pictures – Page 8 – Hecklegirth Nursery

“Trotter’s World of Animals”

Our trip to “Trotter’s World of Animals” was a hit with all the morning children this week. Some of us enjoyed the reptile encounter; others preferred to “hug a bunny” but we all loved the funny little monkeys and the lemurs. As you can see, Stan the Star particularly enjoyed meeting the bunny. As always, a picnic lunch goes down well and our time at the park or in the soft play area finished our day off nicely. We hope that the photos tell the story. Thank you so much to all the mummies and grannies who came to help us: we could not have had our trip without your support. We are looking forward to Thursday’s visit with the afternoon children.

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Jubilee Celebrations

We feel so lucky that the sun shone on our Diamond Jubilee celebrations on Monday. The children looked fantastic in their red, white and blue outfits and some even had their faces painted or Union Jack flags with them too.

The cake decorating was a little messy, as you can see from the photos, but great fun and the teddies seemed to enjoy being in Nursery for the day. We had games in the sunshine and our day was topped off when so many parents came back early to sample the children’s cakes. Thank you, as always, for your support – the children get so excited when they know that their families are coming to see something they’ve done.

We seem to have so many lovely photos of the day and hope that you enjoy our sample below.

Sunshine and Smiles

It was all sunshine and smiles for our Fun Activity Day this week. We were lucky with the weather which helped to make everyone so happy and the children certainly had beaming smiles on their faces as they had fun at the various activities. It was great to see them all working together for their team and trying their best. We certainly felt very proud of them all and, judging by your comments and the super support the children had, we feel sure that you felt the same. Thank you so much to everyone for coming to cheer the children on. We think they thoroughly deserved their medals and ice lollies after all their efforts.

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Our New Garden Wall

After lots of hard work by Rory’s Mum and Dad, our garden wall has now completed its transformation from a faded painting to a magical and exciting creation which stemmed from the children’s thoughts and ideas. We are delighted to have an original piece of art in our garden to provoke lots of questions and discussions: the children seem to notice things that we, as adults, might not have seen and it’s fantastic to be able to share it together.

We are extremely grateful to Rory’s parents for all their input, both in working with the children on their design ideas and in the hours that they have spent transforming their ideas into reality. We will post some of the children’s comments on our blog soon but there’s little doubt that they all love it. We would love to hear what you think of our new wall.

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new wall whole — What do think of our new wall?

Working Together

It’s been great to see Nursery children bringing in so many Tesco vouchers to add to the school collection and everyone has enjoyed going along to the foyer to pop their vouchers in the box. The vouchers will be sent off at the end of the scheme to be exchanged for a range of equipment. In the past, Nursery has been lucky enough to get resources such as musical instruments and a table for the garden so these vouchers are certainly valuable to us all. Thank you to all our families who have contributed so far.

Healthy and Happy

As part of our “Healthy and Happy Week” we had a visit from the school nurse who talked to us about various aspects of a healthy lifestyle.

We learned about the importance of washing our hands and had great fun using Rachel’s “magic machine” which showed us where the germs were hiding on our hands. We also worked well together on different activities designed to think about which foods are good for us and which should only be an occasional treat.

All in all, this was a super learning event for all the children so thanks to Rachel for taking the time to spend with Nursery, Primary 1 and Primary 2 – we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and learned lots.

Families Learning Together

We are delighted to say that our Family Learning event last week was very well attended. “Healthy Snacks and Happy Faces” seemed to be a great success for everyone who took part and it was lovely to see families able to enjoy some fun learning together, particularly when children were from different classes.

Families from Nursery, Primary 1 and Primary 2/1 all attended our session, enjoying delicious healthy snacks of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries on oatcakes and soft cheese. There was friendly advice available and a selection of helpful leaflets as well as the opportunity to make a happy face using food pictures.

We hope everyone enjoyed this aspect of our “Healthy and Happy Week” and are very grateful to Eileen Johnstone, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for, yet again, organising an event which made everyone feel welcome.

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Spring Flowers

The children recently enjoyed using a range of resources to produce a beautiful selection of flowers when learning about Spring. As you can see, each one is individual and unique which makes for a lovely variety in their display.

Can your child find his or her work in these photos?

Learning is Fun

When we returned from our Easter holidays the children were very excited to find that our whiteboard had been adjusted so that it could be lowered to the correct height for them. This means that they can now learn how to use the “magic pen” and everyone is very keen to try it out.

This week we have started doing our daily calendar on the board and the children are learning to use the pen to drag words and pictures to the appropriate place on the calendar.

As you can see from the photos, we have also been using the whiteboard for some of our “All Together Time” activities. This week we were learning about Spring and it added greatly to the children’s interest and involvement in the activity when they were able to see large pictures to add to our discussion and they were able to drag pictures to different areas of the board to classify whether images were of Springtime or Winter. Children and adults alike are delighted with our new resource and we look forward to all the fun learning opportunities it will provide for us in the future.

Happy Easter

What a fantastic display of decorated eggs we had in Nursery last week thanks to all your efforts at home. We were delighted that nearly every child had spent time with their families decorating eggs and we all enjoyed talking about the different ideas on display. Mrs. Kelly was so impressed that she brought Primary 4/3 to Nursery to see our display. We gave them a few ideas for decorating their own eggs and they were certainly full of compliments for our efforts.

Click on the photos below to see some of the children’s super eggs. We hope that you are all enjoying your holidays and wish everyone a Happy Easter.