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A busy week
We have had a busy week at Bathgate West Nursery; we took part in a vote to decide what our favourite theme was for the Newlands Day Procession.
Using gold stars each child voted placing the gold star at their favourite one, the outcome of the vote was counted by the children and Mrs Bett. This year we have picked to walk as ‘under the sea’.
This week we have also been talking about different elements within the world around us such as volcanos and lava, the snow melting because of the sunshine. We have also been discussing what other things we could melt using our fire pit or heat, therefore we will be focusing on the World Around Us as we return next week from other February Break.
On Thursday we took part in the book bug gifting event – gifting our Ante-preschool children with their Explorer gift bags from a very special guest…BookBug!
The children took part in reading The Disgusting Sandwich story and were invited into their small groups to recreate their very own slug slime disgusting sandwiches. There were some disgusting creations made by the children.
You can have a look at our Book Bug events by following the link to the sway! https://sway.com/41yelX7V7k2NYkwm
Bookbug visit
Have a look at all the fun we had yesterday!
A busy time at BWNS
This week in nursery we have been continuing to learn all about Scotland, the children are very interested in this topic and enjoy practicing the Scots nursery rhymes, we even perform them on our stage! The children have also shown interest in going to the moon on a rocket ship – we even spotted the moon outside nursery in the morning! We then cut out circle shapes and coloured them in to make the moon, we have been researching the other planets within the solar system so we can create them. The children have also been looking round the globe to find countries they have visited and want to learn more about.
This week we have also become very helpful superheroes; we transformed our physical area into a superhero fast car to help us catch the bad guys – we coloured in our fire wheels and stuck them onto the tunnel to make it look like it’s going super-fast. During this we have been talking about how superheroes are helpful – because they don’t just catch bad guys. The children could share their ideas and have been expressing how they are helpful heroes at nursery.
“We can help people if their stuck and can’t do it”.
“We can share our toys”.
“Helpful heroes help tidy the toys up”.
February Newsletter
Welcome Back
Welcome back and a very Happy New Year from everyone at Bathgate West Nursery School, we are excited to be back and are already getting stuck into lots of different activities.
This week we have been learning about Scotland, the children have enjoyed learning some Scottish songs and phrases. We have been discussing different types of tartan and have been creating our own tartan using different bits of coloured paper to stick together making our very own tartan patterns. The children have also been practicing their highland dancing for Burns Day.
Merry Christmas from All at BWNS
Newsletter Dec ’17 – Jan ’18
Grandparents’ Day 2017
We had a lovely day with lots of visitors on Wednesday. We had invited our grandparents to come and see us in nursery so they know all about our learning too. We had lots of fun showing them around, making Christmas tree decorations and having a sing song with them.
This is what our grandparents had to say:
- Fantastic idea – lovely to see the children in the nursery setting (ES)
- Great day. Thank you! (Granny Carol)
- Lovely day!
- Lovely day, enjoyed it very much (Iris’s Granny)
- Wonderful visit…enjoyed immensley
- Enjoyed my visit (Freyja & Aria’s gran)
- Lovely day – great singing (Mia’s great granny)
- Thank you for inviting me – wonderful afternoon (Elise’s Nana)
- Enjoyed seeing and playing in the nursery with Dylan
- Thoroughly enjoyed the day …thank you (Mollie’s and Luca’s Grandparents)
- Enjoyed lovely day with Millie
- Lovely afternoon with Florence
- Great idea….lovely day
The Fire Fighter Visit
The children have been having lots of fun playing with the small world fire station. They thought that fire fighters only helped people if they had a fire. We learned that they also help people who are stuck in their cars after a crash. We know this because we met Andy and the fire fighters from Bathgate Fire Station came today. It was very exciting because they came in their engine and we got to have a good explore and ask questions.
The firefighters showed us the equipment they use to cut cars open…they cut the legs of an old table at nursery. It was a spreader although today it made the legs flat and pincers which cut the legs off. We also saw the hose, lights and heard the siren. It was ‘very loud’.
We asked….
Q. How heavy is the equipment?
A. it is very heavy. You need to be very fit to be a firefighter.
Before the firefighters would put the siren on they asked us….
Q. Why does the engine have lights, horn and a siren?
A. we told them it was so people could hear them coming.
Andy agreed it is very important that people who are driving can hear them coming when they are answering a 999 call.
And then they got a ‘fire call’ so had to go and help some pensioners in Livingston. They will be back to visit us next week.
