This group in the Raindrop Room recently developed their baking skills by making a Swiss roll. As you can see, a lot of care was required, for example when cracking eggs, weighing ingredients and using the food mixer, but they proved themselves to be ready for the challenge and produced a wonderful, tasty end product.
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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Confidence in the kitchen is growing in our children as they increasingly prepare foods and enjoy baking which provides great opportunities to develop their skills in Numeracy and Mathematics as well as Sciences and Technologies. This little group recently made chocolate cornflake cakes, showing great independence and responsibility.
Alex’s family has been looking at the photos of the children in their Chinese dragon parade:
“Alex loved banging the drum and being the leader!”
Alex was a super leader of our band and showed great confidence to lead the parade in school. Well done Alex!
As part of their learning about Chinese New Year the Rainbow Room children spent some time watching clips of Chinese dragon dances as part of the celebrations. They enjoyed dancing to the music and comparing the different styles of dragons which led to them creating their own dragons in the art and craft area.
Having learned that red and gold are the lucky colours of Chinese New Year, they set off with great enthusiasm to create their own dragons and we think that they made a super job of it. So impressive were their efforts and enthusiasm that they did a parade, led by their own little band and some background Chinese music, along the school corridor to visit the classrooms on the ground floor. Great confidence was shown by the children on this visit and pupils and staff in school were so welcoming and delighted to see us which led to Mr. Palmer inviting them to perform at the whole school assembly.
What a wonderful conclusion to our learning about Chinese New Year to perform in a parade in front of the whole school! Despite a few nerves, all the children made us very proud as they paraded right round the school hall in front of a very large audience. Chinese New Year was certainly a fantastic celebration for these children.
Our Hecklegirth Nursery Peep group has been meeting for a few weeks now. We are following the Communication and Language learning together course. So far we have practised our listening skills, followed instructions to make play dough, had ‘puppet conversations’ and taken resources home to make our own puppets. Thank you to Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, for planning such fun activities.
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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Tilly’s family has been looking at our activities based around Burns Day:
“Tilly had a fantastic Burn’s Week in nursery, she has never stopped talking about it and tasting the ‘Spanish’ food apparently!!! She has been showing us and her nana and papa her highland dancing skills!!”
It’s great to hear that Tilly has been talking about her learning at home. Well done with the dancing Tilly!
As the school hall is available to us again for a Friday session, we are providing the opportunity for the children to develop their gymnastics skills. Initially the children in the Rainbow Room will be enjoying this experience then later in the term those in the Raindrop Room will spend a few weeks having weekly visits. This gallery shows the children getting back in the swing of some fun activities.
Some of our children enjoyed a performance on Friday by a harpist and a saxophonist in the school hall. This was a wonderful opportunity for them to hear a performance by very talented musicians and we would like to thank Oliver and Hugh for this fantastic experience. Your performance had a genuine impact on our children.
