Thank you to all those who have completed their permission forms. We really appreciate it. Now that we have permission from lots of our families, we can share more photos of the children’s first few days of play.
We would be delighted if you left us a comment (by clicking on the word “comments” under the post title) to let us know how you feel about the start of the Nursery year.
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It has been great to see some familiar faces this week and lovely to begin to get to know our new children and their families.
We are able to share a few photos here of the children at play in their first days. Unfortunately some of our photos include children who have not yet given permission to be on the blog so we cannot publish them just yet. However, once we have the blog permission slips returned from everyone, we will able to share more photos and examples of the children’s work here. We hope that you will find this a valuable insight into the life of our Nursery and that you can use the blog to add comments about your child’s experience.
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Thank you to all our parents for working with us to provide a smooth and happy start for the children.
As we start a new year, we would like to warmly welcome two new members of staff to our Nursery. Miss Emma Fleming and Miss Rhianne McHarrie are Early Years Support Assistant Trainees and will both be working in our Nursery full time. They are looking forward to being part of our team and we are delighted to welcome them to work with our children and their families.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone when Nursery starts on Tuesday 21st August. It will be lovely to see the children who are returning for their second year and to get to know all our new children and their families.
We would like to remind you that morning sessions have a soft start (8.45-9.10) and children finish at 11.55 unless staying for a full day session. Afternoon children all start at 12.15 and should be collected between 3.00 and 3.25. Children attending for a full day finish at 3.05.
Entrance will be through the Nursery garden and in through the first door on the left for the green and yellow groups, the second door on the left for red and blue groups.
If this is your child’s first time in Nursery, we suggest he/she comes initially for one hour to help him/her to settle in. Please see the letter confirming your child’s place in Nursery for details of groups and times.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.
Joshua and Nancy’s family has been looking at a variety of photos from the end of our school year and has left us several comments.
“Joshua & Nancy loved graduation day. Although Joshua says he’ll miss Miss Kerr very much”, “Joshua had great fun at Farmers den. I’m very pleased he did since it was his last trip out with nursery 😊” and ” Joshua was very excited to try the school lunches 😊 x”. We will miss you in Nursery too Joshua although no doubt we will see you in Primary 1.
“Nancy was very pleased & so happy she got a certificate. She does try very hard at everything she does 😊 “. Keep up the good work Nancy. You certainly deserved your certificate.
They also loved the DIY update on the fairy houses.
“Wow all the children have done brilliant. It looks amazing, well done! I’m sure the fairies will love it 🧚🧚. Nancy looks like she was concentrating very hard 😊. Well done Nancy & all the other children, it looks brilliant. Very colourful 👍” I wonder if the fairies have been enjoying their new homes over the summer?
One of Dumfries and Galloway’s RAiSE (Raising Aspirations in STEM Education) team has been looking at the photos of our bug hotel.
“ Excellent STEM skills at work! Hope you have lots of ‘little visitors’ booking into your hotel soon to provide you with lots of environmental science learning.
Great job!”
Carol Moyes
RAiSE Teacher
Thank you for your kind comment. We are indeed hoping that our hotel has been busy over the summer.
We hope that you have all been enjoying your summer holidays spending time with your families. To help you plan your next holiday, we have put the dates for the new school year in our “Dates for Your Diary” link on the right under “Support Information”.
This link will be updated with more detail as the year progresses, once we have other dates in place, so all the information you need for your calendar will be there to refer to throughout the school year. We hope that this is helpful for you and that you enjoy the rest of your holidays.
It was lovely to hear from one of our families in the holidays. They have been looking at our photos of the children making bug hotels.
“The kids look like they have had loads of fun making mini beast homes. Letti, Oscar and Harli made ‘bug boxes’ last week with Dad for our back garden.”
This sounds like great fun to do at home. I wonder how many minibeasts will come to live in your boxes? We are looking forward to seeing what has happened to our bug hotel when we return to Nursery.
After doing some home improvements on our fairy garden towards the end of term, the children decided that the minibeasts visiting our outdoor area might like a hotel to stay in on their visits. Our little hedgehog home looked as if it had been used over the past few months but we needed something for the smaller visitors to the garden.
As you can see, the children worked well together to make their minibeast hotel and it was finished off with a beautiful sign. We hope that our little visitors are enjoying their holidays in our garden and look forward to investigating who is living in our hotel when we return to Nursery.
After having decided one day to paint our fairy houses, the children were amazed one afternoon towards the end of term to find that a little fairy door had appeared in a corner of our garden. Excited that the fairies must want to live in our garden, some of the children decided to make it look better for them and worked very hard to pull out lots of weeds.
They very carefully hammered the chimneys in the roofs of the newly painted houses and made a little lake for the fairies so that they felt welcome in the corner of the garden. As you can see, the children did a super job preparing the area and we hope that our fairies enjoy the great DIY job that has been carried out on their homes.
