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Bike Art Prizewinners

Mr. Palmer has a message for everyone about the Bike Art Competition.

Good afternoon everyone. Well done for all your Bike Art entries this week as part of our Big Pedal Competition. I was very impressed with all the entries. There were some really creative finished bikes using a wide variety of materials and household items. It was nice to see lots of you ride your bikes as well. It was a very difficult decision to decide a winner and runner up so I asked my children to help me. The winner for the Nursery and P1 competition is Emilia Baxter from P1. The runner up is Jasmin and her sister Freya from P1/2 and the Nursery. Well done girls. We will get your prizes to you as soon as we can. The winning entries will be shown on the School App shortly.

Congratulations from everyone in the Nursery too and well done all those who participated.

Bike Art Competition

We would like to remind you that today, Friday 1st May, is the last day to enter Mr. Palmer’s Bike Art competition. The challenge, if you want to take part, is to create your own ‘Bike Art’. You can use any materials from your home (ask a parent/carer to help you) to design your own special bike.

Please send your competition entry in as a picture to the school office on gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or email Mr. Palmer on gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday 1st May.
We are looking forward to seeing all your finished entries. There will be a winner and runner up prize for Nursery-P1, P2-P4 and P5-7.

Sing Along With Mrs. Irving

To help you learn our “Rhyme of the Week”, Mrs. Irving has recorded Hickory Dickory Dock for us on her accordion. We hope that you all enjoy singing along with her.

National Superheroes Day

Today, 28th April, is National Superheroes Day and there are certainly plenty superheroes supporting our communities in current difficult times.
Why not discuss with your children who they think are the superheroes in our community? They could choose which superhero they would like to say ‘thank you’ to and make a mask to represent them. They may even have something at home that they could use as a cape? Have fun turning into superheroes everyone.

Bike Art Competition

We have a message below for Mr. Palmer who is setting you a challenge. We are looking forward to seeing what you all do. Have fun!

Morning everyone.

This would normally be the Big Pedal fortnight if we were at school and nursery. The playground would start to fill up with bikes and scooters with more of you travelling to nursery that way. We would have a ‘Skills day’ with Annan Cycling Club and Katie and a Cycling breakfast too. I hope many of you are still managing to get out on your bike and scooter, either in the garden or out on family bike rides.

As we can’t be at nursery for the Big Pedal we are going to have a cycling related competition from home instead this week. The challenge if you want to take part is to create your own ‘Bike Art’. You can use any materials from your home (ask a parent/carer to help you) to design your own special bike.

To help you with ideas go to the following link:

Indoor Ideas

You will see Katie, our local Ibike officer for Dumfries and Galloway explaining how to make Bike Art.

Please send your competition entry in as a picture to the school office on gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or email me on gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday 1st May.

I’m looking forward to seeing all your finished entries. There will be a winner and runner up prize for Nursery-P1, P2-P4 and P5-7. Katie has kindly donated some t-shirts and water bottles for prizes.

There are plenty of other bike related ideas that we can do at home on https://ibike.sustrans.org.uk/indoor-ideas/ and they change each week so go and have a look.

Have a good week everyone.

Mr Palmer

Can You Make A Rainbow?

Lots of families have been drawing beautiful rainbows and displaying them in their windows, just like we did in Nursery on our last day.
Why not make a rainbow in a different way? You could collect stones from your garden or on a family walk then colour them using paint or pens in lots of different colours and make your own rainbow in the garden using your decorated stones. You could make an arc of colours or pile them up to make a rainbow stack? That would look so bright and beautiful, it would make everyone feel happy when they saw it.
I wonder how many stones you would need to make a rainbow? Have a count once your rainbow is made and see how many you used. Have a think about if you used the same number of each colour.

Sing Along With Mrs. Irving

Mrs. Irving and her son have done a little rendition of Humpty Dumpty for you all to sing along to. She has not played the accordion for many years but thought that she would give it a try. We think that you have done a brilliant job Mrs. Irving and hope that everyone enjoys this little clip.

Click on the video below to see her clip from home.

Rhyme Of The Week

As we have said previously, singing songs and rhymes together is very important for children’s development so we will continue to share a suggested “Rhyme of the Week” here although the more rhymes the children enjoy, the better.

This week’s rhyme is “Humpty Dumpty”. We hope that you all enjoy singing along to this clip. Simply refresh our page to watch it again.

We think that Humpty Dumpty looks happy with his bandages on. I wonder if you could try to draw him at home? Will you draw him before or after his big fall?

How Does Music Make You Feel?

Towards the end of last term the children in the Raindrop Room were talking about their feelings and they discussed how music makes them feel. We would like to share some of their thoughts.

Summer: it makes me happy. My Mum cleans the house up with Alexa.
Lola: it makes me happy ’cause I go to sleep.
Kara: it makes me happy because it sounds nice. I like piano music.
Mason: we love music – “We Will We Will Rock You” and “Riding Riding Shotgun”.
Barclay: it makes me happy ’cause we can dance.
Violeta: I like “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, it makes me happy.
Kyla: it makes me happy. I like “Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star”.
Cooper: music’s good. It makes me go to sleep.
Alfie L.: it makes me happy ’cause it’s fun.
Olivia: I like Ed Sheeran.
Skye B.: it makes me happy. I like “Alligator, See You Later”.

We hope that you are all enjoying lots of music and dancing at home.

Easter Bunny

Look who has been busy at home with his Mum. They have been making a little Easter bunny together which we think looks so cute and cuddly. Thank you very much for sharing your photos with us. It’s lovely to hear what you have been doing at home and we hope to hear from lots more of our families.