We hope that you are all looking forward to our Christmas celebration tomorrow, Monday 16th December. Children should attend Nursery at normal times and we will walk them to church. Families should come to the United Reform Church for 1.45.
We are delighted that many of our families have indicated that they would like to be part of our celebration. We want this to be an informal occasion for the children to enjoy a relaxed and happy performance to their families and look forward to seeing you there.
Category: 2019 – 2020
Christmas Visitors
There have been some strange happenings in our Nursery over the past week or so. One day we came in and the children found fairy dust in several places and a note had been left by one of Santa’s fairies. We all wondered how the fairy had got in to Nursery and some thought that perhaps Santa was sending her to check up on everyone’s behaviour.
On Friday we were all very surprised to find photos of Santa that had not been there the previous day. Once we looked carefully at the photos we realised that Santa himself had been for a visit to our Nursery. This caused great excitement as we realised that he had been looking in our trays and checking out our displays. The conclusion reached was that this must be “the real Santa” and that he must be keeping a check on everything. We all wonder just what he might do next?
Lovely Comments
Isaac W.’s family enjoyed the photos of him making a pizza for snack:
“Isaac had great fun doing this. He enjoys doing it at home as well. X”
Well done Isaac for using these skills at home and at Nursery. It’s great to hear how independent you are.
Mrs. Irving also left a comment about our visit to the Friendship Club last week:
“What a lovely welcome our children received from the ladies of the Friendship Club. Feedback was wonderful with many of the ladies telling the children how it felt like Christmas had now began! Well done children, we are very proud of you!”
We certainly are proud of them all. How lovely that the ladies felt that Christmas had now begun, hearing our little singers.
Word Of The week
The Rainbow Room will have ‘performance’ as their “Word of the Week” while the Raindrop Room is having ‘Christmas’.
Architects And Builders
A snowy village was the plan for these young engineers when they talked about what they wanted in the big play tray. As they decided that we did not really having anything that they considered a village, this group of children set about making their own, using a range of materials from the junk modelling box. Once they started, lots of children joined in and many contributed to making the buildings and scenery. With a few animals and people added (including Santa), the children had created their own play environment and it has proved to be very popular. I wonder if we have some engineers, architects or builders of the future here in our Nursery?
Friendship Club Visit
This week we were very lucky to be invited back for a visit by the ladies and gentlemen of the Friendship Club in the Old Parish Church hall. As we had thoroughly enjoyed our previous visit, we were keen to make a return trip to entertain everyone with a selection of our Christmas songs. This group of children showed great confidence in an unfamiliar situation and did a super job of providing entertainment to those enjoying a Christmas lunch. It was wonderful to see young and old chatting together and we hope that those at the Friendship Club enjoyed their little visitors. The children were also very interested in the nativity scene outside the church so we spent a little time there talking about it. Thank you to everyone at the Friendship Club for your warm welcome and of course for the delicious snack. We hope to see you again in the future.
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Make Your Own Pizza
Our children have become increasingly independent in the preparation of their own snack and are developing so many skills in this area. Recently they were able to make their own choices of topping for a mini pizza which was such a fun learning activity and provided a very tasty, warm snack on a chilly day. As you can imagine, the smell in Nursery was delicious and everybody was very keen to take part in the snack preparation.
Annan Academy Visit
After experimenting with full sized musical instruments recently in the Rainbow Room, where lots of little bands were formed, the music department at Annan Academy kindly invited small groups to visit their music room to learn more about a range of different instruments. As you can see, this was a great experience and we would like to thank Mr. Brand and his pupils very much for their patience and time on our visits. We know that some of the children have now put trumpets and drums on their Santa list so they may well be experts by the time they reach Annan Academy as pupils.
Hamper Squares
We would like to remind you that tomorrow, Wednesday 11th December, is the last day to return your hamper squares. We really appreciate all the generous donations we have received and have several super prizes to be won on Monday. You may have seen the lovely hampers sitting out in Nursery but we also have two bottles of champagne with chocolates, a Ted Baker toiletries set and two vouchers to be won by lucky ticket holders. Thank you so much for your support.
Prize Winner
Tilly’s family was pleased to hear that she won the nursery rhyme competition:
“Aww Tilly was delighted to win the nursery rhyme competition especially after an emotional start! We are enjoying singing the rhymes in her new book and reading to her wee bear who still has no name! Thank you!”
Well done Tilly! I wonder what name you will choose in the end for your little bear?
