St Bartholomew's Nursery

We are all very excited for our Nativity show tomorrow. This morning we had our final dress rehearsal and it went very well! Here are some exclusive backstage photographs!

Some angels in a hurry!

Final preparations before the curtain goes up!

The horses are ready…

… and so are the donkeys!

Coming offstage after another outstanding performance!

We were inspected by ‘Care Inspectorate’ on Monday and are delighted to inform everyone that it was a very successful report. We have been awarded ‘Very Good’ in all four areas. This is a very fitting acknowledgement for our fantastic staff and our wonderful children. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our parents and carers for their continued support – it has paid off!

As part of our theme about Festivals, we have been learning about the festival of Christmas. We have been listening to the Nativity story at Welcome time and have a real stable with dressing up clothes where we can act out the story. We are also practicing our Nativity Play so we will be ready for the big show this Friday. We have been looking for winter patterns and can rmake our own repeating decoration patterns. Our Christmas Enterprise items are looking great too. We’ve made Christmas Tree decorations, bauble gift tags, reindeer dust and Christmas bags. They’ll all be on sale at our party next week.

The nursery boys and girls have been hard at work AGAIN this week! As part of our numeracy studies, we have been looking at how we can make marks to represent numbers. Given that we were so creative when making playdough numbers last week, we decided to see if we could use pens to make number marks this week.

Great work boys and girls!

This week in literacy we have been finding out that sound have a matching capital letter. It is tricky to know which go together because sometimes they look quite different. We used our letter paddles to check which go together and then we glued the letter and capitals pairs together.

As part of our theme, Festivals, we have been learning all about the special day for Scotland’s Patron saint, St Andrew. We explored all things scottish including making soltaires(our national flag), creating our own tartans, listening and dancing to scottish music, singing scottish songs, doing role play in our scottish castle and tasting haggis, neeps and tatties.

The afternoon children thoroughly enjoyed their haggis, neeps and tatties as well! What a great St Andrew’s Day celebration!

We have been learning all about different festivals recently. As part of our St Andrew’s Day studies, we have been creating Scotland flags.

We have also been very busy with our numeracy work. This week, we learned how to continue and create patterns.

We had great fun playing our sounds game to day. We had to watch for the letter paddle to find out which corner we had to run to. We were really good at spotting the sound but we were exhausted by the end of the game!

Run, run as fast as you can!

I can match letters.

Have I ran to the right corner?