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Graduation Day

How proud we all were of the children at our graduation ceremony today as they sang and danced to celebrate their achievements this year in Nursery. They showed great confidence to perform to their families and then to walk on stage on their own to shake hands and receive their certificates. Thank you to Mrs. Alexander for taking time to present each child with their award – we think her knees must have been very sore by the end of the day. Thank you also to all the family and friends who attended our little ceremony and for your support throughout the year.
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Harvest

Earlier this year some children and their families worked together in a Family Learning project to plant vegetables at home and in the raised beds in the Nursery garden. Today they returned to the beds to harvest some of their crop. As you can see, they had great fun making faces with their vegetables as well as tasting them. (It really seemed a bit warm to make soup as planned). It’s interesting how some children won’t normally eat vegetables but they enjoyed tasting those that they had grown. Thank you to Eileen, as always, for providing her super Family Learning activities.

Photo Comments

Carmen’s family have been enjoying the photos of our butterfly artwork and the children visiting Primary 1:

“Carmen enjoyed colouring in her butterfly. I asked her how we could make a large,medium and small butterfly. “She replied, I could draw a medium one and an even smaller one and put them together so they are cuddling each other”.”

“I asked Carmen if she enjoyed going into P1 classroom today? She sayed she loved it and enjoyed listening to the story that Mrs Lindsay read them. She thought Mrs Lindsay was a lovely lady. She did say tho that there wasn’t many toys. Aw!! I’m sure she may pop back into nursery to have a little play.”

We love having little visits from the children when they are in Primary 1 and we’re sure that Carmen will find lots to play with once she’s settled in.

Do You Play, Talk and Read With Your Child?

Education Scotland is highlighting the importance of playing, talking and reading with children. Parents, carers and families make a positive difference to a child’s learning and your support can play a vital role at all stages of your child’s education.

The latest PlayTalkRead campaign, including a television advert to be shown during World Cup games, was launched on Father’s Day.

The PlayTalkRead campaign’s summer activity is part of the Scottish Government’s focus on the early years of children’s lives – encouraging and supporting parents and carers to play, talk and read more regularly with their little ones.

For more information and advice for parents and carers to support literacy at home, please visit our link on the right to the Parentzone website or have a look at the PlayTalkRead website at www.playtalkread.org/

Bring Your Parent To Nursery

All the children love it when a parent or grandparent comes to join in a Nursery session and it’s great that several parents have come in to play in the last week or so. There are still a few weeks left to take the chance to see what the children do in their time in Nursery and everyone is very welcome to stay and play any day. As you can see, it will probably put a huge smile on your child’s face and you will doubtless have great fun too.

Sticky Kids

We would like to remind everyone that tomorrow, 9th June, is our outing to see the “Sticky Kids” show. Children should arrive in Nursery at normal times and we will travel by bus. We are taking a snack so the children will not need anything with them apart from their singing voices. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to accompany us. We are delighted that we have space for all the volunteers.

Happy Day

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.

Mollie’s Sunflowers

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?