Yesterday P7/6L had a fantastic visit from Maureen Liddell from the Museums Service. The children participated in a handling session of many World War 2 Artifacts like army uniforms, food and clothing ration books and children’s toys and suitcases. We learnt a lot about life on the homefront during the war brought to life through the real stories of local people who owned the items.
Congratulations ! It was great to hear at the recent Broxburn Swimming Club Presentation that you were awarded the Female 10-11 years Champion. You told us you had to work really hard to achieve the award so you must be really proud of yourself, as are we. Brilliant…The Olympics are calling!
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))
We had a great time trying lots of different foods to describe the taste as part of our science topic on ‘The Senses’ with Mrs Beattie.
There were a lot of interesting reactions to some of the tastes.
Great job everyone!
In Science we are learning about our 5 senses.
Today we were finding out about the sense of taste.
Mrs Beattie had different foods for us to taste and we had to record whether they were sweet, sour, bitter or salty.
Lots of us liked the salty crisps …but the lemon was not the class favourite!
Article 29 -We have the right to learn.
Thank you so much to the two members of our class who brought in precious World War 2 artefacts for us to look at. It was great to hear you tell us all about your relatives and the different roles they played in WW2. Stories like these and artefacts for the class to hold really make our WW2 context come alive. Next week we are looking forward to Mrs Liddell joining us from Library Services. She will bringing a whole host of WW2 artefacts from Ration Books,Kit bags and ID cards to Gas Masks and medals. Watch this space!
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.
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
We are now able to store items from your child’s lunch bag in a refrigerator until lunch. If you have items in your child’s bag that needs refrigeration, please put them into a plastic bag with your child’s name on and hand it to the staff member at the door on entry.
Many thanks
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