Great fun was had last week with Early Years Hallowe’en activities. Primary 1 visited Nursery to decorate biscuits and Nursery children enjoyed craft activities in the Primary 1 classrooms. This was a great opportunity to build the confidence of the children to work in different environments and with different people. As you can see, they got right into the Hallowe’en spirit. Thank you Mrs. Lindsay and Miss Campbell for welcoming the Nursery children into your classrooms.
It’s that time of year when we need to clear our gardens and prepare for the winter ahead. Earlier this week a very busy little group of gardeners worked hard to empty the old soil from our raised bed to add into the digging and mud kitchen area of the Nursery garden. Great teamwork was in evidence and the children loved doing such an important job. Well done all those super helpers who joined in.
The last day of term was one of beautiful Autumn sunshine so it was the perfect opportunity for some parachute games. The children showed good listening skills and great teamwork to ensure lots of fun was had by everyone. I wonder if we will have any more sunny days like this next week when we return to Nursery?
Last week’s award winners were presented with their certificates by Rev. McGougan at our Harvest celebration so we decided that they should be given to children who had made a super effort to contribute to our singing practices. We hope that they were especially proud to receive their awards in front of a big audience. Well done all of you for your great contribution.
Thank you to all those children and their families who kindly donated to our Harvest collection. We feel sure that all the food will be much appreciated by Annan Food Bank. Many thanks also to Rev. McGougan for joining us in Nursery for our Harvest celebration.
We really appreciated your fantastic support in providing a wonderful audience for the children today. It was a lovely opportunity for us all to gather together to celebrate Harvest and we hope that you enjoyed the children’s performance as much as they seemed to. One of our aims is to develop ‘confident individuals’ and many of our children showed themselves to be exactly that in their performance. Well done boys and girls!
Well done to last week’s award winners. Here they are with their certificates.
Nursery turned into a world of superheroes on Friday as the children dressed up in various outfits to support Primary 2’s Superhero Day in aid of the charity Shelter. Thank you to all those parents who took the time to help their children dress up and for your kind donations. Nursery raised £24.02 to add to Primary 2’s collection which will be much appreciated.
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Dylan’s family has left a comment to say how delighted they are with his certificate:
“Dylan was so proud of himself when he came home with his special award, as were we, 🙂 he was so excited to show and tell everyone about it. Mummy, Daddy and Brooke are so proud of you Dylan, and at how well ur doing at nursery, -you are a wee star. ☆keep up the good work ♡♡ xxx”
That is a lovely smile in your photo Dylan. You certainly should be proud of your achievements. Well done!
Congratulations to last week’s award winners who all had a super week. Keep up the great work! We are all proud of you.
The children in the Sunshine Room have continued to be motivated by their interest in pirates and the learning has been developed in several directions with the help of Mrs. Bell, our student teacher.
Pirate stories have been very popular, with some of the children keen to tell the stories themselves. They also received a letter from Captain Furrybeard who seemed to have left his telescope and hat in our Nursery and needed some help from the children. Maps, flags and telescopes were produced and the children had to think about how to make a new pirate ship for Captain Furrybeard. This, of course, involved measuring Captain Furrybeard to help us work out what size of ship was needed. As you can see, his ship worked out just the right size for him.
We had treasure hidden in the sand tray and there was some counting had to be done to ensure it was all found. Good turn taking skills were also shown as the children played a pirate game. We hope that you enjoy these photos of the children engaged with all the different pirate activities. As you can see, lots of valuable learning has taken place with Captain Furrybeard.
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