We would love to hear about the achievements and experiences that our children have out with the nursery. These Magic Moments could include certificates or special achievements in swimming/ gymnastics/ football, learning to ride a bicycle, counting to 10 independently, writing a story, a special drawing  etc….anything that they should be very proud of!

If your child has had a magic moment at home, please fill in one of our Magic Moment sheets and hand it to your child’s key worker who will share this with the other children at small group time and will help your child put their Magic Moment into their Learner’s Journey as a record of the learning from home.

This year the nursery is keen to develop and make use of our extensive outdoor learning areas. We have already begun to develop an outdoor classroom with lots of writing and mark making equipment readily available. We have been outdoors playing and learning as much as possible this week. Take a look at what some of us have been getting up to….

Some children enjoyed making shapes and patterns on the ground with water and a paint brush, some children played together and created a garage to fix the cars and refuel, there was a lot of bouncing on the space hoppers and we even had some parachute fun.

Take a look at our fabulous art work in the Rainbow Room! This week in the nursery we have been talking a lot about who is in our family, the children have enjoyed sharing and talking about their family members whilst drawing their own family portraits…here are a few examples of their work. Take a peek in our Rainbow Room to see them on display…..

With children still settling back into the nursery we have been singing familiar songs and reminding children of our nursery rules and routines. The children have been exploring the sand and water trays,  there has been lots of painting and gluing, building train sets and using our ICT equipment to play games. We have even managed to dodge the rain clouds and get outside to play as much as possible this week.

I asked a few of the children “What they have enjoyed at nursery this week?” Here are a few responses….

“I liked painting an aeroplane” Emily M

“I did a drawing, it was an ice cream cone ” Rocco L

“Playing with the choo choo’s” Rio M

“Playing with the bricks, making a castle” Josh T

A very warm welcome back to all of our returning children at Bathgate West, we hope you are all excited and ready for your pre-school year here with us. It has been lovely to see you all again and hear all about your summer adventures.

We have lots of new children coming to join us at Bathgate West and over the next few days and weeks we will be working hard to settle them into the nursery and into our routines. We look forward to learning all about our new friends. This coming term our focus will be primarily on getting to know each other and learning about the nursery routines and our rules to help us play safe and be happy.

As always if you have any questions, comments or feedback please do share these with a member of staff who will be more than happy to help and remember to keep coming back to check on our GLOW Blog for details, news and pictures of all of the learning and many activities that are ongoing in the nursery.  We are looking forward to a busy year ahead with you all.

The nursery children at Bathgate West came dressed in their finest to enjoy the end of year parties yesterday. We danced, played games and said some sad goodbyes to some special ladies. The year seems to have flown by and we are sad to be saying Goodbye to our pre-school boys and girls that are leaving us but it has been a huge pleasure to have watched you grow and progress into the confident and bright children that you are. We hope to see you all up at the big school and please remember to pop back to the nursery for a visit at any time to tell us all about how you are getting on at school. For the rest of the boys and girls, we hope you have a wonderful summer and we are looking forward to seeing how much you have grown and hearing all about your adventures in August.

The staff would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continued support at Bathgate West Nursery and wish everyone a safe and happy summer!

Bathgate West set off on a Safari adventure yesterday as we went on our summer nursery trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. We may have had to wrap up warm but our spirits were high as we got to see some of the fabulous animals we have been learning about at nursery. A big thank you to all the families that came along to make it such an enjoyable day, we hoped you enjoyed it as much as we did. Here are a few photos from the day….

Today at Bathgate West Nursery we managed to hold our own mini Procession in the sunshine! We dressed for the occasion and we celebrated the courage and determination shown by all of our little super heroes on Saturday by having ice cream in the sunshine. To top off our celebrations we had a surprise visit from the Bathgate Procession Committee who presented us with a shiny trophy for First Place for the best turned out Nursery/School.

A lovely way to end our Superhero celebrations with the recognition of all of the hard work and determination of our children, parents and staff. Well Done Bathgate West….we really are THE BEST!

The children truly were Superheroes at this years Bathgate Procession. On a very wet and wild day you all turned out with your capes, smiles, umbrellas and the biggest cheers possible. Despite the poor weather Bathgate West brought along it’s own rays of sunshine with their songs, cheers and Hip Hip Hoorays! Thank you to everyone who made it along on Saturday and helped show our children why a positive attitude and determination are so important, even if the circumstances are far from ideal. An extra big thank you to Mrs Bett and all of the parent helpers who have given up so much time and effort over the past few months to create our fabulous costumes and banners….. we may have been soggy, but we looked great! Here are a few photos that I managed to capture, before the camera got too wet!