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Family Learning

Thursday saw our first Family Learning event of the year and we are delighted that a good number of children and their families took part.
Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, provided materials for the children to design and decorate canvas squares which she will put together to make a wall hanging for the Family Room. Well done to everyone who helped to add to the hanging – you will see it on display whenever you go to the Family Room. Thank you also to Eileen for organising this activity for everyone. Here are some of the busy artists at work with their families.
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Growing Project

Those who helped to plant vegetables last term as part of a Family Learning project may have noticed our crop in the raised beds in the Nursery garden. Some of the children harvested the carrots at the start of term and they seemed pleased with their efforts. Well done everyone who helped in this project and thanks to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for her work last term to make this project happen.

Learning The Rules

Callum’s Mum enjoyed his photo showing us the rules:

“We asked Callum about this photo and he said “we have walking legs in nursery not running ones”. He also told us that he has to help tidy up toys. Hope this happens at home?”

Well done Callum! It sounds like you’ve got a good idea of what the rules are. We hope that you are continuing the good tidying up at home to help your Mum and Dad.

Nursery Rules

The children have been talking about rules in Nursery and why we need rules. You could ask them at home if they can remember what we agreed on. Here are some of the children showing us the rules to help everyone remember them.

Sophie’s Sunflower

Another sunflower from last year has grown successfully. Sophie’s Mum sent us a photo in her garden with a message.
“Sophie wanted to show nursery her sunflower, it has grow up to her chin and when we got home from Spain it had flowered too! We are very pleased its grown as we aren’t very good at gardening usually! Missing you all but enjoying primary 1.”

Well done Sophie! That’s a super sunflower. We are glad to hear that you are enjoying Primary 1.

Family Learning

We would like to draw your attention to our first Family Learning event of the year on Thursday 4th September. Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, is planning two morning and two afternoon sessions for you and your child to decorate canvas squares for a wall hanging in the Family Room (opposite the school hall).
A letter will be given out in Nursery this week explaining Family Learning to everyone and you can sign up for the sessions, if you wish, on the grids on display on the Family Learning board in the Nursery corridor. We hope that lots of families take the opportunity to join in this fun activity.

First Days

We hope that you all enjoyed your first few days in Nursery and are looking forward to attending for a full session this week.
However, if your child takes a little while to feel comfortable, please allow him/her time to take things at their pace: we, as adults, cope with change in different ways and at different rates and children are exactly the same. If you have any concerns about your child, please speak to staff who can offer you advice based on their experiences.
Here are a few more photos of the children getting to know their new environment.

Settling In

We hope that everyone is beginning to settle in to Nursery life. We have certainly had a great time getting to know all our new children and their families and are delighted with the way in which the children have settled. It has been lovely to see all the familiar faces from last year too.
We thought you would like to see a few photos of the children at play. Once we have blog permission slips returned, we will able to share more photos here. We hope that you will find this a valuable insight into the life of our Nursery and that you use the blog to add comments about your child’s experience. Simply click on the word “comments” under the title of this post if you wish to leave your comments. Please be aware that these will not appear immediately, as they are monitored by the administrator before publication, but you should see your comment within a day or two.
Thank you to all our parents for working with us to ensure a smooth and happy start for the children.
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Super Sunflower

Last term the children planted sunflower seeds in Nursery and took them home so that they could care for them. Some children brought them back in to show us once they had started to sprout and they seemed to be doing a super job of looking after their little plants. Mollie was telling us today that her sunflower had grown lots over the summer and her Mum has sent us a photo to share with everyone. Well done Mollie! You have looked after your sunflower really well. I wonder if anyone else has a photo of their sunflower?

Shopping In The Sun

As we start to enjoy our holidays, the weather seems to have forgotten that it’s supposed to be summer. Here are a few photos from last week when the sun was shining and some of the children made a sweetie shop outdoors using their snack drinks and fruit. Let’s hope that you’ll all be enjoying some outdoor play at home soon if the weather improves.