school visits – Page 7 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Ice Homes With Primary 2

When Primary 2 wanted to put ice cube trays in our freezer recently, some of the Nursery children were curious about what they were going to do with them. A group of children was therefore invited to join Primary 2 when they collected the ice cubes for their activity. Our children worked well together with the older children when they talked about freezing and melting as they tried to make homes out of ice.

The children showed that they developed their learning from this visit to Primary 2 as you can see from some of the comments below.

Owen: we needed to build ice homes. You needed to stack them all.
Brogan: we had to get the ice out. It was very cold. It’s made of water.
Noah: we were making homes. They melted and made water.
Ethan: we went to the school. We made ice for them. We were having a feel of it. It felt freezing cold.

Thank you very much Mrs. Mahon and Primary 2 for inviting us to your class. We had lots of fun and were able to tell the other boys and girls what we had learned.

Dylan’s Lunch

Dylan enjoyed his school lunch last week too. His Mum left us a comment:

“Dylan really enjoyed his lunch at school last week and says he can’t wait to have his lunch there every day and try some different lunches 😀 xxx”

It’s great to hear that the children enjoyed their school lunches and reassuring that they are looking forward to having lunch in school once they start.

Lunch With Friends

Mollie’s Mum has been looking at the photos of the children having a school lunch last week:

“Mollie loved her school lunch, she is really looking forward to P1 and having lunch in the dining room with her friends. Thank you to all the dinner ladies for being so helpful and kind.”

We’re glad to hear that you enjoyed your lunch Mollie and it won’t be long until you can have lunch with your friends every day.

School Lunch

Last week some Hecklegirth parents joined their children to sample a school lunch in preparation for the move to Primary 1 in August. Hot dogs and chips or delicious sandwiches were on offer and I spotted some tasty looking ice-cream and yoghurts for dessert which seemed to go down well with most children. Hopefully everyone is now looking forward to their school lunches when they come to Primary 1 in August.

Playground Buddies

We have had another lovely comment about our P6 buddies from Aoife’s family:

“Aoife has loved visiting the playground with her buddy Lauren and she also gets to see her big sister Freya when she’s out. Thank you so much to Lauren for looking after her, it lets us parents know they’re being well looked after.”

It’s great to hear that Aoife has been enjoying her visits. Well done Lauren. I know that Aoife looks forward to your visits.

Playground Visits

There have been some excited Nursery children in the school playground over the past couple of weeks when the children moving to Hecklegirth P1 in August went out to play.
After visiting the playground when no other children were there, they then joined the rest of the school for a visit at break and lunch times. Despite it being a very busy time, the buddies ensured that all the children were confident and happy to try out the different areas of the playground, the field and the timber trails. It was wonderful to see how much the children had grown in confidence to visit different areas of the school thanks to some super support from Primary 6. Just look at all those happy faces! Hopefully we will manage another visit to the playground soon. Well done P6 buddies! You are doing a super job!
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Transition Visit

The children who will soon be making the transition to Primary 1 at Hecklegirth have had another visit to the P1 classrooms to become familiar with their new environments. As you can see, they settled in well and were confident to try out a range of activities including, in some instances, having their snack in Primary 1. Everyone is looking forward to their next visit.

Pedal Power

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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Cars, Trains and Lots of Fun

Dylans’ family has been looking at the photos of the children visiting P1 and 1/2:

“Dylan had a fab time when he visited Primary 1, he was full of chat about his visit when he came home and said he was happy there was cars and a train track there, he is looking forward to more visits.”

Good to hear that you enjoyed yourself Dylan. We will be having more visits next term to investigate what you can do in Primary 1.

Having Fun in Primary 1

It’s great fun in Primaries 1 and 1/2, as some of the children found out recently when they paid a visit to their classrooms. There was a whole new selection of toys and activities to investigate and experiment with which all the children tried out with great excitement – Easter art, fun number activities on their Promethean board, exciting stories where the children helped to tell the tale … just so many fun and different ways to learn. We hope that you agree that the children look very comfortable and settled in this exciting new environment – definitely the ‘confident individuals’ we want to nurture. Thank you to Mrs. Lindsay and Miss Campbell for making the children feel so welcome. They all thoroughly enjoyed their visits.