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Children in the birth to three are now spending lots of time in the outdoor environment using all of their senses to explore the world around them. Here are a few pictures of how the children are learning outdoors.
Monday 30th March
St Patrick’s Primary Transition visit 9.15 am & 1.15pm
Infant Massage with Christine in the Sunshine Room
Forest School session with Nicola
Pre School Vision screening at nursery
Jackie visiting Wishaw Family Learning Centre
Tuesday 31st March
Elaine will be attending the Scottish Book Bug Event in Edinburgh, Carly will be supporting the Caterpillar Group
Wednesday 1st April
Forest School session with Nicola
Jennifer and Liz will be supporting in the early level playroom
Thursday 2nd April
Elaine will be attending Day 2 of the Solihull Foundation Training, Carly and Liz will be supporting the Caterpillar Group
Friday 3rd April
Easter Holiday until Monday 2oth April for those children attending term time
We have now finalised the end of term outing. By a majority vote we shall be going to Blair Drummond Safari Park Tuesday 23rd June 2015.
The coaches shall leave the nursery at 9.15 am prompt and leave for the return journey at 2.15 pm from Blair Drummond.
It is anticipated that all children will have an adult family member to accompany them on the outing. Once we have the final numbers, then we will be able to offer out additional seats at an extra cost.
The cost of the coaches, four in total will be paid for from the Fundraising Event on the 2nd March in the Station Hotel, Shotts. Tickets are on sale now.
Payment into the park can me made direct to Nancy or Lorraine in the admin office or can be paid in instalments.
Cost £9.50 per adult and £7.50 for children 3 yrs and above.
We are sure that this will be a great family day out. Please note that the nursery will be closed on this day
The parents/carers and children have been cooking up a storm in their local community centre. They have followed healthy recipes to make wraps, vegetable skewers and a delicious apple crumble. Next week they will be making fruit kebabs and pizza. While taking part the children are learning about good hygiene , weighing and measuring, shape, colour while exploring new tastes.
The first session took place on Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon, everyone had a great time and lots of fun was had. The parents and children took part in some pond dipping and fishing. We even managed to catch a variety of creatures from frogspawn to tadpoles as well as some water snails. Children had opportunities to build relationships within the group whilst learning about the rules and boundaries within Forest School. We are all looking forward to next weeks sessions where we will be exploring the creatures and mini-beasts that live in the woods as we turn ourselves into Nature Detectives.
Our morning Forest School Group.
Our afternoon Forest School Group.
Monday 23rd March
Ladybird Group Parental Consultations
Infant Massage with Christine in the Sunshine Room
Forest School session with Nicola
Jennifer and Liz will be supporting in the early level playroom
Tuesday 24th March
Dykehead Parent and Child Transition Visit 9.30 am and 1.30 pm
Elaine attending Solihull Approach Foundation Training session, Jennifer and Liz supporting the Caterpillar Group
Wednesday 25th March
Kodaly with Rosie in the early level playroom
Elaine attending GIRFEC training session in the afternoon, Jackie supporting the Caterpillar Group
Forest School session with Nicola
Thursday 26th March
Big Chef Little Chef in the Community Centre with Amanda and Jen, Jennifer and Liz supporting the Dragonfly Group
Christine attending a Peri Mental Health training session in the afternoon, Carly supporting in the Rainbow Room
Friday 27th March
Nurturing Lives and Communities Conference, GLO centre Motherwell, Lynn supporting the Solihull Event Market Stall, Susan and Siobhan will be attending as guests. Jennifer and Liz will be supporting today.
We are holding a fundraising event in the Station Hotel on Saturday 2nd May 2015 at 7.30 pm. The tickets will be £5 which includes a disco and buffet. These will be on sale from Nancy or Lorraine in the admin office from Monday 16th March 2015.
All proceeds from this event will go directly towards the cost of the end of term outing.
Donations of raffle prizes can be placed in the box situated in each reception area.
We hope that this will be a successful social event for friends and family.
Monday 16th March
Three Read Approach filming with NLC Literacy Tutors in the Parent Room.
Infant Massage 10 am with Christine in the Sunshine Room.
Forest School Session with Nicola.
Jackie and Nadine on annual leave.
Pamela and Lauren will be supporting learning and teaching in the early level playroom.
Jennifer and Liz will be supporting learning and teaching in the early level playroom.
Tuesday 17th March
Siobhan will be at a Speech and Language Training session until 1 pm. Supporting the Ladybird Group.
Louise Carson Speech and Language Therapist will be in the centre today for a short time.
Gwynne Fitsimmons, Pre Five Learning Support Teacher will be in the centre in the morning.
Jennifer and Liz will be supporting learning and teaching in the early level playroom.
Wednesday 18th March
Lynn will be attending the Head of Establishment Conference in Motherwell.
Rosie, Kodaly Tutor shall be working alongside each group and their key worker this morning.
Forest School Session in the afternoon with Nicola.
Jennifer and Liz will be supporting learning and teaching in the early level playroom.
Thursday 19th March
Nicola will be on annual leave in the morning. Jennifer will be supporting the Butterfly Group.
Big Chef Little Chef in the Community Centre with Jen Dawson and Amanda. 9.30 am till 11 am and 1.30 pm till 3 pm.
Lynn will be attending day 2 of the Head of Establishment Conference in Motherwell.
Liz will be supporting learning and teaching in the early level playroom.
Christine will be attending Schedule of Growing Skills 11 training. Supporting the Rainbow Room will be Carly.
Friday 20th March
Gillian shall be attending Day 2 of the Solihull Approach Training in Motherwell supporting the Bumblebee group today will be Carly and Liz.
Understanding your Child’s Behaviour, delivered by Jen Dawson in the Parent Room.
We have been using the story of Michael Recycle, written by Ellie Bethel to develop our knowledge of reducing, reusing and recycling within play experiences, both indoors and outdoors.
The children are taking their responsibility of ensuring the milk cartons are emptied and washed prior going into the recycling bin.
We used the large floor space at the creative area to sort and categorise the junk.
A skittle challenge was created by designing recycled bottles and a ball made of newspaper.
