Welcome to a new term at Milngavie Nursery.  We are looking forward to an exciting first week, welcoming our new children and their families, meeting up with our friends and talking, in our groups, about our holiday experiences.  We are looking forward to seeing how Spring has changed our garden and having a look in our pond to see what has happened to the frogspawn.  Will both Otto and Spotty, our nursery goldfish have made it through the holidays or will we be discussing the possibilities of a fishy afterlife?  The beginning of a new term is always exciting!

In this term our pre-school children will be visiting their Primary One classrooms and getting ready for the big adventure of school.  They will also be taking part in an Outdoor Active Learning Project with Primary 1.  This year’s theme is PIRATES!! -Always popular with Nursery staff who love donning an eye patch and a dodgy pirate accent in the name of education!

This week we are going to be drawing something we enjoyed in the holidays to put in our Learning Journeys.  The skill we are working on this week is encouraging a good pencil grip- essential for handwriting later on, as it really helps with pencil control.

Tuesday is Gym Day for the Red, Yellow and Green Groups.

Over the next few weeks we will be revisiting our Nursery Charter, looking at the rules we chose at the beginning of the year and thinking about whether they are still important.  We are going to meet up with Twiggle the Turtle in our PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Skills) sessions and talk about how we make friends and also, how we keep friends- even when we disagree with each other.   We are also looking forward to finding out a bit more about Milngavie, with some more trips in the local area.