Category Archives: Expressive arts

Drumming fun!

We have been taking part in group drumming sessions with Joy Duncan. Exploring music and sound through drumming. Learning new songs and how to play African drums. Joy encouraged us to have a try and always have fun whilst listening and following instructions. We loved our drumming and dancing.

Some comments from the children:

Drumming is cool.

Sometimes we hit them and sometimes we didna.

We did dancing too.

I liked the drumming best.

It was so loud!

It was loud and it was quiet.

It was fun.

 

Fire Festival and Up Helly Aa 2025

We loved seeing the Jarl Squad and the galley. We sang songs, marched around, dressed up, made torches, axes and hats and watched videos of the galley burning too. Then we used the interactive whiteboard to watch what happened in Lerwick. We saw some of our friends in the Jarl Squad there too, it was so exciting!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Thank you to those of you who were able to join us for our Stay and Play Christmas sessions. We were able to share snack and make Christmas biscuits and crafts. Grown ups joined in with play around the setting to see what we do everyday.

There will be another Stay and Play in the summer which we hope some of you will be able to join us for.

We have been on some Christmas walks to see the decorations around the village. We have heard lots of Christmas stories and songs and made lots of Christmas crafts.

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Welcome back!

We have had a very busy start to the term at Scalloway Early Years, here is a snapshot of all the things we have been doing in the first few weeks back.

A time for getting to know new friends and catching up with old ones, learning all about nursery and everyone here.

Folk Festival 2024

Our Preschoolers went on a trip to Mareel for the Early Years Folk Festival Concert. We went on a big bus to Lerwick to see a band called Tenement Jazz Band. They had lots of different instruments for us to listen to and we had lots of fun dancing!

See us dancing!

Christmas is coming

We have had a busy time in the early years with lots of families joining us for some Christmas fun. We made reindeer food, Christmas cards, decorations and everyone decorated their own biscuit and enjoyed some mulled juice and mince pies. If you weren’t able to join us we will have another stay and play session later in the year.

Happy Christmas and New Year everyone. We will look forward to seeing you in January.