Sophie’s Mum has been looking at the super Star Award winners with their certificates:
“Well done to all kids for receiving Star Awards this week. Very proud of my little girl – Sophie ;-)”
Family Comments
It’s good to know that our families are enjoying visiting our blog. Teigan was pleased to see her photo with her favourite teddy:
“I love pinky, Ive had her since I was born”.
We loved meeting Pinky too so thanks for bringing her to Nursery Teigan.
Carmen has also been talking to her Mum about our new furniture:
“Carmen told me the nursery got table and chairs and a bed. I asked her what was her favourite she replied the table and chairs. I asked her why? She replied because they have coloured seats and my favourite is the red one.”
We are all very pleased with our new furniture too. We think that the children made a very good decision on how to spend their donation.
Real Life Decision Making
The children have had some big decisions to make recently as we had the wonderful problem of deciding what to buy with a very generous donation from a kind grandparent.
They were given three choices of how to spend the money and, after a discussion about each, all the children voted for their favourite. As you can see from the photos, each child added their vote to the graph and watched carefully to see which option came out the winner. Although it was a close vote, the winning choice was for a bed, table and chairs for the role play area. There was great excitement when the parcels arrived and some of the children did a super job of helping us put our new furniture together. As you can see, they are all delighted with their choice and experienced lots of valuable learning along the way.
Children and staff are extremely grateful for this donation from a very kind and generous grandparent. The children are already having great fun with the additions to our role play area and will continue to do so for many years to come.
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Well Done Rebecca
Rebecca’s Mum has made a comment on her photo:
“Well done to our Rebecca, we are glad that she has made friends”
We hope that you are proud of your certificate Rebecca because you certainly deserved it for being a super friend.
Fantastic Friendships
Our Health and Wellbeing focus last week was on friendships and Mrs. MacIntyre was delighted to visit Nursery on Monday to present four children with Star Awards for showing particular kindness and consideration towards their friends. Well done all of you. You are fantastic friends.
Garden Fun
Freya’s Mum has commented on one of our recent photos:
“Freya had a great day in the Nursery garden. Freya is really enjoying all aspects of the nursery and looks forward to going each day.”
Everyone seemed to enjoy digging up the vegetables and it was such a lovely sunny day to spend in the garden. It’s great to hear that Freya’s enjoying Nursery. Thank you for taking time to visit our blog and to make a comment.
Care Inspection Report
In June the Nursery had an unannounced inspection by the Care Inspector (SCSWIS) and the results of that inspection have now been published.
We are delighted to report that we were graded as “very good” in all four areas of inspection which covered the quality of
• care and support
• environment
• staffing
• management and leadership
As you can imagine, we are delighted to receive this positive report and will use it as a stepping stone to further develop our Nursery.
If you would like to read the full report please click on the link on the right entitled Care Inspection Report where you will be able to download it.
Daphne’s Day In Nursery
Carmen’s Mum left a comment on her photo with Daphne bear:
“Carmen was very excited to be taking Daphne bear in to Nursery to see all her friends. She told me that Daphne was a good bear that day . She also told me that she would like to have another day where she could take another teddy.. Please!”
We’re glad to hear that Daphne enjoyed herself. We will keep in mind that Carmen has a few teddies she would like to bring to Nursery. I wonder if anyone else would like to do this another day?
Bring A Bear Day
We had some very special visitors to the Sunshine Room one day last week as Miss Murray asked the children to bring in their favourite bears as part of a Listening and Talking activity. The children were excited to tell us about their bears and the bears certainly seemed to enjoy their time in Nursery.
We thought that you would enjoy some of the children’s comments and photos of our special visitors.
Deryn: it’s Gizmo. I got it on holiday.
Ava: it’s George. He’s on the tele’. He stays on my bed.
Logan: Barney sleeps on my bed. We’ve got bunk beds. I like him ’cause he can dance.
William: his name’s Patch because he’s got his name on his collar. He can do flips.
Robbie: I love her. She’s called Sky.
Roxy: I love her ’cause I can cuddle her. She’s called Lucy and she’s got glasses, clothes and a hat.
Fearne: he’s Neville. He sleeps in my bed and plays with me in the morning. He sits on my pillow.
Rebecca: I got it when I was a baby. I cuddle up with it in my bed.
Star Comments
Our two Star Award winners have received lovely comments from their families this week:
“We are really proud of Sophie for gaining a star award at Nursery and it really nice that her good friend Ava got one with her, FANTASTIC work girls, keep up the good manners!
Sophie is loving Hecklegirth nursery and its lovely to hear all about her morning when she get home, thanks so much to the staff for making her so welcome.”
“Well done Ava and Sophie for gaining the Star Awards, it’s lovely to hear your child is being polite and showing lovely manners towards others. Keep up the good work girls.
Ava is loving her time at Hecklegirth Nursery and is settling in well with the teachers and other children.”
Well done Sophie and Ava for making your families so proud of you. I wonder who will be Star Award winners next week?
