This week the children who are moving to Primary 1 at Hecklegirth found out who their buddies will be. The Nursery pupils met their individual Primary 6 buddies when they came to play and, as always, the buddies showed great skills and attitude with our Nursery children. It was lovely to see them organise a game of “Duck Duck Goose” outdoors which the children loved. We have now planned visits to the school playground and the buddies will go with the children on these visits to encourage and support them both in the empty playground and when the rest of the school is out. Thank you to all the Primary 6 buddies for doing a super job.
Tag: health and wellbeing
Well Done
Congratulations and well done to the winners of last week’s certificates. What lovely smiles! We hope that you are proud of your achievements.
Afternoon Fire Station Visit
As promised, here are photos of the afternoon children visiting the fire station last week. They all enjoyed lots of fun learning just like the morning children. Thank you so much to all the parents and grandparents who came with us on our visit – we appreciate your help and support.
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Sunflowers
Quinn’s family has been looking at the photos of the children planting their sunflower seeds:
“Quinn said she had a great time doing the sunflower. It has grown lots and has already had to be repotted. Xx”
It’s great news that it’s grown lots already Quinn. You must be looking after it well. I wonder what size it will grow to?
Fire Station
After learning about different jobs in our community at the end of last term, we had one further exciting trip out last week when we visited the fire station. Fortunately the weather was very kind and we enjoyed a lovely walk there in the sunshine. As well as finding out about the job of a fire officer, the children took part in a road safety activity where they took on different roles of cars, lorries, buses and bikes as well as a police officer and lollipop person. This was a super new resource that the fire service have just acquired and was a great way to help the children think about how to stay safe.
They also got a close up view of all the equipment in a fire engine, learned what it is used for and put their hands to their ears as the siren was turned on. Of course, no visit to the fire station is complete without getting an opportunity to sit up in the fire engine and try out the big hose.
Huge thanks go to all the fire fighters who looked after us and made our visit such fun as well as to the parents who accompanied us – without parent helpers these trips out would not be possible. We hope that you enjoy these photos of the morning children and will post photos soon of our afternoon visit.
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Congratulations
Sunflower Seeds
As they have been learning a little about the artist Vincent Van Gogh, the children have been planting sunflowers seeds after looking at his famous painting of sunflowers. We have talked about what they will need to do to make their seed grow so hopefully the children should be able to look after them when they bring their sunflowers home in a week or two. We look forward to hearing about some super sunflowers or even seeing a photo once they begin to grow. Fingers crossed that they can be planted outdoors and turn into a lovely burst of sunshine in a corner of everyone’s garden.
Well Done
Dream Jobs
As part of our learning about our community and the different jobs people do locally, we talked to the children about what jobs they might like to do in the future and we thought that you would like to hear some of their plans.
Summer: a mermaid.
Edward: a swimming teacher.
Max: a pirate.
Quinn: to have my own car and work on the computer.
George: a zookeeper.
Tom: a policeman.
Danielle: a pizza lady.
Finlay: a teacher.
Eli: an engineer that fixes things.
Owen: an astronaut.
Leah M: clean the dishes and cook.
Callum: a police officer.
Chloe: a fairy.
Theo: a king.
Brogan: a policeman. I can stop the bad guys.
Neve: a hairdresser. I like doing hair. I can curl it.
Peter: a tractor and digger driver. I can make lots of money digging holes.
Harvey M: I want to be a footballer and play for Rangers.
Enid: I want to be a fairy and do magic.
Meris: I want to be a hairdresser and cut your hair.
Noah: I want to be a football man. You have to be good at kicking.
Vinnie: a policeman. They drive fast cars.
Kyle: I want to do digging in the mud.
I wonder if any of their dreams will come true?
Big Pedal Fun Day Take Two
Just like the morning children, those in the afternoon participated enthusiastically in all the super activities organised for Big Pedal Fun Day. Here is a selection of photos of the children in action on their bikes and scooters.
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