Hecklegirth Nursery

Star Award Winners

Last week our Health and Wellbeing focus was on politeness and manners. We have now established our Nursery rules and the children have been asked to try their best to use ‘please’, ‘thank you’ and ’sorry’ appropriately.
As part of a whole school award system linked to our Health and Wellbeing curriculum, Hecklegirth Star Awards will be given to children who have demonstrated success in this area of their learning. Well done to our first award winners who showed wonderful manners and consideration towards others. We feel sure that your families must be very proud of you.

Let’s Think About Our Rules

Now that we are settling into Nursery life, we have been talking about the need to have rules. We read stories about sharing and what happens when we have no rules then the children gave their suggestions about what our rules should be.

Dan: sharing and being nice ’cause it makes people happy.
Oscar: don’t shout ’cause you get sore ears.
Zachary: don’t run or you’ll get hurt.
Riley: no crying.
Freya: no pushing ’cause you might fall in the garden.
Reagyn: no hitting.
Sophie S.: don’t run – you’ll hurt your face.
Amy-Leigh: be nice and play together.
Tom: always wash your hands before snack.
William: be friends.
Ava W.: use your listening ears.

The children did come up with some very good ideas. Our rules are now on display in the Nursery and cloakroom areas. You could ask the children to tell you what they are. I wonder who will remember them?

Carmen Enjoys Gardening

Carmen seems to have enjoyed digging up the vegetables last week. Her Mum commented on her photo:

“Carmen sayed she loved getting her hands dirty”

She certainly does look very busy in the garden.

Hecklegirth Harvest

Last week we lifted the last of our vegetables from the raised beds in the garden. This was the result of a super Family Learning project we did last term. Even although some of the children were not involved at the start of this project, they were still very enthusiastic to see which vegetables they could find in the beds. They worked hard to lift potatoes, courgettes, carrots, onions and beetroot and little groups showed great confidence to take their wheelbarrows to show all the older children in school. Mrs. Alexander was also impressed with their harvest when she met them on their travels round the school.
Well done children for all your hard work and thank you to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for her hard work. Those new to Nursery will be hearing about some of Eileen’s activities later this term and we hope that lots of you will join in with your children.

Parents Past and Present

Today we have had comments from parents past and present. It’s lovely that Jaylin’s Mum has got back in touch with us and we hope that Jaylin is settling in well to Primary 1:

“Just looking back threw the blog, good work Jaylin she loved her time at nursery.”

As one of our new parents, Liam’s Mum has also been visiting our blog:

“Liam has loved his first 2 weeks at Hecklegirth Nursery. Looking forward to seeing him develop over the next year”

We hope that Liam continues to enjoy Nursery. Thank you for taking the time to add a comment and be part of our blog.

Welcome Miss Murray

Today children in the Sunshine Room met Miss Leigh-Ann Murray who is on placement with us as a teaching student from the University of Glasgow, Dumfries Campus. Miss Murray will be based in the Sunshine Room for the next three weeks and is looking forward to working with the children. We hope that she has a happy time at Hecklegirth Nursery.

Sophie’s Having Fun

Thank you to Sophie’s family for taking time to comment on one of our photos:

“sophie has had great fun here she loves playing with water and sand, she is really enjoying nursery.”

We are glad that Sophie is enjoying Nursery. She certainly had fun with this activity.

A Mud Park For Dogs

Last week saw many of the children investigating the digging area in the garden for the first time. This is a place where the children often show super imagination in developing their ideas. This little group transformed a patch of soil and some rainwater into a “mud park for dogs”, using stones, mud and some bits of wood, showing good teamwork and communication skills. Perhaps we have some engineers of the future here?
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Staff Pictures

Some of the children in the Rainbow Room have drawn pictures of the staff to illustrate their “Thinking Book”. We are sure you recognise us from these wonderful pictures. Well done Bethany and Kailey!

Confident Individuals

We hope that everyone has enjoyed their first week in Nursery. We have certainly had a great week getting to know all the new children and are delighted with the way in which they have settled. Two more parents have posted comments:

“Pleased to see the children appear to be settling well!!!!!!”

“Just to say thanks for a fantastic first week at nursery! My child has really enjoyed it and seems to be settling in well!”

Thank you to all our parents for working with us to ensure a smooth and happy start for the children. One of our aims is for the children to become ‘confident individuals’ and many are certainly showing quiet confidence already. We look forward to seeing you all again next week.