The children have been making lots of new discoveries within the Rainbow Room, creating gloop and bubbles in the water, discovering sounds from the instruments, deciding and making snack from using the toaster to boiling up some pasta.
The morning children have had great fun recreating the story of “the pig in the pond” after helping to create our very own Nelligan’s Farm, which also links with our new rhyme “old Mcdonald had a farm”
Monday 24th September
Public Holiday – Nursery Closed
Tuesday 25th September
Educational Psychologist A Trevorrow meeting with Lynn
Forest School Session with Nicola & Siobhan 1.00pm
Wednesday 26th September
Rainbow Room Bookbug Family Session with Amanda & Susan -am Lynne attending ACES Conference – out nursery full day
Thursday 27th September
Lynn at Kildonan Street out nursery full day
Solihull Understanding Your Child with Jen & Isabel -pm
Rainbow Room Bookbug Family Session with Amanda & Susan -pm
Forest School Session with Nicola, Elaine & Christine – 8.40am
Friday 28th September
Bookbug Family Session
Amanda Annual Leave
Children have been involved in lots of fun learning experiences. They have had opportunities to measure, count and explore pattern and shape.
Our Book Bug Family sessions are well on the way both morning and afternoon, the children have begun to recite This Little Piggy went To Market which is our current rhyme.
All children have fully embraced the wonders that Forest School has to offer as we make our weekly trips within Shotts Nature Park. The children continue to develop their curiosity and imagination within a learning environment that offers challenge and excitement. There have been opportunities to participate in pond dipping and fishing where plenty of tadpoles, fish and water snails were caught, no sharks or mermaids were found tho !!! All children have enjoyed exploring the paths, trails and hidden depths of the forest , sharing their favourite story whilst relaxing in a hammock was a definite favourite of mine. The children have also demonstrated their awareness of safety whilst making a campfire and enjoyed celebrating Maths Week Scotland when collecting various different sizes of sticks, counting out how many and carrying out simple calculations as to how many marshmallows they had eaten . The children have enjoyed observed the changes in the seasons and the different colours , sizes and shapes of the falling leaves and look forward to next weeks session where we are planning on using the spotter sheets to identify what trees they have fallen from .
Monday 17th September
Lynn is on annual leave all week
Christine will be starting a little later this morning
Susan will be attending the ASD link twilight training
Tuesday 18th September
Nurturing Nature Forest School with Kirsty and Nicola – final session 1.10 pm
Wednesday 19th September
Rainbow Room Bookbug Family session with Susan and Amanda 9 am – 9.20am
Susan AL this afternoon,
Thursday 20th September
Susan AL today Pamela supporting in the Rainbow Room this morning Shannon this afternoon
Rainbow Room Bookbug Family session with Amanda and Shannon
Solihull Understanding Your Child programme with Jen and Isabel 1.45 pm – 3.30 pm
Friday 21st September
Public Holiday closure for staff and children
The children have been on a learning journey full of shapes, measure, and numbers this week as they have enthusiastically participated in Maths Week Scotland. We have discovered that we can learn about maths anywhere and any time through playful opportunities that have been fun and exciting. The children have asked lots of questions such as ‘who is the tallest person in the nursery?’ ‘who can jump the furthest?’ and ‘how many numbers will we find on our walk today?’ and they have certainly had fun finding the answers to these questions! Even everyday routines such as eating snack have been an opportunity to discover various shapes and count how many.
Monday 10 th
Susan is attending link ASD training – Isabel will be supporting in the Rainbow Room
Tuesday 11th
Alan Henry, Education Officer will be visit the centre this morning
Nurturing Nature Forest School with Kirsty and Nicola 1.10 pm
Wednesday 12 th
Rainbow Room Family Bookbug session with Amanda and Susan 9am
Modern Apprentice Chloe Hanlon will be visiting the centre today, before taking up her placement with us.
Nicola and Lynn will be out the centre this afternoon from 1pm until 2.30pm
Elaine will be presenting to the local Health Visiting Team the SID and Shanarri toolkit at 3 pm in Houldsworth Centre
Susan will be attending Boardmaker training at 3 pm.
Thursday 13th
Rainbow Room Bookbug Family session with Amanda and Susan 1.30 pm
Solihull Understanding Your Child with Jen and Isabel 1.45pm – 3.30 pm
Lynn will be out of the Centre this morning
Friday 14 th
Family Bookbug session 8.45 pm and 1.05 pm , please speak to your child’s key worker for your session.
Lynn is on annual leave until Tuesday 25th September .
To access a copy of the report please visit the Care Inspectorate website.
I would like to personally thank all parents who met with the inspectors over their two days. To the children who were able to demonstrate their learning and to the staff team team for their motivation and commitment to supporting children and families within our local community. Well done everyone.
Children within the early level playroom are exploring the characters and setting within traditional fairy tales such as The Three Little and The Gingerbread Man , they have had opportunities to explore events from within the story through the use of puppets, costumes and the use of the smart board which have brought these stories alive.
Children have demonstrated a keen interest in cooking and baking and have been supported in creating their own shopping list, developing control of their fine movements whilst using a variety of mark making resources. Some children have participated in outings to the shops to buy the ingredients and have become bakers in the kitchen with delicious Banana Bread and smoothie ice lollies being made. The use of measuring scales, spoons and measuring jugs have enabled the children to begin to develop their awareness of measure, counting and quantities.
All children continue to be encouraged to be kind, caring and helpful to each other with practitioners providing role modelling , positive noticing comments and opportunities to work together, turn take and share within all areas of the nursery , indoors and outdoors through fun and active play. The introduction of babies and the water tray , or bath, have supported this learning with children demonstrating these skills as they care, feed and dress their babies. Outside there have been regular opportunities for all children to practice their skill on the balance bikes , ensuring they carry out the safety checks ,wearing a helmet and have been enjoying participating in active and energetic play.
The children in the Rainbow Room have been learning how to include others in their play, whilst nurturing relationships. Some of the children have shown an interest in Role Play, in particular with shopping and caring for the babies, an outing to the local Coop was particular successful where the children were learning how to exchange money for goods..Whilst others have been using the water and sand to develop their curiosity and early mathematical skills.
It has been lovely to have new children spending time in the Rainbow Room with their peers.
We are ready to begin to tweet the children’s learning, if you have not returned your signed permission form please advise your childs key worker.