Teddy Bears Picnic

To end this year the nursery children had a teddy bears picnic and they invited the primary 1 children to join them. We did lots of teddy dancing and even teddy throwing.  This was a nice way to end the year as Mrs Morrell is retiring and Mrs Ramos is leaving for university to study primary teaching. Primary 6 and 4/5 even made Mrs Morrell’s day by performing a flash mob for her. We are sure that both Mrs Morrell and Mrs Ramos will have an exciting time ahead of them and will always remember the children at Bankton Nursery.

Nursery Afternoon Sports

This afternoon  the children enjoyed taking part in their sports day. They participated in a quoit race, egg and spoon race, running race and obstacle relay race. The younger siblings had a running race and there was parents race where the mums and dads had to go backwards with a quoit on their head.

Morning Nursery Sports Day

This morning  the children enjoyed taking part in their sports day. They participated in a quoit race, egg and spoon race, running race  and obstacle relay race. The younger siblings had a running race and there was parents race where the mums and dads had to go backwards with a quoit on their head.

Morning Nature Play

A part of  outdoor learning the morning nursery children visited the Lanthorn woods and they had the opportunity to investigate and explore a specific area. They enjoyed going on a bear hunt and even found slugs home. The children even managed to find the number 7 post which was hiding in amongst the bushes.

Delightful Den Building with P1 and P1/2

P1/2 and P1 enjoyed some time out in the playground together this afternoon and worked on their sharing and co-operation skills to work together in small groups to build a den.  This was our first time using the den building equipment and the children all worked together to problem solve and build dens that they could sit inside.  Take a look at us in action!

P1/2 Weekly News!

Last week P1/2 enjoyed an exciting eco week.  On Monday, we learned all about worms! We had Joanne visit us with her wormery.  We found out that worms are good at recycling and they even make compost.  We enjoyed working in groups to create the life cycle of a caterpillar before our trip to see ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ later in the week.

We also learnt about the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and even designed some new bag ideas for ASDA!

On Thursday, we went to see the performance of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and it was amazing!  Mrs Lloyd was very impressed and we all thoroughly enjoyed our trip and represented Bankton Primary really well!

On Friday, we performed our P1 assembly to our families and spoke with confidence and with our big loud, clear voices.  We shared lots of our learning that we have done this year and look forward to telling the nursery children and their parents about this on Wednesday!

Nature Play

This afternoon the nursery children had lots of fun playing in the Mid Calder woods where they had lots of opportunities to explore and investigate the natural texture found in the woods.

Max “I like jumping in the leaves, it felt squishy.”

Ava J “We were building fires.”

Maddison “I liked playing with the sticks.”

Freya “I liked playing with the leaves. “

A super trip!!

Primary One have had an exciting week learning about how to help save the environment. One Monday, we learnt all about worms! We found out that worms are good at recycling and they make compost.  On Monday afternoon, we worked in groups to create the life cycle of a caterpillar in preparation for our trip to see ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’. Miss Rodford thought that we did a great job!

We also learnt about the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

On Thursday, we went to see the performance of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and it was amazing! We loved the puppets and we sat so well to watch it!

On Friday, we performed our P1 assembly to our families and we showed off all our super learning that we have done this year!

Eco Week in the Nursery

As part of Eco Week the nursery children have been learning about recycling from Joanne. She brought her large wormery in to the nursery and the children had the opportunity to hold a worm if they wanted to or just look at them. She spoke to them about how the worms helped to make compost which helps our plants to grow. A child even tried to keep a worm as Joanne left.