This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is kindness which is something we always focus on in Nursery. In these difficult times, it’s never been more important to be kind to our family and friends but also to ourselves, both adults and children alike.
We would like to share this short video from the Mental Health Foundation to remind us all to look after ourselves and others.
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Freya’s family has left a message for Mrs. Irving:
“Loving your weekly musical updates Mrs Irving!”
Glad your enjoying the musical videos. We are looking forward to Mrs. Irving bringing in her accordion to Nursery to help us at singing time.
Play Scotland are delighted to launch their Home Play Pack to support children and their families. It contains many simple ideas to stimulate children’s imagination, creativity and play time. Many ideas can be led and carried out by children themselves, with very little adult support and some are good fun for all the family.
Click on the link below to see this super free resource. We have also added it to our blog on the right under “Useful Reading” if you would like to return to the play pack in the future. We hope that you have lots of fun.
In Nursery we often talk about healthy and unhealthy foods as we prepare snack together and the children are developing an understanding of the difference between them. They have talked about some foods being good to eat lots and some less often. Most have grown in confidence to try different foods as the year has progressed and fruit and vegetables, for example, are a regular part of their snack time each day.
As a fun game, get the children to look at a range of foods in their kitchen and see if they can sort them into healthy and unhealthy foods. They could then sort fruit and vegetables (fresh and tinned) into those they like and those they do not like.
In the past we have looked at the work of artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who created faces out of food in his work. It’s always great fun to try this with the children using foods, or anything else you have available, to create a face. Maybe you could create one from things you find outdoors? We would love it if you sent us photos of your work via the school office at
gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk
We would like to share this Sticky Kids video about eating fruit and vegetables for the children to sing and dance along to as they play. Sticky Kids is very popular in Nursery so the children will no doubt love to join in. Refresh our page to see the video again.
Niks family has been listening to the story of “Lucy’s Blue Day”:
“Thank you so much for story. ❤”
We are glad that you enjoyed it and hope that lots more of our families listen to it. It is one that creates lots of lovely discussion in Nursery.
The British Red Cross has provided these short and simple but very helpful videos showing Dr. Radha Modgil’s top tips for making sure your children stay healthy and happy while in isolation. Dr. Modgil is an NHS GP and has been educating audiences on health and wellbeing for years. We think that her suggestions are super and worth a look.
Click on the link below to see three short clips on continuity, care and creativity.
We have had a super update from one of our families about what they have been doing while we are closed.
“V is been busy with her sister playing , learn do some art crafts she makes vase for the flowers with a can because she loves flowers, yesterday I talk about the super heroes and she doesn’t really no very well what’s a hero so I explained and she said he all can be heroes because he all can help each other. Here some photos show what we have doing. We hope you are all ok, and see you soon”
Thank you so much for sharing your lovely photos and for giving us news of what you have all been doing at home. It looks like you’re having a wonderful time. How thoughtful to say that we can all be superheroes by helping each other. It is great to hear from you and we hope that we see you soon too.
We would like to remind you that today, Friday 1st May, is the last day to enter Mr. Palmer’s Bike Art competition. The challenge, if you want to take part, is to create your own ‘Bike Art’. You can use any materials from your home (ask a parent/carer to help you) to design your own special bike.
Please send your competition entry in as a picture to the school office on gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or email Mr. Palmer on gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday 1st May.
We are looking forward to seeing all your finished entries. There will be a winner and runner up prize for Nursery-P1, P2-P4 and P5-7.
It’s lovely to hear from our families and to get photos of what you have been doing at home. We would like to share this photo of one of our pupils enjoying time outdoors. It looks like he’s having great fun!
Please send any photos you would like to share to the school e-mail address
gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk
You could add a sentence or two just to tell us what you have been doing and let us know if you would like us to name your child in our post. We look forward to hearing from you.
We would like to share this lovely gallery from one of our children, showing what she has been doing at home while Nursery is closed. We think that you will be amazed at how busy she has been.
She has been doing a lot of biking…4 miles a day to be precise! She is very fast, in fact can beat her mummy!!!
The family has been keeping busy in the garden, doing crafts, creating a fairy garden, redesigning her play house, planting plants, creating potions, weeding and painting lots of stones from the shore!
They created an Easter window display for a competition at her big sister’s school, it kept them busy for days!
They have been baking and decorating lots of cupcakes then enjoying eating them and sharing them with their elderly neighbours who they have been checking in on! With some help from her big sister she even made her mummy and daddy dinner one night! The family also made ice cream sundaes as a treat!
As always this little girl has been doing lots of role play with her sister! Midwives, teachers, princesses, hair dressers and they even set up a Spa and a Cinema to watch the new Trolls movie!
She loved watching the clip of Mrs Maxwell reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar which is her favourite bedtime story so she created a picture of the ‘fat caterpillar’ for her.
Their next project is growing butterflies and caring for tadpoles! Let’s hope they are as successful as last year!!
What a super time you have been having, creating wonderful memories together. We look forward to hearing about the butterflies and tadpoles once they start growing.
Thank you so much for sending us your photos and lots of news about what you have been doing with your family. We love to hear from everyone. Keep having fun and learning together.
