NURSERY – HALLOWEEN

HALLOWEEN WEEK

From Monday 27th October we will be having a Halloween themed week in Nursery.  Your children will have the opportunity to carve pumpkins and dook for apples, and listen to Halloween stories and songs.  Your child is very welcome to dress up but can we request no masks please.  We are looking forward to lots of Halloween fun!

 

 

NURSERY – More Maths

Some more photo’s from our Math’s Week and how we extend and develop  play and learning in numeracy and mathematics………..

Counting and recognising the number of objects we put on our art work and display’s.

Measuring and comparing our heights,

“I am 8 leaves tall”, “I am taller”, “I am smaller than …….”

 

 

Discovering shapes and numbers in the world around me.

Baking our ‘Gruffalo Crumble’ involved counting and measuring ingredients and learning and discussing the language of time.

NURSERY – Display Boards

Display Boards

Our Nursery team have been busy creating display boards throughout the nursery to keep families informed about their child’s play and learning.  Please take the time to have a look and share your child’s learning and magic moments with us and we can display this on the boards.

 Living, Growing and Playing

You will find this board displayed in our reception area.  If your child has had a ‘magic moment’ at home  please share this with us.  We are both delighted and proud to hear all about your child’s play and learning and would love to display this on the fruit tree’s. Perhaps if your child has managed to put on their shoes for the first time or zipped up their coat, we would celebrate this by writing it on the fruit and displaying it on their group tree (red group has red fruit, green group has green fruit etc).

We have a new ‘Planning’ display board in the main nursery area beside the smartboard.  This display’s your child’s voice. photo’s and work of what we have observed during play and learning.  This guides us in extending and developing their learning further by taking the lead from their interests.

The children have been enjoying our trips in the local community such as the park, sheltered housing, sensory garden, library, cafe and shops.  These opportunities have helped us to build relationships and make valuable connections.  The children have shown enthusiasm and used what they have learned from these meaningful real life experiences to extend their role play, literacy and mathematics skills and health and wellbeing.

We have displayed photo’s and your child’s voice on our ‘The World Around Me’ board in the reception area.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Harvest Foodbank Appeal

West Lothian Foodbank’s Combined Harvest Appeal

West Lothian Foodbank are looking for the following items as part of their Harvest Appeal:

Tinned tomatoes

Tinned sweetcorn

Sweets

Shampoo

Dried Herbs

Mug Shots

Sponge Puddings

Tinned Cold Meat

Meat Paste

Washing up liquid

If you would like to donate items to the West Lothian Foodbank’s Harvest please hand in any donations to our school. A box has been placed in the main foyer, near the school entrance, for your donations.  Thank you 

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.

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