Please remember that tomorrow (19.6.14) is our visit to the cinema to see “Postman Pat”. We will meet you there at 9.15 or 12.45 depending on your session and hope that you’re all looking forward to a lovely time together.
Photo Comments
Carmen’s family have been enjoying the photos of our butterfly artwork and the children visiting Primary 1:
“Carmen enjoyed colouring in her butterfly. I asked her how we could make a large,medium and small butterfly. “She replied, I could draw a medium one and an even smaller one and put them together so they are cuddling each other”.”
“I asked Carmen if she enjoyed going into P1 classroom today? She sayed she loved it and enjoyed listening to the story that Mrs Lindsay read them. She thought Mrs Lindsay was a lovely lady. She did say tho that there wasn’t many toys. Aw!! I’m sure she may pop back into nursery to have a little play.”
We love having little visits from the children when they are in Primary 1 and we’re sure that Carmen will find lots to play with once she’s settled in.
Visits to Primary 1
Mrs. Lindsay and Miss Campbell had more little visitors to their rooms today as lots more children visited their Primary 1 classroom. Playdough, stories, sand, computer games, the train set … they tried out most activities on offer and came back to Nursery very happy. Thank you to Miss Campbell, Mrs. Lindsay and Primary 1 for making everyone feel so welcome. The children are very excited to start in their new classes in August.
Do You Play, Talk and Read With Your Child?
Education Scotland is highlighting the importance of playing, talking and reading with children. Parents, carers and families make a positive difference to a child’s learning and your support can play a vital role at all stages of your child’s education.
The latest PlayTalkRead campaign, including a television advert to be shown during World Cup games, was launched on Father’s Day.
The PlayTalkRead campaign’s summer activity is part of the Scottish Government’s focus on the early years of children’s lives – encouraging and supporting parents and carers to play, talk and read more regularly with their little ones.
For more information and advice for parents and carers to support literacy at home, please visit our link on the right to the Parentzone website or have a look at the PlayTalkRead website at www.playtalkread.org/
Beautiful Bugs
Some super pieces of artwork have been done by the children, inspired by their learning about minibeasts. A wide range of materials was used in Nursery to produce butterflies, caterpillars and ladybirds. The butterflies designed at home also look fantastic and it’s great to see how different they all look. We hope that you enjoy this selection but there are lots more to see on display in Nursery and in the corridor near the school office.
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Primary 1
Miss Campbell kindly invited some of the children to play in her classroom this week so that they could get a feel of where they will be next year. All who went, settled very well and are looking forward to the move to Primary 1. We hope that more children will get the opportunity to visit Primary 1 soon and experience all the great activities that are on offer.
Bring Your Parent To Nursery
All the children love it when a parent or grandparent comes to join in a Nursery session and it’s great that several parents have come in to play in the last week or so. There are still a few weeks left to take the chance to see what the children do in their time in Nursery and everyone is very welcome to stay and play any day. As you can see, it will probably put a huge smile on your child’s face and you will doubtless have great fun too.
Nursery Visitor
Our little visitor from Ace playgroup enjoyed his recent visit to see his sister and her friends. His Mum said:
“Aww it looks like Ben was looked after when he visited! He felt like a big boy visiting his sisters nursery. Ben is really looking forward to starting nursery after the holidays, I’m sure he will settle in just fine. He loves to play in the sand tray most of all!”
It was lovely to have Ben and all the other boys and girls from Ace visiting us. It won’t be long before they are the big Nursery children. We are really looking forward to getting to know you all.
Bye Bye Butterflies
After weeks of watching the progress of our caterpillars who slowly grew and formed their cocoons, we finally saw our beautiful butterflies emerging in their net last week. After a few days of feeding them on sugary water and slices of oranges, it seemed that they were ready to be released and we could think of no better place to set them free than in our outdoor classroom among the trees and flowers.
They seemed to be a little nervous of leaving their safe little home and Miss Kerr had to give them a helping hand to settle on the flowers which gave everyone a chance to have a close look at our little butterflies before they slowly flew off.
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Moving On
Carmen’s Mum enjoyed the photo of one of the children visiting from Ace playgroup:
“Lovely photo of Ben and the big girls. Hope they looked after you Ben? The big girls will be getting very excited to go be going into p1.”
It always seems amazing when this time of year comes round and we are getting to know our new children while preparing to say our good-byes to those moving to Primary 1. It is an exciting time for all the children.
