Good morning!! A week today we will be back in  nursery!  We are so looking forward to being back and seeing all our little ones again.  We will be welcoming some new boys and girls to nursery too, that were due to start back in January.  We are hoping for some nice spring weather so we can enjoy looking for signs of Spring in the Nursery garden, playground and orchard.

Eric has made a great start on rebuilding the rotted wooden wall.  He has completely demolished the old wall and is set to cement in the foundations for the new one.  We have had an email from our wonderful PTA who have donated £400 to help us buy the materials for the new wall.  This is extremely generous of the PTA – they have not been able to fund raise at all this year and we are so grateful for such a large donation.

If you have been out welly waddling and have raised any money for our wall fund, we would be very grateful for any donations.  You can hand them in to nursery this week in a sealed envelope, or bring them in next week.  It will be amazing to see the wall and new steps to the upper level of the garden take shape.

On Wednesday, following on from the great success of our on-line Teams Sing Along and Story Time on Friday, we are having another live event with Julie and Claire.  So many of you came along on Friday and made it a great experience.  If you would like to join in the fun again on Wednesday at 10.30  a.m. , please email: caroline.mcmenemy@eastdunbarton.gov.uk  and Caroline will send you a link to let you in to the session.  Julie and Claire were wonderful on Friday – it is a difficult thing to do well and they were brilliant!

This week’s Learning Journal task – if you have time to do it – is to ask your child about what they would like to do when they get back to nursery.  If you could write this down for them and they would like to draw a picture – it would be really great if you then uploaded a photo of this to your child’s learning journal.  This will help us plan around our children’s current interests and provide activities that they will love, for that first week back.  Many thanks for all the wonderful uploads you have made to Learning Journals throughout lockdown.  They have really helped staff keep up with their group’s interests and are a record of the amazing learning they have been doing at home.