Sound School Nursery

Ten in the bed

Watch and sing along to this weeks Rhyme.

Grand Old Duke of York

Here is a link to our Rhyme of the Week for this week.

Shetland Islands Council has launched a childcare consultation to gather views from parents and carers on current childcare provision across Shetland and to help shape future services.

The survey is split into 3 sections and is aimed at:

• parents and carers with children currently accessing funded early learning and childcare: Childcare Consultation 2026 – Section A: Funded Early Learning and Childcare – Fill out form
• families with a child under 3 years old: Childcare Consultation 2026 – Section B: Questions for parents/carers with a child under 3 – Fill out form
• parents and carers of school aged children: Childcare Consultation 2026 – Section C: School aged Childcare – Fill out form

Please take a minute to engage with this consultation and have your say in how childcare in Shetland looks in the future.

Our N4 children, those who have turned 3 this year, will take home their Explorers bag of goodies from the Scottish Book Trust next week. There are 3 fantastic books in the pack along with an activity book and colouring pencils. Staff will share the books with the children during story time over the next week.

Day 1 – Monday

Day 2 – Tuesday

The challenge was to build a bridge using the tubes, cups and tape. The children loved working with this and it developed into creating tunnels. The bridge theme is going to continue through the week using different building materials. Fantastic to see the children problem solving and working together to create bridges.

Day 3 and 4

TECHNOLOGY – we used the Nursery iPad to take photos of our favourite toys or places to play. We also had to type in our name using the iPad keyboard so that we knew which photo belonged to each of us. We enjoyed doing this and developed our communicating and leading Meta-skills. Krissi and Maisie picked up the process how to type and save quickly and became the experts at helping others. Here is the link to our video:

STEM – Nursery technology photos

ENGINEERING – the bridges theme continued but the resource changed to Lego and a paper river was added. Children had to create a bridge over the river. They loved this and went onto create boats for the river and a helicopter to rescue anyone who fell in.

SCIENCE – We used baking soda mixed into our paint to paint pictures. We then used droppers with vinegar in them to make fizzy paint.

“It fizzles!”

“Mine bubbles better cause it is thicker.”

Small groups also made slime and got to feel the texture. We loved playing with it; stretching it, making holes in it, seeing how thin we could make it.

We are sharing 5  currant buns this week to link in the Mathematics of STEM week. Counting forwards and backwards are valuable number skills that we encourage through rhymes and play in Nursery.

Here is our rhyme of the week for you to share at home 🙂

Here is our Rhyme of this week for you to share at home.