What a busy time we have had over the past few weeks at nursery! We had a visit from the toothbrushing ladies to get the flouride varnish painted on our teeth. They visit us every term to see how we are getting on with our teethbrushing, and we brush our teeth every day after snack too.

We continue to be very busy making new resource for the garden. Our latest project was new roads to use in the garden with the toy cars. We had a great time painting them with the black paint. Some of us got very messy doing it! We also painted some new stones for wir outside peerie hoose.

We absolutely love playing out in the garden. We have such a variety of things to play with and we are always super busy!

Mrs Irvine was up playing with us one day and we were playing with magnets. We went all around the nursery to find things that the magnets could stick to. We got quite a big pile!

We have been playing a lot of ‘doctors’ games just now. We are very good at putting bandages on each other!

Our preschoolers have been doing a lot of transition walks and quick visits to the school these past few weeks. This week they got to go for a play in their new P1 classroom and they had great fun!

One day at lunchtime we were having a huge discussion about the jobs we would like to do when we grow up. Here are some of our ideas.

This week wir preschoolers got to go to the canteen for a school lunch on Wednesday! It was fish & chips, which is one of wir favourite lunches. We did a very good job following the canteen routines and we all had clean plates! The cooks were very impressed.

Today was a very exciting day, we got a visit from Donut the lamb! We got to feed her her bottle and we showed her around everywhere, including inside the nursery! She had a nappy on for a mercy because she pooped it! We didn’t want her to leave, and we hope she comes back to visit again very soon.

Everyone is very happy to be back for the final term of this academic year! We have had much excitement this last couple of weeks with firstly a massive frog appearing in the nursery garden, which we put to the pond.

We were so excited about the frog and couldn’t believe our luck when Hazel’s mum told us they had hundreds of tadpoles, so Miss Stewart fetched the tank out of the basement and Hazel and her mum delivered tadpoles to us. We are watching them carefully every single day to see if they are growing legs yet!

We have been over to the poly tunnel and the ponds a few times since coming back from the holidays to look for frogs and tadpoles, and up until today it’s just the tadpoles in the pond that we have seen. Today in the polytunnel we couldn’t believe our luck when Mrs Anderson spotted not one but two frogs! She managed to catch them and we released them into the pond as well.

We love going for walks to the polytunnel to check how everything is growing. We love to have a run around up at the Secondary too. Today we went to the multicourt as well and had a game of ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf!’. Getting out and about is so good for our physical development, and also gives us a chance to practice our road safety.

We have been very busy playing out in the garden too since we got back. We have had to replant some of our flowers into bigger planters and they are now out in the garden to hopefully keep growing too.

Of course we have been busy playing and creating inside nursery too. We are looking forward to a busy term, especially for our pre-schoolers who will be starting transition visits to Primary 1 very soon.

We have loved playing hairdressers all term in nursery. Today we got to go to a real hairdressers salon! Michelle was very good and showed us all the things she uses on people’s hair. We even got to brush Cally’s hair and even put hair dye in it! We had a great time and some of us definitely want to be hairdressers when we grow up!! Huge thanks to Michelle and Cally for having wiz, hopefully Cally’s hair will be ok after all wir work…

We are definitely in the mood for Spring at the nursery just now!

Last week we went for a walk to look for signs of Spring and we found plenty! There were buds and flowers starting to grow on the trees, plenty of daffodils and we checked on the frog spawn again too.

We also went out to play on the tar for a change instead of going to the canteen since the weather was much better. We had lots of fun.

Last Wednesday we planted our sunflower seeds. We have been watering them every day and some of them are growing already! We can’t wait to take them home next week to continue looking after them.

Last Thursday we were so excited because the playpark had finally dried up enough that we could go and play there! The playpark is great for our gross motor development and for developing our risky play and risk awareness.

We had great fun dressing up for Comic Relief last Friday too.

This week we had a small faux pas making the playdough and rather than dump it Miss Stewart thought it would be a great idea to put it outside to be played with at the mud kitchen. We loved it, it was so sticky and gloopy but wir poor hands, including Miss Stewart’s hands, ended up dyed bright red! We love playing outside and have been out lots lately with the better weather.

We continue to be very busy inside too. This term has flown by!

We have been very busy this last few weeks!

We built a bug hotel in the garden. We went to the wild garden to find twigs, branches and leaves to put in it. We are really hoping the bugs move in shortly. No sign of any yet, but if we find any in the nursery or the garden we are moving them in!

We just love playing out in the garden. Garden play really helps develop our gross motor development, enhances our ability to assess risky situations and helps our fine motor skills development too.

As part of Reading Week we were very excited when the big S3’s came over to read to us. They read us lots of stories then we took them for a play in the nursery. We had great fun and hope they will come back to see us again!

On World Book Day we were so excited our mums and dads could come in to join us for a story and craft session with local author Ann Marie Anderson, who read us her brand new book ‘Hirda the Oorick’ and made peerie oorick’s with wiz. Then we went to the library to show wir mums all the books in there too.

Last week we went to the shop for a walk to get some seeds for planting. We saw signs that spring was definitely trying to happen while we were walking there! When we got back to nursery we planted the seeds into tubs and now we are watering them every day to see if anything grows!

One of wir bairns did a really cool flower experiment at home and sent the photos in to us to show us how to do it. We got white flowers so they would hopefully show the dye up better and it’s working!!

We have been going down to the canteen on a Tuesday. We have been doing obstacle courses this last couple of weeks. This is really good for wir gross motor development and learns wiz to balance!

On Wednesday we went for a walk and found lots of frog spawn in the pond at the secondary! We can’t wait to visit again to see if any tadpoles have hatched. Today when we came to nursery there was frog spawn in the water tray! It was very gloopy.

In and out among all those exciting things we have been doing, we are of course still playing and learning in the nursery too.

And last but not least here is wir latest photos da bairns have taken themselves on the ipad, always da most natural ones haha!!

We have had a very busy few weeks lately!

We have been going on lots of holidays with our bags and suticases using the boat and making aeroplanes and ferries out of the blocks. We have been all over the world. Miss Stewart even sent us a postcard when she went on a real holiday to Orkney so we have been writing postcards out too!

We have been playing a lot with the toy cars recently too. The tuff tray was turned into lots of bridges made out of tape and the cars could even stick to the tape too! We added in some ramps to make it even more exciting. We used the blocks to make ramps for the cars too, they went really fast down them!

Our interests in cars is also very much catered for in our outside play. We love the bikes and big sit on vehicles, and the sandpit is a great place for us to use the smaller cars and create bridges and ramps.

We were very excited to watch Up Helly Aa on the whiteboard and we made our own shields and helmets too.

Last Friday we went for a walk since it was such a nice day. We stopped in the multicourt and played some games too.

As we move nearer to bairns going into Primary 1 we introduce even more literacy and numeracy opportunities into the bairns play. There has been fantastic mark making and letter formations done by the bairns lately!

Yesterday we had a very exciting visitor to nursery, Zara and Willa’s dog Rosie! She was very cute, we thought she was a bit like a teddy bear and she was very friendly! We got to clap her too.

Today we have been readying the garden planters for planting seeds as we get nearer to Spring. We found old bulbs in the bags of gutter so we have washed them and replanted them to see if anything grows. Watch this space!

It has been such a busy term so far and everyone seems very happy to be back.

Happy New Year everybody! Da bairns were delighted to get back to nursery after the festive to see their friends again and tell all their news. The Christmas house was gone and a boat had appeared in its place! The bairns have been vikings, fishermen and played family games aboard it. They have also made lots of other modes of transport with the big blocks too. Activities like these are so good for our gross motor development.

Last Friday we got wir suits and boots on and went for a walk to see if we could find any snow anywhere. We found very icy snow at the leisure centre which was great fun to play on. The pond over at the Secondary was completely frozen too! We hoped that there weren’t any frogs stuck under the ice!

We have been very busy playing inside and outside since we got back.

On Tuesday we turned the nursery into a cinema!

Today we decided to clean out the boat as it was full of gutter, leaves and grass. Everyone worked really hard to get all the mess out of the bottom then we used hot soapy water to scrub it with swabs. They got very dirty very fast! Then we had to scoop the water out with wir scoopy shovels. It’s so clean looking noo!

It’s been a busy first couple of weeks back and we can’t wait to see what the rest of the term brings!

Today we had a Christmas party in the nursery. Miss Stewart took in a massive speaker and disco lights, it was very cool!

We played Pass the Elves hat, you had to sit out if you were holding the hat when the music went off.

There was lots of good songs for wiz to dance to, Miss Stewart tried to learn wiz the Grand Old Duke of York but it was a little bit confusing. We loved making tunnels though!

We played musical chairs too, it’s been a great party!

See you all in 2025 for more nursery fun and adventures!

What a busy month we are having! We got such a surprise when we came to nursery on Monday 2nd December, there was an elf called Jingle and he had hidden secret symbols all around the nursery! We had great fun searching for them, and if we found one we had to draw the symbol on a sheet of paper on the office door. He has been hiding ones every day for us to find, and he moves around every day too!

We went to Tetley & Anderson for a walk one day as we had run out of wrapping paper for our wrapping station. We found Miss Stewart working in the shop so we were a bit confused! We saw Jamie Tetley’s bus too!

The wrapping station has kept wiz very busy and we have been doing other Christmas crafts too, as well as lots of playing.

This week we got to go to the canteen for the Christmas dinner! It’s the first time we have been in the canteen for lunch, it was very exciting, the whole school was there!

This week it was wir school concert. We have been practising so hard for weeks and we all did such a good job singing for everyone that came to watch. Thank you very much to everybody who came to the concert and bought calendars and fudge, your support means a lot to wiz. We will be able to buy new resources for the bairns with the money we made. Nearly the holidays noo 🙂

Blocks are such an important part of our nursery play. Building with blocks strengthens our gross motor and fine motor development, as well as giving us a platform to link to things that we experience in the real world. We have blocks indoors and outdoors so there is no limit to what they can do with them. Ferries are very popular just now, and Amelia even glitzed her ferry up with a bit of bling. Outside Joe was making sure his bridge would be very safe by putting ‘grit’ on top of it so people didn’t slide and fall off, while Hazel was very busy building her Chinese shop so she could sell noodles.

Speaking of grit, we were so excited last week when we got a bit of snowy weather we could go out and play in. We had great fun looking for big bits of ice, we found some massive bits! We also made snow castles and icy potions too. The boys were making sure everybody was safe by making a gritter, and they were very excited to get real grit to put in their gritter. They did a great job making sure the paths were all gritted.

There wasn’t just ice outside, when we came into nursery last Friday there were huge blocks of ice in the water tray with animals frozen inside them! We had to problem solve on how we were going to get them out, Tommy suggested hammers which worked really well for a little bit until the ice got too small to hammer. Joe then suggested water and Hazel realised it would have to be hot water so it melted! They safely got all the animals out then Maggie and Tommy had great fun cleaning the water tray afterwards.

The teachers also froze some paint for us to paint pictures with. It was very cool to paint with.

We have also been very busy this week decorating the Christmas tree and making a beautiful cosy Christmas house. Christian had great fun playing inside the Christmas tree box! The tree is looking wonderful and everyone helped to make the fireplace for our cosy house.

We have also had great fun putting on some Christmas dressing up today. We are definitely all in the festive mood now!

We are also really busy practising on the stage for our Christmas concert. We can’t wait to sing for everybody!

Lastly here are some photos that the bairns have taken themselves on the ipad. They like nothing better than using the ipad to capture what they are up to, and staff love seeing the photos from the bairns point of view. There are some posers among us… 🙂