Our youngest children, in the Sunshine Room, have been busy in the lead up to Christmas making reindeer food and creating their own fireplace for their role play area. They showed concentration and perseverance as they worked away to produce some great work. The reindeer food will be coming home soon. We hope that Rudolph and his friends enjoy it.
As promised, here are the children in the afternoon enjoying their party and meeting Santa. What a great time they all had.
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A fun time was had by all at our Christmas parties with something for everyone, be it games, dancing or party food. The children looked wonderful in their party outfits and even Stan the Star made an appearance dressed in some festive tinsel. Everyone was delighted to have a visit from Santa, despite it being such a busy time of year for him. Thank you Santa – we all really appreciated your visit.
The photos below give you a taste of our morning party and photos of the afternoon party will follow soon.
As part of our celebration of Hecklegirth’s Gold Sports Award, some of our children enjoyed taking part in a 10 Station Fitness Challenge in the playground on Monday with Primary 1. As you can see, a wide range of activities were on offer and everyone had fun having a go at lots of different experiences. Thanks go to all those who helped the children to have a great afternoon.
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.
Sparklers are a great way to learn about staying safe on Bonfire Night and the children listened well to all our instructions when we enjoyed them in the Nursery garden on Monday. We talked about how to behave, who is allowed to light fireworks and all learned about putting the sparkler in water once it was finished.
Some were more cautious than others but everyone was happy to hold a sparkler so well done boys and girls for being confident to try out something that was new to many. Here is a gallery of some of the morning children busy with their sparklers. We will post some of the afternoon children soon.
Witches, skeletons and a few superheroes arrived in Nursery yesterday for Hallowe’en. Thank you to all those who helped their children play the part – here are some photos we managed to capture of some of their super outfits. Watch out for photos in the local press too.
In the last week of term some of the children enjoyed a session with tennis coach Mike who provided a range of fun activities to help the children learn control of a tennis ball. There are classes for Nursery age children at our local tennis courts so we hope that these children have enjoyed their experience and may want to take part in these classes in the future. They certainly showed great enthusiasm for all the activities.
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We hope that today’s meeting about the new Nursery meal menu and taster session was helpful. Thank you to those who attended, providing an audience for the children who had been learning some Autumn songs. We really appreciate your support and we hope that you enjoyed their performance as much as they seemed to. One of our aims is to develop ‘confident individuals’ and many of our children showed themselves to be exactly that in performing in front of a large audience. Well done girls and boys!
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One afternoon recently we decided to make apple crumble as we were given a gift of a big bag of apples. The children were able to learn about the importance of hygiene and safety in the kitchen, fine motor control, counting and chopping skills, using the technology of a microwave and the effect of heat on the apples.
Here are some of the children demonstrating their skills. I wonder if they might try to make crumble at home now that they have learned what to do?
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