The nursery team would like to thank all the families for their continued support throughout the year. It is a pleasure to work together to give the nursery children the best possible experiences.

We hope you have a relaxing holiday and look forward to seeing you in the new year.

The nursery children prepared craft items to sell at the school fayre.  They wrote price signs and served customers and practised their money handling skills.

The children had the opportunity to visit Santa in his Grotto – a very special treat!

The nursery children helped with the Toy Drive Collection. Here are some of the gifts kindly donated to help families in North East Fife at Christmas this year. Thank you to all the families in the school and nursery for their generosity.

The children welcomed more adults into the nursery to talk about their job role and added to our current learning wall about the world of work. Developing the Young Workforce encourages young people to consider the skills they will need to develop for future career opportunities. We learned the importance of developing numeracy and literacy skills for all the adult roles.

Earlier in the month we had discussions about working in retail, teaching and driver instruction. We then had visits from Mrs Horth and Mr Crichton discussing their roles as a face painter and working in a restaurant kitchen.

The children were interested in all the equipment required for face painting. Freya remembered some of the skills and equipment required for the role.

“Painting and drawing. You need paints and brushes… a phone number so people can call if they have a party and need a face painter.”

Emily said you need to be good at counting the money.

Mr Crichton shared a manual that helps staff to correctly prepare in the kitchen. We shared our knowledge and understanding about hand washing and germs. We looked at some recipes and thought about the skills used in baking – reading, weighing, counting and decorating.

The children helped to develop a new area in the garden. Working together they showed great perseverance as they worked as a team.

The result.

Esmé created more interest to the area by adding stones, logs and animals.

“Its a dinosaur world.”

Both nursery sessions took part in the Jack and the Beanstalk fundraising walk around the village. They developed their numeracy skills as they found the beans around the village and updated their data collection charts.

Thank you for all the sponsorship money towards our puppet show experience.

As part of our current learning wall about the world of work the nursery was fortunate to welcome some adults into the nursery to discuss their job role. Developing the Young Workforce encourages young people to consider the skills they will need to develop for future career opportunities. We learned the importance of developing numeracy and literacy skills for all the adult roles.

So far we have had discussions about working in retail, teaching and driver instruction.

Thank you to Mrs Stone, Mrs Brown and Mrs Bird for their interesting talks and answering the children’s questions. We have learned some sign language to help communicate, we have looked at the Highway Code and role played sending letters and parcels at the post office.

Transient art is known as moveable art, it is a collection of materials that children can use to create a picture. The materials that are used are open-ended resources, and there is no permanent end product.

It allows children to create and explore without feeling the pressure of producing an end product. They can experiment and move the parts as their ideas develop. They are also developing their fine motor skills as they manipulate the small loose parts.

Freya shared.

“I made a picture of spots and a picture of me and mummy.”

The nursery children have been independently creating their own puppet shows. A few children have based their performance on familar stories – retelling “The Gruffalo” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Other children are enjoying the freedom to create animal stories using the wide variety of puppets available.

The nursery children suggested we could raise money towards their Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre performance by holding a cake sale.

The children participated fully in the event. Thy helped to set up the cake stalls,  write price labels, serve the cakes, handle cash and count the money raised. Thank you to all who donated cakes and attended the events the sum raised was £33.15.