Hecklegirth Nursery

Starting School

Starting school will bring a big change for our children so, to help them prepare, you may wish to look at a book to comfort and reassure them through that transition. Scottish Book Trust has provided a list of beautiful books to support you when having conversations with your child about starting school.

Click on the link below to see their suggestions, several of which we have used with the children in Nursery in the past.

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/books-about-starting-school

Rhyme Of The Week

“Mary, Mary Quite Contrary” is our “Rhyme of the Week” for our last week of term. We hope that you enjoy singing along with the clip below.

Refresh our page to listen again.

Measuring

There are lots of different ways to learn about measuring and we thought we would share some photos from the past of the children finding out about it in various ways both indoors and out.

Scottish Virtual Summer Camp

We would like to share this link to the “Scottish Virtual Summer Camp” which will run from June 29th until July 24th. They will provide lots of fun-filled ideas to keep children active, creative and happy with suggestions for inside and outdoors. This is free and it’s easy to take part. Just click on the link below for more information.

https://virtualnatureschool.org/pages/summer-camp

Good Luck

We have messages to share from some of the Nursery staff who have been looking at the certificate photos.

Mrs. Kirkpatrick said,

“Aw this is delightful seeing the happy faces, well done everyone and good luck in P1. Mrs Kirkpatrick xxx”

She also wanted to pass on her congratulations to the bike art prize winners,

“Well done Freya and Jasmine x”

Mrs. Maxwell also left a message,

“Good luck to all the boys and girls going to p.1. It was lovely being able to visit some of you x”

Miss Fleming too wants to send you her best wishes,

“It is lovely to see all those smiling faces. Congratulations everyone on your Nursery Graduation. You will all be missed in Nursery. The very best of luck in Primary 1. You will all do amazing! ⭐”

We will certainly miss them all and send them our very best wishes.

Happy Smiles

As mentioned previously, it with sadness that we have not been able to have a graduation ceremony this year but we hope that many of you have enjoyed our video in a previous post, showing all the children who will be leaving our Nursery.

Key workers were also delighted to visit our children this week to deliver their certificates and a little shell memento to decorate and keep as reminder of this year. Fortunately they managed to capture lots of their happy faces which we would like to share here.

Prize Winners

We have received a lovely photo and message from these super prize winners’ family saying,

“Mrs Maxwell very kindly dropped off their prize from the bike art competition yesterday and the girls are delighted.
Thank you very much!”

Very well done both of you and thank you for sending this super photo.

Smiling And Crying

Isaac’s family has been looking at the graduation video:

“Wow. Excellent video had me smiling and crying all at the same time. We had wonderful visits from Mrs Irving and Mrs Kirkpatrick yesterday which was a lovely surprise. Isaac has had so much fun, made friends and grown in so many ways at nursery. It’s been a pleasure to watch him turn into the little person he is becoming today. HUGE thank you to all in the raindrop room keep up the excellent work Hecklegirth Nursery. Xxx”

Thank you so much for such very kind comments. We all appreciate them enormously. We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know all the children and their families too. Thank you,

Excitement

After her visit yesterday from Mrs. Stott and Miss McVicar, Sophie asked if we could share this photo and video. Her family said,

“She’s so excited after visit from Mrs Stott and Miss Mcvicar! It’s really helped her look forward to starting p 1 as she was quite worried about it so it really was wonderful to see them. Thank you!”

Thank you so much Sophie for thinking of sending us your video and photo. We are delighted to hear that you are excited about Primary 1 and know that you will have a great time there.

Happy Nursery Days

Sophie G’s family enjoyed our graduation video (see below) for those moving to Primary 1:

“Ohhhh what a gorgeous video! Sophie has absolutely loved her time at nursery because of all the wonderful things you do there and seeing everyone having so much fun just made mummy cry 😭. What a sweet surprise to get a visit from Mrs Stott and Mrs Mcvicar too – Sophie is delighted with her shell and certificate. Happy nursery days and Max has it all to come- thank you! Xx”

We are delighted that you enjoyed it and we have to admit that a few of us shed a little tear when we watched it. Thank you so much for your very kind comments.