Hello everyone,

We hope you all enjoyed visiting your classroom and your new teacher last week. We are all so excited for you starting St Nicholas PS after the summer.

In this week’s sway, your teacher has sent you a little video that you can watch over the summer. This video will remind you about what your classroom looks like, where the toilets are, where you will play and you’ll also see your teacher in the video.

We hope you all have a lovely, relaxing summer and we will see you on your first day on Tuesday 17th August at 9am. Children should then be collected at 3pm. From Wednesday 18th August, they will start their school day at 8:40am until 3pm.

Week 5: Fitness Week

At school we have a healthy tuck shop where you can buy a snack for play time.

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Mrs Evans

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much to everyone who completed this form as part of our transition feedback. If you haven’t completed it yet and would like to do so here is the link:

https://forms.office.com/r/QyQ2CPrXcs

We have pulled together all the questions that you have asked and have put them into the following sway with answers. Please keep checking back on this sway because I will add more questions and answers as they come in.

P1 Transition – Parent’s questions

Of course! Your child will visit their new classroom and teacher this week and then there will be videos of your child’s teacher during next weeks transition sway. There will also be a virt…

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Kind Regards,

Mrs Evans

Thank you to our pre-school children who have sent in questions that they would like to ask their primary 6 buddies. This sway will be updated regularly so keep checking back to find the answers to your questions.

Buddy Question Time

Your new buddies have had a look at all your questions and have answered them for you. Keep checking back because this sway will be updated with all your new questions.

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Kind Regards,

Mrs Evans

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all having a lovely week this week! Please click on the link below to find the transition activities for this week.

Next week’s reminders:

1. Buddy visits – on the same day of the week as last time!
2. Classroom visits – dates and times will be given out by nursery staff. If your child is in nursery next Tues-Thurs afternoon, they will be taken to their visit by the nursery staff as per the information email.

Week 4: Questions, questions, questions!

Thank you so much for listening to the story today. You could now draw a picture of the crocodile visiting one of your favourite books. Tell someone at home what would happen if the charact…

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See you all soon!

Mrs Evans

Hi Everyone,

We hope you’ve had a lovely week and are enjoying this lovely sunshine. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the sun is here to stay!

This week’s transition activities are attached below. The theme this week is all about them. We are encouraging your child to think about what makes them unique. Have a go at some of our transition activities and remember to send any photos into our school inbox:

wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Week 3: It’s all about YOU!

Remember to send in your photos and videos to this email address :

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Hello Everyone,

Please find below this month’s transition calendar. Next week, our preschool children will have a practise lunch in our dining hall. This will take place on Monday and Thursday of next week. If your child is in St Nicholas Nursery on a different day, they will have their practise on a day that they are in. Our preschool children that currently attend a different nursery will be contacted shortly to discuss this further.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Evans

Hi Everyone,

Please click on the link below for the nursery to P1 transition activities for this week. Remember that you do not need to complete all these activities – the children will be engaging in lots of these activities during the day in the nursery.

Have a great week everyone,

Mrs Evans

Week 2: Getting our hands ready!

Can you make your own feelings puppets?

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Hello Everyone,

You have been so busy over the last few weeks, preparing for coming to primary school and taking part in our fitness fortnight. I wanted to say a big well done to you all – I am so proud of you! Your nursery teachers, P1 teachers and I have all really enjoyed seeing everything that you’ve been doing at home and we absolutely loved meeting most of you on your transition visits.

I hope you enjoyed the letters that your buddies sent last week. Your buddies have been very busy answering all of your questions and you can find the answers to these on the ‘Buddy Question Time’ sway.

Your task this week:

We only have a couple of days left before the end of term but I would now like to invite you to send something  back for your buddy. You could choose to do a  card, a drawing or a little video. Take a photo of what you decide to do and then send it to our mailbox: 

wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk

We will then send these on to your buddy. I’m sure they will be delighted to receive something from you!

Have a lovely day in the sunshine 🌞

Mrs Evans 🌈

Hello everyone,

It was so lovely seeing some of you today and we are really looking forward to meeting some of you tomorrow. Here are this weeks transition activities. We are looking forward to seeing your photos this week.

Mrs Evans & P1 Teachers

Week 5: Fitness Fortnight

This week and next week is fitness fortnight for St Nicholas Primary School. All of our transition activities this week have a sports focus.

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Hello everyone,

Some of our new P1s have sent in questions for their buddy. Keep sending these in and we will update this sway regularly.

We are looking forward to seeing some of you later today!

Mrs Evans

Buddy Question Time

Your new buddies have had a look at all your questions and have answered them for you. Keep checking back because this sway will be updated with all your new questions.

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Hi everyone,

We have received fantastic photos this week from our nursery children. The children  listened to a story about a very scary crocodile. They then used their imagination to take the crocodile on their own adventure.

We’ve also been learning to recognise our own name over the last couple of weeks.  We’ve made our name using different materials and we’ve also spotted lots of photos of children writing their name! Amazing!

We’ve had a think about different shapes this week too. Some of us hunted around the house for different shapes and we even saw people having a go at an online interactive shape game. Here are some of the other things that we have been up to:

Well done boys and girls! You are going to be amazing primary 1 children! 🌟

Keep being amazing!
Mrs Evans

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all well this week. Please click on the link to find the transition activities for this week. If you haven’t already, please can you send us a photo of your little one with 2/3 of their favourite things. We are going to use these photos as a display and the children will be able to see their photo when they start school in August. It would be really lovely to have all of our children on the wall.

I hope you enjoy the activities this week,

Mrs Evans

Week 4: Questions, questions, questions!

Thank you so much for listening to the story today. You could now draw a picture of the crocodile visiting one of your favourite books. Tell someone at home what would happen if the charact…

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Hi Everyone,

I can’t believe that it’s the end of another week! I hope you’ve all enjoyed the activities – I’ve really loved seeing all your wonderful photos. This week we were thinking about things which make us unique. Here are some of the things that you said made you unique:

We’ve also had lots of photos of boys and girls having a go at the literacy and numeracy activities too:

Big well done everyone! Keep up the good work and keep sending us photos of what you  are up to!

Speak soon!
Mrs Evans & P1 Teachers

Hi everyone,

We hope you have had a lovely weekend enjoying the sunshine. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the sun stays for a little longer!

This weeks transition activities are attached below. This week we would like to learn more about your little boy or girl. They have a little activity to complete which encourages them to think about and talk about what makes them unique. We would also like you to send us a photo of your little one with two or three of their favourite things. We are going to use these photos to put on a display in our primary 1 area for them starting school.  We hope you enjoy the activities this week. Remember to show us what you’ve been up to by sending in some photos.

Week 3: It’s all about YOU!

Remember to send in your photos and videos to this email address :

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Mrs Evans

What a busy week for our nursery boys and girls. As well as enjoying the sunshine, you have managed to have a go at some of the transition activities. Big well done everybody!! This week lots of boys and girls made their own feelings puppets. They look amazing! Some boys and girls also did some fiddly tasks to get their fingers ready for coming to P1. Excellent job everyone 🌟

Speak to you next week!!

Mrs Evans 🌈

Hi Everyone,

Please click on the link for the nursery to P1 transition activities for this week. Remember that you definitely do not need to complete all activities – just dip in and out whenever you can! We also hope that you are enjoying the lovely weather this week 🙂 Long may it continue!

Week 2: Getting our hands ready!

Can you make your own feelings puppets?

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Wow nursery boys and girls! We have all loved seeing your amazing photos this week. You’ve been working so hard on some of the transition activities. You’re going to be superstars when you come into primary 1! Keep up the good work everyone! You’re doing a fantastic job! 🌟🌟🌟

Watch out for new activities on Monday! 😊

Hi everyone!

Please click on the link below to access the transition activities for this week.  We are looking forward to seeing photos of you engaging in these activities. Please send them to our school email:

wlstnicholas-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Speak to you soon!

Week 1: Getting ready for school!

It was so lovely to read you all a story today boys & girls.

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