Lynn’s Nursery News
This month in Nursery we are harvesting brambles and making bramble jelly. Thank you to everyone who has braved the prickly bushes and brought in a bumper crop, which is growing by the day in our freezer. We are going to make the jelly in the week beginning Monday 24th October. Jam making can be a bit of a messy business so please could everyone wear old clothes this week.
Nursery Fundraiser
Throughout the nursery year we rely on fundraising to help towards the cost of many different activities and experiences for the children e.g Halloween Entertainer, Nursery Trips etc. Our first fundraiser this year is going to be a Sponsored Nursery Rhyme. This will take place on the 13th of October in Nursery. Could you please hand in sponsor forms and donations by Thursday 26th of October.
We have an In Service Day on Friday 14th of October followed by the School October Week from Monday 17th of October to Friday 28th of October. The nursery will be closed on these dates.
HALLOWEEN’S COMING – OOOOOOOO
The social event of the nursery year, our Halloween Party, takes place on Monday 31st October. There has been discussion since the beginning of term about possible costumes and excitement is already beginning to build! We are looking forward to a lovely Halloween feast and we have booked Gary Dunn one of Scotland’s best children’s entertainers, to entertain us. Fancy dress is optional. If your child does not attend on a Monday, they can still come to the entertainment, if you come with them. The morning show starts at 10.15a.m. and the afternoon one at 1.15pm and the show lasts an hour. If you are bringing your child, please come along to the Infant Building Gym Hall.
WIN A HALLOWEEN CAKE!
We have a wonderful baker in the Nursery- Elisabeth Van Kampen who is going to bake an amazing Halloween themed cake which she is going to raffle for Nursery Funds. She makes cakes professionally and is quite well known in the Dumbarton Area for her Briar Bakery. Tickets will be on sale from Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October. The draw will take place on Friday 28th October so, if you are lucky, you might win a delicious Halloween Cake for the weekend.
Gym Fun with Enjoy-a-Ball
We have Enjoy a Ball returning to Nursery on Tuesday Morning and Wednesday Afternoon for six weeks. The sessions will begin on Tuesday 25th October. The children all love taking part in this.
NURSERY OPEN EVENING
Our Nursery Open Evening will be on Thursday 13th October between 6 and 8pm. You are welcome to come along to Nursery without your little treasure, for a look at our nursery and its resources, and to find out what we are going to be learning this year. This is not an evening of formal Parent Teacher interviews – just an informal look at the fun we have with the Early Level Curriculum throughout the year. It is a chance to chat to staff about how we encourage awareness of early literacy and numeracy and all the other curricular areas, both indoors and out, over the nursery year. If you would like to speak to your child’s keyworker about any aspect regarding your child, we are always able to make an appointment for you to have a meeting, before, or after the nursery setting.
WELLIES FOR ALL, PLEASE!
Please check to see if your child has a pair of wellies in Nursery. We are getting into real welly weather again and it is important that we can play outside without getting our feet wet or muddy. Please, please, please put your child’s name inside them clearly. We can lend a Sharpy Marker pen for this purpose, if required. Also check your child has a pair of gym shoes for nursery.
RECYCLING YOUR JUNK FOR AMAZING ARTWORK
Please could we have your cardboard boxes, tubs, kitchen roll tubes, bottle tops, buttons, ribbons or any other recycling material we could make artistic creations from. We would be very grateful – you may even get them back transformed into a masterpiece to display in your home!
A very big Congratulations to Kate Cameron who has become a very special Granny. Kate now has a very special Grandaughter – wee Penelope Margaret Brown- and she is looking forward to lots of granny fun, in a whole new chapter of her life.
