Ferryport News February 2026 

Ferryport Nursery applications 2026/2027 – Applications are now closed however you can still apply but will be treated as a late application. https://www.fife.gov.uk/services/form-pages/apply-for-a-fife-council-nursery-place
As well as the current 49 week model of 4 hr 40 mins AM or PM sessions Ferryport now offers 39 week 9.00am –
3.00pm term time model.

Primary 1 applications for August 2026 – These opened on Monday 5th January 2026 and will close at 9am on Monday 15th March 2026. More information can be found on Fife Council’s website.

Safer Internet Week – Week Beginning 9th February 2026. We will be exploring a variety of activities relating to staying safe whilst using the internet.

Science Week – 6th-15th March. The theme this year is ‘Curiosity’. We will be exploring a variety of activities relating
to ‘What are you curious about?’ – Our Brains, The Universe, Ancient People!

Inservice Day –  Wednesday 11th February 2026- Nursery will be closed to all children to allow staff to engage in training. Staff will be looking at the Nursery Improvement Plan as well as other training/development.

February Holidays – Nursery will be open as usual on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th February 2026 for our 49 week
children but closed to our term time children.

Library Visit – We are planning to visit the local library soon. Date and times to be confirmed.. We would welcome parent help to walk the children to and from the library.

Peep – We are in the process of finalising dates for an upcoming blocks of PEEP. More information will be sent home very soon!

World Book Day –  5th March 2025 – More details/information to follow nearer the time.

Sickness/Illness – A gentle reminder that if your child is unwell (e.g. Vomiting & Diarrhoea) the guidelines are 48 hours exclusion from nursery from the last bout of sickness/diarrhoea.

Lending Library – This continues to be housed in our front hall. The books are changed regularly providing new stories, fiction and non fiction books for you to explore. Please remember to sign books in and out. Thank you!

Parental Engagement – We value all our parents’ and carers’ thoughts, suggestions, and participation in our nursery life.
Please take a few moments to fill in our Parent/Carer Suggestion Book located in the front hall. You are also welcome to take some of our Learning at Home sheets to complete with your child—these are a lovely way to celebrate achievements and share special events with us. If you would like to get more involved, we have sign-up sheets available for our Parent Rota and our Beach Walk. We would be delighted to have any parents or carers join us.

Winter Weather – Could all parents please ensure their child is appropriately dressed for the weather and that all clothing is clearly named. Thank you!

Borrowed Clothes – Can parents please remember to return any clothes borrowed from nursery. Thank you.

Monday 02/02/2026.

Today there was a variety of different play in the nursery we have took a lot of interest in holidays and safety , some of the children were role playing with the suitcase we found at the charity shop last week , they talked about what clothes they would need for the sunshine and packing the case.
Some children began to mix ‘potions’ with the paints and water , exploring different colours to see what they made.
At circle time we were singing variety of songs , our favourite was, head shoulders knees and toes.

Outdoors the children were getting rid of all their energy,  by running around different parts of the garden , managing our own risk with the different steps and heights around the garden. Some of children were creating habitats for the dinosaurs with sticks and leaves.

Tuesday 03/02/2026

Continuing on from yesterday we talked about how we can communicate from ‘holiday’ we read a book called ‘Teddy goes on Holiday’ which sparked some children to write them out with different messages and pictures, we then out in the community to post our cards and learn the process of them getting delivered. Also at the post box , we saw the big red van with the postman who was collecting parcels from the shop then all of our post cards. Back at nursery the few children left were doing some drawing , painting and doing jigsaws. Some children enjoyed the blocks where they were stepping on a variety of sizes to manage their balance.

At the end of the day we tried learning new games and songs , one was ‘I sent a letter to my love’ which children really enjoyed and took turns

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Wednesday 04/02/2026.

Today Miss Higgins took charge of a Kodaly session , where children choose freely to come in and out. We read ‘ziggys sunny holiday’ which talked about travel safety , car seat safety and crossing the road safely , there was a lot of understanding and some were able to talk freely about how they travel to nursery and what they use to keep safe , there was walking , cycling , in the car and on the bus.
Following on from the story , Miss Higgins had different coloured cards , red = stop , amber = get ready and green = go , to encourage children’s listening and observation skills i was holding up the cards while children followed the colour.
Afterwards the cards got put into different sections of the room , colour was called then they had to make it to that section , most children took turns at calling out the colours.

In the afternoon we had special visitors , the policemen came to talk to us about their job and how they keep everyone safe, there a lot of questions about where they ‘live’ and what they do to help us.

Thursday 05/02/2026.

This morning we did a wake up shake up from Danny go where there was a lot of body movement and stretching , it was interesting to watch the children follow all the moves confidently and do a great job balancing also! A few children were using the tools at the woodwork bench to create a model. In the sand children were discussing how to make homes for the dinosaurs , they used their imagination to figure out what works best to build it. There was a lot of dressing up in the home corner using the patterned scarves involving skirts , dresses and capes! Later on some children talked about wands and brooms which then continued on to learning how to make them , there a variety of sizes and colours , then role playing princess’ and witches. Some children tried using the pens to mark make.

Friday 06/02/2026.

Today there was a mixture of different free play and exploring all areas of the nursery. In the home corner some children were role playing teachers , which sparked learning to practice writing in the diary’s. A couple children had some quiet time with games on the computer and iPad , practicing our numbers and mark making using technology. There was different painting going on involving the colours on bigger paper at the easel. We are starting to learn to put our names on our art work , a name board was created.

Outside there was messy play in the mud pit exploring the texture of wet and dry. Along with some physical play on the bikes.