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Burns Day

On Friday we enjoyed a great celebration for Burns Day with shortbread, oatcakes and cheese and, of course, our toast with Irn Bru. Some of the children were disappointed that we didn’t have a birthday cake for Robert Burns’ birthday so we will have to keep that in mind for next year.
We appreciate everyone making a super effort to provide the children with ‘a touch o’ tartan’ as it added to the occasion. Thank you also to all the family and friends who came to hear the children sing their Scottish songs. It’s so important for them to have an appreciative audience and you certainly helped to make it a great occasion for them. Thank you, as always, for everyone’s support and lovely comments.
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We Loved Our Snowmen

Some of our families have enjoyed seeing their children’s home activity on our blog:

“Bethany loved making this snowman picture but she was most upset there was no ‘big sister’ snowman and so added her own!”

“Carmen loved this task. She likes to cut and stick things down. As you can see her favourite colour is purple and pink ha ha”

Thank you to all our families for helping the children with their snowmen at home. It’s lovely to see so many of you taking part.

Learning About Winter

It sounds like Carmen is enjoying learning about winter as her Mum commented:

“Carmen is enjoying the winter topic. She loved designing her snowmen at home. She says it great fun. When we are about to set off for nursery in the morning I ask her what’s the weather like today Carmen and she tells me. When she saw the floods on the TV Carmen sayed to me ” mummy I wish I could help those people” I said and how would you help them Carmen she sayed ” mummy they could all come and stay at ours and have a sleepover until there house has dried up”. Aw how cute! So she understands how the bad weather affects people and that she cares!”

How kind of Carmen to think of others. We did talk about the floods and were pleasantly surprised by how much the children understood about them. We have also enjoyed seeing all the different snowmen arriving in Nursery and will hopefully put a few photos on the blog soon.

Christmas Comments

Some of our families have been looking at the photos of our Christmas parties:

“It was lovely that we were invited to see Santa deliver the presents. Sophie loved her book, we often borrow it from the Library so its nice to have our own copy now, thank you very much!”

“Charlie had a great day! I don’t think he suspected Santa! Haha xxx”

We hope that everyone enjoyed their day.

School Enrolment

We would like to remind you that enrolment for pupils due to start Primary 1 in August 2014 will be on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th January 2014 between 2.00 and 3.30p.m. at your child’s catchment school. If you wish your child to attend a school other than his/her catchment school, there is an option to make this request on the enrolment form.
When enrolling their child, parents should bring with them their son/daughter’s birth certificate and proof of address, e.g. a utility bill or bank statement.

Super Singers

Thank you to Rebecca’s Mum for her comment on one of the photos of the children’s singing this week:

“They look fair happy, what a good singing they all did”

It was lovely to see them happy and relaxed to perform. We also had great fun at our parties yesterday and hope to get photos up in the next few days for you all to see.

Singing Celebration

As promised, we have some photos of the children as they prepared for our Christmas celebration with their families. We hope that, like us, you were very proud of them all as they behaved and sang so beautifully in front of a big audience. Huge thanks to Rev. McGougan for joining us and to all the family members who helped to make this a special occasion for the children.
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Busy Families

Lots more Mums and Dads joined their children for Eileen’s Christmas Family Learning activity on Monday this week. Here are some of them busy at work. We are sure that your Christmas trees will look lovely now with your new decorations. Thanks go, as always, to Eileen for arranging these opportunities for our families. Keep an eye on the Family Learning noticeboard next term for more activities.

Star Performance

Thank you so much to all our families who supported the children today at our Christmas celebration. Carmen’s Mum has left all the boys and girls a lovely comment:

“WOW the concert was great today. Carmen’s Nonna and I really enjoyed it. The children were super. Lovely little singers. Well done to ALL the boys and girls for giving us a star performance. Very well done to all the teachers you all do a great job X”

The children were little stars and we were all very proud of them. We have some photos taken as they got ready to sing and will try to put them up on the blog soon.

Christmas Celebration

We hope that you are looking forward to the children’s Christmas performance tomorrow (17.12.13). After positive feedback from our Harvest celebration, we decided to keep our Christmas celebration informal to encourage the children to enjoy a relaxed and happy performance of the songs they have been learning. Rev. McGougan has kindly agreed to join us again and we are delighted that many parents have indicated that they would like to be part of our celebration.
We thought you might like to see a few photos of the children practising to give you a little taster. We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.