Monday:  Today most of us have been enjoying the garden, role playing dinosaurs showing our knowledge of different dinosaurs names such as velociraptor and T-Rex. Inside some of us have enjoyed listening to Scottish stories on the smart board.

 

Tuesday: This morning all of us have been reciting our Scottish poem which we performed brilliantly. Some of us have explored pattern at the art table and in the garden some of us have enjoyed an energetic game of football developing our co ordination skills.

Wednesday: Today a few of us have enjoyed looking through our PLJ’s  and some have been developing our mark making skills with chalk in the garden.

Thursday: This morning all of us at the gym practiced  Scottish dancing, clapping and turning to beats of eight. We then successfully performed our  poems to the p6/7’s and some in return performed theirs.

Friday: Due to the storm we had to stay at home today. We hope you enjoyed some of the activities that were posted on Seesaw.

Monday

Our learning wall on shops & cafe’s has been popular with most of the children.  The nursery was very kindly donated a shop and cafe, which has given the opportunity to role play. They can experience using money to buy shopping as well as ordering different foods in the cafe.

 

 

 

Tuesday

There has been lots of chat about where we live as  we have been talking about burns day and living in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, some of the children have been exploring our world globe 🌍 looking at the size of different countries. In the garden we have been talking about shadows and how we create them.

Wednesday

We added a tinker table to the nursery which has been very popular this allows the opportunity to deconstruct and learn how the parts of computers are put together to make the end product. There has been some creative structures in the sand tray using shells/cones  to decorate.

Thursday

Today there has been lots of interest in making kites selecting a variety of different materials to decorate them, they took their kites to the garden to see them fly. Different number games has also been popular matching numbers in a variety of different ways.

Friday

In the garden the mud kitchen has been busy with lots of potion making using different natural resources to create the finished masterpiece. In the nursery some of the children have been using the magnetic shapes with lots of discussion how they made the shapes. We finished off today listening to Scottish music and had a wee jig.

A warm welcome back and a Happy new Year to you all! 

Ferryport Nursery applications 2025/2026 –

These opened on the 6th January and will close on 31st January 2025. More information can be found on Fife Council’s website. Click on the following link to access the application form: https://www.fife.gov.uk/services/form-pages/apply-for-a-fife-council-nursery-place 

Please apply early if you are new or wish to change to term time or an alternative AM/PM place.  Please speak to a member of staff if you have any queries/questions. 

 Primary 1 applications for August 2025 –

These opened on Monday 6th January 2025 and will close at 9am on Monday 17th March 2025.  More information can be found on Fife Council’s website.

Click on the following link to access the application form: https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/education2/schools-in-fife/apply-for-a-school-place/enrol-in-primary-school

 Burn’s Day 25th January 2025-

Nursery will be celebrating Burns Day and in preparation for this we will be discussing Robert Burns and learning a Scottish poem entitled ‘The Sair Finger’ written by Walter Wingate. We will practice this regularly in nursery. The poem has been posted within the ‘announcements’ section on See Saw so you can practise with your child at home. A paper copy can be provided if preferred-please ask a member of staff.  

 Parent Council-

The next Parent Council meeting will be held in Tayport Primary School on Monday 20th January at 6pm. We would like to invite all nursery parents to attend. These meetings provide the opportunity for parents to be involved in the life of nursery and school.  

In-Service day-

The next in-service day will be Wednesday 12th February when nursery will be closed to all children. This will be followed by 2 days holiday (13th & 14th Feb) for school children but nursery will be open to pupils as normal on these days. 

 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 & Activities –

These continue to be housed in our front hall. Please remember to sign books/activities in and out. Thank you! 

 Winter Weather –

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

Monday

We welcomed back everyone to nursery this week, the children were straight back to exploring and investigating.  The block area has been very busy with some spectacular structures being created. They used the blocks to develop their role play and encouraged others to join their play.  We have started to learn our Scottish poem and have been talking about Rabbie Burns.

Tuesday

Some of the children have chosen to help decorate our beautiful light house that is in our front hall for you to admire.  Over several trips to the beach the children collected sea glass and shells, Mrs Wright drew the light house with the children decorating the light house.

Wednesday

The children have been interested in role playing shops and cafes. They have created lots of different shops for their play.  As this has been popular with most of the children we have started a new learning wall. This will provide lots of learning opportunities and we are excited to see this interest develops.

Thursday

The children have been excited with the colder weather this week where we have been exploring the properties of water changing to ice over night. We have explored how it feels and looks, as well as investigating with magnifying glasses and tools.

Friday

We started the day off with wake up shake up as most of the children came in very cold but full of energy. The weather is still very cold and some of the children were looking forward to investigating some of the experiments they had set out in the garden the previous day.  In the nursery  some beautiful art work has been created using a variety of media. Our learning wall is beginning to develop with lots of role playing of cafes in the sand tray and block area. Lots of exploring with letters and using the smart board to develop their writing skills.

Monday

Today some of the children explored the different tools which were in the book. This introduced using the drill. Through discussion of how to keep ourselves safe the children wore safety goggles, patiently waited turns and gave space to those using the drill.  Discussion of direction and discovering how the drill works the children were able to understand the function.

Tuesday

Whilst exploring letters a child showed interest in signalong alphabet by observing the formation of letters with hands. This lead to some nursery rhymes being sung in signalong ‘three little speckled frogs appeared to be the favourite.’ Using the post box at the writing table this encouraged children to mark make using pincer grips, some were able to write recognisable letters familiar to them whilst others were able to independently write their name.

 

Wednesday

Today there was lots of creativity, by some of our children, using the magnetic shapes. Lots of designing, problem solving, shape recognition and sharing of ideas. The majority of our children enjoyed a visit from Jamie The Jester who provided lots of laughter and the children enjoyed assisting him with some of his tricks before giving each child a balloon model.

Thursday

Today in gym the majority of our children had fun practicing a variety of party games developing our listening skills and ability to follow instructions. Our writing table was busy today with several of  our children writing letters to Santa developing our mark making, writing and letter recognition skills.

Friday

Today the majority of our children participated in our Christmas party engaging in a variety of party games, enjoying some party foods before performing a selection of Christmas songs for parents/family members. The party ended with a visit from Santa for whom the children sang Jingle Bells before Santa handed out gifts to all the children.

Week beginning 9th December 2024

Monday: Today we all enjoyed watching the p1 nativity.  We all listened carefully and respectfully joined in.  A few of us were exploring angles, symmetry and shape at the writing table.

Tuesday: This morning some of us have been developing our engineering skills to build a race track in the construction area.  At the art area a few have been enjoying Christmas crafts.

Wednesday: We have all been practicing our Christmas Songs, some of us have been enjoying the art area again making Christmas decorations. Some of us have been enjoying the sand tray today making volcanoes.

Thursday: At gym this morning we all practiced Christmas games and dances for our Christmas party. Some of us explored shapes and symmetry making boxes at the art table. Few of us have been role playing with the space station.

Friday: Most of us have been exploring mark making and developing our fine motor skills making and posting Christmas letters and at the art table, using the scissors to carefully cut out bobbles and decorate them. A few of us have been exploring numbers through songs and signalong.

Wow! We’re at the beginning of December already!

What a busy week we’ve had in nursery this week.

Monday:

With the weather turning particularly cold and frosty the children spent time outdoors in the garden exploring the properties of the ice and discussing what they haver noticed about the changing environment around them.

“The ground is slippy and wiggly!” JM

“Mrs Dempster put sand on the logs to stop us slipping” GB

Lots of building play in the sand area this week, with large groups of children making walls, roads, paths and creating small world areas with loose parts such as shells and stones.

Tuesday:

Today we decided it was time to decorate the nursery for Christmas!

The children all took part emptying the boxes and deciding where to put each bauble and decoration. We danced along to Christmas music while we worked. This led to lively discussions around everyone’s Christmas trees and traditions…..and of course some of us have elves!

Finished off with a 4th birthday celebration and cake.

“My tree has a red star!”

“My elf was naughty”

“Guess what, I have a big snowman!”

Wednesday:

Today a group of the children were experimenting with the Ipad, taking videos of themselves dancing, singing and smiling. Lots of interest in the incoming technology items too. (More on this in the new year).

We all listened “The Christmas Story” today. Each of us listened well and answered questions about the story so show how we are beginning to understand the role of the Christmas story and how we celebrate.

Thursday:

Today was gym day.

We had some Christmas themed warm up games to get us ready and in the mood to be active and move our bodies.  Once warmed up , we had lots of different types of gym equipment out to explore.

We discovered different ways to move our bodies independently, using beams, mats, balls, cars, hobbyhorses and more!

We practiced turn taking and sharing the space with our nursery friends, it’s tricky but we are doing well with this.

Friday:

Today we all spent lots of time building elaborate houses with the large construction blocks and filling them with loose parts and items from the home corner. We worked co-operatively and created a plan for building.

A few of us have been loving the musical instruments this week, with some using them to support of Christmas song practices.

We even had another 4th birthday celebration and chocolate cake!

Our Christmas song practice has been happening every morning this week. We are working hard to learn all our songs, and it is definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

 

Have a lovely weekend and we’ll see you all next week.

The Nursery Team

Monday 25/11/2024.
A few children were being creative in the block area , lots of loose parts and imagination being used. They had created a ‘big house with a swimming pool’ . Through discussion they safely ‘jumped in the water’ with some adult intervention we talked about who helps us when in the water.
We were introduced to some clay modelling , exploring the different textures and using a variety materials to decorate.

Tuesday 26/11/2024.
Some children took an interest in the Kodaly bells, they were excited to explore different sounds, we had a child delegating when and who would ring the bells to create their own music,  we had loud, fast, slow and quiet.

Outside in the garden we created our very own obstacle course which included a lot of racing, jumping and balancing. We used some cones, bricks, logs, pipes and hula hoops. We gave ourselves challenges by trying bigger steps and faster running.

Wednesday 27/11/2024.
Today was beach day,  it was a chilly one so we all got wrapped up to take a nice walk down to the waterfront. The tide was in quite a bit, we managed to risk assess and ensure we were safe around the water. We even managed to enjoy some fruit by the water before coming back to nursery. We collected stones and shells to take back.

Thursday 28/11/2024.
First thing in the morning we went along to the gym hall at the school, we got lots of practice with our body control as we were on a variety of different equipment, by following instruction we learned to take turns, and wait until it is safe to go on. For our cool down we played a small ring game. Later in the morning we had a small discussion about Thanksgiving and began to learn Christmas songs.

Friday 29/11/2024.
As it is St Andrews day tomorrow we had a little discussion about Scotland. We put on some Scottish country music to dance too , all of us took part, it was fun learning the different steps and dance names. Some free play later in the morning , the floor is lava, creative building and outdoor play.

 

Monday

“Book Week Scotland”📖. This week we will enjoy a variety of activities related to “Book Week Scotland” starting today with a discussion. Children were invited to bring their favourite books to nursery to share with others.📚  Today we had lots of discussion about the weather “It’s freezing!” “It’s frosty!” “Why is it all white?” Developing use of language and questioning. We left some water in a variety of different sized/shaped containers to see what happens to the water over night! 🥶- developing our experimental/investigation skills as to how water can change from one form to another❄️

Tuesday

Today some children were experimenting in the water tray by adding different coloured paint🎨 to see what happens when the paints mix together. Good use of mathematical language whilst pouring/filling/mixing.  The children were exited to find yesterdays containers with water in had frozen🧊 causing lots of excitement and discussion “What’s happened?” “It’s like glass!” “We can smash it!” “It’s so cold!”.

Wednesday

Today all our children engaged in a ‘Meet The Author’ session on the smart board . They listened to a song and story by the author Tom Fletcher. The title of the story was called “There’s A Monster In Your Book!” . During our visit to the beach today we had discussions about the weather after finding patches of snow  “It’s all white!, “ The grass is hard!” “It sounds crunchy when we walk on it! ❄️The children commented that the tide was quite far out creating questions as to whether the tide was coming in or going out!🌊 Developing our awareness of our local environment.

Thursday

Today in gym we developed our shape, colour recognition🔺🔵🟨, listening skills👂and following instructions whilst joining in with  a variety of games. All children then explored a variety of different gym equipment developing turn taking skills, gross and fine motor skills as well as hand/eye coordination🏃‍♀️🤸‍♀️. As part of our Book Week 📚Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿activities all children then joined the Primary One class to listen to a story read by the Primary One teacher who used props to tell the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

Friday

Today whilst exploring the musical instruments the children created their our own nursery band 🪇🥁including a band leader. We listened to the different sounds and experimented by playing them fast, slow, quietly and loudly. The band then marched around the nursery singing and playing their instruments. The art/craft area was very popular with several children displaying their creativity and representing their ideas using a variety of media/resources. “Look at my hat” “This is Mamas house” “It’s a present for my Mum!”

 

 

Monday

The children got off  to a busy start in the block area creating an elaborate car garage which later became an airport, there was lots of teamwork & negotiating going as they figured out how best to build the construction.  All the children took part in watching a short clip about Remembrance Day & why we were poppy’s, some of the children visited the war memorial to pay our respect & placed a cross in the garden.

 

Tuesday

The garden has been a popular choice today with lots of role play in the garden.  They used pipes & other resources for their play at fire fighters, some children were being rescued from the building. The play continued to the hospital role playing doctors, nurses and even a chef who prepared meals for the patients.

Wednesday

This week is national anti bullying week, we had a group discussion about being kind & have introduced our kindness tree back in nursery. This is where we place a leaf on the tree to celebrate & recognise when one of our children has  been kind. The art area has been busy with some beautiful art work being produced.

Thursday

Today we went to gym where all the children took part in Kodaly, learning about rhythmic patterns this is a fun way to develop rhythm skills as well as many other benefits. Back in nursery the hoola hoops were popular with the children giving each other challenges.  Some children were interested to watch videos on the iPad of themselves revisiting what they’ve been doing in nursery.