Afternoon

Afternoon Read and Play session

Lydia visited for another successful Read and Play session, thoroughly enjoyed by the children and parents that took part. Today we listened to the story, “The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle and then made spiders and spider webs from simple craft materials, but they looked so effective!

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If you and your child make or do any activities after reading their library book, or any other story book you have then please bring them in for them to show the other children at gather time,( or email photos to the school and put for the attention of nursery on them) . . . .this all links in with promoting literacy which we are working on this year. When you do an activity relating to a book you are reading with your child, whether it be a walk to look for characters from the book, draw a picture, sing a song, make a model, the content of the story is becoming more and more embedded into your child’s imagination and vocabulary. Plus, it is great fun and a good opportunity to spend one to one time with them.

Nursery News

Nursery Open Afternoons – 30/9 and 1/10

Just a reminder that the nursery is opening it’s doors to parents and carers on Wednesday 30th September and Thursday 1st October between 4pm and 5pm. Come in and have a look around the building and see how the children use the facilities. This is also a chance to have an informal chat with a member of staff about your child’s progress  so far and have a look at their work, both up on the wall and in their folders. We look forward to seeing you next week.

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Refurbishment works at Lady Cathcart

Please be aware that from Monday 28th September there will be refurbishment works on the toilets close to the entrance hall. The building work will be happening for about 3 weeks. Please refrain from parking in the car park when dropping off or collecting children as there is liable to be works traffic and skips making it tight for cars to manouvre. Also please keep children under close supervision when walking through the car park. The entrance hall can still be used as normal at drop off and collection times.

Afternoon

Read and Play Project with Action for Children

Lydia visited us this afternoon to do a Read and Play session with our afternoon children. She read “Wow said the Owl!” by Tim Hopgood. After the story the children did a matching activity, followed by a group craft activity making a large collage sunshine, and then individual collage owls. The children got fully involved in every activity and thoroughly enjoyed the session.

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Please remember the parent/carer session on Tuesday 29th September 1-2pm or 2-3pm . . .let staff know which session you would like to attend.

Nursery News

International Fairy Tea Party Friday 18th September

Our International Fairy day was a success, as has been our first week of our Fairy learning context. We have created group fairy stories, made model fairies, fairy doors and wands and played with a variety of fairy themed resources, with our imaginations running riot! It is safe to say our children have really got engrossed in this context and we look forward to our second week celebrating everything to do with fairies!

 Science and Discovery table

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Role play area

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Rice Tray

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Gluing/ Junk modelling table

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Number line in numeracy area

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Water Tray

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Magic Fairy mist to help us to tidy

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The treats left by the fairies for our tea party

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Nursery News

Balance bikes

On Thursday 17th September the nursery was very fortunate and extremely grateful to take delivery of 5 new balance bikes and helmets. This was courtesy of Urban Freedom Buckie and Keith, and Moray Council, who strive to promote walking and cycling as part of a healthy lifestyle. The idea behind balance bikes is that a child should be able to go straight from using a balance bike to cycling a push bike without the need of stabilisers. We can’t wait to get the bikes out into the garden and for the children to start using them.

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Nursery News

Nursery open afternoons

The nursery is opening it’s doors to parents and carers on Wednesday 30th September and Thursday 1st October between 4pm and 5pm. Come in and have a look around the building and see how the children use the facilities. This is also a chance to have an informal chat with a member of staff about your child’s progress  so far and have a little look at their work, both up on the wall and in their profile bags. We look forward to seeing you.

Afternoon

Action for Children Read and Play sessions (afternoon children)

It is soon to be the turn of the afternoon children for a read and play session. You will see with your child’s library book on Friday 11th that you got a card to fill out with regards to how much you look at books with your children and if you do any follow up activities relating to the books. Please fill these out and return to nursery as these are to do with the Read and Play pilot project being carried out in partnership with Action for Children.

On Tuesday 22nd September Lydia Simpson will be coming to nursery to read a story and do some fun craft activities directly relating to the story with the afternoon children. These have been really enjoyed by the children in the past. We are then inviting the afternoon parents to come along to take part in a session with their children to show how much fun and how easy it is to do activities relating to story books with items you can find around your home which really help the children to gain more learning and understanding from the story without realising they are doing so! This will be on Tuesday 29th September  1pm – 2pm, and 2pm – 3pm. Please let staff know which of these sessions you would prefer to attend.

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