Bells Brae Nursery

Week Beginning: 1st September 2025

Our story of the week is Open Very Carefully by Nick Bromley.

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Our song of the week is I Am a Crocodile. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.

Week Beginning: 25th August 2025

Our story of the week is The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

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Our rhyme of the week is Tiger Tiger.

Tiger Tiger,

Sit with me.

Tiger Tiger,

Sip your tea.

Tiger Tiger,

Don’t you roar!

Tiger Tiger,

On the floor.

Tiger Tiger,

No more play.

Tiger Tiger,

Learn today.

It was lovely to welcome back our returning pupils after the summer holidays and to catch up with all their news.  We also welcomed some of our new starts during the first week of term.  Staff are enjoying getting to know our new pupils and are helping them to settle in.

We actively encourage partnership with parents and carers.  You will be invited to attend several events throughout the session but contact with staff at drop off and pick up times is an important means of communication.  Please feel free to discuss any questions or concerns that you may have at anytime with a member of staff.

Sports Stay & Play

This term we held a Sports Day themed stay and play for families to attend.

Children moved around the activities in small groups with an adult. They took turns at each activity before waiting to hear the bell and moving onto the next one.

Lots of jumping!

The children had to listen to and follow instructions on how to take part in each activity.

They learnt new skills and developed their gross motor skills.

After all the activities outdoors the children and families were invited indoors where they were offered a healthy snack to have with their families.

Our Summer Trip!

This term we went on a trip to the beach. We had so much fun with our friends. To start our adventure we went on a big bus from Nursery to the beach at Gulberwick.

The children made lots of sand castles and realised that using wet sand made the best sand castles!

Later we all had lunch together at the hall and afterwards enjoyed playing in the park. The children took turns with their friends to play on the swings, slides and other equipment. The round about was very busy and lots of fun. Some children also liked to use the big football pitch to try and score some goals!

The children splashed and played in the burn and they were interested in how fast it was flowing.

The children worked together with their friends and were reminded about keeping safe during the trip.

On behalf of all the Nursery staff at Bell’s Brae we would like to say a huge THANK YOU to you all for your very generous donations following our Sponsored walk/run we held earlier this month.  Stuart and Debbie from Muddy Bay kindly gave us a generous donation and we have managed to purchase a 2 seater and a 3 seater leather couch.  A small group of children from the nursery walked down this week to hand over the money.

We hope to have these in time for the new term.

Thanks again,

Mrs Tait

Week Beginning: 23rd June 2025

Our story of the week is Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne.

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Our song of the week is Fruit Song. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.

Week Beginning: 16th June 2025

Our story of the week is Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson.

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Our song of the week is Day and Night Opposites Song. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.

Hello,

An email with a link to a Microsoft form was sent to you earlier this week and last week.  Your feedback is extremely important to us and helps shape improvements and changes we can make to the Nursery.  This form remains open until Friday.

Thank you,

Mrs Tait

Week Beginning: 9th June 2025

Our story of the week is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

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Our song of the week is Caterpillars Only Crawl. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.