Can you recycle your old junk please?
Lost Belongings.
End of Term Party
We all had a super last day of term with Douglas the Clown and said our goodbyes to Mrs Nicol. We wish her well in her retirement and we will all miss her very much!
Good luck to all the boys and girls moving onto P1. Please pop in and visit us in August and tell us all about school.
Returning children come back to nursery on Tuesday 23rd August. Happy holidays!
Wraparound at the Highland Show
Some of the Wraparound children went on a very special outing to this year’s Royal Highland Show. Thank you to the grandparents who came along to help. Gillan kindly reported back on behalf of the group;
“We had these goggles on and they take videos. We made real candles with strips of these hard things, (wax) it was hot and squishy. We saw bees making honey. I was looking through the farmers head to do a funny photo. We are not actually dressed up, it’s not an actual farmer or an actual sheep, it’s just a cardboard plate. We were doing some colouring in the wildlife tent. We were practicing milking a cow. It was basically water coming out of a fake cow! The ice cream was yum. My favourite bit of the day was putting the goggles on with the chickens and burgers in them (virtual reality goggles).”
Thank you Gillan for your fantastic report!
10th Anniversary Garden Fete
Bathgate Early Years centre celebrated the centres tenth anniversary by holding a garden fete on Wednesday 22nd June. Children, parents/carers, grandparents and staff had a fun filled day going between the stalls including; photo with the garden gnome, hook a duck, raffle, tombola, bring and buy plants and home baking and handmade crafts stalls. Children sang songs at the end, finishing off ‘happy birthday’ and 10 cheers for Bathgate Early Years Centre! A fantastic £831.72 was raised. This will help to buy new resources and pay for our end of term party. Thank you to all our families for your continued support throughout the years. Look out for photographs in the West Lothian Courier.
Planting in the local community.
As part of our ongoing Life Cycle topic, Children from Bathgate Early Years Centre learned more about the life cycle of plants/flowers when they were invited to plant some wild flower seeds outside the Regal Theater, by Enterprise Bathgate. The girls and boys worked hard together to prepare the raised beds and carefully plant the seeds. Keep an eye out for our photographs in the West Lohtian Courier and also for our wild flowers growing .
Life cycle learning at home.
For those of you who enjoyed ‘Froggy Froggy’ you will be please to know there is also a ‘Butterfly Butterfly’ life cycle video clip! The children love dancing to it and are picking up lots of the vocabulary from the song.
Please remember to supervise children when looking at online clips. For more information on how to keep children safe online please see Think U Know and Net Aware.
Please remember children can bring in pieces of work and photographs to add to our New Life Learning Wall or you can email photos and a short description to eva.wilkinson@westlothian.org.uk
Transition Update
Please see the ‘Transition To Primary 1’ page on the right for Balbardie and St Mary’s updates.
Balbardie Primary School Transition Update
Please see the Transition page on the right for an update.
