We are delighted at how well all our new children have settled in to Nursery life in such a short space of time. Thank you to their parents for working with us to make this a happy experience for the children.
Settling In
Message From Mrs. Alexander
Happy New Year! Hope this note finds all the Hecklegirth staff and families enjoying the new school term and getting involved in the variety of opportunities on offer across the school community. I am enjoying my secondment to the GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) team and have been visiting schools across the length and breadth of the region to deliver training and support for school management teams on information sharing, new paperwork and procedures, Child Protection and wellbeing. It is also great to get the opportunity to gather examples of good practice during my visits which we then share with others- it is so good to share! Looking forward to catching up with all the pupils soon! From Mrs Alexander
Newsletter
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Burns Day
We would like to remind you that we plan to have a small celebration on Burn’s Day, Wednesday 25th January. It would add to the occasion if the children could wear a little ‘touch o’ tartan’. Hopefully most of them have or can borrow a hairband, a ribbon or a scarf for the day and anyone who has a kilt or a tartan outfit would certainly help us to celebrate the day in style. If your child does not have anything tartan, please do not buy anything new as this is a very informal occasion and they will hopefully enjoy themselves regardless of what they are wearing.
If you would like to hear the children singing their Scottish songs, after they have enjoyed their little ‘Burn’s supper’, please come in early at 11.40 or 2.45.
Tartan Everywhere
As mentioned below, the children have been keen to access the art area as they have used different techniques to design their own tartan. As well as sticking different coloured strips to design tartan, they have been creating patterns with paint and different sizes of rollers as well as experimenting with a Paint program on the computer. I wonder if anyone can spot their own tartan?
Blog Problem
We would like to apologise for the fact that there is still a problem with leaving comments on our blog and so this facility is currently unavailable. We have reported this issue and hope that it will be resolved in the near future as we are missing your comments but will continue to share our posts with you. Sorry everyone.
Making Tartan
Over the past week the children have been learning a little about Scotland and Robert Burns. We have been looking at tartan in the art area where some super work has been created and displays are now up in Nursery and the school corridor to share the different methods the children have used.
Here is a selection of one style of tartan the children experimented with. We will post more of the children’s art work here soon.
Click then click again to see the names of the tartan artists on their work.
Jack Frost
Before reading a story, with the afternoon children, called “Jack Frost” we talked about what Jack Frost might look like. The children found it tricky to think about something that they had never seen but they did well to come up with these ideas.
Joshua H: he’s black and white and green. At night time the dark frost comes leaking and he sees it then he gets back to bed.
Ethan: he’s got a hat. He’s red.
Vinnie: he’s got a top. I guess it’s blue.
Owen: he frosts everything. He looks like icy. He’s small ‘cause you can’t see him. He eats ice.
Harvey M: he puts frost on people’s cars
Neve: he’s white. He’s like a snowman.
Eli: it’s white. He’s big and he has arms and has a carrot and some stones. He looks like a snowman.
Kobi: he’s got a big, fat snow.
Enid: he’s big and black.
Meris: he’s black. He frosts all the ice. He eats sausage.
Bethany: he’s white and he’s frosty.
Halle: he puts Jack Frost on the windows. He’s a man. He’s yellow.
Charlie: he’s white and he’s small.
Activity Bags
Please remember that Eileen is in the Family Learning room (opposite the school hall) on Tuesdays to give out story, rhyme and number bags for your child to take home. Each story/rhyme bag has a book and a game or puppets connected to the story/rhyme. The number bags contain a game and all can be borrowed for one week.
If your child attends Nursery in the mornings, you can collect a bag at the end of the morning session and afternoon children can collect their bag at the start of the session at 12.15. We hope that lots of families will take the opportunity again this term to have fun with learning at home by borrowing these bags and we thank Eileen for organising it for us.
Well Done
Well done to last week’s award winner who looks suitably proud of her certificate. We feel sure that your family is very proud of you.
