Category: Nursery

NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home

Hello Parents, Carers and Children
At East Calder Nursery we want you to enjoy leaning and gaining new experiences at home while having fun with your family during this difficult time. We will be updating the blog every Tuesday and Thursday with some suggested activities you could give a try. We will try to have a mix of indoor and outdoor activities, individual activities children can do while parents may be working and group activities to do as a family.

Stay safe and take care.
EC Nursery Team

NURSERY – fundraising

Thank you for your kind donations towards our nursery welly walks.  We have raised £24.99 so far, this will be used towards purchasing more waterproof trousers for our children to wear when exploring the outdoors.

East Calder Nursery Parent Group  –  We have a small group of parents who are passionate and dedicated to raising more funds for the nursery to help buy further waterproof trousers as we still need to purchase another 30 pairs to enable us to take all the children outdoors together.  They met up last week, in our parent room within the school to discuss future fundraising and already have a fundraising event running in Peacock’s/The Edinburgh Woolen Mill at Dobbies in Livingston. All money raised at this event will be kindly donated to our Nursery. This will run throughout the month of March, there will be fun filled activities for children and a gift wrapping service for any  Mother’s Day gifts.  A tombola and raffle will also run alongside this (raffle tickets can be purchased in nursery, please ask a member of staff). On Saturday 14th March children can make their own little bird house and decorate a Mother’s Day card for £2.  Please pop into Dobbies Livingston to support this fantastic fundraising event and to help raise money for our nursery.

We are looking for donations towards the tombola.  If you have any unwanted Christmas gifts or a bottle of wine or chocolates at home, please donate them in our basket in the main foyer at Nursery.

A new noticeboard for East Calder Nursery Parent Group is now displayed in the main foyer, please check regularly to find out  about current and future fundraising events.  All parents/carers and grandparents are very welcome to meet up with the group to get involved in fundraising.

Many thanks  for your continued support.

NURSERY – Parent Fundraising Group Meeting 25th/26th February

A little reminder that our first parent group meetings will be held tomorrow and Wednesday.  This will be a very informal meeting for parents and a staff member to get together and see how much interest/helpers we can gather for raising much needed funds for the Nursery.

We would love to hear your idea’s for fundraising and would be delighted if you could attend either meeting. Refreshments will be available.  Please meet in the nursery and we can use the school parent room.

Tuesday 25th February – 12pm

Wednesday 26th February – 1.30pm

NURSERY – WELLY WALK

We are planning a welly walk with the children to celebrate and try out our waterproof trousers that the PSA kindly purchased.  We will be doing this during outdoor group time on a wet day when there are lots of puddles.  Rather than ask parents to sponsor the children, we are asking for kind donations to help us raise further funds to buy more waterproof trousers.  A donation tub is in the main foyer beside the registers.  Your donations would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

 

NURSERY – Warm Clothing

Our children  have the opportunity to access their outdoor play area in all weathers and during group time we go for a walk in our local community.  To ensure they are prepared for the cold weather, please provide hat and gloves for your child and leave inside their backpack for easy access when they are getting dressed themselves ready to go out.

If you have any spare hats and gloves you no longer use please recycle by donating them to nursery.  We try to have a spare supply for children who have forgotten  to bring them. Thank you for your support.

Our School/Nursery PSA have kindly purchased  waterproofs for the children to wear when playing outdoors.   This was a much needed resource for the children’s outdoor play, which we are very grateful for.

To celebrate and put the waterproofs to good use, we will be arranging a ‘Welly Walk’ in the community with the children.  More details to follow soon.

As stated in Care Inspectorate ‘My World Outdoors’ 2016 publication

         ‘There is a growing body of research that shows that young children’s                access to nature and outdoor play is positively associated with                             improved self-esteem, physical health, development of language skills            and disposition to learning’   (Davy, 2009 (57))

 

 

NURSERY – SCOTTISH CELEBRATIONS

On the lead up to Robert Burn’s Day on 25th January the children have been enjoying practising simple Celidh dancing and Scottish songs and rhymes such as Three Craws, Wee Willie Winkie and Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny of the Bus.  We have been discussing and having fun with Scottish words and language and been impressed by how many are familiar with slang words.

We will continue with our celebrations up to Robert Burns Day and then introduce Chinese New Year, this helps the children to learn about different cultures and traditions.

 

Bird Watch 2020

The children are participating in RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch 2020.  They have enjoyed using binoculars to spot birds in the nursery garden/playground.  To find out more information on how to take part please`check our Parent Information Board in the cloakroom or visit rspb.org.uk/birdwatch

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