Mr Graham visited the Scottish Learning Festival last week and brought us back a surprise!  An amazing resource for encouraging children’s creative writing.  It’s called Mighty Writer.  It’s on the wall in our writing area and is already proving very … Continue reading →

Happy  Wet Wednesday!  In nursery this morning, our pre-schoolers are having vision checks.  If your Pre schooler does not usually come in on a Wednesday morning you are still welcome to bring them.  If you cannot make it, don’t worry … Continue reading →

We would like to say a huge thank you to Eric Avenier, one of our new nursery dads, for the tremendous amount of work he has done in our school orchard. Last weekend, Eric cleared a horrible patch of brambles … Continue reading →

After being cooped up on Thursday because of the very high winds, it was lovely to get out into the Orchard on Friday morning.  We found that the storm had blown down one of the trees at the back of … Continue reading →

On Friday we had our first PAThS session.   PAThS is short for Promoting Alternative Thinking Skills and is a specially designed program which increases children’s awareness of emotions and managing our feelings.   The program involves scripted lessons, puppets, social story … Continue reading →

Happy Monday!!  Welcome to a shorter week at nursery – this Friday and next Monday are our Half Term Holiday and nursery will be closed. This week in nursery we are starting our Word Aware program – aimed at increasing … Continue reading →

We have had a lot of interest in babies recently in the nursery and some of our wee dollies and prams have seen better days.  Some of them are positively vintage and ready for retiral (a bit like some of … Continue reading →

We would like to extend an invitation to parents and carers to come along and contribute their skills to our nursery.  If you like to read stories, do crafty things, science things, dramatic things, building things,or perhaps like gardening, sing … Continue reading →

Yesterday in nursery Maureen and Pam had set up visually attractive activities that really were an invitation to the children to play.    Pam had put paints and a still life of a fruit bowl on the painting table and … Continue reading →