Miss Campbell kindly invited some of the children to play in her classroom this week so that they could get a feel of where they will be next year. All who went, settled very well and are looking forward to the move to Primary 1. We hope that more children will get the opportunity to visit Primary 1 soon and experience all the great activities that are on offer.
After weeks of watching the progress of our caterpillars who slowly grew and formed their cocoons, we finally saw our beautiful butterflies emerging in their net last week. After a few days of feeding them on sugary water and slices of oranges, it seemed that they were ready to be released and we could think of no better place to set them free than in our outdoor classroom among the trees and flowers.
They seemed to be a little nervous of leaving their safe little home and Miss Kerr had to give them a helping hand to settle on the flowers which gave everyone a chance to have a close look at our little butterflies before they slowly flew off.
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Thank you to the children from Ace playgroup who came to visit us today as part of their transition to Nursery. It was lovely to meet you all and we are looking forward to you coming to us next year. There was a surprise for some of our children when a little brother unexpectedly appeared for a visit but they looked after him very well, showing him round all the different areas of Nursery. Thank you to the staff from Ace for bringing everyone over. We look forward to meeting the rest of the children soon.
The children have become very engaged in their learning about minibeasts over the last few weeks and have become engrossed in searching for them in the Nursery garden. As you can see, they have had the magnifying glasses and bug tubs in action and they worked well together as good detectives. The children quickly learned that underneath the alphabet stepping stones was one of the favourite homes of all sorts of minibeasts.
There was great excitement in Nursery yesterday as the children were able to see the little duckling that had hatched in our incubator at the week-end. Unfortunately our photos are not very clear but hopefully most children were able to see the duckling before it went to Simon’s home to be looked after. As well as more ducklings, we hope that we may have some chicks soon. I wonder when they will arrive? Remember to keep an eye on the incubator in the Rainbow cloakroom.
As promised, we have some photos of the afternoon children when they recently visited the police station. They were just as well behaved as the morning children and made us very proud of them. Thank you again to all the parents who came with us – we really appreciate your help.
Recently we were able to take the children to see what the inside of a police station is like and to learn about a police officer’s job. Many of the children tried out the cells and enjoyed using the controls of the CCTV cameras. We also saw the rooms where interviews take place and fingerprints and DNA are taken. The police van, of course, was particularly popular, especially when the children were able to try out the blue light and the siren.
Thank you to all the parents who came with us on our visit and to the police officers for taking time to show us round. We are delighted that they commented on everyone’s super behaviour. Several children thought they would like to be police officers in the future so perhaps we will see them patrolling the streets of Annan in years to come.
Here you can see some of the morning children in action on their visit. We will post photos of the afternoon children soon.
Sophie’s family enjoyed our Fun Activity event:
“we had a lovely morning on Tuesday such a nice way to do a sports day it made it a really fun and positive experience for the Children and everyone seemed really happy. We were very proud of Sophie, she was a little shy that we were there watching but also very confident in her abilities. All the staff were great too, well done Everyone!!”
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. How lovely that you felt that everyone seemed really happy.
We have had a super photo sent from home:
“Mollie’s sunflowers , hopefully they will go in a pot each at the weekend!”
Well done Mollie – you’ve really looked after your sunflowers. Good luck with the planting at the week-end. I wonder how everyone else is getting on with their sunflowers?
Thank you very much for the kind comments re our Fun Activity event.
Carmen’s Mum: “Very well done to all the boys and girls today. You were a credit to your teachers and nursery. As a parent I was very proud of all the children, what a lovely atmosphere. Well done to all the teachers who work so hard to put sports day on, you deserve a medal.”
Mollie’s Mum: “It was fantastic seeing the children working together as a team, well done to all! Mollie certainly loved it, especially her medal and ice lolly!”
