Orbiston & Sacred Heart Nursery Blog

Information with regards to children returning to Nursery is being send today and early tomorrow. Children starting either nursery will receive a letter with their start date towards the end of the week.

We are all looking forward to all of the children returning.  Letters with more information will be sent direct to parents over the next few days.

We have a leavers gift for all the children who have left Orbiston and Sacred Heart Nurseries to go into primary 1. This can be collected from Sacred Heart Primary on Thursday 2nd July between 12pm-1pm.

Please spread the word. It is also important to remember the 2m social distance rule when collecting the gift.

We hope to see you tomorrow x

Today is our Virtual Sports Day!!!!

I hope you are all excited and planning to take part! See the planned events and order of activities for today below. Remember to tweet your pictures to the school’s twitter and to @NLActiveSchool.

Good luck, and remember you can re-try events to get your best score! At 2pm Active Schools will announce which points will earn Gold, Silver and Bronze! Comment below what your overall points total.

Hi boys and girls.
I have been involved in training looking at activities involving the world around us. I have been enjoying it very much so thought I would share some ideas with you. 😁

I have been busy collecting different colours of stones, pebbles and rocks.

The first activity  to do is clean all my pebbles and rocks with warm soapy water and a toothbrush.  🥰 This brings out all the different colours and their sparkly bits too! I have really enjoyed seeing the difference the water can make and seeing the difference between the colours when they are wet and the dry 😱.

The next part of the training I explored how to use all these lovely stones and pebbles  to make some art pictures. I sorted them all by colour or shape.

I then tied 4 twigs together to use as my frame and then used the different stones to make some pictures.

I took pictures of my creations and then took them apart and started again.

I had great fun with this experience using my imagination and thought you might too 💛

Why don’t you give it a try?

I hope yous have lots of fun just like i did, you can share your pictures with us too.

Miss McCormack xxx

Good Afternoon boys and girls 🙂

Below is a numeracy activity that will develop your maths & motor skills:

Have a lovely weekend, take care & stay safe.

Missing you lots, Miss Nicoll xx

Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the ideas and activities on the nursery blog.

Music is a fun way of learning by developing our listening and movement skills.

We have already made our own musical instruments so why not get moving today.

A good online resource is: www.abcearlyyears.org.uk  this resource gives you free activities and I am sure the children will remember the moves from nursery.

A few ideas to get us moving;

• Freeze dance – get someone to help by playing music then you dance and when the other person stops the music you have to freeze until the music comes back on
• Make a band – use your instruments you may have already made or an instrument you can play and move around the room while playing
• Name that tune – ask an adult or sibling to guess the tune that you clap out, then take it in turns
• Dance – listen to your favourite songs and dance to the beat. If the beat is slow then you dance slow and if the beat gets faster then you follow the beat
• Dance with props – clear a space and turn the music up. Use different fun toys as props such as; hula hoops, bean bags, scarves, hairbrushes – and start dancing!
• Sing – choose a song to sing to your family or on your own

Have fun and remember music makes us happy!!!!!!

Mrs Cassidy

Good morning and happy Friday everyone. I hope you have all had a good week and are safe.

I have another little creative activity for you to try today.
Who likes dinosaurs ? … I do!

Why not get out some paints and create your own paper plate dinosaurs 🦕.

Here’s how :

Looking forward to seeing your creations 🦕🥰

Miss McCormack xx

Hi everyone,

I have a great fun way to use leaves that you’ve collected on your nature walks… if you’ve not collected any then that could also be an activity to keep yous busy.

I’ve seen lots of different leaves when out walking. They are  lots of different colours, shapes and sizes.

Why not use these leaves to get creative 😁

You could use them for printing.  Paint a colour onto a leaf then turn it over and push it onto paper. Then lift it carefully and see all the little lines on the leaf printed onto your paper. Try this a few times with different shaped leaves and colours of paint.

You could also paint different patterns and pictures on to the leaf and print you design.

My favourite idea is using leaves as a face.  I stick different things onto it to make a face or animal.

Let’s see what other ways you can be creative with all the leaves🍃🍀☘️🌿🌱 …

Looking forward to seeing your lovely ideas and pictures 🥰

love, Miss McCormack