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Annan Academy Visit

After experimenting with full sized musical instruments recently in the Rainbow Room, where lots of little bands were formed, the music department at Annan Academy kindly invited small groups to visit their music room to learn more about a range of different instruments. As you can see, this was a great experience and we would like to thank Mr. Brand and his pupils very much for their patience and time on our visits. We know that some of the children have now put trumpets and drums on their Santa list so they may well be experts by the time they reach Annan Academy as pupils.

Learning With Chocolate

The children in the Rainbow Room have been making chocolate shapes to sell as a little enterprise project. Initially a group of children went shopping to buy the ingredients, helping them to understand the purpose of money. Back at Nursery, discussions about what would happen when we put chocolate in the microwave then the fridge provided the opportunity to develop the children’s science learning and they also used numeracy skills to count the squares of chocolate when preparing their chocolate shapes. Of course there was also the opportunity for a little tasting as some of the children enjoyed the age old tradition of “cleaning” the bowl at the end.
We can certainly recommend the chocolate shapes to anyone who has a little money to spare – at 50p a bag we think that they are a tasty buy so watch out for the children’s basket of shapes in Nursery.

Staying Safe

We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr. Irving from the fire service who came in on Guy Fawkes Day to talk to the children about his job and staying safe near fire. He very kindly brought the fire car along with him and some little uniforms for the children to try out so they certainly had an exciting morning. We were pleased to hear that Mr. Irving was impressed with the children’s knowledge about safety. I wonder if they can tell their families at home about how to stay safe near fire?

Hairdressing

As we had a hairdresser’s salon in our role play area, we thought that it would be a good idea to invite a hairdresser in to talk about her job. Fortunately for us, Layla’s auntie kindly offered to come and show us what a hairdresser does. We found out how she learned to be a hairdresser and that she started out using a doll’s head like we had in our area. Lucky Layla even got a haircut in Nursery so that we could see how she works. Thank you so much to Layla’s auntie for coming in to see us. We think that we may have a few budding hairdressers in our midst after your visit.

Joy And Happiness

Mrs. Irving has been looking at the photos of the children who went to the Friendship Club on Monday:

“I was so proud of our children bringing joy and happiness to the lives of the older people at the Friendship Club as they entertained and chatted! Well done to you all.”

The children were so well behaved and polite. They were certainly a credit to our Nursery.

Friendship Club

The Old Parish Church hall was the venue on Monday of a visit by a group of our children to entertain the ladies and gentlemen of the Friendship Club. The children showed great maturity and confidence in an unfamiliar situation, individually introducing themselves on stage and performing a few favourite songs to a delighted audience. It was lovely to see our children chatting to everyone after their performance and to see two generations together. Thank you to everyone at the Friendship Club for your warm welcome, your kind applause and, of course, for the delicious snack of ice-cream and strawberries which was a lovely treat. This was a great opportunity for the children to perform to an audience and we appreciate your kind invitation. We hope to see you again in the future.