Thank you to all those who contributed to our Children in Need ‘dress as you please day’. We are delighted to say that Nursery raised £78.33 as part of a grand total of £302 raised by Hecklegirth School so thank you very much to everyone who contributed.
Tomorrow (Friday) is Children in Need day and Hecklegirth is raising funds by having a ‘dress as you please day’ for a small donation to this worthy cause.
As part of our outdoor development, some of the children worked hard at the end of last term to make bird feeders. We chopped fruit and used rice cakes which were carefully threaded to make feeders to hang in our canopy. As you can see, there was great concentration and good fine motor skills involved in this activity so we hope that the birds appreciate all the children’s hard work.
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Congratulations to last week’s worthy award winners. Keep up the super work both of you!
We would like to remind you that anyone who wishes to donate the gift of a Christmas shoebox should bring them in to Nursery by this Friday, 11th November. Operation Christmas Child is the world’s largest children’s Christmas project and your kind donations will be sent to needy children who will undoubtedly be delighted with your gifts. Thank you so much to those families who have already donated a shoebox, it is greatly appreciated. Here are some of the children with their boxes ready to be collected.
Noah and Joshua H’s families have left comments on our photos showing the children with sparklers.
“What fun there is to be had in nursery!”
“Joshua looks like he’s concentrating on something. Great to see the fun & safety of sparklers.”
Thank you for taking the time to leave us comments. The children really did enjoy the sparklers and listened well to all the discussions about staying safe.
After the excitement of Hallowe’en, inevitably we quickly moved on to discuss Bonfire Night experiences and no learning about Bonfire Night is complete, of course, without a discussion about staying safe.
Rather than simply talking about the dangers of fire and fireworks, we made our own little fire one day last week to help us talk about safety and on Friday we held some sparklers. The children showed a good understanding of how to stay safe and were very sensible when handling their sparklers. Well done boys and girls.
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As work on our outdoor area developed last term, the children learned how to use tools safely so some took the opportunity to practise their skills when we decided to turn some tree trunks into outdoor seating. As you can see, this super little team worked away with the hammer and chisel to remove some of the outer bark and then got to work with a paintbrush and varnish to give them a shiny finish. We think that they did a great job. Good teamwork boys and girls.
Towards the end of term we decided to make apple crumble as we had a lovely big basket of apples brought in by several different people. The children were able to learn about the importance of hygiene and safety in the kitchen, fine motor control, counting and chopping skills, using the technology of a microwave and the effect of heat on the apples.
Here you can see the morning children demonstrating some of their skills. Afternoon photos will be posted soon.
Following on from the afternoon children’s experience, we set a fire one morning last week. Toasted marshmallows and bread were on the menu which went down a treat. It’s strange how food seems to taste so much better outdoors but there were certainly plenty of children keen to sample it. As with the afternoon children, we were delighted with the children who were so sensible round the fire and showed that they realised how important it was to stay safe.
