Category Archives: Nursery transition
Nursery Circle Time
The first visit to school sometimes seems very daunting for our new Early Years children and their parents. However the children enjoyed themselves singing and playing games with some eager volunteers from Primary 6, Miss Boyd and Mrs Walls.
Circle Time is a positive behaviour technique that is used throughout the school to promote relationships through turn taking, patience and tolerance.
Nursery – Positive Play
As part of our Nursery Induction programme the new starts meet with our current Primary 6 pupils for a playtime session. This means the children get the chance to find some new friends and mentors before their start in August.
If you go down in the woods today….
……..I hope you will get a pleasant surprise because you will find Hillbank Early Childhood Centre at Dean Park and Riccarton Early Childhood Centre at Caprington Woods as part of their forest school learning. Miss Boyd and Mrs Walls joined the children on their adventures.
Next school session we hope to carry this great work on and head off on our own adventures – Kirky and Kirsty will come too!
Sports Day
Kirkstyle amazing sports day.
It was a lovely day for sports. It was very funny a Primary 1 put her pigtails in her circle rubber ring and people where trying to get in there sack, but at least it turned out nice I loved it.
Emily Bradford
It was a perfect day for sports day. Some people cheated at the novelty race and the nursery race. There were selling juice, water and crisps.it was a lot of fun a little girl got stuck in her sack.
Tamzin Anderson
Yesterday it was our sports day my class did the balancing the ball race I came 2nd Amy Mortimer won. I also did the girls relay the yellows came 2nd I did the tunnel ball- guess where we came 2nd. I did the flat race I came 5th the top 4 get a sticker well doesn’t matter it least I came 2nd in 3!!!
Louise Cameron
Nursery Transition
We have started to introduce our new starts to life at school; Miss. Boyd, Mrs Walls and Mrs MacKinnon have been for some visits to Shortlees, Riccarton and Hillbank to visit the pupils and have taken along some special visitors for the pupils to meet.
Kirky and Kirsty are our special Kirkstyle monkeys who help the new pupils meet and join the school. But we are also pleased to weclome Flat Stanley who is on holiday from Beechwood Nursery and Family Centre.
Miss Boyd and Mrs Walls to Riccarton afternoon session – 09.05.13
Mrs MacKinnon to Shortlees morning session – 14.05.13
Miss Boyd to Hillbank and then off to the Dean for Forest School – 15.05.13
Miss Boyd and Mrs Walls to Riccarton and then off to Caprington Woods with the morning session – 16.05.13
Miss Boyd to Grasshopper – 20.05.13
Mrs Walls to Beechwood – 21.05.13
Mrs Walls to Puddleducks – 21.05.13
Cerys, Demi, Emma, Callaigh and Olivia all met Kirky our monkey.
Did you spot who Ava met, as well as Kirky?
All the parents and carers have been sent leaflets which list the dates for visits to school and you can also view them here on the blog on the Nursery transition leaflet page.
Stair Garden Centre
Primary 1 have started to look hard for the signs of Spring and Summer in our school grounds and are ready to start to plant. The upper pupils cleared last year’s old bedding plants and vegetable garden ready for the new seasons growth. Therefore the pupils needed to replenish their stock so a trip to Stair Garden Centre and Nursery was needed.
The pupils got the chance to plant some seeds with the helpers.
The pupils planted nastursium plants which grow edible flowers for salads.
If you haven’t already guessed ‘Flat Stanley’ joined the Pr.1 pupils at the Garden Centre. Stanley arrived in an envelope on his holidays from Beechwood Nursery in Kilmarnock. I think he has had a great time see if you can find him elsewhere in the blog.
Nursery visit – Parents
Who said learning stops – our parents proved there was still plenty of time and fun to be had learning in school.
Our parents were confident individuals, responsible citizens, effective contributors and successful learners.Who was the faciliator?
Nursery visit – Scooter
Last visit to school before the holidays was all about scooter skills and parachute games. Mr Gary Seymour our Active Schools Coordinator and Mrs Diane MacKinnon Head Teacher along with Primary 6 volunteers helped the pupils float, balance, hide and run with our large parachute. The giggles said it all!
- One behind the other!
Mrs Brenda Sneddon our school’s Clerical also has repsonsibility for Kerbcraft and Junior Road Safety Officers worked with our Nursery pupils to get them through their Level 1 Scooter Skills training – success as everyone passed!
Nursery Visits – Zumba
Our new Primary 1 pupils have enjoyed 5 visits to Kirkstyle to start to get them familiar with the school community. Pupils in Primary 6 have visited Riccarton Nursery to play positive play games and then have helped with settling in during their visits. On one visit we were pleased to welcome Silly Jilly to zumbatonic with pupils and parents – if they were willing!
