2015-16 – Page 32 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Beat The Street

The lovely weather this week has been a great incentive to get out and about with the Nursery children to take part in the Beat the Street campaign as part of the Scottish Government’s Smarter Choices Smarter Places initiative. As you can see, the children have enjoyed taking a walk to tap the Beat Boxes close to Nursery and have managed to earn points along the way. We hope that you are all joining in with this great Health and Wellbeing event with your families too.
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Congratulations

Congratulations to our wonderful award winners from last week. The lovely smiles tell us how delighted you were with your certificates. Well done! Those awards were thoroughly deserved.

Family Learning Photos

Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has left us a comment:

“It was great to meet/catch up with everyone at the Time for Rhyme sessions last Friday. Photo’s from the sessions are on the Family Learning Notice board”

Paulina’s Mum and Dad are proud of her photo taking part in the Time for Rhyme activity:

“Our big girl – well done “

Eileen’s notice board is in the corridor on the way in to Nursery so have a look as her photos will be different to the ones on the blog.

Kenzie Beats The Street

What a super photo of Kenzie out and about in Annan on “Beat the Street”. She’s been going out on her bike with her Mum to get healthy while having lots of fun and earning points. Well done Kenzie – keep up the good work. Thank you to Kenzie’s Mum for her action photo. I wonder if anyone else has been taking part with their families?

Rhyme Fun

Two of our families have commented on how much they enjoyed the Family Learning activity.

“Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be involved with some family learning fun, myself and Dylan really enjoyed making the rhyme bags and props :-), he has been having great fun using the props and singing the rhymes to his little sister. Xx”

“We had a lovely time at Eileen’s session, Thom has been showing everyone his “Incy wincy Spider. Looking forward to the next one!”

It looked like everyone was enjoying themselves. Great to hear that the children have been using their rhyme props at home.

Family Rhyme Time

Friday saw our first Family Learning event of the year and we are delighted that a good number of children and their families chose to take part. Nursery rhymes was the theme and everyone seemed to have good fun with scissors, glue and singing lots of different rhymes. Thank you to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for organising this great activity – everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Here are some of the children busy with their families.

Good News Tree

Thank you to all those families who have been helping the children share news for our good news trees. The leaves are beginning to fill the tree in each room and it’s great to hear all your news from home. If you still have your leaf at home please bring it in to Nursery and we will add it to the others. Here are some of the achievements already on display.

Ben W. swam a short distance without armbands during his swimming lesson.
Keegan can ride his bike without stabilisers.
James said that his baby sister laughs when he tickles her.
Dylan can pedal his bike properly now.
Thom has learned to swim without his armbands and just needs a snorkel now.
Max L. can swim in his Nana’s pool with no armbands on.
Joshua had a big boy’s haircut with the clippers and didn’t cry.
Orla can ride her bike without stabilisers.
Peter can sing the alphabet song.
Kacper is learning to ride a bike on two wheels.
Mollie can get dressed by herself.
Nadia is looking forward to her grandmother coming to visit from Poland.

What a lot of wonderful good news! Keep sharing your news with us boys and girls – we love to hear about what is happening in your lives.

Orla’s Award

Orla’s Mum is pleased with her award:

“Thank you for Orla’s special award. We are delighted that she has been helping the new children settle into nursery. We hope that they all enjoy nursery as much as Orla does.”

Well done Orla. It seems no time since you started in Nursery and now you are helping other children to settle in. We are all proud of how kind and helpful you have been.

Learning The Rules

Keegan’s Mum has been looking at our photos showing the children learning about the Nursery rules:

“So nice to see them all helping to tidy up xx”

The children are doing very well learning the rules and they are starting to understand about tidying up after they have played with something. We hope that they are doing it at home too.

Time for Rhyme

Please remember that tomorrow (Friday) sees our first Family Learning event of the year. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has organised “Time For Rhyme” sessions for you and your child to decorate rhyme bags and make some rhyme ‘props’. These sessions are 9-10 or 10.45-11.45 and 12.15-1.15 or 2-3 in the Family Room across from the school hall. We hope that you all have fun.