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Well Done Fern!

Fern’s family has been in touch after seeing Mr. Palmer’s bike art competition:

“This is a fun idea, Fern will love taking part. Fern has used some of her time at home to learn how to ride her bike without stabilisers!!”

Wow! Well done Fern learning to ride without stabilisers. We are all very proud of you and we are looking forward to seeing a photo of your bike art later in the week.

We hope that lots of our families will take part and send their photos to the school address gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or to Mr. Palmer’s address gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday May 1st.

Bike Art Competition

We have a message below for Mr. Palmer who is setting you a challenge. We are looking forward to seeing what you all do. Have fun!

Morning everyone.

This would normally be the Big Pedal fortnight if we were at school and nursery. The playground would start to fill up with bikes and scooters with more of you travelling to nursery that way. We would have a ‘Skills day’ with Annan Cycling Club and Katie and a Cycling breakfast too. I hope many of you are still managing to get out on your bike and scooter, either in the garden or out on family bike rides.

As we can’t be at nursery for the Big Pedal we are going to have a cycling related competition from home instead this week. The challenge if you want to take part is to create your own ‘Bike Art’. You can use any materials from your home (ask a parent/carer to help you) to design your own special bike.

To help you with ideas go to the following link:

Indoor Ideas

You will see Katie, our local Ibike officer for Dumfries and Galloway explaining how to make Bike Art.

Please send your competition entry in as a picture to the school office on gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or email me on gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday 1st May.

I’m looking forward to seeing all your finished entries. There will be a winner and runner up prize for Nursery-P1, P2-P4 and P5-7. Katie has kindly donated some t-shirts and water bottles for prizes.

There are plenty of other bike related ideas that we can do at home on https://ibike.sustrans.org.uk/indoor-ideas/ and they change each week so go and have a look.

Have a good week everyone.

Mr Palmer

News From Isaac

Isaac W’s family has been looking at our recent posts and kindly left us some comments.

They enjoyed the video of Mrs. Irving and her son playing Humpty Dumpty:
“We have just watched this, Isaac said it sounds good. xx”
We are certainly looking forward to Mrs. Irving bringing her accordion in to Nursery in the future. Glad you enjoyed it Isaac.

They liked the photo of Isaac when the buddies visited us:
“Excellent picture, Isaac looks happy. xx”
The Nursery children did love those visits. Let’s hope we can enjoy them again in the not too distant future.

It was also great to hear that Isaac is looking after his plants:
“Isaac has been taking great care of our plants and he has been happily watering them every day as we are having such nice weather. Next project is a fairy garden…..we will send some pictures. Isaac is most definitely missing his Nursery family.”

Well done Isaac! We are all missing you too. A fairy garden sounds wonderful.

Please send any photos to the school address gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk and they will be forwarded to us to put on the blog.

Thank you for taking the time to leave us message. It’s so nice to hear from you.

Supporting Children

D & G Council’s Supporting Learners team is offering support to help parents and carers manage the wellbeing of children during this difficult period. Please click on the link below to see a poster outlining the support available through a telephone consultation service.

supporting children poster (2)

Menus

We have had a query from one of our families about the lunch menus which some may not have returned before Nursery closed. Please do not worry about this as you will be able to hand menus in if we return to Nursery before summer and we can place the children’s orders with the kitchen then.

We have also been asked about the best method to send photos from home to share on our blog. We suggest that you e-mail them to the school address below

gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk

with a small description of what the children were doing and let us know if you would like your child’s first name used in the post or would prefer that we did not.

Any written messages can be sent to the blog by clicking on the ‘Leave a comment’ link to the left of a post. We would love to hear from you all.

Please take the opportunity to e-mail the school address for any further concerns or worries. We would like to help in any way we can and hope that you are all staying safe and well.

Fun Home Activities

Here is another little gallery of some great activities from home. We love your beautifully decorated hat and the plants look bright and colourful to cheer up your garden. I wonder if you are needing to water them lots as we don’t seem to have had rain for such a long time? It’s great to have the responsibility of looking after your own plants and we feel sure that you will do a super job of it.

Easter Fun

We are delighted to be able to share more photos from home of what some of our children were doing over Easter. One of our families worked together to decorate their home beautifully while the other one has been very busy decorating eggs and making chocolate nests.

Thank you for sharing your photos. It’s lovely to see what great activities you have been enjoying.

Skills To Last A Lifetime

Isaac W’s family has been enjoying the Twinkl website that we suggested for some home activities:

“This is an excellent resource, we have downloaded lots from here and also the Chester zoo website. Xx”

We are glad you are finding it useful and would encourage other families to have a look at both these sites. You may find something your child is interested in that you could look at together.

Isaac’s family also commented on the photos we posted of some of their activities at home:

“Isaac is having a great time helping in and out of the house. He is learning skills that will hopefully last him a lifetime. Xx”

There is no doubt that he is developing very important skills and it looks like he’s having such great fun with his learning too. Thank you for sharing your photos.

Keep In Touch

Mrs. Maxwell has been enjoying seeing your photos from home. She thought that the little Easter bunny was “very cute” and commented, ” What a lovely poster, very thoughtful.”

She was also pleased to see our bread maker so busy at home: “Lovely to see you are keeping so busy and helping out around your home, the bread looks delicious.”

We are all delighted to hear from some of our pupils and hope that more of you get in touch with us soon.

Easter Bunny

Look who has been busy at home with his Mum. They have been making a little Easter bunny together which we think looks so cute and cuddly. Thank you very much for sharing your photos with us. It’s lovely to hear what you have been doing at home and we hope to hear from lots more of our families.