A great time was had by all at our Nursery Christmas Parties, with a special visit from Santa Claus at the end, with presents for all the children. We played pass the parcel, musical bumps and danced to Christmas music, followed by a delicious party tea. Photos are on the morning and afternoon pages.

There was a very successful sale of decorations made by children and hamper raffle tickets before and after our nativity on Friday 18th December. The tickets for the hampers will be drawn on Tuesday morning! Good luck!

Along with our gifts and treats for sale at the Nativity on Friday, we will also be opening a raffle for a hamper of goodies. The raffle will run until the last day of term and the winning ticket will be drawn on the morning of Tuesday 22nd  (the last day of term). Best of luck!

Well done and thankyou to everyone who donated to our MFR Cash for Kids Mission Christmas appeal collection. We managed to collect just under £40 which is great. Mrs Reid went into Elgin with the money on Monday night and managed to purchase a range of goodies, mostly for boys, and will be taking along to a Co-op store tonight (Tuesday).

Thanks to your generosity, this will contribute to children in the MFR area waking up to gifts on Christmas morning.

A fantastic turnout from adults to accompany the children in their Christmas Read and Play session on Thursday 10th December. The children listened to the story, “The Perfect Christmas Tree”, and then using a variety of craft materials made their own perfect Christmas tree with the help of some very creative parents. Everyone’s efforts were fantastic and so different from each other’s. The children then chose the colour of lollipop sticks they would like to make a star or snowflake decoration which were gorgeous and sparkly! Everyone seemed to have a great time, and we can’t do this without the parents taking part. We thank you all for coming along and hope to see you all at the next session, probably around Valentine’s Day!

All going well, the nursery will move back to the main school building in Spring 2017 but unfortunately we don’t think the garden space is being included in the refurbishment and it won’t be ready or adequate for us to use as a whole nursery. Outdoor play  is so important in the nursery curriculum and the children should be able to access the same learning opportunitities outside that they can inside, and more. Due to this, the nursery wish to fundraise between now and then to see if we can get enough money together to make the outdoor space suitable and appealing for our children to use. We appreciate that it won’t be these children that will directly benefit from a new garden at the school but maybe some of their siblings or cousins might do in the future. We were hoping to have a week each month which will be our enterprise/ fundraising week where the children and staff will make and bake products to sell for a small donation in the hope that we can start to make a contribution towards a new garden. The fundraising for this term will start next week at our nativity. There will be items for sale in the main corridor and a tin for donations.

If you have any suggestions for fundraising please share them with staff and we will see if they can be achieved in some way. Maybe some  parents might like to gather together and drive forward the nursery fundraising committee, if you are at all interested please come and speak to staff.

Our heartfelt thanks for all your support this year so far.