Category Archives: Parents/Carers

Minibeasts everywhere 🐛🦋🐝

We have been having some lovely weather recently and we thought we would share with you a little idea of something you could be doing outdoors.

Miss Mcmorran and Mrs Brown have been thinking about a little challenge that our children may enjoy at home and something we enjoyed creating and doing when at nursery was looking for mini beasts and creating our own little bug hotel in our nursery garden.

 

We thought you could be like Responsible Rosie (seen below) and see if you could make your own little home for some minibeasts that may live in your garden or in your local environment.

Here is some ideas below, we would love to see if you could create your own. There’s many ways you could create one all you need is some sticks, leaves or even stones. Bugs love to have a place to climb and sleep.

please share your creations with us through our blog or our twitter page @NurserySimpson

 

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Happy Monday 😀

Good morning,

We hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoying your time at home.

One of our families have shared an exciting video with us that we would like to share with you. Today at 11:30 there will be a live video all about money sense and how to look after your money. This video is aimed at 5-8 year olds although this may be something our children will enjoy and may even notice some familiar faces.

Here is the link to the video below :

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Good Morning ☀️

Good morning everyone!

From everyone here at nursery we hope you are all staying safe at home and have been enjoying the sunshine. We are missing all of our children and families! 

The ladies here at nursery are working really hard to create some more ideas to share with you as soon as possible about fun things you can try at home! These will be shared through our nursery blog and our twitter page. 

Does anybody want to share what they have been up to at home over the long weekend?

Nursery Sharing Home Learning

It has been so lovely to see families engaging through our Twitter page.  Did you know that you can also share your child’s learning experiences and achievements at home through our Learning Journals? 

The Learning Journals website  is not a social media channel so you may prefer to share and record achievements here. 

We have already seen some fantastic contributions from parents.     If this is something you would like to use to share some of these learning  experiences or achievements here is a quick guide showing how to do it. 

When you log into your child’s personal learning journal there will be a box on the left hand side saying ‘wider achievements’ (see below) . You can then add photographs and a short description of the activity here! The information which you share on here is safe and is only shared with the Simpson nursery and school staff team. 

We hope you are all remaining safe at home and enjoying some quality time with your family. 

Please do not hesitate to share your achievements and experiences with the nursery staff through the use of any of these channels: Twitter, the Blog or Learning Journals. We love to hear how you are getting on!

Simpson Nursery Team 

P1 – 3 Assembly

Good morning everyone

Please use the link below to access the first online P1 – 3 assembly.

We apologise for the delay and thank you for your patience whilst we become familiar with the new delivery format and  technologies involved.

Please click the play button to access sound whenever you see this image.

https://sway.office.com/FkEkIvXptrYMH7bn?ref=Link

We hope you enjoy our assembly.

 

Primary 1B’s very first post

What a great few weeks we have had and we are now all settled in to our new class.

We hope you enjoy looking at some of the things we’ve been learning and will get more photographs uploaded as soon as we can.

This week we got a new reading book it was called The Library. We had a great discussion about Simpson Library and many of us had visited the library. If you visit over the long weekend please let us know.

We looked at the different kinds of books we can find in a library – fiction and and non fiction.

We have been learning all about the characters in the story and have enjoyed playing lots of games to help us learn the characters names. 

Pairs                                                                      Character Snakes and Ladders                                   Snap

 

We have enjoyed getting homework and even have our homework bags home this weekend to practice our keywords.

 

As part of our writing this week we retold the story of Incy Wincy Spider.

This helped us to think about our Mindset and just like Incy when faced with a challenge we know we have to keep trying and never give up. 

In Mathematics we have been learning about shapes and went on a shape walk in our playground.

In Numeracy we have been exploring ways to make 5 and having fun playing lots of dice games.

In the gym hall we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe and staying in our space bubbles

We have been to the community wing to play lots of listening games to help us learn all our new friends names.

 

Please complete the P1 Tea Towel form and return by Friday 20th September.

The Lost Words Calendar 2019

The Lost Words – A Spell Book by writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by artist Jackie Morris is something we, as a school, became passionate about in our quest to become more familiar with the language of nature in our native land.

As a the result of Simpson Primary and Nursery’s celebration of The Lost Words through art, we have created a beautiful A4 calendar which we are selling to not only raise funds for our school, but also for Action for Conservation, a charity dedicated to inspiring young people to take action for the natural world.

The cost per calendar is £5.00 and order forms will be coming to you this week – the perfect gift this Christmas! Here is a sneaky peek!!

Parent Council Dress Down Day – Friday 12th October 2018

Good morning,

Message on behalf of Simpson Primary Parent Council

Please see attached poster with information regarding dress up/dress down day this Friday.  Participation is optional and any funds collected will go towards our float for Newlands Day.

2018_10_09_Parent Council Harry Potter Poster