Some of our families have been looking at the photos of our Christmas parties:
“It was lovely that we were invited to see Santa deliver the presents. Sophie loved her book, we often borrow it from the Library so its nice to have our own copy now, thank you very much!”
“Charlie had a great day! I don’t think he suspected Santa! Haha xxx”
We hope that everyone enjoyed their day.
Our learning at the start of this term is focussed on the signs of winter and how it affects our lives. As a starting point we have been talking about how we know it’s winter. This has also encouraged the children to think about the recent flooding that has featured on the news and which some have experienced in Annan. We would like to share some of the children’s ideas about winter.
Carmen: it’s winter ’cause it’s colder and the grass turns in to snow. The trees have lost their leaves because the snow’s too strong to make them stay on.
Roxy: it’s winter because we’re learning about it. It’s cold and sometimes it’s snowing and we get Jack Frost.
Deryn: the pond gets frozen and you can skate on it.
Tom: it’s cold and we need hats and gloves.
Reagyn: Jack Frost makes ice. He normally comes to life and if water’s there he makes it alive.
Lexi: you get nice and warm in a jacket ’cause it’s winter.
Rebecca: you need gloves and a scarf when it’s winter.
Fearne: you need coats ’cause it’s cold.
Jade: I like winter ’cause it’s snow. The snow falls all down.
Jessica W: you get wind and rain too in winter.
Logan: there was a big flood at the harbour and a ball went swimming in it.
Conan: you need to rescue people when it’s all flooding.
William: a flood is very high water that goes up in the clouds after a while.
We would like to remind you that enrolment for pupils due to start Primary 1 in August 2014 will be on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th January 2014 between 2.00 and 3.30p.m. at your child’s catchment school. If you wish your child to attend a school other than his/her catchment school, there is an option to make this request on the enrolment form.
When enrolling their child, parents should bring with them their son/daughter’s birth certificate and proof of address, e.g. a utility bill or bank statement.
Those of you who were in Nursery last year will hopefully remember the carrots that you planted. Lewis obviously looked after his crop well as his family has left us this message:
“Lewis and I have just been harvested the carrots which we planted in March. What a lot of lovely carrots of all shapes and sizes. We are going to try them tomorrow at our second Christmas dinner now that Grandad is home from work at last.”
We hope that you all enjoy your second Christmas dinner especially those tasty carrots. Well done for looking after them so well.
Our new term starts on Monday 6th January when we look forward to seeing everyone again. We will also be meeting lots of new children and feel sure that you will make them feel welcome in our Nursery. They will be excited to be starting Nursery and looking forward to making new friends so we hope that this is the beginning of a happy experience for them.
We have made a slight change to our staffing arrangements this term. Mrs. Kirkpatrick will now be based in the Sunshine Room every afternoon although she and Mrs. Carruthers will continue to do alternate weeks in each room in the mornings. Miss Awde will return to the Rainbow Room this term and is looking forward to working closely with the Rainbow children again.
We hope that you enjoy the rest of your holiday and look forward to seeing you all on Monday.
The afternoon children got in the party spirit just as much as the morning children and here are the photos that show it. As you can see, they joined in the dancing and games with great enthusiasm and were also lucky enough to get a visit from Santa. As with the photos of the morning children, please click then click again to make the photos clearer.
There was plenty of music, games, dancing and party food at our Christmas parties which made for a fun time for all. The children had planned their games and helped to make some of the cakes which appeared to go down a treat. It was lovely to see the children from the Rainbow and Sunshine Rooms playing so happily and confidently together. It must have been the children’s super behaviour that brought the arrival of Santa despite his heavy workload at the moment. Thank you Santa – we all really appreciated your visit.
The photos below give you a taste of our morning party. Don’t they look wonderful in their party clothes? Photos of the afternoon party will follow soon.
Thank you to Rebecca’s Mum for her comment on one of the photos of the children’s singing this week:
“They look fair happy, what a good singing they all did”
It was lovely to see them happy and relaxed to perform. We also had great fun at our parties yesterday and hope to get photos up in the next few days for you all to see.
As promised, we have some photos of the children as they prepared for our Christmas celebration with their families. We hope that, like us, you were very proud of them all as they behaved and sang so beautifully in front of a big audience. Huge thanks to Rev. McGougan for joining us and to all the family members who helped to make this a special occasion for the children.
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Sophie’s Mum enjoyed the photos of the children making cakes for their party:
“sophie.s looks like shes having loads of fun here she loves making cakes she helps mum at home with fairy cakes we will be making some on xmas eve”
I wonder if you’ll leave one of your cakes for Santa Sophie?
