What’s on week beginning 16th March 2020

Monday 16th March 

Amanda out of the nursery today, Mhari supporting in the playroom

Pamela has resumed her job share position of working 2/3 day pattern.

Information session for parents with Lynn & Isabel regarding COVID-19 Contingency Plans for Service Continuity 9 am and 1 pm in the Parent Room.


Tuesday 17th March

Amanda out of the nursery today, Mhari supporting in the playroom

Lynn out of the nursery this morning

Wednesday 18th March

Nurturing Nature Family Engagement Forest School this morning is regrettably cancelled

Join Jen this afternoon for a Big Chef Little Chef session, there are lots of spaces available for you and your child. 1 pm – 3 pm

Lynn out of the nursery today

Thursday 19th March

Nurturing Nature Family Engagement Forest School  this afternoon is regrettably cancelled.

Friday 20th March

Story Massage Family Engagement sessions are regrettably cancelled.

Dykehead Primary School Parent and Child Transition session

1.15 pm until 3 pm at Shotts Nature Park, remember all children need a family member to support them. The morning session was a huge success watch Twitter for pictures

What’s on week beginning 9th March 2020

 

Monday 9th

Mindful Monday why not take a moment to breath with your child

Lynn is out of the nursery today

Tuesday 10th

Amanda is out of the nursery all week, Mhairi and Isabel will be supporting in the Rainbow Room

Pamela is attending North Lanarkshire Councils Nurture Conference

Wednesday 11th

Gillian is out of the nursery today, Alethea will be supporting in Gillian’s absence.

Nurturing Nature family engagement week 3 8.50 am – 11.30 am with Nicola and Pamela

Thursday 12th

Nurturing Nature family engagement week 3 1.10 pm – 3.40 pm  with Elaine and Nicola

Friday 13th

Lynn will be out of the nursery today.

Morning families transition event at Shotts Nature Park with Dykehead Primary School.  All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian we will be leaving the nursery at 9.15 am. Please bring a small healthy snack for you and your child. This will be an opportunity for your child to play in the forest with you and their school buddy.  For more information please speak to Nicola.

Story Massage Family Engagement session with Christine 1 .10 pm only this week

Nurturing Nature Family Forest School sessions

 

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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

What’s on week beginning 2nd March 2020

 


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

 

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

What’s on week beginning 24th February 2020

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.

Pete’s a Pizza Story massage session

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

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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