Category: 2011-2012

Concert Congratulations

Congratulations must go to our children for a fantastic performance at our Christmas concert. They looked and sounded wonderful and all who took part should be proud of their achievement.

We would like to thank all parents who provided the outfits for the children and we would like particularly to thank Conner’s Granny for making us some of the cute little net skirts. We were also delighted that Sara’s Mum was able to help our Polish children learn a Polish Christmas carol to add to the concert: it was wonderful to see some of our Nursery children perform this with older Polish children who attend our school.

We greatly appreciate all the very kind comments made by so many parents about the children’s performance. Like you, we feel very proud of them all. The photos below show some of the children prior to their performance.

Christmas Preparations

Nursery continues to be a very busy place as we practise for our concert and delve into the glitter tub to make decorations and cards. The calendars are also almost finished so everyone who placed an order should have them by the end of this week. Thank you so much for you support in this activity: we have been quite amazed by the number of orders but the children have risen to the challenge and patiently fulfilled all requests.

We are pleased to say that the children’s pot pourri bags seemed to be popular at the Christmas Fayre and most of them were sold. It was also lovely to see so many of you attending this very successful event. A magnificent sum of £1000 was raised on the night so thank you to all who contributed.

Annan Museum Visit

There was glitter and glue everywhere but the children certainly seemed to have great fun when we visited Annan Museum for their Christmas craft workshop. The children always enjoy visits out in our local community and the museum staff make us feel so welcome. As always, they provided us with lots of lovely materials to make Christmas cards, paper chains, decorations and masks. It seemed to add the excitement of the day that so many parents were able to come with us to help the children so thanks go to you all. Here is a snapshot of our visit below.

Busy Elves

If Santa gets stuck for helpers at this hectic time of year, we feel sure that our children would make very good little elves as they have been working so hard over the last week or two. With two enterprise activities running at the same time, Nursery has been a busy and exciting place.

Thank you to all those families who have ordered calendars to help fundraise for our Christmas party. Some children have shown great patience to make the large numbers ordered and we hope that you will be proud of their end product. Most calendars are now ready to pick up: you will get a note soon reminding you of the cost, if you have not yet paid, and they can be collected whenever you wish.

With the Christmas Fayre on Wednesday 7th December, we have also had lots of children keen to make pot pourri bags for the HFA event: we had quite a little production line going at times. We hope that some Nursery families will be able to attend the fayre to support the hard work carried out by all the children and parents of our school. As you will have seen from the letter home, there will be a wide range of activities to enjoy and we have heard a rumour that Santa might be available for photo opportunities.

The Magic Door

Everyone can make magic pictures inside their heads. In Nursery we catch the magic from our magic stick and put it in our heads to make our pictures and there was lots of magic in the air when we read the poem, “The Magic Tree”. We hope you enjoy some of the children’s thoughts on what they think is behind the magic door in the magic tree.

Murray: spiders’ webs and dustbin lids.

Mya: a cat called Tilly. It would be magic and would lick its paws.

Sam L.: an alien from outer space.

Reece: a duckie eating tomatoes.

Miley: a magic fish swimming underwater.

Caleb: a wasp that had been to the fireworks.

Suzie: a dolphin sleeping.

Corey: a princess who waves a magic wand to get a lovely dress.

Layton: lots of grass with flying dust on and a mouse carving people.

Iona: a wizard playing with a ball.

Rohan: frogs – lots of them hopping everywhere.

Lee: the moon – it might even live there.

Jaylin: Cinderella sitting on a chair.

Conner: some red and yellow space rockets flying about.

Neve: a shark eating up everything in the sea.

Ryan: toys like Buzz Lightyear with pop-up wings.

Spots and Dots Everywhere

Lots of fun was had recently on our “Wear Something Spotty Day” for Children in Need. We were certainly seeing spots before our eyes all day so thanks to everyone who joined in the spirit of the occasion. A grand sum of £300 was raised in our school which was a super effort so thank you for your donations. Apologies if some of the eagerly purchased cakes didn’t quite make it home: they were just too delicious to resist for some.

Marie Curie Bulbs

This week the children took part in Marie Curie Cancer Care’s “Mini Pots of Care” fundraising activity. Throughout this activity children learn about science and nature, while developing a sense of responsibility and raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Each child was given his/her own pot and daffodil bulb to plant in Nursery and, hopefully, the children will be sponsored to care for it until it blossoms in spring. You can watch their progress with your child as the pots are now in the Nursery garden. We will celebrate their daffodils on Mini Pots of Care Day in February, by painting pot wrappers. We hope that the children have fun taking part and would be delighted if you chose to sponsor them in this activity.

“Wear Something Spotty”

Please remember that it’s “Wear Something Spotty” day tomorrow, Friday 18th November. Our suggested donation is 50p to go towards “Children in Need”. Cakes and sweets will also be on sale for 20p so the children can bring a little extra money if they would like to visit the cake stall during our Nursery session.

Family Learning Fun

Family Learning is a very important aspect of life at Hecklegirth Nursery and we are delighted that Eileen Johnstone, Family Learning Co-ordinator, continues to provide fun activities which support learning. Each week Eileen organises story, rhyme and number sacks for children to share with their families at home. We also have  some dual language books to share with those who have English as an additional language so everyone interested in activity sacks can take part. If you missed out on this opportunity, Eileen will be happy to add you to her list – simply look for her at the cloakroom entrance at the start or end of Thursday Nursery sessions.

Aware of our emphasis on the importance of rhyme, Eileen organised craft sessions this week where the children joined members of their families for fun activities based on nursery rhymes. Mums, dads and grannies all seemed to enjoy themselves and the children were certainly proud of the nursery rhyme bags they made.

Eileen hopes to run a Christmas craft session next month so look out for dates and times on our Family Learning notice board. Remember that younger brothers and sisters are welcome to come along too. This week’s feedback has been very positive so we look forward to lots of families taking part.

We feel so lucky to have Eileen as part of our Nursery team and would like to thank her for her invaluable input. Thanks also to everyone who took part this week – it’s wonderful to see so many families joining in activities in our Nursery.

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