all do amazing! ⭐”

We will certainly miss them all and send them our very best wishes.

Happy Smiles

As mentioned previously, it with sadness that we have not been able to have a graduation ceremony this year but we hope that many of you have enjoyed our video in a previous post, showing all the children who will be leaving our Nursery.

Key workers were also delighted to visit our children this week to deliver their certificates and a little shell memento to decorate and keep as reminder of this year. Fortunately they managed to capture lots of their happy faces which we would like to share here.