Mrs. Irving has been out a walk with her family and left a message for everyone:
“How wonderful the children’s planter looked last night on our daily walk. The bright, vibrant colours of the flowers brought a smile to our faces. Well done everyone!”
That’s great news Mrs. Irving, thank you for keeping an eye on our planter. I wonder if anyone else has been to have a look at it with their families? Please let us know if you have and what your family thought about it.
As you may have noticed in the local paper, we have taken over responsibility for one of the planters on the High Street. Small groups of children have been visiting it and we have made a start in looking after it, recently adding a selection of plants. A new plaque was also added, just prior to our unexpected closure, so we have the Hecklegirth logo in place to help everyone find our planter.
Perhaps some of you could go a walk to find it one day (opposite The Blue Bell Inn) and let us know if the plants are still looking healthy?
On our last day, until further notice, those children who were in Nursery helped to make large rainbows to display in our windows. Maybe you could go a walk with someone from your family to see them, provided you are not in a large group of course? I wonder if you can find rainbows on display anywhere else in our community? We hope that the children’s wonderful bright rainbows provide a little cheer for those passing by.
As we have been unable to continue with our visits to Lydiafield due to the current COVID-19 virus situation, the children have created a selection of artwork to send to the ladies and gentlemen in the hope that they may provide a little cheer at a time when they are not seeing any visitors. We would like to share a little gallery of their Spring flowers and hope that the residents of Lydiafield enjoy the children’s work.
Thanks to Miss Nixon, our children have been enjoying some cosy story times in Annan Academy library. We hope that in time all the children will have the opportunity to enjoy this wonderful experience and would like to thank Miss Nixon for her time and for making us feel so welcome.
After visits to the Technology and Music departments at Annan Academy in the past, our next invitation came from Miss Nixon, the school librarian. As you can see, this little group was very relaxed and happy in the Academy library and thoroughly enjoyed Miss Nixon’s story telling.
Miss Nixon has kindly invited us to visit her on a regular basis for the rest of term so lots of children will have the opportunity to enjoy this super experience. Thank you to the staff at Annan Academy for continuing to make us feel so welcome and, of course, to the children who made us very proud of their behaviour and interaction with the story telling.
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Staff and residents at Lydiafield Care Home made a group of our children very welcome when we went on a return visit on Valentine’s Day. We felt so proud of our children as they chatted to the residents who were delighted to receive their gifts of roses, shortbread hearts and little craft hearts that they had made themselves. We hope that the ladies and gentlemen of Lydiafield enjoyed the visit as much as we did. Thank you very much for inviting us. We hope to see you again soon.
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As a group of our children had been invited on a return visit to Lydiafield for Valentine’s Day, we decided to make a little keepsake for the residents to remember our visit. Sparkles, tissue, glitter and pompoms were very popular as they decorated little hearts to give to the elderly residents. Another group worked hard to produce more than 50 shortbread love hearts, again to be given individually as a little Valentine’s gift. Well done boys and girls for being kind and responsible citizens.
We are all very excited to be given the responsibility of looking after the flower planter outside Bridge House on the High Street. The children will be busy preparing and planting over the coming months.
We would appreciate any donations of bulbs, plants or cuttings. It would also be great if any grown-ups would join us in caring for the planter and share any knowledge they have.
As well as visitors playing bagpipes, we had a drummer in from a local pipe band to help us learn about Scottish culture. Summer’s Dad told us that he started playing the drums when he was just a little boy and that it takes a lot of practice to become good enough to join a pipe band. He was kind enough to allow the children to try out their skills on his drum which many enjoyed. I wonder if we might have some future pipe band members in our Nursery?
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