health and wellbeing – Page 16 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Health Information And Taster Session

Yvonne and Louise from the Health Improvement Team visited us last week for an informal information and taster session. It was lovely to have so many adults from our families joining the children and staff to learn about healthy snack options and it was great to see children and adults alike trying some foods for the first time. Some of the recipes sound delicious and we plan to try them out in Nursery with the children. The healthy banana ice-cream was particularly popular and we think that a few homes in Annan may be trying that idea out soon.
Thank you to the adults for taking the time to give us some feedback on this visit as it helps us evaluate and plan for the future. Comments included:
“Very informative and colourful”
“Very informative session and lovely to spend time with my child encouraging her to eat healthy. We all love the banana ice-cream and the Sharon fruit. Thank you”.
“Very helpful information, well presented”.

Here are some of the children and adults enjoying the session in the Rainbow Room.

Making Soup

Making soup has been a popular activity in the Raindrop Room lately and this little group showed great skills and safety awareness to prepare all the vegetables for a delicious big pan of soup, just perfect for a frosty day. Everything always tastes good when you make it yourself and the children seemed to enjoy the results of their hard work.

Worm Maths

Children are often intrigued by the minibeasts they see outdoors as part of their play and finding a worm can arouse great curiosity. Some of the children in the Rainbow Room talked about where worms live and how we could find them. They wondered how many might live in their garden so decided to do a little survey. As you can see, they were enthusiastic to do lots of digging to find worms and developed their Maths skills by measuring them to find the shortest and longest and then counted them each day to record on a graph. What great little investigative scientists they were and it was great to see how gentle all the children were with the worms that they found.

Health Improvement Team Visit

We would like to remind you about our informal information and taster sessions tomorrow for children and families when the Health Improvement team will cover healthy snack options for the family. Handouts/information will be available around nutrition for the early years and you will get the opportunity to discuss any concerns you may have about your child’s diet.
For those who returned the slip, we would like to remind you that Raindrop Room session is at 10.00 and the Rainbow Room will be at 11.00. We look forward to seeing you then.

Children In Need

“Wear What You Want Day” on Friday raised a generous sum of £260 for Children In Need while providing the children with the opportunity to come to Nursery in a wide range of outfits. Don’t they all just look great?

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Award Winners

What lovely smiles from last week’s award winners! You both certainly deserved those certificates. Very well done!

Thank You

Thank you to all those who participated in our “Wear What You Want Day” for Children in Need and thank you to those who kindly gave a donation to this worthy cause. We are delighted with our final total. Photos will follow.

Super Skills

Tilly’s family enjoyed seeing the photo of her chopping apples in Nursery:

“Aww! Tilly has an apple every night for supper which I chop up for her! Recently she has been putting her new skills to good use and peeling and chopping her own apple (supervised of course!!!!)”

Well done Tilly to use your skills at home too. You are becoming so grown-up and independent. Super skills!

Apple Crumble

The Nursery kitchens are such busy places with snack and lunch to prepare for every day but some of the children have also been busy making apple crumble recently. Here you can see lots of safe chopping, mashing and use of the microwave to develop the children’s skills as well as their knowledge of what happens to food when it is heated. Their apple crumble looked and smelled delicious and certainly went down well with most.

Alfie Comes To Visit

Alfie, an assistance dog, and his owner Mrs. Anne Eales came to visit us in Nursery recently to show us just how clever he is. Alfie helps Mrs. Eales with lots of jobs to make her life easier and both children and staff were amazed when they saw what he could do. He helped Mrs. Eales off with her coat by tugging at her sleeves, picked up things she had dropped, took her boot off and can even hand her purse to a shopkeeper.
We thought that Alfie was very clever and both he and Mrs. Eales were so patient with all the children explaining what his job involves. Thank you so much to you both, you must have been very tired by the time you had spoken to everyone. We really appreciated your visit and would like to thank you for your time.