Welcome to a bumper blog this month due to the Spring break!  

Mixing Colours and Mark Making

“It feels so nice, like ice- cream”

“It’s  cold and sticky”

“Look at my hands! they’re white” 

“I can write my name in it”

“Can we add red paint?”

Such lovely, language and conversation was had between all the children as they explored mixing colours and mark making in shaving foam.  A good work out for little fingers 😊

Fun in the construction area 😄

We have been having fun and creating some amazing models in the construction area. Some future Cross Arthurlie builders in the making. 

 

 

Nurture Time 

At nurture time we decided to see who was the tallest and smallest in the group and even the same size. We also looked at who had the biggest feet and smallest feet and who had the biggest hand and smallest hand.

WoodlandWalks 🌳

All children in their preschool year have the opportunity to take part in our forrest walks.  A few of the yellow children went along at the same time as Mrs McLean and she managed to get a few photos. 

We have learnt about our boundary markers, danger cards and sticky feet! The children should be able to explain these to you 😊

We explored the woods, climbed trees and worked together to move large branches. The children have helped to make a swing and pick nettles for nettle tea. 

“I feel like I’m at the park!”

A few snapshots from around the playroom 

 

Achievements🌟

Congratulations to our Award winners for the month of April and May!

 

Suncream

As the weather is heating up please ensure your child has sun cream applied before arriving at nursery.  We will reapply throughout the day.  

See you next month for our last blog before summer.  💛

love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller xx

 

 

 

Hello and welcome to our March blog, 👋

What a very busy month our children have had. We took part in the Cross Arthurlie Winter Olympics (there are some future GB athletes in the making), celebrated World Book Day and we had the chance to take part in Mini Kickers 📚⚽️.

Winter Olympics

The children took an interest in the Winter Olympics so we decided to have our own Winter Olympics called ‘Cross Arthurlie Winter Olympics 2026’. We explored a number of sports with the most popular being ice skating ⛸️. The children worked together to design and construct their sport of choice.

Ice Skating ⛸️

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skeleton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bobsleigh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowboarding 🏂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skiing ⛷️

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curling 🥌

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World Book Day Costumes and Scavenger Hunt 📚

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mini Kickers ⚽️

The Children had the opportunity to take part in Mini Kickers where they learned some new skills and had lots of fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mothers Day

All the children had the opportunity to make Mother’s Day cards.  We had beautiful  still life paintings of flowers; cutting and sticking collage our a mixture of everything.  There was also lots of chat about how much we love our Mummy. 🥰😍💗

Achievements🌟

Hope you have enjoyed seeing a wee snap shot of what we have been up too this month . Hope you have a lovely Easter 🐣 and the Easter Bunny 🐰 is good to you all . We will see you all again for our last term , the summer term which will be extremely busy for our pre-schoolers especially.

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller 💛

Welcome to February’s blog 👋

Lunar New Year

As we explored the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) the children had the opportunity to taste prawn crackers during snack and were exposed to some Chinese writing.  They did an excellent job of trying it out themselves with paintbrushes, pens and even some straw style calligraphy pens! So much concentration was demonstrated as they attempted to copy the tricky symbols.

Outdoor Play

In the outdoor area we have been working with others, making potions and digging really deep to find bones. We had great fun going on a treasure hunt to find hidden coins.

Stay and Play

It was lovely to see so many of you at our stay and play this month.  Don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it this time, we are planning many more 😊.

We had a focus on maths and numeracy, hopefully demonstrating how these are embedded in your children’s play every day at nursery.  If you couldn’t make it or didn’t receive a home learning bag please let us know and we’ll arrange one for you.

 

Here’s a few snaps of where your children have been choosing to play this month. 😊

Our awards this month go to…

Well done!

We look forward to seeing you next month 😊

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller

Welcome to our blog for December and January.

December seems so long ago but we had so much fun demonstrating our creativity when making our Christmas crafts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some pictures of us enjoying Christmas activities throughout the playroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dasher and Dancer came to visit us and we gave them a carrot .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During Nurture Time we have been exploring and creating patterns with cubes . Have a look to see how we have got on.

The children played number bingo and worked well together as they  identified numerals to 10, subitised and used their touch counting skills. During one game, everyone won at the same time which caused lots of excitement and everyone loudly shouted BINGO!

We played a game to explore the amounts on the dice face and tens frame.

Our awards this month go to…

See you in February for more updates on what we’ve been up to.

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller

 

 

 

 

Welcome to November’s blog. The children have been busy bees this month – have a look and see what they got up to.

Subitising

Subitising is recognising small quantities without counting. Games involving a dice are a great way to support this skill. The children are getting quicker at shouting out the number as they recognise the dot patterns!

Practising our number recognition and sequencing. Can you do it in 30 secs, 1 minute or 3 minutes? Lots of excitement and shouting as they raced against the sand timers!

Outdoors

The children are continuously busy, learning and developing their skills in the outdoor area.

We have recently got new suits for so hopefully that will cut down all your washing!  Thank you for your patience.

Gross Motor  skills – climbing , balancing and jumping

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bug Hunting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building Friendships

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dino World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring  the water and mud kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Children in Need

We celebrated Children in Need in the nursery . The children could dress up in their pyjamas  or wear something Pudsey themed. We  took part in some Pudsey games in the gym hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fire Brigade

We had a visit from the local Fire Brigade and got the opportunity to sit in the fire engine. We had a shot of the hose and had great fun soaking Miss Miller as she was taking photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Achievements 🌟

Congratulations to …….

 

Remember to sign up for our Christmas markets on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th December. Sign up sheets are on our outside notice board . The children have been very busy this month making their Christmas crafts.

As we come into the winter months , please can you make sure your child has a hat and some gloves (labelled with their name) in their bag if they wish to go outside.

Love,

Mrs McLean and Miss Miller

 

 

 

 

What another busy month we have had in the Yellow Group 💛

Gingerbread Bread Man🫚

We have been really interested in the Gingerbread Man story and had lots of fun making our giant Gingerbread Man and going on a Gingerbead Man hunt. We listened to the story carefully and demonstrated our own knowledge of the story by retelling it with puppets. We worked together to sequence the story cards. The Yellow Group have loved singing the phrase ‘run run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man!’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fine Motor Skills

The children work their fine motor skills every day without even realising it.   These fine motor skills foster the development of the small muscles in their fingers, hands and wrists which help their everyday independence skills, along with getting them ready for holding a pen and eventually writing.

Playdough – Squeezing, rolling, pinching, pulling

Scissor skills

Threading

Squeezing pipettes – controlling the flow of liquid

Halloween Fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Achievements- September Superstars🌟

We have 2 new children to welcome to the Yellow Group 💛

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

see you next month,

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller

 

Hello Yellow Group and welcome to Super September! 🍁🍂💛

What a busy month we have had. We have been exploring and developing our interest in woodland animals, had our first Eco Committee meeting, started our Tuesday library days and also welcomed parents/carers in for our first stay and play session.

Woodland Animals 🦊🦉🐿️🦔

We have enjoyed role playing with the woodland animals and we have had lots of fun making our own puppets.

We would love to build a woodland area and need your help. If you are out for a walk and see some small sticks , pine cones or leaves please collect some so we can add them our woodland area. Thank you from the yellow group.💛

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ECO Committee

We had our first eco committee meeting and some Primary 7 children visited to share their experiences of being part of the school eco-committee. As a group we have decided to make sure we always put our litter in the bin. This includes when we are in the lunch hall, the garden and out and about in the community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Library 📚

Tuesdays are our day to visit the library in the family room.  On a Tuesday we choose a new book for the week. When your child is finished with their book please return it to the yellow book box. Don’t worry if Tuesday is not your child’s day they will get a chance to pick a book another day. 📕

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay and Play

Some of the parents  and grandparents came to our first stay and play session of the year, we hope you had a wonderful time visiting the nursery. Keep an eye on the notice board for future days to visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Achievements

Well done to some  of our yellow children for receiving a nursery award, we are so proud of you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See you next month,

Love Mrs Mclean and Miss Miller

 

 

Hello and welcome to the yellow group blog . We hope you all have had amazing summer. ☀️💛

For our returning children it didn’t take them long to settle back into the rhythm of nursery life and quickly reconnect with their friends. There was lots of exciting and important news to share…

“I saw the real Spiderman!”

“I did too!”

“I am 4”

“I went to a caravan”

It is truly amazing how much the children have grown over the holidays. They have all returned a little bit taller and full of confidence.🥰

Have a look 👀 and see what we have been up to so far…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also a HUGE welcome to our new yellow friends and their families 👋. We look forward to getting to know you all 😊💛.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a few key bits of nursery information…

• Our library day for our Travelling Tales is on a  Tuesday. The children will be invited to choose a book to take home in their blue bag for a week to enjoy at home and exchange on its return.  If your child isn’t in on this day they will have the opportunity to visit the library on an alternative day 😊.
• We seem to be having a mixture of weather at the moment 😆. During the hotter days when the UV is 3+,  can we ask that where possible you apply sun cream before your child comes into nursery. This helps us get outside to play and explore much quicker.  Please also ensure we have sun cream for your child (which can be left in the nursery)  so we can reapply in the afternoon.  Many thanks in advance.
• Please pack spare clothes in bags in case of accidents and/or wet and muddy play.
• If your child does not already have a pair of wellies at nursery for outdoor play if possible please provide a pair.
• Can you please make sure your child has indoor shoes to change into when they arrive at nursery (preferably no crocs).
• A Monday is our main day for access to the gym hall, please ensure appropriate footwear is worn on this day and earrings are removed.

See you in September!

Love Mrs McLean and Miss Miller