Public Health Scotland are undertaking a COVID-19 Early Years Resilience & Impact Survey. They are keen to share this with as many parents/carers as possible to find out more about how COVID-19 has been affecting the health and wellbeing of younger children (age 2-7 years) in Scotland.
Please click on the link below to contribute your views.
Letters have recently been sent by the Early Years Team to inform you of your child’s place next school session in Early Learning and Childcare. If your child will be attending Hecklegirth please confirm your acceptance of this place to the school address
gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk
We look forward to hearing from you.
Alfie celebrated his birthday recently and his family kindly sent us lots of great news about how it went.
“Thank you for Alfie’s birthday card it was a lovely thought. Alfie had a fab time playing keepy uppy with the balloons from your card. He had a lovely day even though we had to have his bbq picnic the day before as we weren’t sure on the weather. He had lots of new things to do. We spent the day at Powfoot flying his new kite he got from his cousins James & Joshua. Then a yummy ice cream as a surprise from Drummuir.
Alfie & Niks have managed a couple of FaceTime calls. The first time they did it they face timed each other twice in a day & flattened both phone batteries. We are going to meet up when Niks’ Mum is off work & go on a river walk.
Alfie’s new school teacher has been in touch & there are plans being made to visit next week at some point.
We have been doing lots of baking during lockdown, last week we made a cake Alfie was very proud of his decorating skills. “
Wow! That is an exciting birthday Alfie. I have to say an ice-cream from Drummuir sounds wonderful – you are giving me ideas of where I would like to go. It’s lovely to hear that you have been able to chat to your friend and we hope that you are able to meet up soon. Thank you for sharing the news about your birthday. It was lovely to hear from you and it sounds like you had a great day.
We would like to share this lovely resource which may be helpful to children who are worrying about anything. “There’s a Knot Inside My Tummy” was written by Jennifer Notman who is a Cumbrian teacher, entertainer and parent who felt compelled to help children struggling with worry during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She drew upon knowledge and experience to create a catchy rhyme based on real anxiety management techniques. We think that she and her colleague have produced something positive, fun and helpful for children and their families, now and in the future, to help them recognise and manage feelings of worry.
Click on the link below to hear this catchy tune.
We just love this photo of Luca who was delighted to get a letter from Mrs. Irving recently.
His Mum said, “he was so pleased to receive it he made me read it to him 5 times, it is now currently in his safe box to keep.”
Thank you so much for sending us Luca’s photo – what a gorgeous smile. It is so nice to hear that his letter will be treasured and kept in his safe box.
We have been hearing about what Robin has been doing while Nursery has been closed and have some lovely photos to share of him building with his bricks and of a super bird feeder that he made. We are very impressed with your writing too Robin.
Very well done Robin! The birds will love visiting your feeder and that will always be a reminder in your garden of this time as you grow up. Thank you so much for sharing your super photos.
We are delighted to have two more lovely photos to share of children who were happy to receive their letters recently from Mrs. Irving and Mrs. Gray. Kyla’s card actually came as an extra birthday surprise and she thought it was going to be a birthday card when it arrived in the post. Good timing Mrs. Gray!
Thank you so much for sharing your photos. It’s great to see you both looking so happy.
We have some wonderful photos to share of what Noah has been doing during Nursery closure. Of course, his main duty has been taking on the very important role of being a big brother.
His family say, ” Noah is an excellent big brother, helping with Jude, playing with him, keeping him entertained in the car and giving him lots of cuddles”. Jude looks so cute and we just knew you would be a brilliant big brother Noah. Very well done!
Noah’s Mum also told us what else he has been busy with during the past weeks at home:
“Making slime has been a firm favourite – a slime dinosaur land, of course! We’ve also made a lot of salt dough shapes and painted them which has been fun. At Easter Noah made salt dough bunnies and Easter eggs which we decorated and hung on our tree in the garden so the Easter Bunny would know where to find us. Noah has also been playing a lot of guitar with his Daddy which I’m sure the neighbours have loved!
We’ve been enjoying our daily walks and Noah and his Daddy have been a bit more adventurous than me and have been skateboarding. We’ve also been teaching Noah to ride his big boy bike – hopefully he’ll be cycling without the stabilisers soon. “
Noah also asked his family to send us a picture of the rainbow he painted for all the key workers working hard to keep us safe, and their pet cat Milly. We love your rainbow Noah and it’s good to see that Milly is guarding it well. We are sure that it will make people very happy when they see it as they walk by.
Goodness me Noah, you’ve certainly been very busy and it is lovely to hear about all your adventures. Skateboarding sounds very tricky so well done with that and good luck with your bike – we think that you’ll be off on your own without stabilisers very soon. Thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful photos and tales of what you have been doing. It’s lovely to hear from you and no doubt your friends will love seeing your photos as much as we do.
Yet again, Isaac and his family have shown great kindness in making and delivering some beautiful bread to Mrs. Kirkpatrick. She was delighted with their kind gift and said that it was delicious and particularly enjoyed it with her favourite topping of cheese on toast with black pepper. It certainly does look very tasty. Very well done Isaac for being so kind and thoughtful.You are becoming very good at baking. 
It has been lovely to hear how much the children have enjoyed getting their letters from Nursery staff and we have a message from Tilly’s family about hers:
“Tilly loved her letter, she has popped it in her special box. Thank you Mrs K xx”
It is lovely to hear that Tilly will treasure her letter. Thank you very much for letting us know.
