We would like to remind you that Eileen, our Lifelong learning Co-ordinator, will be starting her PEEP sessions tomorrow, 16th January, between 9.00 and 10.00. She looks forward to seeing you then. Younger siblings are welcome.
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Peep Learning Together
Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, would like to draw your attention to her PEEP sessions which will start on Thursday 16th January between 9.00 and 10.00. Please see details below. We hope that lots of our families will be able to join in with these fun sessions. 
Prize Winner
Tilly’s family was pleased to hear that she won the nursery rhyme competition:
“Aww Tilly was delighted to win the nursery rhyme competition especially after an emotional start! We are enjoying singing the rhymes in her new book and reading to her wee bear who still has no name! Thank you!”
Well done Tilly! I wonder what name you will choose in the end for your little bear?
Reading Is Fun Together
Children, parents and staff gathered together last week to celebrate the official launch of Hecklegirth Nursery Library. The launch promotes ‘Reading is Fun Together’. The children who joined us, with their families, received a Teddy Bear each to take home, to help and encourage reading together. The Nursery Library is stocked with over 200 books, all donated by Nursery and School families.
This is the culmination of a series of events to promote literacy both in the home and at Nursery. Parents and staff worked together to create five key ‘Words Together’ messages with the aim of raising awareness of good communication skills to support their child’s development in literacy.
Mrs. Eileen Johnstone, Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, and Mrs. Jen Carruthers, Nursery Nurse, have worked with families to model and promote the communication skills in weekly story and rhyme activity sessions.
Lots of lucky little bears headed home last week to enjoy listening to stories shared with our children. If you would like to be part of our library project and take home a reading buddy to care for, the library will be in the Rainbow Room at 9.00 on Wednesday mornings and in the corridor on a Thursday. Lots of little bears are waiting to visit your homes. Apologies that we forgot to draw the prize winner of the nursery rhyme competition but, as you can see, Santa helped us out with that later in the day and the prizewinner received her prize.
Reading Is Fun Together
We would like to remind you about the official opening of our library on Thursday 5th December between 9.00 and 9.45.
We are starting a “Reading Is Fun Together” project to go along with our library. Thanks to a kind donation from the Hecklegirth Fundraisers, we have beautiful teddies which need temporary homes (teddies will be returned to Nursery at the end of the year). These teddies need to be read to every day, and we hope your child will enjoy having a teddy/buddy to listen to stories with. The mince pies are bought and our little teddies are waiting to make friends with your child. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday morning for the official opening of our project.
Rhymes And Stories
The theme at Thursday’s “Rhyme and Story” session was spiders. Parents and children enjoyed sharing words beginning with S, listening to a special Incy Wincey spider story, singing/saying spider rhymes and bouncing our spider puppets on our lycra ‘parachute’.
These sessions for Nursery families are run by Mrs. Eileen Johnstone, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, and Mrs. Jen Carruthers, Nursery Nurse, who welcome younger siblings too. Please see staff for details if you would like to join them.
Library Day
As part of our focus on reading, we are running a library on a Thursday morning so would be delighted if the children chose a book to borrow for the week. If you do not attend on a Thursday please speak to staff and we can arrange a different day for you to swap your book.
STEM Learning With Your Child
STEM stands for science, technologies, engineering and mathematics which are all areas of learning in Nursery. If you take a look at the STEM displays in each room, you can get a taste of all the different activities the children enjoy which are developing their knowledge, understanding, curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm in these areas.
To help you understand how you can support these areas of your child’s learning at home, we have added a link on the right under “Useful Reading: STEM for Parents”. Click on the link for information from Education Scotland and have fun learning with your child.
National Maths Week Fun
Thank you to those families who joined us this week for our fun activities to celebrate National Maths Week. It was lovely to see our parents, grandparents and carers playing together with the children on a range of Maths activities. Thank you also for completing our evaluation sheets which are useful in indicating which activities were the most popular and to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for organising our event. We hope that we have given you some ideas of how to develop your child’s learning at home.
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Family Fun Maths Session
Thank you very much to those who have said that they will join us today, Thursday 3rd October, for our family fun session to celebrate National Maths Week. Please use the main school door. We look forward to seeing you at 2.00 until 3.00.
