Good morning Everyone!

Today is your last chance to email your baby photo’s to lucy.brown@westlotian.org.uk so that your teachers can take a guess !

Here are the answers to the teachers baby photos:

1. Mrs Tomczynski
2. Miss Sneddon
3. Mrs Lejkowski
4. Miss McMorran
5. Mrs Robb
6. Miss Reilly
7. Miss Brown
8. Mrs Quin
9. Mrs Fawkes
10. Miss Meldrum
11. Mrs Henderson
12. Mrs Galloway
13. Mrs peat
14. Mrs Brown
15. Mrs Aitken

Check to see how many you got right!

Today is the beginning of our very important transition project to primary one. Nursery staff and primary one teachers have been working really hard to plan our next steps for transitition.

Please look out on the blog for updates of our transitition plans and how you can get your child involved at home. We understand that the global situation right now may cause changes to our plans but as a nursery and school we will do our best to support our families throughout this challenging time.

Our first step is to find out any questions your child may have about starting primary one and moving up into the school. We understand this can be a confusing time for some of our children and we want to involve and support everyone the best we can.

Our current primary 6 children are very kindly going to support our future primary ones by answering any of their questions regarding the school as they are our Simpson Experts!

Please direct any of your child’s questions regarding transititioning to primary one to :  

hannah.sneddon@westlothian.org.uk.

We will then collate these questions and ask our current primary 6s to answer them, feeding back the answers to our families.

Please look out for more transitition updates soon.

Good Afternoon everyone,

As we are all having such fun hunting for minibeasts out in our Gardens and the local environment we thought you could have a look to see if you can notice any other changes outdoors?

You might see some plants beginning to grow.

Below we have attached a little video all about the life cycle of a seed. Some of our children may recognise this video as we have used this in nursery previously when discussing life cycles.

Making our children aware of change and the process about how new life and things change and develop through time is a great learning experience for them.

We hope you enjoy 🌻🌱

Good morning boys and girls,

Today Mrs Lejkowski would like to share a story with you, Ten Little Ladybirds. Can you help count along to?

At nursery we were beginning to use @mathsthroughstories to support our children’s numeracy skills through the use of books.

Seen as we are enjoying finding minibeasts out in our garden and local environment we thought this would be a lovely story to share with you all today.

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Hi boys and girls!

We wanted to share with you some of our favourite songs and rhymes about mini beasts. Some of them you will know and some of them you can learn.

We hope you enjoy!!

Good morning everyone,

We hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Below we have attached a little video update of our caterpillars from Miss Meldrum. If you look closely you can see that the butterflies wings are the same on either side, this is called symmetry.

Do you think you could try to create your own butterfly with symmetrical wings?

Miss Reilly and her children at home made their own butterflies. (seen below)

We would love to see your butterflies please share with us through your child’s learning journal, the blog or our twitter feed @NurserySimpson 🦋

Hi boys and girls. The ladies at nursery wondered if you would like to go on a mini beast hunt around your garden. You never know who you will find in your garden. They may be living in the bushes or in the soil and remember to check under rocks and plant pots too !

All you need is a bit of paper and a pencil, you could either write the name or draw a picture of what you find.

Or…..

I wonder if you have any ladybirds in your garden? You could draw a picture of a ladybird and then every time you see one you could make a mark, for example a ✔ and then once you have finished your hunt you could count up the ✔’s and then you will find out how many ladybirds live in your garden. You could try this for lots of different insects.

What sound does the word ladybird start with? You could practice saying that sound. Can you feel what your tongue is doing when you make that sound?

Happy hunting and please parents if you could post your pictures on here, twitter or on your child’s learning journey. Thank you.