We hope that lots of our children will take part in this week’s competition to decorate a hard boiled egg. Entries can be brought in to Nursery on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd April to add to the whole school display. There will be prizes for the best egg in various groups and ours will be in the Nursery and Primary 1 section. Adults have their own section so the grown ups in your family can have a go too. Have fun decorating your eggs everyone – we look forward to seeing them soon.
Story And Rhyme
Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, sent us these photos of her last Family Learning story and rhyme session on Thursday. Next term we will be doing PEEP, there will still be stories and rhymes but we will also be doing craft and play activities. More information has been sent out in the children’s trays and we hope that lots of you will be able to join in Eileen’s activities.
Word Of The Week
The Rainbow Room will be focussing on ‘senses’ as their “Word of the Week” this week while the Raindrop Room will have ‘Easter’ as their special word.
Police Station Take Two
Just as with the Raindrop Room, the children from the Rainbow Room made us very proud with their super behaviour and good listening on their recent visit to the police station. We hope that the children remember the message from P.C. Leggett that police officers are people who can help them.
Thank you again to all those parents who made our trip out possible. You helped the children to have a great experience.
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Open Day
After our recent visit to the fire station, staff were keen to invite our families to their upcoming Open Day. Please click on the link for details. We hope that lots of you are able to enjoy this family fun event.
Police Station
This week’s visit to the police station was a great learning experience. We were shown round the cells as well as the rooms in the police station used for interviews and fingerprinting and we found out what happens when someone is brought in to the police station. Some of the children tried out the hard beds and, although they thought it was great fun to try them out, most agreed that they would not like to sleep there.
The police van, of course, was very popular and most had a turn at sitting in the front and the back of the van. The blue light and siren caused great excitement although some had to cover their ears, the noise was so loud.
Thank you to all the parents who came with us on this visit – we appreciate your support. Thank you also to P.C. Leggett for making us feel so welcome. These photos provide a taste of the Raindrop Room visit. We will post photos of the Rainbow Room visit soon.
Fire Hose
Ellie’s family has been looking at the photos of our visit to the fire station last week:
“Ellie loved using the fireman’s water hose. She helps her dad use his to wash his van too.”
The hose was certainly very popular and the children had great fun trying to knock down the bin with the water.
What Did We Learn?
The children have been talking about their experiences at the fire station. These were some of their comments when looking at our photos of the fire engine.
Parker: I was blowing the fire out with a hose. The fire engine is red. It’s big.
Freddie: the hose gets the fire away. They flush it away.
Alex W.: I went in the fire engine. I wore a helmet and used a hose. Water came out then Zack wanted a go.
Lewis: I had a turn of squirting the hose. I sitted on the fire truck.
Emilia H.: I was sitting in the back.
Euan: I went inside the fire engine. Water came out the hose to put the fire out.
Jessica: it’s hot fire.
Danielle: I’m watering the fire.
Emily M.: I went in the fire engine and sprayed the hose.
The children also talked about the road safety learning on our visit.
Letti: we learned to look about where the cars are and to walk on the pavement.
Nancy: I was a lollipop lady. I helped people to cross the road so Filip could ride his bike to school.
Arthur: the lollipop lady stops the cars to cross the road.
Tom: we were playing cars and bikes and buses. I played a lollipop man. Stopped the cars. Freddie was there. Stop, keep your eyes open, keep your ears open, think with your brains.
Jake: be safe. Look with the eyes. If cars coming stop, listen, cross at the man.
Tiana-Rose: I walk with Mum. Hold hands on the pavement. Wait before you cross. Cross at lollipop man.
Lewis: Stop! Cross at the lollipop man, look both ways and think. Hear with your ears.
It certainly sounds like lots of good listening has been happening on our visit.
