This morning we discovered that sound can travel through a tube.        Kate set the boys a challenge- how could they talk to someone in the far away playhouse without having to shout.  They tried stretching the tube … Continue reading →

On our first day back, the weather was extra cold. In the playground the water in one of our play trays had frozen into a big solid sheet.  This gave us a real chance to investigate the properties ice has. … Continue reading →

Happy Monday everyone!  This is Primary 1 Registration week – time to register our pre-schoolers at their catchment school and if necessary put in a placing request.  This year you need lots of id with you- Your Child’s Birth Certificate, … Continue reading →

Many, many thanks to Katie Risk for the amazing gin hamper she gave as a raffle prize, to Nursery.  We now have a fantastic £395 to put towards a new play house for the garden.  We will buy another one … Continue reading →

All staff would like to wish everyone in our nursery community a very Happy 2017 and say a huge thank you for all the beautiful gifts – we are such lucky teachers!!!  We are also considerably heavier than we were … Continue reading →

Apologies for the distinct lack of news from last week – hoping to remedy this with Christmas Party and Train Trip photos tonight!  We had a really lovely day on Friday and Santa visited our party and even brought presents! … Continue reading →

This week in Nursery we are getting very Christmassy!  We are making Christmas Reindeers with our handprints in the art area and putting the finishing touches to our Christmas presents.  On Friday we had an unscheduled visit to the town … Continue reading →

This morning Ian combined lots of different sensory toys on the light box – the effect was brilliant!  Different coloured bubbles were moving up and down!  It looked like a busy laboratory – all that was missing was his wee … Continue reading →

Look who has turned up on our beautiful advent trees so far!  We are turning over bauble number 8 later – I wonder who it will be?