Confident Individuals – Page 10 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Playground Buddies

As those moving to Primary 1 at Hecklegirth in August are now building relationships with their individual Primary 6 buddies, we have a timetable in place for the children to visit the school playground as well as the infant classrooms. The buddies go with our children on these playground visits to encourage and support them initially in the empty playground and then when the rest of the school is out.
We have already had two visits and Primary 6 showed impressive skills and attitude to ensure that our children had great fun and felt confident in the wider school environment. Thank you Primary 6 for doing such a super job. All the children came back to Nursery from the playground happy and confident. They are looking forward to their next visit when the rest of the school will be out to play with them.

Visits To School

The children who will soon be making the transition to Primary 1 at Hecklegirth have had a recent visit to the infant classrooms to get a taste of school life. As you can see, they settled in well and were confident to try out a range of activities. Thank you to Miss Campbell and Mrs. Mahon for making the Nursery children feel so welcome. They are looking forward to their next visit soon.

Medals And Lollies

Thank you so much to all family and friends who took the time to cheer on the children today in the gorgeous sunshine as they enjoyed their activities on the school field. Thank you also to the group of super buddies who were great helpers and supporters of the children.
We are sure that, like us, you felt very proud of the children as they confidently showed off their skills and great teamwork. We managed to capture photos of some of the children with those well deserved medals and ice lollies as they relaxed back in Nursery after their hard work. We hope that you enjoyed the day as much as we did. Well done boys and girls – you really showed yourselves to be ‘confident individuals’.

Fun Activity Event

The children have been practising their running and jumping skills to prepare for our Fun Activity event tomorrow (Thursday). They have grown in confidence, shown good teamwork and had great fun. We are looking forward to lots of families and friends cheering the children on as they show you what they can do. We hope to bring them on to the field around 9.30 when they will start moving round their activities.
It is quite tricky to get photos of the children practising their activities as they move so quickly but here is a taster of what they will be doing on our Fun Activity event. Fingers crossed that the sun continues to shine tomorrow.

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Puddle Fun

Regardless of weather, most of the children love outdoor play and those in the Rainbow Room particularly enjoy it when the big puddle appears in the outdoor area. Bikes, tyres, balls, scooters … everything is different when used in water and the children love experimenting in this type of environment. Adding bubbles to the puddle adds to the excitement and, as you can see, everyone just has great fun.

Balancing And Jumping

The children’s gross motor skills are one of the areas of focus in outdoor play and this little group of children showed increasing control of balancing and jumping, as well as turn-taking skills, as they enjoyed an obstacle course in the garden. It is great to see their perseverance when activities are challenging but they are determined to try their best.

We Can Make Plastic

We have some enthusiastic little scientists in our Nursery who are always keen to try out experiments, making predictions about what might happen and observing the results of their experiments.
Here some of the children were making plastic. They warmed milk in the microwave, added vinegar and stirred the ingredients until they started to clump together. The children then strained their material and used paper towels to press the liquid out and discovered that they had made plastic. This experiment caused great excitement and was tried out several times to check that it worked each time. The children even moulded the plastic into different shapes which successfully held together. As well as developing their understanding of science, the children developed their numeracy skills as they measured ingredients and read numbers to set the dial on the microwave. Everyone loved this fun learning experience.

More Tractor Fun

As promised, here are photos of some of the children from the Rainbow Room enjoying the tractor visit kindly arranged by Fern’s Daddy. What happy smiles everyone had that day!

Tractor Visit

We had a special treat on the last day of term when Fern’s Daddy, as part of his job, was able to arrange a visit from a huge tractor. Everyone was very excited to sit up high and experience what it must feel like for a farmer to be in charge of a tractor. We were amazed at the size of it especially when we compared ourselves to the height of the wheels. Some were also interested to look at the back of the tractor and talk about what might be attached to the huge hooks.
Thank you so much to Fern’s Daddy for arranging this visit which was a great experience for the children. Thank you also to her Mummy who so kindly helped the children up into the cab. Here are the children from the Raindrop Room having a great time with the tractor. We will post photos of those in the Rainbow Room soon.