The children have been inspired by Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ at nursery this week. They used the painting as a stimulus for creating their own Starry Night art work. Take a look at some of their beautiful work…

The snack room has been a very busy place over the last few weeks with the children asking to bake an apple crumble and getting involved in making vegetable soup. Through the activities the children have been learning where their food produce comes from. They are showing an awareness of healthy food choices and experiencing valuable food preparation skills.

The children helped raise money for Children In Need today by coming to nursery in their jammies! It may have been wild outside but we were cosy inside keeping busy with Pudsey Bear crafts and having a Teddy Bears Picnic. Thank you to everyone who donated and we will keep you posted on how much we raised for Children In Need 2015.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who donated gifts for our Harvest collection. This week the children have been handing over their Harvest gifts to the lovely ladies and gentlemen of Acredale and Caronvale in Bathgate. The children put on a fabulous performance for their visitors and we have received lots of thanks and high praise for the children from all of the lovely people who have met them this week.

Attached is our topic note for our next topic Light and Dark which begins on Monday.

Light and Dark topic note

It has all been a bit spooky at Bathgate West this week, with all of our Halloween activities in full swing, carving pumpkins, decorating pumpkins and filling our cauldrons all leading up to our Halloween Parties on Thursday. The children enjoyed the celebrations and looked fabulous in their super costumes.

It has been a very exciting week as boys and girls at Bathgate West Nursery have been receiving some letters from a special friend called Farmer Bert asking for their help. Bert wants to be a Farmer and is hoping the boys and girls can help him learn about farms, harvest time and food that comes from farms. He has been sending letters setting the children challenges to help him. So we have been very busy this week finding out what we know about farms, building tractors, making Scarecrows and even making our own bread!

Have a look at our very busy week….so busy that it must be time for a holiday!

A reminder that our book fair arrived today and will be here all next week, so please have a look around when collecting your child.

Our new topic Autumn and Harvest has now started within the nursery following on from the children’s interests and observations of the seasonal changes around them. This week the Rangers service from Beecraigs arrived to explore some of the autumn changes with the children in our nursery garden and beyond.

Inside the nursery we have been busy exploring autumn colours with lots of creative art work, singing (and dancing) about autumn leaves and we have even set up our own little bird watching platform as we have been watching the birds enjoy some of the treats we have been leaving on our bird table and window bird feeders.

Here are just a few of the activities that the children have been busy with this week…

Our new topic Autumn and Harvest will begin on Monday 5th October. Harvest and autumn parents note