school visits – Page 9 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Moving On

With Nursery enrolment tomorrow and Thursday (25th and 26th February), we are already beginning to think of next school year. If your child is returning to Nursery in August and does not already have an enrolment form, you will be able to complete one at the school office. Apologies if anyone has not received a form in advance but we will give you one when you come to enrol.
As some children enrol for another Nursery year, others are preparing for the move to Primary 1 and some have been visiting the Primary 1 classrooms to build their confidence and familiarise themselves with the Primary 1 environment. These first visits have been a great success with the children enjoying investigating the various areas and becoming involved in some of the activities on offer. Thank you to Miss Campbell and Mrs.Lindsay, as well as all the children in P1 and 1/2, for making us feel welcome. We will come to visit again soon.

Primary 6 In Nursery

As part of our transition work, Primary 6 has begun to visit Nursery in the last few weeks to begin to build relationships with our children. They have been discussing what makes a good buddy and they are learning how to communicate with children of this age.
Lots of super posters have been produced as part of Primary 6’s Literacy work and they have displayed one in each cloakroom area of Nursery. We hope that you are impressed with their ideas and the thought that has gone into their accompanying notice. They would greatly value feedback and suggestions from Nursery parents on their work so please add your comments to the sheet displayed as they would be very interested to hear what other ideas you might have.
Thank you to Primary 6 for all your hard work. We really appreciate the time you have taken to think about this important role.

Snack In The Dinner Hall

Last week the children enjoyed snack in the dinner hall. We all liked the sound of the lunches that Mrs. Martin was preparing although some expected to then get the roast chicken or wraps that were for lunch that day and were a little disappointed to make do with a drink, biscuits and fruit. It won’t be long until some of you are enjoying the delicious lunches every day boys and girls.

Clever Crocodiles

What a lovely start Mrs. Lindsay had to her birthday when a group of Nursery children paid her a visit in Primary 1. Mrs. Lindsay was very impressed with their work on the crocodile story – making crocodiles from playdough and bricks as well as super drawings of the characters in the story. Some of the children even helped Primary 1 to tell the story themselves. Thank you Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. Waugh and Primary 1 for a great visit.

Photo Comments

Carmen’s family have been enjoying the photos of our butterfly artwork and the children visiting Primary 1:

“Carmen enjoyed colouring in her butterfly. I asked her how we could make a large,medium and small butterfly. “She replied, I could draw a medium one and an even smaller one and put them together so they are cuddling each other”.”

“I asked Carmen if she enjoyed going into P1 classroom today? She sayed she loved it and enjoyed listening to the story that Mrs Lindsay read them. She thought Mrs Lindsay was a lovely lady. She did say tho that there wasn’t many toys. Aw!! I’m sure she may pop back into nursery to have a little play.”

We love having little visits from the children when they are in Primary 1 and we’re sure that Carmen will find lots to play with once she’s settled in.

Visits to Primary 1

Mrs. Lindsay and Miss Campbell had more little visitors to their rooms today as lots more children visited their Primary 1 classroom. Playdough, stories, sand, computer games, the train set … they tried out most activities on offer and came back to Nursery very happy. Thank you to Miss Campbell, Mrs. Lindsay and Primary 1 for making everyone feel so welcome. The children are very excited to start in their new classes in August.

Primary 1

Miss Campbell kindly invited some of the children to play in her classroom this week so that they could get a feel of where they will be next year. All who went, settled very well and are looking forward to the move to Primary 1. We hope that more children will get the opportunity to visit Primary 1 soon and experience all the great activities that are on offer.

Playground Pals

The children who will be moving on to Primary 1 at Hecklegirth in August have been getting to know their buddies better recently. This week they enjoyed some visits to the playground to help prepare them for the transition to school. Primary 1 very kindly took the children out to the playground when it was empty and then they joined in a playtime with the rest of the school to help build their confidence. On both occasions the children’s buddies looked after them, making sure that they were confident and happy. As you can see from the photos, they even helped them to line up when the bell rang just like they will do in Primary 1.
I think you can see from the smiles on their faces that the relationships between the buddies and the future Primary 1 children are developing very well. Thank you to Primary 1 for looking after Nursery and thank you to all the buddies who did such a brilliant job at looking after their new little friends. The children were very excited about their visits to the playground so hopefully we will be able to arrange more visits soon.

Dragon Dance

Last week some of the children in the Rainbow Room decided that they wanted to make their own dragon to go on a dragon dance round school. Those who were not under the dragon formed a band to accompany the dragon on his journey.
Here you can see the procession on their way to see Primary 3 and the Primary 1 classes. Primary 3 used our visit to think of “wow” words to describe our dragon dance and had some great ideas. “Magical, sparkly, musical, fantastic, ambitious, bright, colourful, super, huge, wow, loud, wonderful and great” were some of the words they used in their descriptions. Thank you Primary 3 for your super work. We have displayed your drawings and “wow” words beside our paintings.

Pirates of the Rainbow Room

A group of pirates has been very busy in the Rainbow Room this week. An initial interest in drawing treasure maps resulted in us hunting out some pirate outfits and having our own treasure hunt in the Nursery garden. The children had great fun as they tried to follow the map and were very excited when they found the treasure chest which, of course, was marked with an “X”. They then decided for themselves to work in teams to hide the treasure chest and see if the other team of pirates could find it. Treasure maps also started to appear on the Promethean board as well as paper and there was lots of discussion about what kind of treasure we might find.
The Nursery pirates made a visit to Primary 3 to see what they had been learning about pirates. Mrs. Mahon was delighted to get some special visitors and sent them back with some pirate goodies – you can see the number game in one of our photos. She asked if the children could make some treasure for Primary 3’s treasure chest so they set to their task in the craft area and today they duly delivered their treasure to Primary 3.
Well done you pirates of the Rainbow Room – you have certainly shown yourselves to be successful learners and effective contributors with all your fantastic ideas.