April 2017

Thank you to all the children who came into nursery with crazy hair last week. We had lots of fun, but more importantly we raised money for Comic Relief. We talked about Red Nose Day and some children watched a small clip about a little girl whose life was changed by Comic Relief projects. The children reflected on the positive changes  and how the money had helped her. Then they helped to count out the money in our collection pot. We sorted the coins into groups first, discussing their shapes, colour and size and then Mrs Waddell helped us to count the coins. We raised £62 in total. So a big thank you to everyone who donated money.

Take a look at how our learning and play and been developing over the past few weeks with Spring changes around us…

The rain doesn’t stop our  play or learning here at Bathgate West. This morning we have been outside in our wellies playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and creating a restaurant in our mud kitchen.

Today some of the children helped to recycle old cable drums that have been handed into the nursery from a local electrician. We had a look at some examples of how we can creatively recycle them and set to work painting them. Take a look at what we have been busy creating….we have lots more cable drums to use and lots more ideas, so keep an eye out for our masterpieces dotted around the nursery and the gardens.

Take a look at our Sway which shows how our learning develops and progresses here at nursery. Our current topic is People who help us.

The children enjoyed flipping and eating their pancakes yesterday as the celebrated Shrove Tuesday. Here are just a few photos of the pancake action …

Take a look at our Sway below to see how our current topic People Who Help Us, has been developed through consultation with the children. This will continue to be added to as their learning progresses so please keep checking back and don’t forget to leave us a comment!

We had a lovely visit from Catriona the crossing patrol lady today. We have been exploring people who help us and the jobs people do, so it was nice to speak to a real person who told us all about their job and the uniform she wears. Remember to give the Lollipop men and women  a smile and a wave when you see them!

If you or any family members have an interesting job that you could share with the children and answer their questions, please let us know, we would love you to come in for a short visit and talk to the children about what you do.

You may have noticed at the entrance and at our Parents board there are some QR codes on the wall. If you have a QR App that reads QR codes on your mobile device, you can simply scan our QR codes and they will take you directly to our online planning Sways (these are always available here on the blog too).

These codes will be all around the nursery next week during the Stay and Play sessions, so please use your phones to scan the codes to gain access to the links and see what we have been learning and how we plan here at Bathgate West Nursery. Please speak to a member of staff if you are unsure how to use the codes but would like to use them.