This week’s Hecklegirth Star Awards go to Ericka and Kelsie from the Sunshine Room and the Rainbow Room’s Caitlin. All these girls have shown themselves to be good friends in their play, showing particular kindness to others so well done to you all. Next week our Health and Wellbeing focus will be on caring so let’s hope we have lots of caring children in Nursery to choose from for Miss Wilson’s award.
Tag: Effective Contributors
Hecklegirth Pizza Parlour
We encourage the children to be as independent as possible in Nursery and this week they have been working well together to make their own snack. Pizzas were on the menu and, as you can see, we have some budding young chefs among us. They made a great job of preparing snack, showing an understanding of hygiene rules and good spreading skills, as well as super teamwork. It seems that the pizzas went down a treat so we look forward to the next cooking delight from the kitchens of Hecklegirth Nursery.
Let us know what you think of the children’s efforts by clicking on the word ‘comments’ underneath the title “Hecklegirth Pizza Parlour”.
Hecklegirth Nursery Stars
This week our Health and Wellbeing focus has been on politeness and manners. We have established our Nursery rules and the children have been asked to try their best to use ‘please’, ‘thank you’ and ‘sorry’ appropriately.
As part of a whole school initiative, Hecklegirth Star Awards will be given by Miss Wilson to children who have demonstrated success in this area of their learning. Our stars this week are Leah from the Sunshine Room (morning) and Jessica from the Rainbow Room (afternoon). Well done to both of you for showing wonderful manners – we’re sure that your families will be very proud of your lovely certificates.
Bye Bye Butterflies
After great anticipation, all our butterflies finally emerged from their cocoons, much to the delight of the children and some parents who have been following their progress. On Monday we were able to release them in the Nursery garden. After a little hesitation, each one flew off to their new life to the happy cheers and waves of the children and staff.
We hope that these photos capture the moment as it was certainly a very exciting and happy one for everyone.
Happy Graduation
Lots of happy, smiling faces greeted our parents on Friday when we held a small graduation ceremony to celebrate the end of our year in Nursery. The children were very excited to sing for their families and they certainly showed themselves to be ‘confident individuals’ and ‘effective contributors’ as they performed their songs and then came individually on to the stage to shake hands and receive their certificates from Miss Wilson. We felt very proud of them all.
Thank you, as always, to all our families for fantastic support in everything we do. The children have been delightful to work with this year and we will miss all those who are moving on.
The Olympic Torch
What an exciting day we had when the Olympic torch came to Annan. Despite rainy weather, lots of us arrived very early in Nursery to go, with the rest of the school, to cheer on the Olympic torch. It was even more exciting because Rohan’s Mummy was the torchbearer who carried it past us. We made sure that we gave her a huge cheer and waved our flags to support her.
After the torch, everyone made their way to the Victoria Hall where we had a snack and enjoyed a “Sticky Kids” show, along with lots of other nurseries. There was a lot of singing along and actions to keep us amused and some children were even invited on to the stage.
The excitement did not end there because the next day Rohan’s Mummy brought in the actual Olympic torch for us to see and hold which was fantastic. We hope that everyone remembers these events in years to come as it was certainly a very special occasion. Well done to Rohan’s Mummy and thank you for bringing in your torch – we all really appreciate it.
Olympikidz
As the Olympic torch made its way towards Annan last week, we had a fun sport session in the hall organised by the Sports Development Officer. “Olympikidz” provided a good taster of several activities and got us in the mood for the Olympic Games. Hurdles, javelin, skipping through hoops and jumping skills were all great fun and it was lovely to have some parents join us as leaders of our teams which were Olympic countries. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this a great experience for our children – we appreciate your help and support.
Jubilee Celebrations
We feel so lucky that the sun shone on our Diamond Jubilee celebrations on Monday. The children looked fantastic in their red, white and blue outfits and some even had their faces painted or Union Jack flags with them too.
The cake decorating was a little messy, as you can see from the photos, but great fun and the teddies seemed to enjoy being in Nursery for the day. We had games in the sunshine and our day was topped off when so many parents came back early to sample the children’s cakes. Thank you, as always, for your support – the children get so excited when they know that their families are coming to see something they’ve done.
We seem to have so many lovely photos of the day and hope that you enjoy our sample below.
Bring Your Teddy to Nursery
We would like to remind you that everyone can bring a teddy to Nursery tomorrow (4.6.12) for our teddy bear’s picnic to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.
Children can wear red/white/blue if they wish and they will be decorating cakes during the session for their picnic. If you would like to pick your child up ten minutes early, you will be able to sample their cakes which we are sure will please the children very much.
Fingers crossed for a sunny day so that we can have some games and our picnic outdoors.
Beautiful Butterflies
There have been some beautiful butterflies appearing in Nursery this week as everyone has been having fun decorating them at home with their families. What a lot of fantastic ideas you all have! Some children used glue and collage materials, some painted or used crayons and one even used his feet to paint his butterfly. If you look carefully in our photos you can also see Suzie’s fantastic butterfly that she painted on the Nursery Promethean board.
The children have been keen to talk about their wonderful creations and we have spent time discussing which ones are the same on each side and which are different.
To add to our excitement of learning about butterflies, a very special parcel arrived today in Nursery. We are now the proud owners of five little caterpillars so we may produce some real butterflies of our own in a few weeks. Please ask the children to keep you posted on their progress.
