Author: H Rafferty

NURSERY – Maths Week

Scotland Math’s Week

During Math’s Week the children participated in many math’s activities to help develop and extend their problem solving, numeracy and math’s skills.

Using fingers to show how many

Matching and sorting on our nature trail

 

Measuring dinosaurs on our height chart

Counting how many blocks we can walk across

Using our problem solving when doing puzzles

Making patterns on the peg boards

Matching on our Autumn Walk

 

 

NURSERY – Dates for your Diary

Upcoming Nursery Events

 

  • Week beginning 30th September – Scotland Math’s Week – Look out for lots of numeracy activities happening in Nursery.

 

  • 9th & 10th October – Parent Consultations (Pre School Children)

 

  • Week beginning 28th October – Pumpkin Carving, Bobbing for Apples, Dress Up Week (no masks please)

 

  • Week beginning 18th November – Scottish Book Week, Photographs (Individual & Family)

 

  • Week beginning 25th November – Stay & Play, Ante Pre School Children Parent Consultations

NURSERY – Parents Night 9&10th October

Parents Consultations 9 & 10th October

Emails have been sent out with a link to access and book an appointment.  If you have a child in their pre-school year and have been unable to request an appointment through the online system.  Please inform a member of staff.  These consultations will be held in the school gym hall.

Consultations for 3 and 4 year olds will be held on Wednesday 27th November 5.10-6.40pm, details will follow shortly.

 

 

 

NURSERY IN THE COMMUNITY

ICommunity Links

The Nursery visited the council run sheltered housing buildings as part of our work in the community.  This week the blue group, Mrs O’Neill and Miss Vance took the children along just to see the building and grounds, to make the children aware of what was happening and who we were going to be visiting.  The children were excited about the whole idea.

The staff initially visited the establishment, taking all their ideas and putting them to Sandra Ferguson, who is in charge.  We were in the grounds taking photo’s when Sandra invited us in, and the children met some of the residents.  The children were with the Nursery Staff at all times and never left alone with the residents.  The children enjoyed this experience  and it brightened up the residents day, making it an all round successful introduction into East Calder community.   We are looking forward to developing our partnership with this group in our community.

NURSERY – Personal Plans

Personal Plans

 

We are required to have a personal plan completed for every child in the nursery including all new children  and returning children.  The plans help us with updating records with your child’s emergency contact details and important information with medical issues or allergies.  This information also helps us in  providing vital support your child needs when settling into nursery.

Please speak to your child’s Keyworker or another member of our team when you are dropping off/picking up and they can give you a pack to complete if you haven’t already done so.  It is vital that we have this information as soon as possible.  Thank you in advance for your understanding and support.

 

EXPLORING OUR COMMUNITY

The children have enjoyed going for regular walks and exploring our local park and library.  They have been learning how to

  • confidently cope with everyday / new situations
  • understand the expectations of behaviour  and following rules (holding hands, getting ready to go out and staying close to nursery ladies when out and about)
  • demonstrate different ways of being active through energetic play at the park (climbing, jumping, pushing, running)
  • be aware of road safety – stopping, looking and listening at roads and crossing safely
  • share and look after books when visiting the library.

EE2

The children gain so much from going out into our local community.  We would like to be able to offer this experience to all the children in the nursery but we need EE2  (Excursion permission form) filled in by parents/carers before we can do this.  These are required for all new children and returning children.  We have been handing these out to families of returning children and they would have been in a welcome pack for new children.  If you have not filled an EE2 form in please ask a member of staff for the form, so we can include your child in this experience.  Many thanks for your support.

 

Nursery – Welcome!

 

WELCOME

We would like to warmly welcome our new families and children and our returning children and families to our new term. We are passionate about supporting your child’s interests and learning through play and developing our parent/carers partnerships to ensure your child has a happy and fulfilling experience at early years.  We take pride in our welcoming, nurturing environment and our staff will do their upmost to ensure your child’s experience of settling in is a positive one.   Communication is very important to us and we encourage you to share any information/changes about your child or home that could help us in supporting your child further.

We have new personal plan packs for returning families to complete, these will replace the previous all about me documents that you completed when your child started nursery.  The plans will help us to update your child’s details and continue to provide the best care and support for them.  These are available beside the sign in/out sheets, please collect a pack and return to us as soon as you possibly can.

SIGN IN/OUT SHEETS

We appreciate how busy our reception area can be and how much of a rush mornings are for our families but can you please ensure you sign your child in (remembering to mention anybody different who may be picking them up) and sign them out again at the end of the day.  This register is important for us to know our number of children in the nursery and crucial if we have an emergency evacuation.  Many thanks for your support with this.

NURSERY TEAM

Due to the increased hours in Early Years we now have an extended team.  We are delighted to welcome Mrs Shemilt, Miss Dolan, Miss James, Miss Vance, Ms Hepburn and Miss Brown to our team.

We are also delighted to welcome back Mrs Walker from 2nd September who has made a remarkable recovery from a recent operation.

Our Nursery Team now consists of:

  • Christine Walker – Early Years Officer
  • Stacie Young – Early Years Officer
  • Celia O’Neil – Nursery Nurse
  • Lesley Laing – Nursery Nurse
  • Hazel Rafferty – Nursery Nurse
  • Kristen Fleming – Nursery Nurse
  • Lara Thomson – Nursery Nurse
  • Fiona McCallum – Nursery Nurse
  • Samantha Campbell – Nursery Nurse
  • Charlene Shemilt – Nursery Nurse
  • Cara Dolan – Nursery Nurse
  • Meaghan James – Nursery Nurse
  • Adele Vance – Nursery Nurse
  • Angela Sharkey – Pupil Support Worker
  • Stephanie Bazely – Pupil Support Worker
  • Kennerty Brown – Pupil Support Worker
  • Sharon Hepburn – Pupil Support Worker

 

 

 

 

NURSERY TRIP 2019

We had a fantastic time on our first family trip.  We went  to Almond Valley  Heritage Centre for the day.  The wet weather didn’t stop the children from having lots of fun with their family and friends, splashing around in the puddles, visiting the animals, jumping on the trampolines, digging in the sand and exploring all the new outdoor adventures.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our families for their continued support throughout the year and wish the nursery leavers all the very best in their new adventures at school.

Have a fantastic summer, hopefully with lots of sun!

We will  look forward to seeing our nursery returners in the new term.

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