The cycle smoothie activity was yet another great fun event that Nursery children took part in during our recent Health Week. These afternoon children chose from a selection of delicious fruits and juices which were put in the liquidiser on the back of a specially adapted bike. The children then pedalled the bike to activate the liquidiser and produce their smoothie. All agreed that this was a great way to make smoothies which tasted delicious.
A very interesting parcel appeared in Nursery recently and the children were excited to find that some little caterpillars had arrived to spend time with us. As we were already learning about life cycles, most of them have made good predictions about what might happen to our little visitors. We had a good look at them when they arrived and the children have been keen to follow their progress, checking their size most days. Everyone is looking forward to the next stage happening soon as they have grown quite big.
Health Week meant lots of fun, active events but we also had visits from Tesco staff who brought a selection of fruits for the children to taste as part of a healthy eating lifestyle. Some were keener than others to sample fruits that they would not normally eat, such as pomegranate, but many ‘had a go’ and discovered that they liked what they tasted.
Thank you to Tesco for providing us with such a lovely selection of fruit and to the staff who prepared it and talked to the children about what they could sample.
As part of last week’s Health Week activities we took part in a whole school and Nursery relay which involved a baton being passed from class to class all day round the school grounds. Well done to the Nursery children for playing their part in keeping the baton going.
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We have more exciting events to share from our busy Health Week. On Tuesday the morning children enjoyed a session with Mike, the tennis coach, who provided lots of fun activities to help the children learn control of a tennis ball. As you can see, we had coats on and fastened up, as it was quite a chilly day, but everyone listened well and tried their very best with all the different games.
Mike told us that, once the work on Annan tennis courts is complete, there may be classes for younger children so we hope that these children have enjoyed their experience and may want to take part in these classes in the future. Even Andy Murray started at the beginning so who knows what potential our children may have?
Noah’s family has been looking at the photos of our Health Week:
“Noah really enjoyed the Zumba and was still doing the moves when we left school!” Well done Noah for remembering the moves! That will please Mrs. Menzies.
He also loved the medal he got on our Fun Activity Day for all his hard work:
“Awh! Noah was so proud that he got a ‘model’!”
We were very proud of all the children for showing such enthusiasm and confidence that day. We love that Noah liked his ‘model’!
What a happy smile from last week’s award winner. Well done!
Zumba was our Health Week taster activity on Monday afternoon and the children thoroughly enjoyed their session with Mrs. Menzies. Most listened very well and were able to make a good attempt to follow her moves. Thank you to Mrs. Menzies for all your hard work and patience. We think that you must have been very tired doing zumba all day – some of the children were tired after just one session.
Apologies to the morning children in the red group as I seem to have missed your photo with your medals in the previous post so here you are now. Well done to everyone. We are very proud of you.
