Lewis’ Mum left a comment to say that her family enjoyed the craft activity:
“Thank you for inviting us to the Family Learning session – we all had a lovely time!”
We are glad that so many families took part and hope that more will enjoy these sessions in the future. Thank you for your kind comment.
We thought we’d share some of the work that the children and their families produced at the Family Learning activity last week. As you can see, there were lots of different ideas from everyone to decorate their squares. The Family Room will look great with your new wall hanging. Thank you to all those who took part.
Thursday saw our first Family Learning event of the year and we are delighted that a good number of children and their families took part.
Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, provided materials for the children to design and decorate canvas squares which she will put together to make a wall hanging for the Family Room. Well done to everyone who helped to add to the hanging – you will see it on display whenever you go to the Family Room. Thank you also to Eileen for organising this activity for everyone. Here are some of the busy artists at work with their families.
Please click on the photos for a clearer view.
Remember the lovely photo of Sophie’s sunflower that she planted last year in Nursery? Her Mum has sent us a message:
“Thanks for putting the photo up, she looks so proud! I must say to Eileen too that the corn seed she gave us to plant has grown out the roof of my Dads greenhouse and had actually got a corn on the cob on it we are just wondering when it will be ready to pick and eat!!
Its all been very exciting! such a nice idea so thanks to you all!”
We will pass the message on to Eileen thank you. Family Learning is starting again for Nursery parents tomorrow, September 4th, so we hope that everyone this year enjoys Eileen’s activities as much as our parents from last year.
Those who helped to plant vegetables last term as part of a Family Learning project may have noticed our crop in the raised beds in the Nursery garden. Some of the children harvested the carrots at the start of term and they seemed pleased with their efforts. Well done everyone who helped in this project and thanks to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for her work last term to make this project happen.
We would like to draw your attention to our first Family Learning event of the year on Thursday 4th September. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, is planning two morning and two afternoon sessions for you and your child to decorate canvas squares for a wall hanging in the Family Room (opposite the school hall).
A letter will be given out in Nursery this week explaining Family Learning to everyone and you can sign up for the sessions, if you wish, on the grids on display on the Family Learning board in the Nursery corridor. We hope that lots of families take the opportunity to join in this fun activity.
Thank you to Sophie’s Mum for her lovely comments both on Family Learning and our graduation:
“We have really enjoyed all the sessions with Eileen, its so nice to be involved with School life.”
“The Graduation was fantastic. All the children sang so confidently and were very brave getting up onto the stage. Such a lovely ceremony. We were very proud parents!!”
We all felt very proud of the children too. They are little stars.
Earlier this year some children and their families worked together in a Family Learning project to plant vegetables at home and in the raised beds in the Nursery garden. Today they returned to the beds to harvest some of their crop. As you can see, they had great fun making faces with their vegetables as well as tasting them. (It really seemed a bit warm to make soup as planned). It’s interesting how some children won’t normally eat vegetables but they enjoyed tasting those that they had grown. Thank you to Eileen, as always, for providing her super Family Learning activities.
Thank you to Sophie’s Mum for letting us know about her beans:
“Much excitement in our house, Sophie noticed the beans have started to sprout!!”
That was quick Sophie. You must be looking after them very well. I wonder if anyone else’s have started to sprout since Thursday?
Since we returned to Nursery this week, we have noticed some exciting signs of the onions and carrots beginning to grow in our raised beds. These were planted at the end of last term by some children and their families as part of our “Growing Families” project led by Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator. Today another group of children and their families took part in the growing activities so hopefully we will have a bumper crop to make our soup later in the term. One or two children have also begun to bring in the peas that they planted before the holidays so well done for looking after them so well.
Thank you to everyone who has taken part and to Eileen for organising yet another super activity. We hope that you are all going to keep an eye on the raised beds for further signs of growth.
