Ava’s family has been looking at the photos of the children enjoying Big Pedal Fun Day:
“Ava really enjoyed the big pedal fun day. She was telling all the family all about it. Great photos of all the children.”
It’s lovely to hear that Ava enjoyed herself. I hope that you can get out on your scooter in the holidays Ava.
The last day of term was Big Pedal Fun Day for everyone at Hecklegirth as the children brought bikes and scooters to participate in great fun activities in the school playground under the guidance of some super volunteers. Despite the very windy weather, the children showed great confidence and enthusiasm to try out the challenges set for them. Thank you to everyone who helped to organise this event and gave up their own time. The children had super fun and what a great way to keep fit and healthy. Let’s hope that they can have lots of fun in the holidays on their bikes and scooters.
Here are the morning children in action. Photos of the afternoon children will follow in the next day or two.
Well done to last week’s award winners. We hope that you are proud of your certificates.
As we talked last week with some of the children about Mother’s Day, we asked what their mummies do for them and we would like to share some of their thoughts.
Harper: she lets me watch T.V.
Riley: she goes to the shop and buys me nice things.
Lily: Mummy helps me get dressed.
George: she makes me lunch.
Tom: she gets me Lego.
Quinn: she watches telly with me.
Charlie: she puts the computer on for me.
James: she reads me stories at bedtime.
Isaac: she makes me laugh.
Alyssa: she helps me make pancakes.
Danielle: she reads to me.
Priya: she hugs me.
Callum: she helps me get sweets out of the cupboard.
Vinnie: she gives me a gummy sweet every day.
Eli: she helps me wash dishes and now I know how to do it.
Bethany: she takes me to the park.
Olivia: she makes cakes with me.
What a lot of lovely examples of how kind and helpful Mums can be.
As you can see from our photos, the Nursery children took part with great enthusiasm in Primary 4’s challenge on Friday to wear something red for Red Nose Day.
Thank you to all those who bought red noses from us earlier in the week as you helped to raise £53 towards the Red Nose Day total and apologies to those who missed out as there wasn’t a single red nose left to buy in the whole school.
Thank you for all your donations and to Amelia’s family for their raffle prize which was won by Ava. Including red nose sales, the raffle and donations on the day Nursery families raised a grand total of £135.45 to add to the whole school contributions so thank you to everyone for their generosity.
As promised, here are the afternoon children enjoying the RSPB activities with Kirsty. We are now looking forward to keeping an eye out for all the birds visiting our garden over the next few months.
Since we had our canopy built last summer, the birds have been slowly getting a little more confident to visit our garden and the children get very excited if they come to sample some of our bird food.
This week we had a visitor who helped us learn more about the birds we might see and what they like to eat. Kirsty from the RSPB let us hear what different sounds each bird makes and we had great fun playing a game to see if we could remember their sounds to match them to the correct picture. The children got their fingers nice and sticky making fat balls for the birds using lard and seeds then they tried out the binoculars in the garden to see if any birds were close by although a little help was needed to get the binoculars the right way round. Kirsty also showed the children three different nests and talked about the birds that would use them so everyone left feeling very enthusiastic about our local birds and how to look after them.
Here are the morning children enjoying their activities. Photos of the children in the afternoon will be posted soon.
As part of our ongoing work on SHANARRI, we looked recently at how the children feel that they are active as part of a healthy lifestyle. It seems like there are lots of different ways for Nursery children to be active. Here are some of their thoughts.
Isobella: take my dollies for a walk.
Eli: do Highland dancing.
Priya: go on my balance bike.
Kenzie: do push-ups in my bedroom or the living room.
Tom: go on my black bike.
Neve: running, jumping and going on the scooter.
James: I like digging.
Enid: skipping.
Peter: I do swimming. I ride my horse and feed him and muck him out.
Meris: swimming with Dad.
Halle: I go to gymnastics. I do cartwheels.
Joshua W.: Tiger Cubs – Taekwando
Callum: I go to swimming. Mummy takes me. I listen to my teacher.
Reuben: I go to rugby. It’s outside at Violetbank.
Olivia: I go in my pretend car. You need to push your feet along.
Theo: I go swimming with my Dad.
Isaac: I run with my big brother Dylan.
Summer: I go running with Mummy, Daddy and Cara.
Joshua M.: I go to football. It’s at the swimming pool hall.
Maxwell: I go swimming with Mummy.
Danielle: I go to football.
It seems that most boys and girls in Nursery are very active with their families. This is just a selection of activities that they told us about so they must be keeping very fit and active.
On Friday 24th March Primary 4 will be performing at assembly on the theme of Red Nose Day and they have suggested that children in school and Nursery could wear something red that day. They have also organised for red noses to be on sale for £1, if the children would like to contribute, and a box of red noses is now available in Nursery. Thank you to Primary 4 for your help. We hope that you raise lots of money for this worthwhile cause.
