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Extended Play Day: Thursday 21st June @ Calderglen Country Park

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Extended Play Day: Thursday 21st June

Reminder about our longest day of the year all together play day!

Plan for the Day!

Destination

Calderglen Country Park, come rain, hail or shine! We will be embracing this outdoor learning opportunity no matter the weather. This is an outdoor nursery day that you attend with your child. There will be no nursery session at IMFC on this day.

Time

Staff will be at the park from 9:30am – 3pm. Please feel free to attend whatever times suits you. Some parent will be there all day and others have requested that they only attend for part of the day.

Please let Joanne or Donna know your intentions for the day.

Travel

Please note that everyone should meet us at the park. If you require any advise regarding travel arrangement please see Joanne or Donna.

Things to do

Zoo – small charge to access this please see website

Café, Play Park, Forest Adventures, Splashing IN the river (Please ensure you have a change of clothes), Parachute sessions

Clothing

We would suggest everyone is prepared for all weathers as we all know we can have 4 seasons in one day! If anyone requires a full waterproof suit please speak to a member of staff and we can lend you one.

Please note the adult who is accompanying your child has to ensure that they are supervised at all times.

Website for more details: http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/info/113/calderglen_country_park

ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE SEE JOANNE OR DONNA

Health and Wellbeing Week

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Health and Wellbeing Week

There aren’t many names on the list for our walking buses on Wednesday 9th May as yet. Please note that although the starting points of the walking buses are Patterton train station and Asda, you and your child can ‘hop on’ the bus at any point along the main route, do not feel you have to complete the whole walk as it is a fair distance for little legs!

Workshops planned and confirmed are as follows:

Date Time Workshop
Tuesday 8th May 10am – 11am

&

2pm – 3pm

 Taekwondo with Charlotte from Little Tiger Cubs
Tuesday 8th May 1pm – 2.30pm Relaxation , story massage and mindfulness with Vicky from Calming Minds
Wednesday 9th May 9am Walking bus with Colette from Patterton and Donna from Asda
Wednesday 9th May 9am – 10am Yoga session with Eileen (Balta and Texa)
Wednesday 9th May 10am – 11am Yoga session with Eileen (Cara)
Thursday 10th May _ Bring your bike to nursery day
Thursday 10th May 9.30 – 11am Relaxation , story massage and mindfulness with Vicky from Calming Minds
Friday 11th May 1pm – 2pm Yoga session with Eileen (Balta and Texa)
Friday 11th May 2pm – 3pm Yoga session with Eileen (Cara)

Sports Day and Well Being Week

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Sports Day and Wellbeing Week

Our Sports Day is scheduled for Friday 4th May. We will be working with the children to plan this event and see what ideas they come up with for activities and sporting challenges…..this could be interesting!

As part of our health and wellbeing focus, we would like to extend Sports Day into the following week (week beginning 4th May) by planning a Wellbeing Week.

We are in the process of contacting a range of professionals to support the nursery in the wellbeing focused week. So far the following events to promote wellbeing have been planned – please let us know if you would like to participate in any/all of the following and we will let you know as more activities are confirmed!

Walking buses leaving from Asda and Patterton

Bring your bike to nursery day

Calming Minds Workshops with Vicky

Mini Kickers with Peter

Little Tiger Cubs Taekwondo with Charlotte

Dance Workshops with Linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postural Care

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Postural Care

Joanne has been working closely with colleagues across the NHS and has organised a coffee and chat session with Kristin and Katrina (Paediatric Physiotherapy) to chat about postural care. If you would like to come along please join us in the parent’s room at 10.30 on Tuesday 17th April – straight after hydro splash class!

The Show

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The children decided they wanted to put on a show today.

Ayanna came and told us she needed facepaint as it would “make us all better actors”, so we had to oblige!

The children then discussed lots of ideas about how to plan for a perfect show. Emilia reflected on her personal experiences when she told everybody that lights are important saying “we really need the lights off,  then on when we go on the stage. They did that at Disney on Ice”.

Luca and Mehr were excited to use the home made microphones and Sebastian and Eesa were keen to be photographer and videographed.

The children developed lots of curricular skills during this self directed interdisciplinary play experience including listening, sharing ideas, taking turns, IT skills, performing, celebrating success, designing, solving problems and had so much fun at the same time.

Well done everybody.

 

 

 

 

Self Directed Playful Learning

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Today one of the children in the morning group was matching, sorting, naming and categorising a range of shapes. Orla was very interested in the kite and could talk at length about kites. Orla pointed out that today was  a great day to fly a kite as it was very windy and so the playful learning, directed by the children was triggered!

The children wondered if big kites or small kites would fly higher, so they made a range of sizes.

The children thought about the paper tearing and what could be done to help – they reinforced with sticks and tape.

The children thought that bags might catch the wind and fly even higher than a paper kite – we found some bags and used them too.

The children wondered if climbing to the high point on the hill would help – so they climbed the hill.

The children guessed that tying the kites to the mast of the pirate ship would really help to catch the wind and fly the kite – so they had a go at that too.

Have a look at our kite flying science experiment today!