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Graduation Smiles

We were all so proud of the children at our graduation ceremony earlier this week as they sang and danced to celebrate their year in Nursery. They showed great confidence to perform to their families and then to walk on stage on their own to shake hands and receive their certificates.
Thank you to Mrs. Alexander and Mr. Palmer for taking time to present the children with their awards and for being so patient to pose with each child so that a precious family photo could be taken. Thank you also to all the family and friends who attended our little ceremony and for your support throughout the year.
Here is a gallery of the morning children.I will put photos of the afternoon children on as soon as possible.
Click then click again for a clearer view.

School Lunch

Last week some Hecklegirth parents joined their children to sample a school lunch in preparation for the move to Primary 1 in August. Hot dogs and chips or delicious sandwiches were on offer and I spotted some tasty looking ice-cream and yoghurts for dessert which seemed to go down well with most children. Hopefully everyone is now looking forward to their school lunches when they come to Primary 1 in August.

Butterfly News

Thom’s family had an interesting update on the butterflies that we released:

“Thom was very excited to see the butterfly still sitting on the flower when we returned to pick up Sophie at 3pm!”

That is surprising. Just as well we decided to go back in to Nursery after a while or we could have had a long wait. Perhaps they were just very happy where we left them?

Rainbow Room Story Time

As promised, here are photos of the children from the Rainbow Room enjoying taking part in our “Share a Story Month” activity. They too had fun searching for all the objects that Granny bought in the story “Granny Went To Market” and enjoyed the bells and drums as much as the children in the Sunshine Room did. Thank you to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for organising this lovely activity and to those parents who were able to join us.

Granny Went To Market

To celebrate “Share a Story Month” we recently held a family learning event where we had great fun telling the story of “Granny Went To Market”, with the children developing their learning across several areas of the curriculum.
All the children took part in the story telling which involved finding a number on the globe to show us the different countries Granny visited and then finding the items from the story hidden in the Nursery. As you can see, the children particularly loved experimenting with the bells and drums that they found, making little bands once the story was finished. We hope that those parents who joined us enjoyed this celebration of storytelling as much as we did. Here are some photos of the children in the Sunshine Room taking part. We will post photos of the Rainbow Room soon.

Thank You

Thom’s Mum has left us a lovely comment about our Fun Activity Day:

“It was a great morning, so proud of all the children…I certainly would find it difficult to do all of the activities they did in front of such a big audience. Its a great way to develop their confidence. The medals were a great idea too. Thanks to all the staff, it must take a lot of organisation and chatting to other parents, everyone seems very impressed and it went well beyond expectations. Thank you.”

Thank you so much for your kind comments. You are right, the children did show great confidence to perform in front of a large audience – they were little stars. Thanks also must go to all the family and friends who encouraged the children so much.

Well Done

Two people have left comments on our Fun Activity Day photos. Mrs. Gray said,

“Well done to all the boys and girls on great teamwork at Sports Day. I am proud of you all.”

Dylan’s family also enjoyed the day:

“We thoroughly enjoyed coming to watch Dylan and all his friends at their fun activity day yesterday, they all done extremely well and looked lyk they all enjoyed themselves,.we are so proud of Dylan and was good to see how confident he was. Thankyou for a lovely enjoyable morning, all the kids and staff done well “

It was lovely to see the children so happy and confident.

Great Teamwork

Thank you to everyone who braved the distinctly chilly weather to cheer on the children in their Fun Activity event today. We are sure that, like us, you felt very proud of them all as they confidently showed off their skills and great teamwork. We managed to capture photos of some of the groups with those well deserved medals, presented by Mrs. Alexander, and an ice lolly finished off our day nicely. We hope that you enjoyed the day as much as we did. Well done boys and girls – you really showed yourselves to be ‘confident individuals’.

Fun Activity Day

The children have been practising their running and jumping skills to prepare for our Fun Activity Day tomorrow (Wednesday). They have grown in confidence, shown good teamwork and had great fun. We are looking forward to lots of families and friends cheering the children on as they show you what they can do. We hope to bring the children on to the field around 9.30 and 2.00 when they will start moving round their activities in groups. Fingers crossed that the sun decides to shine tomorrow.

The Solihull Approach

I have added useful reading and information for parents on The Solihull Approach which is all about the health and wellbeing of our children. Here you can access a range of leaflets on topics such as developmental and emotional milestones, play and brain development through childhood which can help you to understand and support your child’s behaviour.
Click on the links on the right entitled “Solihull Approach Parenting Skills” and “Solihull Approach Understanding Childhood” which can be found under “Useful Reading”. We hope that you find this information helpful.