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Christmas Celebration

We hope that you are looking forward to the children’s Christmas performance tomorrow (17.12.13). After positive feedback from our Harvest celebration, we decided to keep our Christmas celebration informal to encourage the children to enjoy a relaxed and happy performance of the songs they have been learning. Rev. McGougan has kindly agreed to join us again and we are delighted that many parents have indicated that they would like to be part of our celebration.
We thought you might like to see a few photos of the children practising to give you a little taster. We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Christmas Crafts

It was great to see that more children and their families were joining in the Christmas craft activities today. Sophie’s family made theirs on Friday and seemed to enjoy themselves as Mum has left us a comment:

“We had a lovely morning and Sophie and Thom were keen to their
Angel decorations on the tree as soon as we got home!
They look lovely.”

We’re glad that you were pleased with your creations and will try to put a few more photos up later in the week.

Family Crafts

Thanks must go again to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing super craft activities for children and their families to enjoy together. Our first sessions on Friday saw Mums, Dads, little brothers and sisters have fun making lovely Christmas crafts together. We hope that their homes are now looking a little more festive with the latest additions. Hopefully, the families who are taking part on Monday are looking forward to enjoying Eileen’s crafts too.

The Story Of The Nativity

Last week’s story of the nativity has made an impression on the children. As you can see, some of them have been recreating the story through role play and some are able to talk about it. Some of their ideas may not all be exactly how we told the story but you can see that they have understood much of the detail.

Brogan: baby Jesus slept in the hay. A queen came to see him.
Archie: well what happened was this … they couldn’t find a hotel so they had to go to a farm. A king came to see him.
Ava V.: there were wise old kings in the story.
Bethany: Jesus had a manger not a cot. Mary is his Mummy.
Sophie S.: Joseph was the Daddy. Mary was the Mum.
Zachary: Jesus was in the story and three wise men.
Riley: Jesus got born in the hay.
Freya: Jesus’ Mummy was Mary.
Simon: baby Jesus never found anywhere to sleep. He had to sleep in the hay.
Jayden: he slept in the hay ’cause there was no beds for him.
Amy-Leigh: baby Jesus was born on his birthday.

Family Fun Activity

We would like to remind you that Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has arranged activity sessions to make Christmas decorations with your Nursery child and younger siblings. In the past lots of parents and children have enjoyed doing this together and we are grateful to Eileen for providing the opportunity again this year.
You can join in the fun with glitter and glue on Friday 13th December and Monday 16th December. There are still some spaces left – just add your name to the list on the Family Learning board in the corridor.

Who’s Sleeping In Baby Bear’s Bed?

The corridors in Hecklegirth have come alive with some wonderful fairy tale displays recently and Nursery children worked well as a team to contribute to our chosen display of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. They chose a wide range of materials to make bright, textured shapes to form quilts for the beds and some made a very good job of painting the characters. As you can see, Goldilocks thought Baby Bear’s bed looked so cosy that she got in there before poor Baby Bear got the chance.
Please click on the photos to get a clearer view of the detail of the children’s work.

Christmas Crafts

Carmen’s Mum enjoyed seeing her busy with Christmas crafts:

“Carmen loved making the Christmas card. She said I’ve made it for you mummy. She loves doing crafts.”

Lots of children have been particularly enjoying the craft area this week. As well as cards and decorations, some in the Rainbow Room decided to make table decorations. We hope that those families are happy with the wonderful designs the children produced from a selection of boxes, beads, tubes and, of course, lots and lots of glitter. They may not have the style of some shop bought design but they are certainly original and made with love.

Christmas Fever

Christmas is officially the talk of Nursery as the children are beginning to get more excited with tales of trees going up at home, letters to Santa and visits to see him at various places.
We have talked about the story of the nativity this week and hopefully the children are beginning to realise that Christmas is not all about Santa. With our calendar orders now complete, lots of children are enjoying making Christmas cards and decorations and there seems to be a sparkling carpet of glitter everywhere we turn.

Christmas Decorations

At the end of last week some of the children started making Christmas decorations from bread. They looked so impressive that they made a few extra to sell at the school Christmas Fayre on Thursday. Here you can see some of the team in action.

We painted them lots of different colours.

Special Birthday Present

We hope that you have all enjoyed your break. Sophie and her Mum have been having a look at the blog:

“Glad you liked our cakes! :-))”

“Sophie gave hers to her Auntie for her Birthday, she loved it!” (Kandinsky painting)

We all absolutely loved your “Children In Need” cakes Sophie and we’re sure that your auntie will want to keep your painting until you’re grown-up – what a special birthday present.