We hope that you are all staying safe and healthy at home. We would like to share some suggestions of activities you may like to do with your children.
• Look at books with your family.
• Sing songs and dance.
• Help tidy away your toys.
• Set the table, counting out the plates and cutlery.
• Help write shopping lists and find the items in the shop.
• Discuss the ingredients that will be used for meal preparation and help to make a meal.
• Bake some cakes.
• Help to weed the garden.
• Play games and practise listening and taking turns.
• Build dens.
• Dress up.
• Let your imagination run wild!! Children are great at creating their own fun and games.
• Most importantly play and have fun, spending time with your loved ones.
• Children learn from everything they do and can gain so much from the interactions they have with the people around them. Make the most of this precious time with your little ones.
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Tips
When things change or don’t go to plan, as in our current situation, young children can often feel confused, worried, scared or unsure. It is important to discuss issues with children when they are young to ensure that they can have the best chance of understanding a situation, what will or may happen and how to deal with it.
We know that families know best how to support individual children but thought that we would share some top tips, based on advice from the National Day Nurseries Association’s Early Years Advisers, for supporting these difficult conversations with your children to help ease any worry or stress.
• Be open and honest in terms your child will understand.
• Use stories available online or make up your own about difficult things. Include puppets and props where appropriate.
• Give children opportunities to ask question and offer them lots of reassurance.
• Use play and role modelling to help understanding and provide reassurance.
We hope that this may help some of our families.
Keep In Touch
After setting up our blog in October 2010 to provide an opportunity for families to gain an insight into the life of Nursery, we added a counter to measure the number of visitors to our site. Unfortunately, after a few years, there were problems with this so in October 2015 we added a new counter to monitor visitor numbers and we are delighted to say that we have now had 50 000 visitors in that time.
If you click on the small map, further down this page on the right, then click on ‘Locations’, you can see that we have had visitors from 62 countries which is amazing.
We really appreciate the comments on our posts as this, hopefully, helps to make it a fun, shared site for everyone.
Thank you for your support in keeping our blog active and we hope that you will leave us comments while Nursery is closed so that we can hear what everyone is doing. Click on the “How to add a comment” link on the right under Support Information for simple instructions if you are unsure how to do this. We hope that everyone is keeping safe and healthy.
Safe And Healthy
Friday was a sad day in Nursery as we closed, until further notice, in line with all other schools and nurseries in Scotland. Unfortunately many were not with us on Friday so we would like to wish all our children and their families good health over the weeks and months ahead.
Undoubtedly the children will continue to learn and develop in so many ways as they play with their families. We will share a few suggestions here of activities you may wish to try at home and will continue to post here when appropriate so please keep an eye on our blog.
We also still have photos of the children over the past few weeks to share and we will post them here over the coming weeks so that the children can talk to their families about them and see pictures of their friends.
We sincerely hope that Friday was not the last day in Nursery for some of our children and that we will all be back together in the not too distant future but, in the meantime, we hope that you all stay safe and healthy.
Pampering
Tilly’s family has been looking at the photos of our pampering:
“Tilly absolutely loved the pamper corner, this is right up her street! She came home and gave her whole family a wonderful hand massage!!”
Well done Tilly for being so kind to your family.
Miss Fleming enjoyed her time being pampered too:
“I thoroughly enjoyed spending time in the pamper corner. The children were all so gentle when giving hand massages. It was very calming and relaxing.”
It was lovely that the children were being thoughtful towards other children and adults alike. Sounds like we may have to set the pamper corner up again.
Story Session
We are holding a Nursery story session on Thursday 12th March at 2.30. We would like to invite parents/carers into Nursery to listen to an Easter story with your child. Younger siblings are welcome to join us. We hope to hold more of these story sessions as the year progresses.
A reply slip is in your child’s tray to confirm attendance. We look forward to seeing lots of you then.
Stay And Play
The children love it when an adult from one of our families comes in to play and it was no exception when Skye’s Mummy stayed to help us bake scones. She gave the children lots of tips, as she often makes scones at home, so some delicious scones were produced in our kitchen that day.
We would love it if lots of grown-ups from our families stayed to play. You don’t have to provide an activity, simply join in the play and have fun to experience what a typical session is like for your child in Nursery. Why not just stay for an hour or so when you drop your child off or just pop in for a quick visit when you have a little free time? The children and staff would love you to stay and play any day.
Proud Parents
Emily’s family is delighted with her recent award:
“We are extremely proud of how well Emily is progressing in nursery and are over the moon to see she got a certificate for her manners”
Emily thoroughly deserved her award for her delightful manners. Well done Emily! Everyone is very proud of you.
Proud Boy
Alex’s family is pleased to see the photo of him with his certificate and left us a comment:
“Alex is very proud of his certificate!”
You certainly deserve that certificate Alex and we are all proud of you too.
Nursery Library
This is just a reminder to all parents and carers that the Nursery library is open weekly. The Rainbow Room can access the library every Wednesday 9.00 – 9.15 and the Raindrop Room on a Thursday at the same times. If your child is not in Nursery at these times, please speak to staff and we can arrange books to be changed at a different time.
We hope that all children who borrow books are enjoying reading stories to their adopted teddy bears. We still have lots of bears who would love a new home full of lots of cuddles and stories. We look forward to seeing you all at the library this week.
