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Burn’s Day

On Thursday we enjoyed a great celebration for Burn’s Day with shortbread, oatcakes and cheese and, of course, our toast with Irn Bru. We appreciate everyone making a super effort to provide the children with ‘a touch o’ tartan’: it certainly added to the occasion and they all looked wonderful.
Thank you to everyone who came to hear us singing with Primary 1. It’s so important for the children to have an appreciative audience for their performance and you certainly helped to make it a great occasion for them. Hopefully these photos reflect how much the children seemed to enjoy themselves.
Thank you, as always, for everyone’s support and lovely comments.

Scottish Celebrations

As we started our week of Scottish celebrations, on Monday morning both the Rainbow and Sunshine rooms joined the rest of the school to enjoy entertainment by a band playing Scottish music. We learned about different types of music and soon we were clapping and tapping our feet in time to reels and strathspeys with everyone else. Thank you very much to Mrs. Lewis and her band for taking time to come to our school – we really enjoyed your visit. We are looking forward to a visit later in the week to Nursery from Mrs. Roberts, a band member who works at Hecklegirth, to learn more about Scottish music and in particular the fiddle.

Our New Children Settle In

We are nearly at the end of our second week of the term already and our new children are settling in well in each room. As you can see, they are beginning to find out where everything is and are enjoying a range of activities. Thank you to all the other boys and girls for making them feel welcome. We hope that our new families enjoy using our blog to get a feel for life in Hecklegirth Nursery.

What Does Winter Look Like?

Our learning at the start of this term has focussed on the signs of Winter and how it affects our lives. The ice cave in each room has been very busy: furry rugs and sleeping bags, maps, hot water bottles and flasks have produced lots of imaginative role play. We have talked about Jack Frost and discussed what he looks like, where he lives and what he eats which has produced some interesting ideas. In the art and craft area we have created a range of Winter pictures using a range of materials.
We hope that you like our Winter displays. I wonder who can find their picture below? Click on a photo then double click to make it bigger.

Star Award Winner

Well done to last week’s Star Award winner in Nursery for giving good answers when we were discussing healthy foods and why some foods should just be for treats. Here he is getting his certificate from Miss Wilson.

Building Materials

Last week we took delivery of a huge pile of wood, thanks to Mr. Raymond Kerr of Kerr’s Sawmill. The children loved being in charge of these new building materials and helped to organise them in the Nursery garden. Almost immediately, several children showed great imagination and started to build their own dens, leading the way in the play and guiding others in good teamwork.
We would like to thank Mr. Kerr for his generous donation and look forward to many happy hours of problem-solving, construction and den building in the Nursery garden.

More Party Photos

As promised, here are some photos of the afternoon children having fun at their party on Wednesday. Don’t they look fantastic in their party clothes?

We would like to wish all our children and their families a Happy Christmas. We want to thank you for your support this term and look forward to seeing you all at the start of next term which is January 8th for the children.
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Party Fun!

Dancing, games and party food make for a good Christmas party and we had them all at our parties. The children had planned their games and helped to make some of the food which made it more exciting for them. Most of them certainly seemed to enjoy the cakes and jellies that they had made themselves.
The children’s behaviour was excellent and it was lovely to see the children from the Rainbow and Sunshine Rooms playing happily and confidently together. Santa had promised that, if their singing was good enough, he would come to the party and everyone seemed very pleased to see him. One or two even took the chance to slip a last minute letter to him, just as a reminder for next week. Thank you, Santa, for taking time to visit us at such a busy time for you.

The photos below give you a taste of our morning party. Photos of the afternoon party will follow soon.

Singing With Smiles

What wonderful smiles the children had when performing Christmas songs to their families on Friday. The last minute phone call from Santa in the Sunshine Room seemed to produce some lovely singing so we hope that he keeps his side of the bargain and is able to come to our party on Wednesday.
With around 200 family members in the audience between the two performances, we think that the children have certainly shown how their confidence has grown since they started in Nursery. They were so excited to perform on the stage and we hope that you enjoyed it as much as they did.

Here are some photos of the children getting ready for their performance.

Christmas Crafts

Thanks must go again to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing super Christmas craft activities for children and their families to enjoy together. It’s been great to see that four sessions offered by Eileen have been full and hopefully, lots of homes in Annan are now looking more festive with the crafts produced. It seemed that the Mums, Dads, Grannies and little brothers and sisters enjoyed Eileen’s activities as much as the Nursery children so it really was a Family Learning experience.

Thanks Eileen. We look forward to more Family Learning after Christmas when the story, rhyme and number sacks will continue to be given out every week and some different activities will be on offer.