This week some of our Nursery and P1 pupils featured in the West Lothian Courier and Daily Mail, as progress for our new Nursery is well underway.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/new-1-million-nursery-built-9217901
Category Archives: Nursery
Nursery Term 2 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 2 in Mid Calder Nursery. We had a busy first term, getting to know each other and making new friends. The children created their own pizza shop, ‘Pizza World’. They managed the shop, took orders, made menus and even cooked their own pizzas. We hope you all enjoyed them! We enjoyed our Autumn walk to Calder Wood. It was exciting to watch the children learn in the local environment and fantastic for the staff to observe the knowledge the children shared about their surrounding area. This term the children are continuing to show an interest in the building of our new nursery. We will build on this topic and plan our learning from the ideas of the children.
Nursery Staff
Nursery Learning Letter
Fireworks in the nursery
This week we have been learning about firework safety. This included watching Fireman Sam explain about how to handle sparklers. The children also made pictures of fireworks, watched a short clip of a firework display, talked about firework noises and tried to move about like fireworks. For snack we made sparkler biscuits.
Hallowe’en fun in the nursery
The nursery children had lots of fun for Hallowe’en. They were dressed up and took part in some spooky activities including dooking for apples, floating and sinking pumpkins in the water tray and some pumpkin art. Snack was chocolate spider cakes with crunchy legs and satsumas with pumpkin faces
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Spooky Visitors!
Today we had some spooky visitors from the Nursery visit the school office and P5-7.
Harvest
A big thank you to the nursery parents that handed in kind donations towards our school Harvest assembly. The food stuffs are being collected on behalf of West Lothian Foodbank.
Nursery Autumn Walk
Today the children in the nursery went on an adventure in to Calder Wood to find some Autumn treasures. We had a very exciting walk through the woods and were lucky enough to see and hear some interesting things. When the boys and girls were quiet they could hear the river, birds singing and an aeroplane. They found acorns, Autumn leaves of every colour, snails, berries, blackberries and apples! The children drew and wrote about what they had seen on their recording sheet. They also found a very large bear that had escaped from the school and was sitting on the branch of a large tree having a rest! The nursery boys and girls rescued him and took him back to the school safely.
We loved our time learning in the outdoors!
Nursery Newsletter – October
Dear Parent/Carer,
The children have all settled into the new school year and are confidently making new friends and learning the Nursery routines. We have created a community contract so that the children have an opportunity to discuss what they would like to learn at Nursery and what it should feel like to be part of our Nursery.
Thanks to all of you who attended our Meet the Teacher Session, if you were unable to attend you can access the information on the school blog: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/mcps/2016/09/09/nursery-learning-letter/
You can keep up to date with our learning on the school blog by clicking on Learning Stories, Nursery: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/mcps/category/learning-stories/nursery-am/
As a staff team we have been collaborating with our cluster nurseries and have visited Polbeth, St. Ninian’s and Riverside Nurseries to investigate how they are implementing new nursery planning advice and guidance.
Miss Burton
Depute Head Teacher
Nursery Money
- I can recognise the value of coins.
- I can pay for items using coins in play and real life contexts.
This week in the nursery we have been learning more about money. We talked about what we already knew about money: –
Hannah told us “We buy cat food with money.”
Charlotte “buys toys from Toys r Us” and Connor knew that “we use money for snack.” Finlay was able to tell the other children that a £1 coin was the same as 100 pennies!
We played the dino game on Education City and managed to match the coin to place in the piggy bank. The children also came to Mrs Murray’s restaurant and paid for their pasta snack with real pennies. We spoke about the coins they chose and some children could identify them.
Well done nursery boys and girls!
The building has started!
There has been lots of excitement in the nursery this week as the diggers arrived on site to start building our new nursery! The children enjoyed watching through the fence, chatting to the builders and even getting some building materials from them for our garden. The inside of the nursery now has a building site, site office and canteen for the workers and the children outside have been building with mud and bricks. We have talked about how to build safely and learned more about how to make the strongest structures.
It is going to be an exciting few months watching the changes, as they build our new place to play and learn.
