Congratulations to last week’s award winners who were delighted with their well earned certificates.
Congratulations
Great Day
It’s lovely to hear that the children have enjoyed their Burns day celebrations. Max’s Mum has left a comment on one of our photos:
“What a great photo. Max fair enjoyed his day”
We love that photo too. He looks so happy.
Blog Visitors
After setting up our blog in October 2010 to provide an opportunity for families to gain an insight into the life of Nursery, we added a counter to measure the number of visitors to our site. Unfortunately, after a few years, there were problems with this so in October 2015 we added a new counter to monitor visitor numbers and we are delighted to say that we have now had more than 16 000 visitors in that time. If you click on the small map, further down this page on the right, then click on ‘Locations’, you can see that we have had visitors from 30 countries which is amazing.
We really appreciate the comments on our posts as this, hopefully, helps to make it a fun, shared site for everyone. Thank you for your support in keeping our blog active. We hope that you find it helpful and informative.
Burns Concert
Ava’s Mum left us a lovely post about our Burns celebration:
“The burns concert was really good all the kids done a great job. Ava loved singing and her drink of irn bru.”
We’re glad that you enjoyed the singing. The children did do well to have learned those songs in a short space of time and to perform them to an audience.
Burns Celebration
Yesterday we celebrated Burns Day with shortbread, oatcakes and cheese and, of course, Irn Bru. We appreciate everyone making a super effort to provide the children with ‘a touch o’ tartan’ – we thought that they looked wonderful. Thank you also to all the family and friends who came to hear the children sing their Scottish songs. It’s important for them to learn to perform to an audience and you certainly helped to make it a memorable occasion. Here you can see some of the morning children enjoying their celebration. Afternoon photos will follow soon.
Enjoying Our Learning
Lily’s family has posted a comment about our Burns activities:
“Lily has really enjoyed practising the dancing and learning the songs. And she especially liked the Iron Bru!!”
Lily has loved participating in our activities this week and has been particularly enjoying dancing with her friends. We’re glad you enjoyed the special snack yesterday too Lily.
Learning About Scotland
It’s lovely to see that you are able to make comments on our blog again. Georgia’s Mum enjoyed seeing the photos of the children making tartan:
“My clever girl”
Olivia’s Mum is also delighted with her learning about Scotland:
“What super concentration! We have been really impressed by Olivia’s knowledge of Robbie Burns!! She has loved learning all the Scottish songs and in particular the Highland dancing which she has been teaching her sister! She was very upset to miss the Burns Supper though!:( Hope you all had fun!”
We did enjoy our Burns supper but we missed you Olivia. We will put photos on the blog soon so that you can see everyone. Well done for teaching your little sister the dance moves – she will know how to dance when she is a little older and comes to Nursery.
Dancing at Home
It’s so nice to see a family comment now that our blog problems are solved. Ava’s family has been looking at the photos of the children trying out Highland dancing:
“Ava had great fun doing the highland dancing she was even doing it at home.”
Well done Ava for having a go at home. The children really did enjoy dancing to the Scottish music and were asking for it again today.
Leave Your Comments
We are delighted to say that the recent problem with our blog has been resolved and you can now leave comments on posts again. We have been missing our families’ comments and look forward to you joining in with the blog again soon. I have given instructions below on how to post a comment as this has now changed slightly. There is also a link to these instructions on the right hand side of the blog page.
To add a comment, click on the word “comments” which is below the title of each post and beside the date of when it was posted. This takes you to the comment page.
Type in your name and e-mail address then write your comment in the box below. Click on the box that says “I’m not a robot” which is there as a security measure to avoid spam – you will probably be asked to click on a picture from that. Then simply click on “Submit”. Please be aware that, if you do not click on the “I’m not a robot” box your comment will not be sent.
Comments do not appear instantly as they are monitored before being published but should be on the blog within a day or two. Only comments which may cause offence or jeopardise children’s privacy and safety will be blocked.
Thank you for your patience as we are aware that some parents have wanted to leave comments recently and not been able to. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the blog again soon.
Highland Dancing
With the mood of Burns Day in the air, we put on some Scottish music this week and the children have loved it. This morning some had great fun enthusiastically learning a few steps of Highland dancing to the sound of the pipes. Just look at the happy faces of those dancers!
Click then click again on the photos for a clearer view.
