We have had another lovely comment about our P6 buddies from Aoife’s family:
“Aoife has loved visiting the playground with her buddy Lauren and she also gets to see her big sister Freya when she’s out. Thank you so much to Lauren for looking after her, it lets us parents know they’re being well looked after.”
It’s great to hear that Aoife has been enjoying her visits. Well done Lauren. I know that Aoife looks forward to your visits.
The children have been taking lots of their learning outdoors in the recent warm weather and we captured some photos last week of a group investigating floating and sinking. There was lots of discussion about exactly what was happening and why some objects “stayed on the top” and some “went down to the bottom”. What better way to learn than with big bowls of water in the sunshine?
Let’s hope that this wonderful weather continues as one of the current areas of interest is searching for minibeasts in the garden.
One of the parents of our buddies has been looking at the photos of the older children helping our children in the playground:
“Best foot forward lovely to see and her wee buddy”
We think that some good relationships are being formed to support our children’s transition to Primary 1. Primary 6 are really showing themselves to be responsible citizens.
Mollie’s family is delighted that she has Lois as her buddy:
“Thank you Lois for looking after Mollie so well! 😊”
All those buddies are really doing a super job. I’m sure Lois will be delighted with your comment.
There have been some excited Nursery children in the school playground over the past couple of weeks when the children moving to Hecklegirth P1 in August went out to play.
After visiting the playground when no other children were there, they then joined the rest of the school for a visit at break and lunch times. Despite it being a very busy time, the buddies ensured that all the children were confident and happy to try out the different areas of the playground, the field and the timber trails. It was wonderful to see how much the children had grown in confidence to visit different areas of the school thanks to some super support from Primary 6. Just look at all those happy faces! Hopefully we will manage another visit to the playground soon. Well done P6 buddies! You are doing a super job!
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Thom’s Mum has left us a lovely comment about our Fun Activity Day:
“It was a great morning, so proud of all the children…I certainly would find it difficult to do all of the activities they did in front of such a big audience. Its a great way to develop their confidence. The medals were a great idea too. Thanks to all the staff, it must take a lot of organisation and chatting to other parents, everyone seems very impressed and it went well beyond expectations. Thank you.”
Thank you so much for your kind comments. You are right, the children did show great confidence to perform in front of a large audience – they were little stars. Thanks also must go to all the family and friends who encouraged the children so much.
Two people have left comments on our Fun Activity Day photos. Mrs. Gray said,
“Well done to all the boys and girls on great teamwork at Sports Day. I am proud of you all.”
Dylan’s family also enjoyed the day:
“We thoroughly enjoyed coming to watch Dylan and all his friends at their fun activity day yesterday, they all done extremely well and looked lyk they all enjoyed themselves,.we are so proud of Dylan and was good to see how confident he was. Thankyou for a lovely enjoyable morning, all the kids and staff done well “
It was lovely to see the children so happy and confident.
Thank you to everyone who braved the distinctly chilly weather to cheer on the children in their Fun Activity event today. We are sure that, like us, you felt very proud of them all as they confidently showed off their skills and great teamwork. We managed to capture photos of some of the groups with those well deserved medals, presented by Mrs. Alexander, and an ice lolly finished off our day nicely. We hope that you enjoyed the day as much as we did. Well done boys and girls – you really showed yourselves to be ‘confident individuals’.
