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Transition started this week with visits to the playpark during morning break time.  The nursery bairns buddied up with the Primary 6 pupils.  This gives them someone else to go to if they have a question or need help.  We’ve already seen great collaborative and imaginative play between the nursery bairns and upper primary bairns.

For the last few months, the bairns have been engaged in water play using baby dolls and imaginative play in the home corner caring for the babies.  “You look after the baby, I’m going to work.”  This led to a special visitor at nursery.  We were delighted to welcome one of our parents and their baby to the setting.  The bairns helped to bath and dry the baby and then it was time for snack.  The bairns also sang nursery rhymes to the baby.

Beads are a great resource for developing fine motor skills and can be used to support the trajectory schema with the pouring of beads from one vessel to another.  We’ve also been working on picking up the beads from the floor to keep it safe.  One of the bairns made a shaker instrument using a pot with some beads inside, sealed with a piece of paper which they cut to size before adhering with tape.

While our garden is still under renovation, we headed to the school playground one sunny afternoon.  The bairns explored all the equipment, trying new things, making up their own games, assessing their own risk and revisiting play from previous trips.  It was great to see the bairns helping their friends on the swings.

We are still immersed in Viking play and today it was the school galley burning for SMUHA.  We were lucky to have some of the South Mainland Up Helly Aa squad join us for the burning.  Earlier in the morning, the bairns had built a galley using the big blocks in the outdoor room.  When we returned to the setting, the bairns revisited this imaginative play by building and burning their galley several times.  They also added safety cones to keep everyone watching safe.  Three cheers for SMUHA!

Risky play encourages resilience and problem solving and gross motor development.  The wall of the outdoor room is often used as a climbing area.  The bairns are supported to climb within their limits, thinking ahead to assess how they will get down.