Monthly Archives: February 2020

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What’s on week beginning 2nd March 2020

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Monday 

Lynn not of nursery this morning

Ann, educational psychologist is in the nursery this morning

Mindful Monday, take a moment to breath before you come in to the nursery and give yourself permission to just sit a moment .

Tuesday

Wednesday

Nicola and Pamela Forest School Family Engagement 8.50 am until 11.30 am. Wrap up well and bring a little healthy snack. Remember wellie socks for those cold toes.

 

Oral hygienist will be visiting the children today.

Kirsty will be rejoining the team this afternoon.

Join Jen with your little one in the Parent Room at 1.15 pm, for an afternoon of fun learning

Thursday

Lynn is out at the Calderhead Cluster Transition meeting

World Book Day – Stories can be read any where at any time. Fancy Dress character optional.

Staff training on Assessment and Moderation at Dykehead Primary School, could we please ask that all children are collected by 3.45 pm. Many thanks 

Nurturing Nature Forest School Family Engagement with Elaine and Nicola, 1.15 pm until 3.15 pm due to staff training.

Friday

Isabel out of nursery today

Dykehead Primary School Forest School Transition session for some of the afternoon children. Leaving the nursery at 9.15 am.

Family Engagement – Story Massage 8.40pm and 1.10 pm with Christine

 

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Nurturing Nature Family Forest School Sessions

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The Nurturing Nature Family Forest School Sessions commenced this week with 100% attendance from all families that participated. There were opportunities for pond dipping and fishing and it was lovely to observe some lovely interactions between parent/carer and child with some very interesting pond life creatures being caught, especially surprising as the pond was initially frozen over with ice and snow.  We had the opportunity to explore the forest and found a secret entrance into the woods where a secret cafe was discovered that offered hot drinks and biscuits to heat us up before working together to gather various different sizes of sticks to build a fire.  On return to nursery it was lovely to hear such nice feedback from both adults and children of the enjoyment they had within these sessions. Next week on offer will be storytelling , Gruffalo hunting and pizza making , looking forward to it .
Nicola, Pamela and Elaine x

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What’s on week beginning 24th February 2020

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Monday

Lets start the week with a mindful session with the children

Isabel will be out the nursery today and tomorrow


Tuesday

Ann educational psychologist will be in the nursery this afternoon

Wednesday

There will be no Wellbeing Wednesday Group this morning

Gillian is on annual leave today, Isabel will be supporting the playroom 

Nurturing Nature Forest School with Nicola and Pamela this morning, leaving at 9 am.

Languageland with Gemma, speech and language therapist

Lynn will be visiting St Thomas Nursery Class this morning

Thursday

Reconnect with Siobhan at this mornings Mindfulness Parent Session 10.30 am in the Parent Room

Nurturing Nature Family Engagement session with Nicola and Elaine, who will be leaving at 1.15 pm from the Parent Room.

 

Friday

Story Massage with Chrisitne at 8.40 am and 1.10 pm in the Parent Room. “Aliens Love Underpants “ is this weeks theme.

Nursery to Dykehead Primary Nurturing Nature Transition session at Shotts Nature Park, this is for the afternoon children. Leaving at 9.10 am. Please note that the children do not attend for their normal afternoon session.

A little note to advise that whilst the staff are delivering Family Engagement sessions or supporting the delivery of transition with Dykehead Primary school, your child’s key worker may not be at their Welcome Group, or alternatively they may go straight to play.

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Pete’s a Pizza Story massage session

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Thank you to everyone who came along to the session today. Everyone had a lovely relaxing massage while listening to the story of Pete’s a Pizza the children then went off to make their very own delicious Pizza for lunch or dinner while the parents made 2 amazing story massages of their very own to share at home with their Children.

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“Whatever Next” Story Massage session

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Thank you to everyone who attended todays sessions your support is greatly appreciated as these Family learning oppertunities can not happen without you!

8 Families attended todays sessions where everyone’s wishes were respected and listened to as children were asked “is it ok if I give you a Story Massage?”  As the nurturing Story Massage took place and the children began to relax with each stroke you really could have heard a pin drop and as you can see from the photographs how relaxed the children are.

Children then went off in their very own rocket to fly to the moon where they had a delicious picnic with the bear while the parents created their very own fantastic Story massages to share at home with their Children.

In the afternoon some of the children helped to create their very own Story massage and were very much included in choosing the strokes and some of the words too.

Well done everyone!

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What’s on week beginning the 17th February 2020

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Monday 17th February 2020

Lynn will be out of the nursery today.

Christine and Susan will be out of the nursery this morning, supporting their absence shall be Isabel and Amanda.

Tuesday 18th February 2020

On behalf to the centre Lynn will be attending the funeral of one of our previous parents Tina Henry, who was and still is an inspiration to our staff team.

Wednesday 19th February 2020

Rainbow Room Family Bookbug session with Amanda and Susan 9.10 am

Gemma Speech and Language Therapist will be delivering Languageland sessions today.

Thursday 20th February 2020

Isabel will be out of the nursery todayRainbow Room Family Bookbug session with Susan, Amanda and Mhari 1.10 pm

Friday 21st February 2020

Isabel will be out of the nursery today

Join Christine for the Family Story Massage using the all time favourite  book Whatever Next , change of time for morning session 11 am and afternoon 1.10 pm.  

Alethea will be out of the nursery this afternoon.

 

We are extremely grateful for all the snack donations which are received on a daily basis, especially bread and fruit.  Without your generosity the children would not be able to have such a nutritious snack.

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What’s on week beginning the 10th February 2020

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Monday 10th February 2020

 

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Wednesday 12th February 2020

Thursday 13th February 2020

Friday 14th February 2020

First cohort of morning children joining P1 friends from Dykehead Primary School as part of the transition programme. This session is for children only. Remember to bring a small healthy snack and dress for the weather. If you need to borrow waterproofs you can get them in the morning.It will be great to reconnect with the children from the school.

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Join Christine in the Parent Room for this weeks Family Story Massage session.  The story today will be Whatever Next by Jill Murphy.

8.50 am and 1.10 pm 

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The Something story massage session

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Parental involvement is key to the success of the Story massage sessions, they are proving to be a highly effective way for engaging parents in their child’s learning. Through positive touch parents have been able to spend good quality one to one time with their children in a calm relaxed atmosphere.

while the children went off to explore an activity around the story the parents worked together to invent their very own story massage to use with their children at home.