Evelyn’s family enjoyed the photos of the children decorating our Christmas tree:
“Aww. Evelyn loves decorating for Christmas. Done a lovely job at home. xx “
It’s great to hear that you are helping out at home Evelyn.
Christmas Is Here
Christmas arrived on Friday afternoon in Nursery when the Christmas tree appeared and the children worked together to decorate it. Well done boys and girls – we think that you did a super job.
Christmas Post Box
The Christmas post box is in place in Nursery near the tree. If your child wants to give out Christmas cards to friends, they can post them here and we will make sure that they are distributed in their trays.
Ten Station Fitness Challenge
To celebrate Hecklegirth’s achievement, the school will be presented with a Gold Sports Award by a representative of Sport Scotland tomorrow, Monday 3rd December. The whole school will then be having an afternoon of fun sports activities to celebrate our achievement.
As part of this, afternoon Nursery children will take part in a Ten Station Fitness Challenge in the playground with Primary 1. We would ask that children come with warm clothes and coats as we will all be going outdoors to take part. Let’s hope that the rain stays away to help us have a fun time with Primary 1.
Word Of The Week
Our “Word of the Week” was this week will be “church” as we begin to talk about our Christmas performance to our families.
Huge Congratulations
Huge congratulations to the three award winners from last week. You certainly deserved those certificates.
Well Done Hecklegirth
We have received a comment from one of our Dumfries and Galloway RAiSE team on our investigation of the ice we found in our garden recently:
“Well done Heckegirth. True STEM learning in action. Love it!
Regards
Carol Moyes
RAiSE Teacher”
Thank you for showing an interest in our activities. The changing seasons always seem to bring great opportunities for developing learning outdoors.
What Are Schemas?
Parents and practitioners working with young children are often puzzled by some of
their children’s actions.
Why do some children have a fascination with running water and flood the
bathroom?
Have you ever given a present to a child and noticed he/she is more interested in
the box rather than the toy?
Have you ever noticed a child painting themselves or other people?
Have you ever noticed a child paint or draw a lovely picture then cover it
completely in paint?
A schema is seen to be a pattern a child demonstrates through their actions, language or play. While a child may play with a variety of toys, a pattern may link these seemingly disassociated activities. Schemas indicate the child’s focus in an activity. By identifying a child’s schema we can plan learning in ways that most interest them. We form our schemas during childhood as a way to make sense out of our world.
To read more, click on the link below to learn a little more about your child’s behaviour. This short but informative document has also been added to our blog on the right hand side under “Support Information”. We hope that you find it useful.
Freezing And Melting
This week saw the first signs of winter appearing in our outdoor area and some of the children were very excited to discover ice in a tub. What better way to learn about melting than to see it happening before your eyes? The children certainly showed that they were beginning to think about what was happening.
“It’s so cold.”
“We found hard ice.”
“It makes my gloves go wet.”
“It disappears away.”
“You go so fast on the slide when there’s ice.”
“It feels slippy and hard.”
“It’s sometimes water too.”
No doubt Jack Frost will provide lots more opportunities to learn about freezing and melting over the next few months.
Rhyme And Story Time
Tomorrow is Tuesday so it must be time for our Rhyme and Story Family Learning session again. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has been enjoying working with some of our families and would be happy to have more join her at 9.00 or 12.15 each Tuesday. Here is a little snapshot of the activities they enjoyed the last time they met.
