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Happy Families

Two of our parents have been enjoying photos of different recent activities in Nursery.

Evelyn’s family said, “looks like Evelyn is doing well in nursery. I love seeing pictures of her and that’s she’s safe near the fire. 🙂 xx “

We are pleased that you like our little snapshots of Nursery life. The children are certainly learning the rules of staying safe near fire and are becoming confident near fire.

Leo’s Mummy was one of those parents who participated in this week’s “Rhyme and Storytime” taster session:

“Leo and mummy had lots of fun at the rhyme session. Look forward to the next one 😊”

It certainly looked like good fun with Eileen. She is checking the times that suited people most and we are hoping that lots of our families will join in with our sessions.

Thank you both for visiting the blog and taking the time to leave us a comment.

Rhyme And Storytime

Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has shared these photos and detail of what happened at her taster session today.
“We had fun at our Rhyme and Storytime taster session this morning. We read a story about Incy Wincy and found out that he managed to get up the water spout. We learned some other rhymes about spiders, then we bounced our spiders up to the ceiling.”


This sounds like great fun. Eileen will be collating the results from her questionnaire about preferred sessions and will contact everyone to let them know when she plans to run more sessions.

Rhyme And Storytime

We would like to remind you that, following on from the posters and leaflets that we developed with parents last year, we will hold a taster session of “Rhyme and Storytime” tomorrow, Tuesday 18th September at 9.00 and 12.15. This will be led by Eileen Johnstone, our Family Learning Co-ordinator and we look forward to seeing you there.
Our posters are displayed in the Nursery so we hope that you can take the time to have a look at them as these key five messages are central to developing your child’s literacy.

Family Learning

Last week’s Family Learning activities were the first of the year and Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, enjoyed meeting new parents with their children as well as some that she got to know last year.
With her “Rhyme Time” activities, Eileen was matching the Nursery’s planning as she sent everyone a little home activity whether or not they attended her sessions. Here is a snapshot of some of our families joining in with the Family Learning sessions. We hope that everyone who took part enjoyed the sessions and look forward to more activities soon. Thank you very much to Eileen for organising a fun activity for all.

Word Of The Week

Last year, as a school staff, we took part in Word Aware training, which is a structured whole school approach to develop the vocabulary of children.
It is estimated that the average child learns 2000 – 3000 words per year every year throughout their schooling which equates to six to eight words a day on average. Children with good vocabulary go on to become good readers and vocabulary has a major impact on all areas of learning.
As part of our work to support the development of the children’s vocabulary, we will be including a “Word of the Week” in our planning and will focus on the appropriate use of that word in the Nursery environment. Sometimes the selected word may arise from a child led discussion and at other times it may be linked to our learning focus. We will share this word on the Nursery blog so that you can share in the fun with words at home.
Our “Word of the Week” next week will be “friend” as we begin to form relationships and build friendships in a new environment.

Where Are Our Butterflies?

When asked where they think our butterflies will fly to, the children in the morning produced some lovely ideas.

Olivia: to meet some new animals.
Evan G: to see the cows up at the farm.
Kobe: go to the flowers to eat.
Remy: to see the horses.
Matthew: to McDonald’s.
Crue: to make some new friends.
Aoife: to see some flowers.
Penny: they might go to the sunflowers.
Louie: to find some vegetables like tomatoes.
Eadie: to see the daisies.
Fraser: to the lake.
Leah: they go onto the buttercups.
Jasmin: to Dino Park.
Priya: I think all of them are going to fly to my back garden.
Tom: to America – it would take 1000 days.
Brooke: to Hetland to eat the flowers.

Keep your eyes peeled boys and girls – you never know where you might see them.

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