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Super Art Work

Like us, Carmen’s Mum loved her art work:

“When I saw this picture I was really very impressed. Well done Carmen. It’s proudly displayed in our hallway. Carmen loves flowers. Tom and Carmen were playing in the garden and I saw them putting flowers into a bucket and filling it with water, I asked what they were doing they replied making perfume!”

That’s brought a few memories back from our youth – making perfume with petals in the garden. It was a super picture Carmen and all your own idea to use the sweet wrappers. Well done!

Thank You Buddies

It seems that our P5 and P6 buddies are doing a good job as several families have commented on the children’s photos with their buddies:

“What a lovely idea 🙂 Liam looks like he’s having great fun. Thanks to his buddy x”

“Such a lovely Idea, Sophie loves her buddy and its nice to know she is being looked after. Thanks Hope!”

“Aw love this picture of Isla and Carmen. When Carmen told me that Isla was her Buddy I was very pleased nice to have someone you know that will look after your child in P1. I think it’s a great idea. Isla and Carmen are the best of friends. Carmen says it’s like having another big sister. Carmen made a lovely picture for Isla and Isla made Carmen a lovely bracelet. It’s going to be the start of a lovely friendship.”

Hopefully there will lots more opportunities to get to know each other this term. We plan to have another visit to the playground next week too so the buddies who were away on a school trip this week should be back. Thank you for your comments – we feel sure that the buddies will be delighted with them.

Happy Days

Judging by the comments from some of our new parents, their children enjoyed their first week in Nursery:

“Mollie loved her first week at Nursery, and was raring to go this morning too!”

“Kacey really enjoyed dancing and singing on Friday she couldn’t wait to tell her family what she had been doing.”

“Ayda loved meeting all new friends and teachers on her first week of Hecklegirth and has been excited every day to tell me what she’s been doing :)”

Thank you all for leaving such lovely comments. We are glad that the children have all settled so well and hope that they continue to enjoy themselves.

Sprouting Beans

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?

More Growing Families

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.

Growing Families

Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has left a message for our “growing families”:

“Thanks to everyone who came to the growing families session last Thursday – I hope all your seeds are sprouting at home. Don’t forget to bring your soup bowl pictures back to me after the easter holiday. Looking forward to seeing everyone who is coming to the session on 24th April. Happy Easter hope you all have a lovely holiday”

Hopefully the rain has helped the seeds you all planted in the Nursery garden. All we need now is a little sunshine.

Family Learning

Thursday saw the first activity session for the “Growing Families” project organised by Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator. Children and their parents enjoyed a story about growing and investigated seeds and shoots before cutting and sticking pictures to show how vegetables grow. Then it was off to the Nursery garden to plant onions and carrots in our raised beds. I wonder if they will show any signs of growth when we return to Nursery after the holiday?
Christine from the Positive Parenting Project group joined our sessions to introduce herself as she is planning to start a project in our Nursery next term for all parents. We would like to welcome her to our Nursery and hope that she enjoys working with us all. You can see Christine enjoying the outdoor planting in our photos.
If you like the sound of the “Growing Families” activity, there are some places left for the first Thursday of next term (24.4.14). Simply add your name to the list on the Family Learning board above the blue group cloakroom area. Thank you, as always, to Eileen for organising this activity. We hope that lots more families enjoy it next term.

Growing Families

We would like to remind you of the start of a project called “Growing Families” on Thursday 3rd April. This will be a joint Family Learning and Nursery project about vegetables and how to grow them. Our initial session will involve reading and discussing the book “Growing Vegetables”, making a soup bowl picture and planting seeds either in our raised beds or to take home.
Sessions will be in the family room with Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, and there are still a few spaces left (see the notice board in the corridor above the blue group coat pegs). If you are unable to come on Thursday there will be another opportunity on Thursday 24th April so hopefully everyone who would like to take part can join in.

Career Choices

Like us, Carmen’s Mum enjoyed hearing about some of the children’s career plans:

“Aw that made me smile reading what the children want to do when they leave school. Some good career choices there. Yes Carmen insists on doing peoples make up so we will watch and see. Has she not asked to apply anybody’s make up at nursery! I liked lexis answer a queen that’s good that she’s aiming high. X”

We have not experienced Carmen’s make-up skills so far but there’s time yet.

What Happens In A Bakery?

It has been great to have several family members come in to talk to the children about their jobs and our most recent visitor was a Mum who works in a local baker’s. As a member of a family business that has been operating for more than a lifetime in Annan, she was able to explain to the children how all those wonderful cakes, bread and pies reach the shelves.
As a selection of slides appeared on the Promethean board showing the bakery, the children were surprised to see Stan the Star everywhere – he’d obviously thoroughly enjoyed his visit out of Nursery and had been very busy in the bakery. He helped the children to understand the size of the equipment as he looked tiny compared to all the machinery.
We saw the uniform that’s worn by the bakers and the huge flour bag that plays a part in making all the lovely cakes and bread. We learned about the magic ingredient called yeast – some liked the smell and others were not so keen – and how it is used in the baking process. Feeling the dough and seeing the different loaves that it makes certainly brought home to the children the process of making bread.
To top it all, we were presented with a fantastic cake that some of the staff had won in a recent charity fundraising event at the baker’s. We all loved our “Little Minions of Hecklegirth Nursery” cake and can all vouch for its delicious flavour. Thank you for a very interesting visit which certainly captured the children’s attention.

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