We would like to remind everyone that this week, 15th to 19th May, is Health Week at Hecklegirth so the children will be taking part in several exciting activities that have been arranged for us. As some of these events will be outdoors, please ensure that your child has suitable footwear and clothes with them for whatever the weather brings to be able to fully enjoy what is on offer. We are unsure whether this will mean suncream and hats or warm jumpers but we want to make sure that everyone has great fun learning about a healthy lifestyle.
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Spring Walk To School Week
Next week is “Spring Walk to School Week” running from Monday 15th to Friday 19th May. The underlying intention of the initiative is to encourage pupils to walk to school or actively travel by bike, scooter etc. where it is safe to do so.
Junior Road Safety Officers in our school will be collecting numbers of those walking or travelling actively. Dumfries and Galloway Council is keen to promote this activity throughout the region and we hope that lots of Nursery children take part next week, particularly as it will be a whole school and Nursery Health Week.
Sunflowers
Quinn’s family has been looking at the photos of the children planting their sunflower seeds:
“Quinn said she had a great time doing the sunflower. It has grown lots and has already had to be repotted. Xx”
It’s great news that it’s grown lots already Quinn. You must be looking after it well. I wonder what size it will grow to?
Sunflower Seeds
As they have been learning a little about the artist Vincent Van Gogh, the children have been planting sunflowers seeds after looking at his famous painting of sunflowers. We have talked about what they will need to do to make their seed grow so hopefully the children should be able to look after them when they bring their sunflowers home in a week or two. We look forward to hearing about some super sunflowers or even seeing a photo once they begin to grow. Fingers crossed that they can be planted outdoors and turn into a lovely burst of sunshine in a corner of everyone’s garden.
Dream Jobs
As part of our learning about our community and the different jobs people do locally, we talked to the children about what jobs they might like to do in the future and we thought that you would like to hear some of their plans.
Summer: a mermaid.
Edward: a swimming teacher.
Max: a pirate.
Quinn: to have my own car and work on the computer.
George: a zookeeper.
Tom: a policeman.
Danielle: a pizza lady.
Finlay: a teacher.
Eli: an engineer that fixes things.
Owen: an astronaut.
Leah M: clean the dishes and cook.
Callum: a police officer.
Chloe: a fairy.
Theo: a king.
Brogan: a policeman. I can stop the bad guys.
Neve: a hairdresser. I like doing hair. I can curl it.
Peter: a tractor and digger driver. I can make lots of money digging holes.
Harvey M: I want to be a footballer and play for Rangers.
Enid: I want to be a fairy and do magic.
Meris: I want to be a hairdresser and cut your hair.
Noah: I want to be a football man. You have to be good at kicking.
Vinnie: a policeman. They drive fast cars.
Kyle: I want to do digging in the mud.
I wonder if any of their dreams will come true?
Red Nose Day
As you can see from our photos, the Nursery children took part with great enthusiasm in Primary 4’s challenge on Friday to wear something red for Red Nose Day.
Thank you to all those who bought red noses from us earlier in the week as you helped to raise £53 towards the Red Nose Day total and apologies to those who missed out as there wasn’t a single red nose left to buy in the whole school.
Thank you for all your donations and to Amelia’s family for their raffle prize which was won by Ava. Including red nose sales, the raffle and donations on the day Nursery families raised a grand total of £135.45 to add to the whole school contributions so thank you to everyone for their generosity.
Learning With RSPB
As promised, here are the afternoon children enjoying the RSPB activities with Kirsty. We are now looking forward to keeping an eye out for all the birds visiting our garden over the next few months.
RSPB Visit
Since we had our canopy built last summer, the birds have been slowly getting a little more confident to visit our garden and the children get very excited if they come to sample some of our bird food.
This week we had a visitor who helped us learn more about the birds we might see and what they like to eat. Kirsty from the RSPB let us hear what different sounds each bird makes and we had great fun playing a game to see if we could remember their sounds to match them to the correct picture. The children got their fingers nice and sticky making fat balls for the birds using lard and seeds then they tried out the binoculars in the garden to see if any birds were close by although a little help was needed to get the binoculars the right way round. Kirsty also showed the children three different nests and talked about the birds that would use them so everyone left feeling very enthusiastic about our local birds and how to look after them.
Here are the morning children enjoying their activities. Photos of the children in the afternoon will be posted soon.
Active Lifestyle
As part of our ongoing work on SHANARRI, we looked recently at how the children feel that they are active as part of a healthy lifestyle. It seems like there are lots of different ways for Nursery children to be active. Here are some of their thoughts.
Isobella: take my dollies for a walk.
Eli: do Highland dancing.
Priya: go on my balance bike.
Kenzie: do push-ups in my bedroom or the living room.
Tom: go on my black bike.
Neve: running, jumping and going on the scooter.
James: I like digging.
Enid: skipping.
Peter: I do swimming. I ride my horse and feed him and muck him out.
Meris: swimming with Dad.
Halle: I go to gymnastics. I do cartwheels.
Joshua W.: Tiger Cubs – Taekwando
Callum: I go to swimming. Mummy takes me. I listen to my teacher.
Reuben: I go to rugby. It’s outside at Violetbank.
Olivia: I go in my pretend car. You need to push your feet along.
Theo: I go swimming with my Dad.
Isaac: I run with my big brother Dylan.
Summer: I go running with Mummy, Daddy and Cara.
Joshua M.: I go to football. It’s at the swimming pool hall.
Maxwell: I go swimming with Mummy.
Danielle: I go to football.
It seems that most boys and girls in Nursery are very active with their families. This is just a selection of activities that they told us about so they must be keeping very fit and active.
Get Your Red Nose Here
On Friday 24th March Primary 4 will be performing at assembly on the theme of Red Nose Day and they have suggested that children in school and Nursery could wear something red that day. They have also organised for red noses to be on sale for £1, if the children would like to contribute, and a box of red noses is now available in Nursery. Thank you to Primary 4 for your help. We hope that you raise lots of money for this worthwhile cause.
