Come wind, rain or shine we have to care for our garden and these helpful little gardeners did a great job recently weeding our plant box. They showed good listening skills to carry out instructions and, as well as pulling all the weeds out, they tidied everything into the bin afterwards, leaving us with a weed free and tidy box. What super “responsible citizens” and “effective contributors” they are which are two of the aspirations we have for all children in Scotland
Thank you so much to those who have kindly donated to our local charity, Kate’s Kitchen. Bars of soap, hot water bottles, gloves, hats and socks would all be gratefully received to distribute in our local community. Final date to donate to this worthy cause is 14th December. Thank you very much for your kind generosity if you have already given donations.
Hecklegirth Fundraisers would like to invite our families to support local causes for the upcoming Christmas period. Kate’s Kitchen is in desperate need of
• bars of soap
• hot water bottles, mini or normal
• gloves (adult and child)
• socks (adult and child)
• hats (adult and child)
If you would like to donate, please hand in any of the above to Nursery or school by December 14th.
Thank you to all those who participated in our “Non-Uniform Day” for Children in Need and thank you to those who kindly gave a donation to this worthy cause. Here is a selection of photos from our day.
Thank you very much to all those who contributed to our “Children In Need” day. You raised £57.28, as part of a grand total of £269 from Hecklegirth Primary and Nursery, to send to this very worthwhile charity. Photos will follow soon of some of the children in their “Children In Need” outfits.
Just like many other groups of children and adults over the past week, we talked about why we have Poppy Day and the children have begun to understand what it is about. As part of our learning some of the children took a walk to the war memorial at the end of last week to see for themselves what their local community has to remember those who died.
Once we had enjoyed our Hallowe’en celebrations, we had to decide what to do with our pumpkins. The children helped to prepare them for outdoors as we thought that the birds and insects might like to have a little feast on them. It was quite hard work but an enthusiastic little group were great helpers preparing the pumpkins and placing them in various positions in the outdoor area. We hope that the visitors to our garden enjoyed their picnic.
As promised, here are some of the children in the afternoon enjoying trying out some sparklers at the start of the week.
Sparklers are a great way to learn about staying safe on Bonfire Night and the children listened well to all our instructions when we enjoyed them in the Nursery garden on Monday. We talked about how to behave, who is allowed to light fireworks and all learned about putting the sparkler in water once it was finished.
Some were more cautious than others but everyone was happy to hold a sparkler so well done boys and girls for being confident to try out something that was new to many. Here is a gallery of some of the morning children busy with their sparklers. We will post some of the afternoon children soon.
We would like to share these photos from the end of last term. There seemed to be so much happening at the end of term that we didn’t manage to post these at the time but we thought that you would like this little gallery of marshmallow toasting with the afternoon children.
