Bells Brae Nursery

We have been asked to share the following training opportunity:

Being Outdoors Community Training Opportunity – Kate Hookham

Please find below a link to this years ELC Registration Week video.

Registration Week 2024

Registration Week this year is from 8th to 15th March 2024.

What a busy and exciting 2 weeks we’ve had in the nursery with the build up to the Lerwick Up Helly Aa.

We were very lucky to get a visit to the Galley Shed the week before Up Helly Aa but we couldn’t tell anyone what the galley looked like.  Here are some pictures of us looking at the torches, exploring in the galley and taking charge in the committee room.

Then on Up Helly Aa day we visited the morning procession and were very lucky to get to see the Vikings up close when then visited our nursery.  The Vikings were very good at sharing and we got to hold their axes and shields.

We had an amazing time and we’re still singing the Up Helly Aa song every day.

We hope you are all staying safe and getting the opportunity to enjoy our snowy conditions building snowmen, sledging and exploring the cold weather.

When you have some quiet warm time indoors I thought I’d share two activities for you to enjoy which are linked to our Story of the Week from last week,  ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llena.

I’ve attached the activities on the link below and hope that you’ll have some fun time exploring the character and maybe creating him both indoors and out if the weather allows.

If you would like to share any photos from this week of all the exciting snow play then we’d love to see them and add them to your child’s learning story.  Please email these to the Bells Brae School inbox bellsbrae@shetland.gov.uk.

We hope to see everyone soon.

The Colour Monster Home Activities

It was lovely to welcome all the children back to Nursery last week and now we have the snow back too!

When you come inside for a break from playing in the snow then our Nursery Rhyme this week is ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’.  Sing along, dance and jump like the cow over the moon.  If you’d like to take the Nursery Rhyme outside you could make the moon from snow and jump over it as you sing the song.

Maybe if you make lots of snow balls you could count them and tell us how many you made when you come back to nursery.

If you take any pictures that you’d like to share of playing in the snow we’d love to see them and put them in your Learning Story.

We hope to see you all tomorrow.

Due to the forecast tomorrow (21st December) the nursery will be closed, information has been emailed out to parents this afternoon.

We thought that everyone will be busy with preparations for Christmas however if you’d like a break from all things festive we’ve attached a couple of online resources that you could enjoy with your child.

Nursery Rhymes and Songs – BBC Teach

This lovely resource, available through the BBC Teach website, has a great variety of songs and rhymes for you to share with your child.

There is also a link below for a game the children love to play that involves counting and recognising numbers that you might like to try if you are stuck indoors due to the high winds.

Learn to Count up to 10 with Underwater Counting Maths Game (topmarks.co.uk)

We hope to see you back on Friday for the end of Term.

We had our Christmas lunch today at nursery.  There was lots of different things to try like brussel sprouts, carrots, turnips, stuffing, sausages, tatties and gravy! And for pudding we had sticky toffee pudding, ice-cream and jelly.  It was delicious.