Here are some new ideas for the week ahead. We are missing you all so much and hope your keeping safe and well at home. Big hugs and cuddles from us to you x o x o x o
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From: Gerard McLaughlin, Head of Education (North)
Message to Parents/Carers
Parents and carers are advised that North Lanarkshire Council Communications team are preparing to release information as soon as possible through its normal communication channels regarding the closure of schools to pupils from today. This will include
Further information will be available through your school’s normal communication channels from Monday onwards.
Regards
Gerard
Gerard J. McLaughlin
Head of Education (North)
Education and Families
Civic Centre,
Motherwell
From: Derek Brown, Executive Director
Dear Parents /Carers
Following advice from the Scottish Government to close educational establishment today, we fully recognise that from today children and young people may be at home for a long period of time and we have produced a suite of materials to support their learning – further information about materials will be sent to you in due course.
Understandably, this is an unsettling time for children, young people and their carers and many people will be feeling anxious about the current situation and the impact that it may have on the health and wellbeing of family, friends and colleagues.
For this reason we have also included information to help you reassure your child. Many of these resources have been developed in collaboration with South Lanarkshire Council. The attached document provides some advice and guidance.
We will continue to up-date this resource and ensure that it is widely available online. You will be notified of these updates next week.
Thank you for your on-going support during these challenging times.
Regards
Derek Brown
Executive Director
We hope that these links and stories will help to ease the burden whilst your child is unable to attend nursery.
All the links for the sites are underlined which you can click to take you straight through.
Take lots of pictures which you can share when we get the chance to reconnect.
The staff team are always here for you any time. We thank you for the loving kindness you have shown to us during the last week.
Lynn would like to take this opportunity to personally thank each and every one of you for enabling us to become part of your family.
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This week all families arrived motivated and excited to engage in some new opportunities to learn within Shotts Nature Park . The addition of the new trolley proved a huge success with all parents/ carers and children taking on the responsibility of pulling , pushing and at times jumping in the trolley. Walking to the learning circle allowed the families to explore a new area of the park , exploring the Gruffalo woods with torches as there was lots of discussions and questioning as to what creatures might live in the woods. Who knew what amazing chefs we have as we all worked together to make pizzas on an open fire , this was a first for many of the families and proved a huge success for hungry tummies. There was always time to visit the cafe for hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows and was great to observe the independence skills of the children as they prepared their own drinks. I am still not sure who won the game of hide and seek as the families found very interesting places to hide and certainly used up all the space available to them. Looking forward to next weeks session where we will be using hammocks and ropes , I wonder what we could possibly do with these resources.?? Nicola , Pamela & Elaine x Continue reading Nurturing Nature Family Forest School sessions
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
Aliens love underpants story massage session 28th February 8:40am and 1:10pm everyone welcome
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.
Come along join in the fun as we have a Story massage alongside the story of Pete’s a Pizza
the Children will them make their very own delicious Pizza to take home while the parents/carers make up their very own Story Massage
Join Christine in the Parents room at 11am and 1:10pm
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!
