Here are three of our recent award winners looking proud of their certificates. Congratulations to you all!
Congratulations
Tag: Responsible Citizens
Outdoor Cooking
On a recent visit to discuss our outdoor environment, the local ranger brought us a great new base for making a fire and the afternoon boys and girls were the first to try it out. While some were intrigued to watch the ranger setting up the fire, others were busy indoors making bread. Lots of measuring and counting skills were needed to make sure we followed the recipe but, as you can see, our team of chefs showed super concentration to produce their dough. Once it was wound round sticks and the fire was ready, the children helped to cook their bread and they melted marshmallows on sticks which brought lots of discussion about the changes happening to them as they were cooked.
We were very impressed with the children’s super listening skills and discussion about staying safe near fire. They certainly deserved to taste the results of their hard work. Thank you very much to Duncan for his help- the children had a great learning experience.
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Award Winners
We will all be friends.
Olivia’s family was pleased with the photo showing our Nursery rules:
“What a lovely picture to go alongside an important rule! Olivia has enjoyed making friends with the new boys and girls that have recently started at nursery! 🙂”
‘We will all be friends’ is an important rule in Nursery. It’s lovely to see children making new friends this year after some have moved on to Primary 1.
Nursery Rules
The children should all now be familiar with the Nursery rules and they all seem to be remembering them most of the time. I wonder if they can tell you what they are?
Wonderful Woodwork
We posted some photos recently of the children washing logs and slabs of wood as a starting point for making fairy houses for outdoors. The next stage was to carry out some woodwork to make doors and windows so we helped the children to use a hammer and chisel to carve them out of the wood. The hammer was also useful for adding chimneys to the houses. Super listening and very careful work was evident and you can see the look of concentration on their faces as they carried out this tricky task. I wonder if we are seeing some joiners of the future here?
Autumn Walk to School Week
“Autumn Walk to School Week” will begin today, Monday 26th September, until Friday 30th September. The underlying intention of the initiative is to encourage children to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school and Nursery to promote the obvious health benefits that these activities bring. Our Junior Road Safety Officers will assist in recording the numbers taking part. Bikes or scooters brought to Nursery can be stored in the small shed nearest to the car park in our outdoor area. We hope that everyone enjoys this great health initiative.
Kind and Helpful
Gardening Fun
Some of you have been enjoying the photos of the children planting in their newly decorated planter:
“This looks fun! Gardening is one of Olivia’s favourite things to do with her daddy! She told me she was digging a huge hole to put a plant in!”
“Its nice to see Harvey settling in and enjoying doing some planting 🙂”
The children are taking their responsibilities very seriously and are looking after the new plants with great care so far.
Sensory Planter
After our graph work to help us choose which type of plants we wanted to buy, our plants arrived and the children tried to guess which scent each one had which was quite a challenge and produced lots of discussion. They helped to plant them all and have added some of the shells and stones that they decorated to the planter. We are encouraging the children to gently rub the leaves then smell their fingers to help work out which smell each plant has. We hope that you agree that this makes a useful addition to the garden. Why not have a walk round the sensory planter with your child and see if you can find the chocolate mint plant or the curry one? As you can see from the photos, one little boy has already been showing his Mummy what he has been busy with. The children are now thinking about how to look after their new plants and are very keen to help with the watering.
