Last week saw many of the children investigating the digging area in the garden for the first time. This is a place where the children often show super imagination in developing their ideas. This little group transformed a patch of soil and some rainwater into a “mud park for dogs”, using stones, mud and some bits of wood, showing good teamwork and communication skills. Perhaps we have some engineers of the future here?
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Rohan’s Dad has commented on one of our graduation photos:
“This is a lovely picture. Rohan has thoroughly enjoyed his 2 years at Hecklegirth Nursery and he will miss everyone as he moves into P1”.
We will miss all the children leaving Nursery too. Good luck to those going into Primary 1. We look forward to hearing about your progress.
Eileen has left a comment for everyone:
“Hope you are all having a lovely holiday. I would like to thank our new janitor, Mr. Nicholson, for watering the plants – I was worried about them. I am really pleased the veg has grown, just wish it had been a bit warmer in April so we could have planted the seeds sooner, then they may have been ready before the holiday.”
We would like to thank Mr. Nicholson too. Those plants will certainly be very thirsty in this weather.
We hope that everyone is enjoying their summer holidays. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has been in Nursery this week and was amazed by the progress of our vegetables. The combination of the sunshine and Mr. Nicholson ensuring that they get watered daily has produced some fantastic courgettes, peas and beetroot. Hopefully, when we go back in August there will still be an opportunity to sample some of our produce.
Skye’s Mum has left a comment at the end of her time in Nursery:
“Thank you to all the teachers at Hecklegirth Nursery for all your work with Skye. She has enjoyed her time with you all and is now looking forward to starting Primary 1 at Hecklegirth xx”
We hope that Skye enjoys Primary 1 and we look forward to hearing about her progress.
Neve and Finlay’s families have left lovely comments for us as their children leave Nursery ready for the next step to Primary 1.
“Can’t believe it was Neve’s final day at nursery today. The last two years have flown by and I just wanted to thank all the amazing staff in nursery, for all the great work they do with the children. During the last two years Neve has learnt so much and is now ready for her next step into Primary 1. Hope all the staff have a lovely summer and a well deserved rest. Thank you again. Neve’s Mummy. X”
“I would just like to say a big thank you to all the lovely and amazing nursery staff who has taught Finlay for the last year, You all do a brilliant job with the children and I know Finlay will certainly miss you all, Finlay said he will come and visit when he is in Primary 1 so there is no escaping him. We hope you all have a lovely summer holiday. Love from Finlay’s Mummy and Daddy.X”
Thank you so much for everyone’s kind comments and thoughts in the past few days. We have had a wonderful year with you all, children and parents alike, and will miss you. We hope that you all have a lovely holiday with your families.
Finlay’s family would like to pass on their congratulations to you all on your performance at our recent graduation:
“A big well done to all the boys and girls on their graduation, you all sang and danced beautifully. Good luck to the boys and girls who will be going into P1 after the summer.”
We wish good luck to those moving on to P1 too. We’re sure you’ll have great fun and will continue to be fantastic learners.
After lots of busy days with graduation and whole school celebrations as well, of course, as the visit from the Cornet and Cornet’s Lass, we eventually found time on the very last day of the year to return to Ollie’s allotment to check on the potatoes we had planted. It may officially be summer but we still needed wellies and suits in the rain for our little adventure.
As you can see, the children were delighted to find that their potatoes had grown. Hopefully, each of the children who chose to go to the allotment took a potato home to show their families. Thank you so much to Ollie’s family for providing us with this opportunity. It’s been great fun and a good learning experience. Sorry if your supply of potatoes will be depleted this summer.
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In the last few days we have been able to harvest some of the vegetables in our raised beds. Some of the children tasted rocket for the first time and seemed surprised that they actually liked it. Well done boys and girls for looking after your vegetables well.
Thank you very much to Skye’s Mum for sending us her photos of graduation. Here you can see some of the staff posing – we felt a bit like film stars after graduation with so many people wanting our photo.
