The sun may not have been shining but we certainly had a lot of fun at our Summer Fun Day yesterday where we had Silvano the Magician, a bouncy castle, lots of fun games and even a couple of surprise guests from Paw Patrol! The whole day took a huge amount of organisation and planning and we hope everyone had a wonderful time despite being stuck indoors due to the weather! Below are just a few photos from a very busy day.

We would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for the support of all of our families over the last year, thank you for the lovely gifts, cards and good wishes and we wish you all a very happy and safe summer. For those moving on to new adventures we wish you lots of luck and hope you have happy memories of your time here at Bathgate West Nursery and those who are coming back in August, we are looking forward to seeing you back and hearing all about your summer adventures!

It was our Bathgate West Sports Day this week and all of the children took part with enthusiasm and energy. We had 3 very competitive races including the sprint, the egg and spoon race and the bean bag race. To finish up the siblings and parents races were cheered on by all. It was a great day and a big thank you to all who came out to support, cheer on and encourage the children. We hope they wear their medals with pride. Here are just a few pictures from Monday.

Following on from one of the children’s requests to have snack by the camp fire, we have been working hard to make this happen.

Today the afternoon children all had the opportunity to cook their own snack on the campfire and we shared out snack sitting around the fire together.

The children followed all safety rules and carefully toasted their hot dog sausages over the fire before sitting back and enjoying their hotdogs together around the fire.

“My sausage is all hot!”

“The fire is cooking it!”

“This is the best snack ever!”

“Can we cook marshmallows too?”

Take a look at our child led planning in action through our Sway below…

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Thank you to every single one of you that came out, walked, cheered and waved on Saturday at Bathgate Procession. Our Bathgate West Robots looked spectacular marching through Bathgate and it was so lovely to see so many of our boys and girls taking part, singing our song and cheering on along the way.

Once again a HUGE thank you to Mrs Bett and the parent helpers who have spent weeks and months preparing for this event, working so hard to ensure that as always… Bathgate West is the Best!

We hope all of our families had a super day with each other and lots of memories have been made. Here are some of the photos that Mrs Bett managed to get on the day! Enjoy and see you all on Tuesday!

This week a mysterious and tiny door has appeared in our Nursery garden. It has generated a LOT of discussion and questions.

“Who lives there?

“Why is is here?”

“Where are they?”

“How did the door get here?”

“Why won’t the door open?”

“How can we find out who is in there?”

The children have spent a lot of time sharing their ideas and thoughts and even drawing pictures of who might live behind the door…

“Fairies”               “The toothpaste fairy”               “Trolls”                    “A tiny mole”                          “a mouse”

“Elves”                    “Someone very tiny”                  “Tinkerbell”                   “A snail.”

Chloe thought we should find the ‘tiny key’ to open the door “I am going to draw a map to figure out where to get the key!” she said.

Some children thought that it would be nice to decorate around the door and even leave gifts. One of the gifts, a shell, disappeared and we spotted some sparkly dust on the ground… maybe a clue!

We will have to keep our eyes open next week and see if anything else happens at this mysterious little door….