Author: Miss McAlpine

We would like to welcome back all our returning children and families. We hope you all had a lovely summer.  We also look forward to meeting all our new children and families over the next few weeks.

The children have been busy on our first week back, getting to know some of our new friends and being engaged in their learning and play experiences.  The children are beginning to pick up the nursery routines again and are looking forward to starting Forest Fun.  We will begin Forest Fun on Monday the 10th of September and we will follow our weekly rota which is in the nursery cloakroom.

We would also like to welcome our new Nursery Practitioner – Miss McAlister who will be taking over the Orange Group as Miss McAlpine takes up her new role as Early Years Officer.

We look forward to starting Big Bed Time Read. Our launch is Friday the 7th of September and more information on this will be with you soon.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The nursery children thoroughly enjoyed their first trip to the woods for forest fun.

When we arrived at the woods, we talked about risk assessing and the children were able to identify risks in the forest area before and during their play.  They identified possible risks in the woods such as glass & litter and we discussed how to stay safe such as staying within the group and within boundaries.

We then read the story ‘Not a Stick’ by Antoinette Portis to inspire the children to use their imagination and creativity and turn ‘everyday’ objects into something imaginative.  The children found a variety of different sized sticks and used them to create different games and for different purposes such as fishing and digging, which they then shared within the group.  During our story, we enjoyed a snack and hot chocolate.

Here are some videos of our trip to the forest!

“It’s a Spider!”

“Look, look”

Forest fun!

 

    “It’s not a stick, it’s a walking stick”

    “Its a digger”

 

 

“It’s a fishing rode, for catching fish”

 

 

 

 

Last week the children at Boghall Nursery enjoyed the experience of learning and playing in the snow! We built our very own snowman, we used paint in spray bottles to make marks in the snow, we made snow angels and had great fun climbing up and sliding down the hill.

What a wonderful week we had playing in the snow!

Fun in the snow video!