Our little caterpillars have been so busy munching away on their food, carefully watched by the excited Nursery boys and girls, that they are now at the stage of cocoons. Today they were transferred to their nets and we hope that beautiful butterflies will emerge in a week or two. If you ask the children, they will be able to show you the cocoons and tell you all about them.
The Rainbow Room afternoon children showed great enthusiasm on their recent visit to the police station and enjoyed finding out all about a police officer’s job. Just like the morning children, they behaved beautifully and made us very proud of them all. Thank you again to those parents who helped to make this visit possible and to the staff at the police station who gave up their valuable time.
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After a postponed visit last term, the Rainbow Room managed to get their visit to the police station last week as part of learning about our community. Everyone enjoyed watching life on the High Street through the CCTV cameras, had a good look in the cells, where some tried out the sleeping arrangements, and round the various areas of the police station. The police vans and cars provided great excitement especially once we were able to try out the sirens and blue flashing lights. As you can see, some of the children even had a little turn with the handcuffs.
Thank you so much to all the staff for showing such patience with the children and giving up their precious time. Thanks also to those parents who accompanied us on our outing. We all had a great visit. Here are the morning children on their visit. We will post photos of the afternoon children soon.
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An exciting little parcel arrived in Nursery last week which caused everyone to stop and look carefully. It was our own little tub of caterpillars to help our learning about life cycles. The children are keeping a close eye on them and already they have grown considerably. Why not ask the children to show you them in Nursery and see if they can tell you what is going to happen next to our caterpillars?
One of the Health and Wellbeing learning outcomes at Early Level is to show an awareness of the tasks required to look after a baby so we thought that there could be no better way to find out about this than to invite Miss Awde in to Nursery with her beautiful little baby. The morning children had lots of good questions for Miss Awde as they thought about the differences between themselves and a baby.
Miss Awde and Devon are coming back in this week to visit the afternoon children so they will be able to ask any questions they may have then. Thank you Devon for being a super visitor and for bringing your Mummy with you. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.
After learning a little about Vincent Van Gogh, the children have been planting sunflowers as well as painting them. We have talked about what they will need to do to make their seed grow and about the different parts of a plant so hopefully the children should be able to look after them when they bring their sunflowers home soon. 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.
Thom’s family has been looking at the photos of the children busy with the new bark in the garden:
“Thom was very keen to show me the big blue bag when we walked past it on our way home, I notice though he wasn’t there to help with the hard work! I’m surprised as he usually likes getting mucky! We happened to be passing when the truck brought the next bag and he was very pleased the driver waved to us.”
Lots of the children have been helping to spread the next delivery as part of their play. What started out as a little hill of bark is slowly being dug, raked and spread to make a much improved base for our digging area so well done to all those children who have been helping out.
There was great excitement earlier this week when a delivery of bark and topsoil arrived to top up our outdoor area and its arrival was all the more exciting when it was delivered over the hedge by a lifting arm.
A team of hardworking gardeners was then on hand to carry the bark to the areas we needed it. As you can see, we saw some great teamwork as spades and rakes got into action, the barrows were filled and were tipped across our digging area. Thank you to everyone who helped – you did a super job. The good news is that we had another delivery today so we will need to get our sleeves rolled up again over the next few days.
A big “well done” goes to last week’s certificate winners. You are little stars!
This week is “Big Pedal Week” at Hecklegirth and there was certainly lots of pedalling happening on Monday when many of the children brought their bikes and scooters to Nursery. As you can see, they participated in great fun activities in the school playground under the guidance of some super volunteers. It was lovely to see that some Nursery children also joined us for a breakfast of yoghurt, cereal bars, fruit and a drink before their “Big Pedal” event.
Thank you to everyone who helped to organise this event and gave up their own time. The children had super fun and what a great way to keep fit and healthy. Remember we are continuing to count the numbers of bikes and scooters coming to Nursery each day this week so keep up the good work.
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