Library Visit

The morning children paid a visit to our local library today as part of learning about our community and to celebrate World Book Day which is on Thursday. Everyone seemed to enjoy the super stories read by Tina and there was plenty opportunity for the children to discuss their own ideas after each one.
Lots of children seemed to be familiar with the library and hopefully more may join after their visit today. Thank you to all the parents who came along with us. We really appreciate your help. Thank you also to the children for making us very proud of you – your behaviour was excellent on the walk there and inside the library.
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Our Community

As we begin to learn about our community and the jobs that people do there, the children are showing an interest in painting some of the vehicles that are used as part of people’s work. As you can see, fire engines and ambulances are the current favourites.
We would be delighted if parents/carers were able to come in to chat to the children about their jobs. It makes no difference what your job is, the children love to have visitors and it helps them to understand the world of work that they will become part of in the future. Please speak to staff if you are able to help us in this way.

Special Books

We hope that everyone has enjoyed having their “special books” home. No doubt your families will be very proud of all your achievements. Thank you to those who returned their books to Nursery today and to those who took the time to complete our comment sheet.

We ask that all the “special books” are returned tomorrow (21.2.14) to allow staff to continue to record achievements. However, please remember that the books are on display in Nursery for you to pick up at any time.

Monsters and Dragons

As we have been talking about dragons, as part of our learning about Chinese New Year, we set you a challenge of making a Hecklegirth monster or dragon at home with your families. We have some very creative drawings and models arrive in Nursery and we think that they are all wonderful. The children are always so pleased to share what they have done with their families and it helps to make those important links between Nursery and home.
We hope you enjoy our little gallery showing some of the fantastic Hecklegirth monsters and dragons. Well done everyone!

Scottish Songs

We have another lovely comment to share after the children’s singing performance on Friday:

“We really enjoyed the Children’s singing and Thom was especially pleased to spot his big sister at the front. Well done to all the staff for teaching the pupils all the words, I bet they had the songs in their heads ALL weekend, I know I did!! ;-))”

They are very catchy tunes, it’s true. We thought the children did well to remember them because we had only been learning them for a week.

Kailey’s Family’s Got Talent

Our Scottish celebrations continued this week with a fantastic performance by Kailey’s family. Her Dad kindly brought in his bagpipes to entertain us and both Kailey and her brother showed super skills as they performed several Highland dances to his music. Everyone clapped along and thoroughly enjoyed their wonderful performance. Thank you so much to Kailey, her Dad and her brother Conlay. We really appreciate you performing for us and think that you are a very talented family.

An Entertaining Burns Celebration

Carmen’s Mum has commented how much she enjoyed our Burns celebration:

“First I would like to say very well done to all the children. The singing was great. It was very entertaining. Secondly it was lovely to see the children in Tartan. This was Carmen’s first time wearing a kilt, she loved it.
Lovely photo. I’m going to send a copy of this photo to Carmen’s uncle who lives in Italy. He will show and explain to his sons why we celebrate Burns day, and what a haggis is!! Carmen loved tasting the iron brew. Might have to let the boys taste some Ironbrew when they come over!”

It’s lovely to hear that we’ll be helping Carmen’s family in Italy learn about Burns Day. They could always see the photos here on our blog if they have internet access at home. Maybe they could leave a comment to let us know what they think?

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