Tag: health and wellbeing

Healthy Hecklegirth

Further to our recent work on SHANARRI, the children talked to us about being healthy and showed a good understanding of what this means. Here are some of their ideas.

Ben W.: drink lots of water
Kacey: you brush your teeth.
Caidy: you do exercise to keep fit.
James P.: wash your hands before eating.
Ben W.: you wash your hands to get away the germs from the toilet.
Cormac: we do “Sticky Kids” to stay healthy.
Finbarr: we eat carrots and other vegetables to stay healthy.
Peter: go to bed.
Orla: have a bath.
Keegan: wash your hands after the toilet.
Olivia: wash your hands before you eat to get rid of germs.
Mollie: if you brush your teeth, you keep your teeth healthy.
Jay: go to sleep.
Henley: wash your body in the bath.
Finn: you have to put soap on and rub your hands.
Lucy: you wash your hands after you’ve been outside to play.

If you want to read more about SHANARRI, click on “Girfec leaflet” on the right under “Useful Reading“.

SHANARRI – Staying Safe

As part of the Nursery Improvement Plan we will be working with Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, later this term to share the SHANARRI ethos with parents and carers. There is a link on the right under “Useful Reading” called “Girfec leaflet” which explains this. Last term we also began talking to the children about these wellbeing indicators to gauge their understanding initially of what being safe means for them.

We thought we would share some of the ideas that the children came up with.

Wareeshah: we don’t run away.
Mollie: don’t go on the road.
Ben F.: holding a grown-up’s hand.
Finn: don’t bang heads.
Henley: don’t run.
Jayden: stay away from water.
Grant: I don’t go too fast when I’m on my bike.
Euan: stay away from fire.
Ellie: stay away from under the sink. There’s stuff there that hurts you.
Jenson: sit on your seat properly.
Ewan: don’t jump off the edge of a cliff.
Aoife: Mummy and Daddy keep you safe.
Erica: don’t touch knives or you’ll get cut.
Kenzie: walking is safe. Follow the Nursery rules.
Hannah: stay away from the edge of the harbour. If you fell off you couldn’t get out.
Rory: stay with your Mummy near the river.
Finbarr: don’t run and don’t jump down mountains.
Orla: stay on the paths.
Sian: don’t go next to fireworks.
Luca: you need to safe in a house – safe from black ice.
Chloe: it means you don’t get runned over.
Joshua: you stay safe in the line ’cause people hold hands.
Dylan: stay inside so cars can’t get you.
Ben W.: stay in the house ’cause you might get hurt if you’re not with your Mum and Dad.

We were very impressed with all the different ideas that the children produced about staying safe. We will be looking at more indicators with them next term and look forward to hearing their thoughts.

Biscuit Decorating

On the last day of term Kacey’s Mum kindly brought in Christmas biscuits she had made, along with lots of exciting tubes and little tubs to provide decorations for the biscuits. It was such a lovely activity for the children to join in with on the last day of term and we would like to thank Kacey’s Mum very much for finding the time to make the biscuits and for spending the morning with the children when she no doubt had lots of other jobs to do. Those biscuits looked delicious.

Christmas Jumpers

Towards the end of term we had a “Non-uniform/ Christmas Jumper Day” and lots of you joined in with the festive fun to help raise money for the Carlisle flood victims. Those fantastic jumpers seemed to put a smile on everyone’s face and helped us add a good donation to the school’s total of £237 for a very good cause.

Party Time

Here are the promised photos that show that the party spirit was just as evident in the afternoon party as the morning one. As you can see, they joined in the dancing and games with enthusiasm and were also lucky enough to get a visit from Santa. As with the photos of the morning children, please click then click again to make the photos clearer.

Christmas Party Time

A fun time was had by all at our Christmas parties yesterday with something for everyone, be it games, dancing or party food. The children from the Rainbow and Sunshine Rooms played confidently together and were delighted to have a visit from Santa, despite it being such a busy time of year for him. Thank you Santa – we all really appreciated your visit.

The photos below give you a taste of our morning party and photos of the afternoon party will follow in the next day or two.

Christmas Celebration

We hope that, like us, you were very proud of all the children as they behaved and sang so beautifully in front of a big audience at our Christmas celebration on Friday. Huge thanks go to Rev. McGougan, Mrs. Alexander and Mr. Palmer for joining us and to the many family members who helped to make this a special occasion for the children. Here are a few photos of the children as they prepared for their performance.

Carlisle Flood Donations – thank you!!!!

Here is a post from Mrs. Alexander to thank everyone who has kindly donated to our contributions to the victims of the Carlisle floods. It was lovely to see so many of the Nursery children and their families participating. Christmas Jumper Day photos will be posted here in the next few days.

The school communities of Hecklegirth and Eastriggs have generously donated over 200 Christmas gifts to Norman Street School in Carlisle. Hecklegirth also raised £237 from a Xmas jumper day today which was also donated.

Mrs Alexander and Miss Aitken travelled to Carlisle with our van man, John Gray, of DB Schneker who kindly donated a van. They saw first-hand the devastation the floods had caused. They were warmly received by the staff and children of Norman Street School and the headteacher explained that they were surprised by our visit as they thought people had forgotten about them now that the rain had stopped. Several staff were in tears, moved by your generosity, as bag after bag of gifts was pulled from John’s van!

Thank you so much to the school communities of Eastriggs and Hecklegirth – plus a kindly last-day donation from neighbouring Cummertrees – for helping make Christmas happen for the people of Carlisle. You truly have made a difference.

The rain has come and it has tried to do its worse. But without the rain there would be no rainbow.

Be proud, folks.

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