Hecklegirth Nursery

Free Childcare

The Scottish Government has proposed to increase the provision of free childcare to 1140 hours per year for children who are 3 or 4 years old, as well as for vulnerable 2 year olds who are eligible for the 600 hours free entitlement through the Children & Young People’s Act 2014. With this in mind they are conducting a survey exploring how parents would wish to use this increase. The results of this survey will help guide policy on early years child care provision. In order for the survey to produce representative results it is important that we reach as many parents of 3 or 4 year old children from as wide a variety of back grounds as possible, this includes those who do not currently use free child-care provision.

The survey is available at the following link.
https://response.questback.com/scottishgovernment/childcaresurvey

Well Done Dylan

Dylan’s family is delighted with his recent award:

“We’re so proud of Dylan this year, he’s come on leaps and bounds. Well done Dylan!”

You have done so well Dylan. It’s at this time of year that we often reflect on the progress that all our children have made in the past year as some prepare to move to Primary 1 and we are very proud of them all.

Certificate Winners

Well done to last week’s certificate winners. We feel sure that your families must be very proud of you all.

Thank You

Callum’s family left a comment re Eileen’s “Skills For School” workshop:

“It was very helpful. Thank you Eileen.”

We’re glad that you found it useful.

Bye Bye Butterflies

After weeks of watching the progress of our caterpillars which grew and formed their cocoons, we finally saw our beautiful butterflies emerging in their nets at the end of last week. After feeding them on sugary water and slices of oranges, it seemed that they were ready to fly off and on Friday we found a quiet spot close to Nursery to release them. Although they did not seem keen to leave us, Miss Kerr gave them a helping hand to settle on the flowers which gave everyone a chance to have a close look at our little butterflies before we waved them goodbye.

Skills For School

We hope that those who attended the Family Learning “Skills For School” workshop today found it helpful to prepare their children for Primary 1. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, will be running another session tomorrow (9.6.15). Check for spaces on the noticeboard in the corridor if you have not yet signed up and would like to take part.

Flowers

Callum’s family enjoyed the photos of the children planting flowers:

“Callum has told us about the flower planting. He loves helping his grandad in his garden.”

You did a good job Callum. You must have learned lots from Grandad.

Beautiful Butterflies

Alongside our learning about minibeasts and looking after our own little caterpillars, lots of children created their own butterflies at home with their families. We love the range of materials used and the wonderful ideas that you all had. Thank you to all those families who took the time to take part in this activity. Here is a selection of some of the super works of art.
Click then click again for a closer look.

Flower Planting

Mollie’s Mum enjoyed the photos of the children planting flowers:

“What a lovely idea to plant flowers! Mollie loves growing things, we are growing our own veg at our allotment! Thank you Mrs Alexander for the flower pots. The flowers look great!”

Mollie certainly seemed to know how to plant flowers and the children were pleased with the results of their work. They are keen to look after them too so hopefully they should look lovely all summer.

Pretty Flowers All In A Row

As well as planting sunflowers to take home, we have been planting in the Nursery garden to brighten it up. Mrs. Alexander kindly gave us four flower pots which inspired us to add to the display in our raised bed. The afternoon children were enthusiastic to join in and help and, as you can see, they made a good job of preparing the soil then choosing which plants they wanted where. Have a look in the garden to see what you think of their hard work.