Library Van Visit – Tuesday

Our library van visits gives the bairns access to a varied and up to date book selection. This offers an opportunity to promote a love of reading, improved early literacy skills and a time to meet others from the local community.  When choosing books for the nursery bookshelves the bairns pick for their own interests and also consider that of their peers.

“Dis is turtles, lik da turtle song.”

“Let’s take the viking one like SMUHA, it’s two Vikings.”

Transition – Wednesday

The bairns are already familiar with the school, making frequent visits to the hall, canteen, printer/copier in the shared area and to the school entrance to visit Janis and Mr Clark. This week the bairns moving up to Primary 1 met the P6 Buddies who will be accompanying them along with nursery staff out into the playground to experience morning break with the other school bairns, meet support staff and build on their confidence, supporting them in the new environment, with new relationships and routines.

The playground visits will continue throughout term 4 and more transition activities will be added. Lunch visits in the school, teacher visits into nursery and the bairns visiting the P1 classroom. Dates for these will be confirmed soon.

The bairns met some familiar faces!

Early Years Numeracy – Maths is everywhere!

The continuous provision in nursery for numeracy and maths across all areas of the setting allows the bairns to explore and revisit, to consolidate their learning and skills through various daily routines and self-initiated play. This week has included shape, measure, symmetry, weight, capacity, problem solving, data handling, pattern, sorting and matching.

Gift from Community!

The bairns were very excited to receive an amazing gift from one of the SMUHA squads! Their props have been donated to various schools and nurseries and the bairns were delighted to get the John Deere Tractor!

‘It’s lik in da middle o da shields.’

Bats!

Mrs Smith has been leading a creative project with the bairns all about bats as part of her fine art degree! There is more information around this on the nursery facebook page. The exhibition and family friendly open event is being held at Islesburgh tomorrow- Saturday 21st March from 3pm – 5pm in room 16, where you can see what the bairns have been working on.