{"id":8246,"date":"2026-11-03T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:47:38","slug":"50th-birthday-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/2026\/11\/03\/50th-birthday-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"50th birthday celebrations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenwood turned 50 on 4th October 2026. The first entry in the log book said, <em>\u201cGlenwood Nursery opened officially on 4<sup>th<\/sup> October, 1976, although two members of teaching staff have been here since the 19<sup>th<\/sup> August, 1976. At this date we have one head teacher, one assistant teacher and five nursery nurses.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>What a contrast to a staff team of over 30 members of staff now and a further increase when Glen staff join our team!<\/p>\n<p>We celebrated with a giant Teddy Bears&#8217; Picnic in the woods. many of our families were able to attend too. And or course, we all took our teddy bears!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8250\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/2026\/11\/03\/50th-birthday-celebrations\/teddy-bears-picnic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1791452521&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"teddy bears picnic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8250\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/11\/03144711\/teddy-bears-picnic.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Parents&#8217; Committee purchased special mugs for all our children as a lasting memento of this special occasion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8237\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/10\/09095337\/mugs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/parents\/parents-committee\/mugs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/10\/09095337\/mugs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,957\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mugs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/10\/09095337\/mugs-300x228.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/10\/09095337\/mugs-1024x778.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-8237 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/Glenwood\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2026\/10\/09095337\/mugs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you to our Parents&#8217; Committee for our mugs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenwood turned 50 on 4th October 2026. The first entry in the log book said, \u201cGlenwood Nursery opened officially on 4th October, 1976, although two members of teaching staff have been here since the 19th August, 1976. At this date we have one head teacher, one assistant teacher and five nursery nurses.\u201d\u00a0 What a contrast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/2026\/11\/03\/50th-birthday-celebrations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50th birthday celebrations!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,46],"tags":[4742,20468,456099],"class_list":["post-8246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pupils","category-parents","tag-celebrations","tag-families","tag-woods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions\/8251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}