Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing

Busy Wee Chefs

Following on from children’s interest in preparing snack and discussions from books, we made blueberry muffins for snack this morning!

The children took part in lots of discussion about what was healthy and what foods we should eat to stay healthy. Our wee people showed confidence in recognising numbers and explored a variety of mathematical language as they measured their ingredients, learning some new language along the way!

As children were asked to ‘fold in the blueberries FO “what’s folding?” TC “I know it’s like this (demonstrates folding blueberries into mixture) folding makes it all go together”.

FO “are these healthy cos sugar is not healthy?”

When the muffins came out of the oven most children ate them.
SW saying “I don’t like blueberries but I like them now”

The children listened well within shared discussion following through a series of instructions to complete the process

We agreed they tasted good but we couldn’t eat them every day because they had sugar in them.

What a lovely treat, well done!!

Learners Journals

Our children have been exploring their Learners Journals, have you?

They have the opportunity to access it within nursery and enjoy scrolling to see what their key worker has been writing.  The children loved seeing some of their parents comments as well.

Why not leave a little comment or like your child/children’s observations and they will get to view this in nursery!

If you cannot access your child/children’s learners journal please speak to Miss Reid or Miss Robertson.

balbardie.yourlearningjournals.co.uk 

Thank you for your continued support, we can’t wait too see all your lovely comments.  

Mini Builders

The children were observing the workmen who were working on the roof of the house behind nursery and building an extension.

Ellie and Aria then began building in the stones making a house of stones, bricks and wood. This captured the interest of a wider group of children who then joined in and began to build pretending to hammer using the plastic bricks.
Miss Wilkins then introduced a large piece of wood, hammers and small nails to allow the children to safely practice using the tools on the workbench.
We had lots of lovely discussions about what we could build-aeroplanes, cars, different materials and types of houses etc.

If any of our parents have loose parts such as bricks and rubble, nuts and bolts, cable reels etc you can donate to our nursery to develop our nursery experiences we would greatly appreciate it. 

Thank you

Planting and Growing

BWNS children spent some time with Ann Holwill on Thursday planting some new plants and flowers at the main entrance.  The children enjoyed discussing how they are going to care for their plants/flowers to help them grow!

We would like to say a massive THANK YOU to Ann Holwill who shared her spare time with the children and to help give our main entrance some much needed TLC.

If anyone else can spare some time to help us keep on top of our garden please speak to Miss Holwill/Miss Reid!

Little Kickers

We have had a very exciting day at Bathgate West, we had a special visitor. Kevin from ‘Football Star Academy’ spent the day with us and was teaching us some football skills. We also had to use our listening skills. We took part in lots of different activities like dribbling within the cones, dribbling and jumping hurdles and shooting goals. Kevin was so impressed with us that we got a water bottle to take home, because it is important to remember to drink lots of water to keep healthy. The nursery had even more smiles today – a big thank you to Kevin!