Christmas – Page 8 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Christmas Celebration

We hope that, like us, you were very proud of all the children as they behaved and sang so beautifully in front of a big audience at our Christmas celebration today. Huge thanks go to Rev. Pickles and Mr. Palmer for joining us and to the many family members who helped to make this a special occasion for the children. Here are a few photos of the morning children as they prepared for their performance. We will post photos of the afternoon children soon.
Click then click again on the photos. You should be able to see lots of the children in the large group.

Christmas Celebration

We hope that you are all looking forward to our Christmas celebration tomorrow, Tuesday 13th December. Morning parents can join us at 11.20 and afternoon parents at 2.20. The Nursery door will be opened for entry through the usual entrance and parents/carers can park in the John Bell car park.
We are keeping our Christmas celebration informal to encourage the children to enjoy a relaxed and happy performance of the songs they have been learning. Rev. Pickles has kindly agreed to join us and we are delighted that many of our families have indicated that they would like to be part of our celebration. As you can see, the children have been practising to make sure that you enjoy their songs. We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Thank You

Our chocolate Christmas shapes were very popular at the Christmas Fayre last night and were sold in no time so well done to all those children who helped to make them. It was lovely to see lots of Nursery children and their families visiting the Fayre and we would like to thank everyone who contributed to the grand total of £2095.24 raised by this event, whether by donating to our hampers, buying squares or attending the Fayre.
The Hecklegirth Fundraisers group has already kindly donated money towards our Christmas party so our sincere thanks go to everyone involved.

Christmas Helper

Harvey’s family enjoyed the photo of him helping to decorate the Nursery Christmas tree:

“Nice to see Harvey helping with the Christmas tree! We already have ours up at home which he loves! 🙂 ”

You certainly made a good job of our tree Harvey so I’m sure your tree at home will be lovely too.

Christmas Fayre

With the school Christmas Fayre tomorrow (Wednesday), we have been making chocolate Christmas shapes to sell on our stall. Discussions about what would happen when we put chocolate in the microwave then the fridge developed the children’s learning about science and we also used numeracy skills to count the squares of chocolate as we prepared our chocolate shapes.
We hope that lots of Nursery children and their families will be able to come to the Christmas Fayre tomorrow from 6.30 until 8.00 in school. We can certainly recommend the chocolate shapes to anyone who has a little money to spend – at 50p a bag we think that they are a tasty buy.

Christmas Hampers

All your kind donations have now been made up into two fantastic hampers which will go to two lucky winners on the evening of the Christmas Fayre (Wednesday 7th December). We think that anyone would be delighted to win such lovely gifts and thank you for your great generosity.
Click on the photos to see what lovely goodies you could win.

Good Work!

Joshua H’s Mum likes the photos of the children decorating the Christmas tree:

“I love how Joshua concentrating on putting the christmas decorations on the tree. Good wee boy, what I love to see.”

She also kindly left a message for all the boys and girls who helped with the tree:

“Good work everyone, it’s looking very good ☺”

We think that they made a lovely job of it too. Well done everyone.

Christmas Has Arrived

Christmas arrived in Nursery on Friday when the Christmas tree appeared and the afternoon children were certainly excited when the Christmas decoration boxes were brought out for them to investigate. As you can see, they made a great job of decorating their tree as did those who painted a stable for a backdrop to our knitted nativity figures.
We think that lots of these children will be a great help when the Christmas decorations come out at home and we hope that everyone enjoys looking at the results of their hard work next week.

Christmas Make and Take

Eileen Johnstone, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has added two more sessions for the Christmas Make and Take activity to help out those who were not available on the original dates. You can also now take part on Tuesday December 13th at 9.00-9.45 or 12.15-1.00. A new grid has been added to the others on top of the trays in the red and blue cloakroom so please feel free to add your name if you have not already chosen a slot.

Biscuit Decorating

On the last day of term Kacey’s Mum kindly brought in Christmas biscuits she had made, along with lots of exciting tubes and little tubs to provide decorations for the biscuits. It was such a lovely activity for the children to join in with on the last day of term and we would like to thank Kacey’s Mum very much for finding the time to make the biscuits and for spending the morning with the children when she no doubt had lots of other jobs to do. Those biscuits looked delicious.