Paint, pens and paper are well used in Nursery and lots of children have been enjoying experimenting with art activities in their first couple of week with us, both indoors and out. Here is a selection of some of their work. Many more pictures have gone home so no doubt they will be decorating your fridges and walls. Click then click again on a photo to make it bigger and see the artist’s name. I wonder if any of the children can find their own work?
Thank you to all those who have completed their permission forms. We really appreciate it. Now that we have permission from lots our families we can share more photos of the children’s first couple of days of play.
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It was great today to see some familiar faces from last year and lovely to begin to get to know our new children and their families.
We are able to share some photos here of the children at play on their first day. Once we have the blog permission slips returned from everyone, we will able to share more photos and examples of the children’s work here. We hope that you will find this a valuable insight into the life of our Nursery and that you can use the blog to add comments about your child’s experience.
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Thank you to all our parents for working with us to provide a smooth and happy start for the children.
Role play develops children’s social skills, creativity and imagination. It provides opportunities to play out events that they have observed or experienced in real life and to express their feelings and ideas in a relaxed environment. They can apply and practise life skills as well as develop their literacy and numeracy skills in so many contexts in the role play area. Here is a little gallery of the various roles the children have taken on in our role play area – don’t they look the part so busy in their play?
As promised, here is a selection of photos of the afternoon children at their graduation ceremony yesterday. Just like the morning children, they made us feel very proud of them all. Photos of our award winners will follow soon. We hope that you enjoyed our end of year celebration and would like to thank all our families who have provided such wonderful support.
We were all so proud of the children at our graduation ceremony today as they sang and danced to celebrate their year in Nursery. They showed great confidence to perform to their families and then to walk on stage on their own to shake hands and receive their certificates.
Thank you to Mr. Palmer for taking time to present the children with their awards and for being so patient to pose with each child so that a precious family photo could be taken. Thank you also to all the family and friends who attended our little ceremony and for your support throughout the year.
Here is a gallery of the morning children. I will put photos of the afternoon children on as soon as possible.
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As a final activity in our Multicultural Week we visited the nature area to add our beautifully decorated stones to the whole school display. It was lovely to see the designs that everyone else had created and the children discussed which ones they liked best. We hope you agree that this makes a super display to represent our school community.
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Armed with our passport, the afternoon children headed off to Italy yesterday. It was situated in the Primary 3 classroom for our Multicultural Week and the children of P3 entertained us with a wonderful number song in Italian and some interesting facts about Italy. They then kindly helped our children to design their own pizza from craft materials which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you to Primary 3 for inviting us to Italy and for stamping our passport.
We had to make a speedy return journey to Nursery (also known as India for this week’s activities) as Primary 2 were travelling our way. Just like the Nursery children, they seemed to enjoy our experiences of India as they designed mehndi hands, tasted different Indian foods and dressed up in authentic Indian clothes to perform a traditional dance. Thank you Primary 2 for taking part so enthusiastically in our activities. We loved having you to visit and hope that your short stay in India was a good one.
The children who recently brought stones to Nursery as part of our Multicultural Week activities have started to paint them today. It’s not too late to bring a stone in if you would like to be part of the whole school display in the nature area at the end of the week. We think that these first stones look super and hope that lots more children join in with this activity. I wonder if anyone can spot their own stone here?
Noah’s family has been admiring some of his art work:
“Lovely sunflowers Noah! We love watching our sunflower grow at home, thank you!”
We loved that you drew your sunflowers using pen Noah – super work! I wonder how everyone’s sunflower is getting on now? I hope that you’re all looking after them.
