Dawn, our lovely organiser of the Best Nursery Night Ever, has asked us to remind everyone about it – 8pm in the Fraser Centre, £5 a ticket, BYOB!  She has asked if raffle prizes could be handed in by Friday … Continue reading →

 This afternoon the pm crew of the Fiery Parrot made some more delicious frozen banana lollies.  We had to do some number work to find out how many we should make.  We counted the number of pirates in each crew … Continue reading →

This week was the turn of the crew of the Fiery Parrot to make the pirate provisions.  Today we were lucky, a crate of nice bananas had washed up on the shore of the desert island with some lovely bars … Continue reading →

 Amelia and McKenna used their writing skills this morning to create a great sign for the Classroom, Angela has created in the imaginative area.  By creating an area where the children can take their experiences of school so far, and … Continue reading →

The hot weather has really made the garden grow.  We spotted strawberries in the cold frame today that just need to ripen now.  We are having to water our seedlings as they dry out very quickly in the heat.  The … Continue reading →

This morning we discovered Sticky Willow, more commonly known in Milngavie as  Sticky Willie,  in our garden.  Euan and Sonny had great fun putting tails on the staff when they weren’t looking and laughing uproariously as we walked about wearing … Continue reading →

Over the last two weeks, Julie has introduced lots of different textured materials to make things with in the garden.  We have used up out-of-date rice, shredded wheat and porridge and the children have really enjoyed experimenting with adding water … Continue reading →

This morning Maureen put snakes into the sand and attached a measuring tape and rulers to the side of the tray for the children to explore.  They were interested in the numbers and quickly got the concept of measuring to … Continue reading →

Wow!  It’s still sunny!  We are going to be making the most of it today with lots of outdoor learning.  Maureen is investigating the length of snakes in the sand tray and Angela is creating a School Classroom complete with … Continue reading →