Primary 3 recently held a coffee morning in aid of Save the Children. Here are some of the Nursery children, who brought money to support this event, enjoying their coffee morning in the school dinner hall.
Well done to last week’s super award winner who was delighted with his certificate.
As promised, here are photos of the afternoon children enjoying the Toothtastic Tuesday activities. They listened well and hopefully learned about how to look after their teeth from avoiding sugary foods and drinks to the best way to clean their teeth and what happens at the dentist.
Thank you to all those parents who joined us for these activities and for your valuable feedback. Thank you also to Eileen, Jacqueline and Nikki for their time and effort to provide the children with fun and learning. You should all have an information pack for home in your child’s tray. We hope that this answers some of the questions that your feedback highlighted.
Callum’s family liked the photos from our Toothtastic Tuesday activities:
“Callum fair enjoyed having the Dentist in the other day. He sayed the best part was being able to lie down on the comfy chair”
He certainly looks very relaxed in the chair. We are glad that you enjoyed the day Callum.
This week the children enjoyed some fun activities to help them learn about looking after their teeth, healthy diet and what happens when they go to the dentist. Toothtastic Tuesday was organised by Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, Jacqueline and Nikki from Childsmile and the Nursery staff and it was lovely to have around 20 parents join us on the day to help the children as they moved round the different activities.
The dentist’s role play area was very popular, as you can see from the photos, and Jacqueline helped the children learn why the dentist uses different equipment. We really appreciated her bringing lots of masks and mirrors so that each child could try out the equipment and understand that everyone needs a new dental mirror and mask to avoid getting germs.
There were also puzzles, a drawing activity, an opportunity to use the big teeth models to learn how to brush properly and an activity to measure out the number of spoons of sugar in different foods and drinks. Hopefully the children have learned which drinks and food are healthier for their teeth.
Thank you very much to Eileen, Jacqueline and Nikki for all their help and equipment. Thanks also to those parents who joined us on Toothtastic Tuesday. We think that the children had a fun learning experience.
Here are some photos of the morning children busy at the various activities. We will post photos of the afternoon children in the next few days.
As part of our recent discussion about Chinese New Year, we talked about the types of food Chinese people might eat and the children were given the opportunity to sample a few Chinese foods at snack. As you can see, some children made a good attempt at using chopsticks and most were confident to try different foods.
We are looking forward to Toothtastic Tuesday tomorrow at either 11.00 – 11.45 or 12.15 – 1.00. Childsmile staff Jacqueline and Nikki have worked with us and Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, to arrange some fun activities based on keeping our teeth healthy. Thank you to those parents who have returned the slip to say that they will be joining us. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
As we are learning about Chinese New Year, the children have been developing their fine motor skills in the art area by using fine brushes to paint Chinese words and numerals. As you can see, they have been careful in their work and lots of children have been keen to try out this activity.
Early Years Scotland have advised us that Eat Better Feel Better’s latest healthy eating initiative has been launched.
This year’s campaign will focus on helping frustrated parents get greens on plates, and children across Scotland will be challenged to try a new vegetable every day for five days. Go to the website below for more information on the campaign.
https://www.eatbetterfeelbetter.co.uk/
There is also a link to this site on the right hand side of this page under “Useful Links”
