We are delighted at how well all our new children have settled in to Nursery life in such a short space of time. Thank you to their parents for working with us to make this a happy experience for the children.
Settling In
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Message From Mrs. Alexander
Happy New Year! Hope this note finds all the Hecklegirth staff and families enjoying the new school term and getting involved in the variety of opportunities on offer across the school community. I am enjoying my secondment to the GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) team and have been visiting schools across the length and breadth of the region to deliver training and support for school management teams on information sharing, new paperwork and procedures, Child Protection and wellbeing. It is also great to get the opportunity to gather examples of good practice during my visits which we then share with others- it is so good to share! Looking forward to catching up with all the pupils soon! From Mrs Alexander
Burns Day
We would like to remind you that we plan to have a small celebration on Burn’s Day, Wednesday 25th January. It would add to the occasion if the children could wear a little ‘touch o’ tartan’. Hopefully most of them have or can borrow a hairband, a ribbon or a scarf for the day and anyone who has a kilt or a tartan outfit would certainly help us to celebrate the day in style. If your child does not have anything tartan, please do not buy anything new as this is a very informal occasion and they will hopefully enjoy themselves regardless of what they are wearing.
If you would like to hear the children singing their Scottish songs, after they have enjoyed their little ‘Burn’s supper’, please come in early at 11.40 or 2.45.
Activity Bags
Please remember that Eileen is in the Family Learning room (opposite the school hall) on Tuesdays to give out story, rhyme and number bags for your child to take home. Each story/rhyme bag has a book and a game or puppets connected to the story/rhyme. The number bags contain a game and all can be borrowed for one week.
If your child attends Nursery in the mornings, you can collect a bag at the end of the morning session and afternoon children can collect their bag at the start of the session at 12.15. We hope that lots of families will take the opportunity again this term to have fun with learning at home by borrowing these bags and we thank Eileen for organising it for us.
Comment Problems
It has been drawn to our attention that there has been a problem recently with leaving comments on our blog. This is disappointing for us all as we love families to post their comments. We have reported this problem today and hope that it will be resolved in the near future. In the meantime, we can only apologise and hope that we are back to normal as soon as possible. Fingers crossed!
Christmas Family Learning
More parents and grandparents joined the children on Friday to take part in the Family Learning ‘make and take’ Christmas activities organised by Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator. We hope that your wreaths are now adding to the festive decorations in your homes. Thank you again Eileen for organising these fun sessions. Everyone seems to have thoroughly enjoyed them.
Christmas Family Learning
Thanks must go again to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing super Christmas activities for children and their families to enjoy together. As you can see from our photos, Christmas wreaths and Rudolph sandwiches were being made earlier this week and they certainly look like good fun.
It’s lovely to see so many families participating, despite everyone being so busy at this time of year, and we really appreciate Eileen offering activities on several days. Tomorrow brings more sessions so we hope that those involved enjoy their Christmas ‘make and take’ session as much as these families did.
Confident Performance
As promised, here are some photos of the afternoon children just before their Christmas celebration. Just like the morning children, they showed confidence in their performance and sang beautifully for their families. Well done to everyone and thank you so much to all those who provided a wonderful audience for the children.
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Christmas Celebration
We hope that, like us, you were very proud of all the children as they behaved and sang so beautifully in front of a big audience at our Christmas celebration today. Huge thanks go to Rev. Pickles and Mr. Palmer for joining us and to the many family members who helped to make this a special occasion for the children. Here are a few photos of the morning children as they prepared for their performance. We will post photos of the afternoon children soon.
Click then click again on the photos. You should be able to see lots of the children in the large group.
Singing Practice
Joshua H’s Mum has been looking at the photos of the children practising their Christmas songs:
“Aw Joshua looks stunned like he’s been caught off guard. Was the flash on the camera? Lol”
No doubt Joshua was concentrating on the actions as well as the singing. We hope that everyone enjoyed the children singing today.
