If your child brings a packed lunch to Nursery, please provide them with a drink and a spoon for yoghurts/fruit pots etc. We are only provided with cutlery for school dinners. Many thanks for your support.
Nursery Team
Category: Class Learning
P3/2C
P3/2C have been working hard on their gymnastic skills over the last few weeks in PE. They are doing such a fabulous job.
Well done everyone!
WW2 Artefact Handling Session P7S
P7S would like to thank Mrs Liddell for visiting us yesterday from West Lothian Library Services. We had the opportunity to handle a range of artefacts from WW2. We looked at a variety of uniforms and some of us (see embarrassing photographs!) even got the chance to try some on. We heard all about food and clothes rations, did you know you were only allowed 2oz of cheese and butter a week! Mrs Liddell has kindly agreed to join us in March for our Sharing the Learning Session so you will also be able to experience WW2 brought to life! We look forward to welcoming you….watch this space!
Primary 7/6L World War 2 Visit
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.
Swimming Superstar!
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!
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))
Food Tasting in Science P3/2C
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!
Food Tasting P3R
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.
P7S World War 2 Artefacts
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!
