Month: September 2020

In Mearns nursery we value working closely with families to provide an environment and learning opportunities to support to enhance each child’s individual learning journey.

Part of this involves staff carrying out detailed learning observations. Each term your child will be selected as the focus child and their learning journey will be closely followed over the course of a week.

Prior to this you will be sent a Planning For Your Child’s Learning Journey form where you will have the opportunity to share with your child’s key worker their current interest, experiences and learning needs. Allowing you to feed into the observation process.

 

At the end of the observation week you will be sent your child’s Snap Shot book and observation sheet to share and enjoy with them. You will also be asked to complete the Evaluating Your Child’s Learning Journey form.

Finally you you will have the opportunity to share a call with your child’s key worker to discuss the observation and to work together to agree your child’s next steps in learning.

This morning the children rushed into the playground and immediately started making a giant emergency vehicle! It provided transport for police, fire fighters and doctors.

 

This year the children are going to be learning about where their food comes from and the journey from field to fork. To support this we welcomed the arrival of new raised beds into the nursery playground.

Together we built the beds, lined the grass with cardboard and filled them with compost. They are now ready for some green manure to be sown to prepare the soil for planting in the spring.

Over the next few months the children and staff will be working together to plan which fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers we are going to plant across the year.

We are looking forward to planting, tending and eating our own food. If you or your family would like to share your knowledge or skills with us we would welcome your support.

Yesterday after playing in the drizzle the children sat down together to enjoy a cup of soup.

Today we explored leaves from the plants in our playground. We used them to make necklaces as well as creating prints and patterns.