Welcome back, hope you all enjoyed the February break!

In Nursery this week we`have been continuing with the Pirate theme throughout the nursery. Children have been  enjoying looking for treasure, drawing maps, dressing up, learning songs, listening to stories and finding the Pirate pictures hiding around the nursery in which they have been receiving a Pirate sticker as a reward!

All very fun and exciting!

We have also been investigating and looking closely at old pieces of cutlery, jewelry, house ware items, anything that looks old and interesting really; such as spoons, trinket boxes, necklaces, metal teapots, etc. linking into our theme of Pirates Treasure!

If you have any of these items at home, please feel free to hand these in, we would be most grateful!

Thanks again.

The children are showing lots of interest in Pirates which has come from a PLOD in our Floorbook. Lot’s of dressing up, making a Treasure Chest and searching for Hidden Treasure. Have a look and feel free to add you or your child’s comments/interests into the Floorbook.

Thank you to all that managed to attend our Book Bug launch on Tuesday. Looking at the pictures everyone had a great time.

Our next Stay, Play and Learn is Monday 25^th February

Thursday 28^th February is the school’s Family Show case. It will run from 6:30pm – 7:30pm. The focus will be Maths.

This week in nursery we have been busy with Chinese New Year. The children have had the opportunity to taste a variety of Chinese food at snack. Including noodles, prawn crackers and spring rolls which most of our children enjoyed.  We have watched a festivals dvd on the Chinese New Year and have had Chinese music playing for the children to listen and dance to.

Next week we have our Book bug launch for all our three year olds. Each child will be given a bag with books picture cards.

Tuesday 12th Feburary

A.m- 10.15-10.45

P.m-1.30-2pm

Please sign up for the session your child attends. Signup sheets are in the clock room.

Chinese New Year Fun!

This week in nursery the children have been enjoying the change in the weather. We have been investigating the different ice formations in the garden and exploring how they change throughout the day. Following on from the children’s interest in the weather we have added indoor and outdoor thermometers to the play areas. This will hopefully spark lots of new conversation about numbers and how we use them to help us every day.

We have also changed the location of our large story corner with the loose parts play area. The children have been busy enjoying the new space and using the resources in new imaginative ways.

We have had a fun filled time in nursery this week, from creating our own castles and flags, to role playing with knights and dragons in our small world castle. Highlight of the week though has to be our Burns Supper which we held yesterday. Everyone wore tartan and danced to Scottish highland music and listened to ‘The Gruffalo’ in Scots.

Earlier in the week we made homemade shortbread which the children (and staff) really enjoyed after our haggis neeps and tatties! Here are just a few of the photos taken from the week.

Just a little reminder that our Literacy PEEP sessions for 3 year olds starts on Monday  4^th February. Sign-up information is in the cloakroom.

It has been a fun filled week in nursery with lots of interest starting around Scotland.  The children have been doing Scottish dancing in the gym hall and within nursery. The children have loved dancing with their friends and listing to the Scottish music.

The children have enjoyed discussing lots of things about Scotland. Next Thursday 24^th of January we have planned a Burns Supper.  If we could ask if you have anything tartan to wear to help us celebrate that would be great .

We are looking forward to starting our PEEP group on the 4^th of February. We have an information sheet up in the cloakroom. If you need any more information just ask a staff member Thanks.

This week in Nursery the Children have settled back into their normal routine after our busy week last week. We have had the Christmas story read at story group time. There are a variety of Christmas activities including making decorations for our Christmas tree. At the end of the day in our groups we have been singing Christmas songs and songs from our Nativity which the children still enjoy.

This week the weather has been colder and we have had some frost which the Children have noticed. This led to the Children looking at and smashing the ice with their feet. As an experiment they then froze some water for our water tray. Each day the Children have checked to see if it has worked.

Next Thursday the 20th of December is our Christmas party for all our children.

Morning party starts at 9am with a visit from Santa at 10.15am

Afternoon party starts at 1pm with a visit from Santa at 2.15p

Nursery will still start at 8am for morning children and 12.09pm for afternoon Children

A BIG thank you to ALL our parent helpers!!! It was great to have so many of you to help prepare the Children for their Nativity.  We have had lots of praise from our parents/ Carers who really enjoyed the show.

The Christmas season has arrived and it has been all go in the nursery.  The Christmas Fayre was a big success and all of our Penguin canvases sold out.  We will let you know the final total raised ASAP.

All the nursery staff would all like to say a huge thank you to all of the children for all their hard work when performing their nursery nativity “A Miracle in Town”.  I think we can all agree that they were wonderful shows both morning and afternoon.  Also a big thank you to everyone who attended the nativity to support our nursery children and helped them learn their lines and songs.  And of course a thank you to the parents who took time out of their schedule to help us on the day.