Another parent has left a comment about the children’s visit to Primary 1 for craft activities:
“Dylan really enjoyed his visit to p1, he said he was a big school boy and he loved making his ghost and scaring his sister with it.”
We’re glad you had a good time Dylan.
Two of our families enjoyed the photos of our Hallowe’en crafts in Primary 1:
“Aww, Thom fair enjoyed his visit, he told us all about it and we loved his ghost.”
“Brilliant ghosts everyone” (Kacey’s Mum)
Thank you for leaving us a comment. The children certainly had great fun making their ghosts and pumpkins.
We have a lovely message from a parent for Miss Awde who has just left Nursery:
“Thank you for all the help & support you gave Grant & Scott.
You will be missed. Good luck & best wishes for the future.
Gayle Little”
We will all miss Miss Awde very much too. Thank you for your kind message.
Story, rhyme and number bags will be given out from this Tuesday 3rd November to those who would like them. These bags are designed to encourage your child to enjoy reading and numbers. Each story/rhyme bag has a book and a game or puppets connected to the story/rhyme. The number bags contain a game.
If your child attends morning Nursery sessions you can collect a bag at the end of the session from Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, in the Family Learning room opposite the school hall. Those attending Nursery in the afternoon can collect bags at the start of a session. Bags can be kept at home for a week and exchanged the following Tuesday. If anyone can spare twenty minutes to help Eileen check the bags, it would be much appreciated. We hope that lots of our families will join in with the activity bags “library”.
We hope to see lots of Nursery children at the HFA’s Hallowe’en Fancy Dress Disco tomorrow night (29.10.15) between 6 and 7p.m when Nursery and Primary 1 children will be able to have lots of fun together. There will be games, a tuck shop, dookin’ for apples and prizes for the best dressed pupil as well as the disco. Please remember that parents must accompany their children. We look forward to seeing you there.
We hope that you are all getting your pumpkins carved and decorated for the competition. We have noticed one or two arriving in school and tomorrow is the last day to enter your pumpkin as they will be judged at 9.00 on Thursday 29th October.In the past we have had some super examples from Nursery so it would be great if lots of children took part again.
At the end of last school year we were surprised and delighted to receive a very kind gift from Theo’s Granny. She gave us a very generous cheque and a lovely card to thank us for everything we had done for her grandchildren over the years.
We decided to let the children choose how to spend the money and asked them for suggestions of what they would like. After much discussion, it was narrowed down to three choices which the children then voted on to find the most popular. Graphs were produced in each Nursery room and it was clear to the children that the wooden fire engine, firefighters and fire station had the most votes.
Here are some photos from the end of last term of the moment when the boxes arrived and were opened up. As you can imagine, the children were very excited to see that their choice of resources had actually arrived and they were keen to help assemble them.
Thank you so much to Theo’s Granny for her very generous gift – these are resources that will last for years and will be a lovely reminder of your kindness and, of course, of your grandchildren.
We would like to share some great ideas from the Scottish government on a site called “Read, Write, Count”. As a parent or carer, you’re the most important teacher in your child’s life. In fact, research shows that when parents help their child with learning outside of school, the children do better with things like reading and counting. This is a site with ideas to make it easy for parents to bring fun and learning into everyday activities. Whether it’s in the supermarket, on the way to school, at bedtime or sitting down for a meal, “Read, Write, Count” has lots of simple ideas that put smiles on children’s faces while giving them the best start in life. We hope that you have fun with your child using some of these great ideas. Click on the link on the right to “Read, Write, Count” under the heading “Useful Reading”.
The Rainbow Room now has a lovely tree on display thanks to Luca’s family. They very kindly brought us materials for the children to make their own handprints to form the leaves of a tree to display in their room and we think that it looks great.
Huge thanks to Luca’s family for your kind gift – the children have been showing great interest in looking for their names on the tree and it certainly brightens up our door.
Can you spot your hand boys and girls?
Thank you to all those children and their families who kindly donated to our Harvest collection. We feel sure that all the food will be much appreciated by Annan Food Bank. Many thanks also to Rev. McGougan for joining us in Nursery for our Harvest celebration.
We really appreciated your fantastic support in providing a wonderful audience for the children today. It was a lovely opportunity for us all to gather together to celebrate Harvest and we hope that you enjoyed the children’s performance as much as they seemed to. One of our aims is to develop ‘confident individuals’ and many of our children showed themselves to be exactly that in their performance. Well done boys and girls!
