During assembly some of the boys and girls received some certificates from Mrs Greer for their achievements in nursery.

Caleb Thompson- For excellent work in maths involving counting and early fractions.

Karlie Wilson- For fantastic behaviour in nursery and always using her listening ears.

Shaun McGlynn- For excellent work recognising and ordering numbers on the nursery washing line.

Romana Ramzan- Fantastic recognition of numbers 1-10.

We are all very proud of you, Well Done!

Growing Together Learning Forever – Bath Time

For any of you that might be interested you can buy sets of foam letters and numbers that stick to the side of your bath and would be a valuable addition to any bath time routine.

These could be used in several ways to promote literacy and numeracy development at home.

Recently available in ALDI at a cost of £2.99 the above pictured set or similar can also be purchased in ASDA, Tesco and Amazon – prices will vary!

In Nursery we have been enjoying playing with the balls in the outdoor area. We got an exciting delivery of 50 balls and all the boys and girls had to opportunity to fill the ball with air. We have been learning in order for the ball to fill with air we have to use our muscles to push and pull the pump. We had great fun playing outside with the balls playing a variety of different games.

Callum- I like playing dodgeball with the balls, somebody has to kick it to catch people. I was catching people then it was someone else’s turn.

Liam- Throw the ball into the net, it made me feel good. We made a line to get turns.

Zoe- Bouncing the balls, it was easy.

Logan- Kick the balls, play football and score a big goal.

Carsen- I liked playing basketball with balls. You have to use your hand to practise.

Isla- I liked throwing the balls high, I used my hands to hold the ball aswell.

We hope you are enjoying being able to access your child’s learning journal and we have loved reading and hearing about how it is helping to extend your children’s learning at home. Please continue to comment on the observations and continue discussions with your children about their learning as we are LOVING hearing about the quality learning conversations that are going on at home!

Can I remind any parents who can not access their child’s learning journal to check their junk/spam folder in their emails to ensure the login details are not in there.

If you are still having trouble please speak to any of the nursery staff who will be able to help you.

As you will be aware, our online learning journals are going live from Monday. Parents will be able access their child’s journal through the login details provided any time from then onwards.

Observations of your child’s learning will be tracked on their learning journal and can be viewed by you at any time using your secure login details. You will receive an email notification when an observation has been added.

We would encourage parents/carers to comment on their child’s learning on the journal. There is also a place for you to add in any learning experiences that your child partakes in at home with the options to add photographs as well.

**Unfortunately there is a glitch in the system/server this week with any Hotmail email addresses. The team are working on this with Microsoft and hope to have a resolution for us this week. **

We hope you enjoy viewing your child’s learning in nursery in a more interactive way and welcome any feedback you can give us.

The initiative was developed by North Lanarkshire Council to promote partnership working and highlight how easy it can be for parents and carers to help support and develop literacy and numeracy skills in young children by turning everyday tasks e.g doing the laundry or going shopping into fun learning experiences.

We have created a ‘Growing Together Learning Forever’ wall within our nursery playroom. We will display an experience/routine that you will all undoubtedly participate in at home on a daily or weekly basis along with activity ideas and some ‘think about’ or ‘chat about’ prompts.
Participating in these activities and using the prompts to engage in conversation and discussion will capture your child’s imagination, encourage your child’s literacy and numeracy development.
With just a little time to make the most of the rich learning opportunities available in ordinary routines and with no costly materials needed, you can support your child to learn through the world around them. Copies of all activities will be made available for you to help yourself to along with any other resources that we think might enhance this experience.

If you would like to hear more about this initiative or have any questions/comments please speak to Mrs Hill.

A free nasal spray flu vaccine is available this Autumn/Winter and is available to all children in the nursery.
***If you would like your child to receive this vaccine an appointment should be made at your local doctors surgery.***                                      Posters are located in the nursery cloakroom-

The photographer will be visiting the nursery for individual photographs on Wednesday the 21st of September. It is entirely up to yourself as to what you would like your child to wear for the photograph.

In nursery we have been enjoying playing in the pizza shop. We have been taking on the role as chef and creating our own pizza with a variety of pretend toppings to choose from.

Today in nursery we had a fantastic day making real pizzas for snack. Each child had the opportunity to try all our toppings before choosing what pizza they would like to make. This included cheese, ham, pepperoni and salami.

First we had to wash our hands-

We have to wash our hand because we might get germs in our tummy.- Karlie

If you don’t wash your hands the germs go on your food. -Lucy

We put cheese on it.  I had to take the pizza to the school, my big sister’s school. The ladies cooked the pizza for the boys and girls. – Karlie

Ham, pepperoni, tomato sauce, cheese- you have to put toppings everywhere. The school oven cooked it, then we eat it. It was yummy and tasty. – Isla

I love everything and its delicious, pizzas my favourite thing to eat. – Harrison

Sauce and cheese on my pizza, it went in the oven. You slice the pizza so you can eat it. It was good. –Carsen

That was delicious. – Derryn

All the boys and girls had a great time creating and eating our pizza for snack.Well done!

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