Category: Bonnytoun Nursery School

Our short week has flown by in school and nursery. We ended the week with a ‘teacher swap’ in school which was organised by our Pupil Council. Pupils enjoyed working with a different teacher for part of the morning and fun was had by all.

Here are some achievements from this week…

Well done to F in P3 for further success in football. Did you know that F also plays for Heart’s boys team?

A number of children in school received skiing certificates this week for taking part in after-school skiing at Polmont Ski School.  Congratulations to you all!

Well done to N in P2 for taking part in a charity run.

E in P2 made a super model of an aeroplane which she brought along to show me today. Great effort E!

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Love Miss Baillie xx💖

Our week has been taken up showcasing our learning in Expressive Arts. From our Lion King performances to the little P2/3 children who sang and danced their way through a superb assembly, our pupils continue to amaze us with their talents.

Miss Prince and her P2/3 class held their wonderful assembly yesterday which taught us all about how to save our oceans and seas from plastic contamination. We are going to be working with  volunteers from the Linlithgow Transition project in the following weeks to try to use less plastic and packaging in our food products in school. Let’s all think about out plastic usage and how this impacts on our environment!

 

We have now purchased two new teddy bears, Peg and Peggy who will be awarded to classes who collect the most pegs each week. We hand out pegs for walking quietly in the corridors around school. Our nursery children have been busy working hard to keep the nursery floor tidy and have been earning ‘pegs’ as a result. They were delighted to be the first group of children to receive Peggy this week as were P7B who received Peg. This is a great incentive for positive behaviour and is motivating our children to continue to be responsible.

Pictured below are the ‘birthday’ children in our infant department this week,  plus Peggy the teddy, who R in P1A is proudly holding. Well done to P1A for winning Peggy this week!

Keep an eye out for our monthly nursery and school newsletters which will be coming out in the next week or so. This is such a busy term for us with lots of exciting things happening. We are now in full swing with our enhanced transition programme as well as our P7-S1 transition and nursery-P1 transition.

Look out for our P6-7 Career’s Fayre which we are holding next week (1st May) for our upper school children. This is a new initiative for us and builds on our skills for learning, life and work programme that we established last session.

As always, we welcome your feedback and you can do this by dropping into school, emailing our mail box or giving Mr Wells and I a call.

Take care everyone and have a lovely weekend!

Miss Baillie x💖

Another week has flown by in school and nursery. Our P6 and P7 children have been putting the final touches to their Lion King performance which will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week. We are so looking forward to the show!

Yesterday, P3 held a super assembly about Scottish Inventors. We learned lots and enjoyed watching the children perform-what confidence they all showed!

Here are some birthday children from this week:

We have also had a number of pupil achievements…

A in P5 came to show me a picture of her as a flower-girl. A duty that she performed recently at a family wedding. How exciting for you A!

Some little P2/3 girls came along to let me listen to a song that they have created and recorded! Who says that we don’t teach music and digital literacy well at Springfield! Thank you to Miss Prince for her amazing talents in this area! How creative of you all too!

The lovely G in P5 shared her Girls Brigade success with me. I am so proud of you G! You always try your very best in all that you do!

U who is also in P5 was very excited about her recent dancing achievement. Congratulations to you U!

Finally, M in P1 came along to my office to show me his Roman ladder that he made during free play. I was most impressed!

We work really hard in school and nursery to allow every child to shine. I’ve been speaking to the children a lot this week about the fact that we all of our own strengths and how it is good to be unique and different. This is something that we should celebrate. We are all one of a kind!

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine today,

Love Miss Baillie xxx💖🌞

We have been continuing to think about anti-bullying and all parents should now have seen our new anti-bullying policy which is open for consultation.

In assembly we learned about the GIRFEC Wellbeing Indicator of being ‘responsible’ and we tied this into our anti-bullying message. We want to educate all children and adults in the importance of reporting bullying both as a victim and bystander. Bullying can happen to anyone in any school or workplace and we will continue to actively work to prevent it at Springfield.

We had a visit from  a lady called Nancy and also Dr MacKenzie, Grandad of Alyth in the nursery and Nairn in P3. These individuals are members of Linlithgow Grange Rotary Club.  We are excited to announce our new partnership with Rotary which will take the form of a Roto Kids club. We will give more information on this as we have it. We are really delighted with this new opportunity for our children to engage in global citizenship as well as making a difference to their local community.

Here are some certificate winners from this week:

And some birthday children from our nursery and infant department:

Here are two pupil achievements from this week: Firstly to the lovely H in P2 for her Enjoy-a-Ball success and also to brilliant E in P3 for her swimming certificate. Well done girls!

The nursery are now the proud owners of pet fish and as part of our developments in child-led learning, have set up pet, health and wellbeing and snack committees. Who said that children can’t be leaders at aged three!

We have a busy week of events coming up this week-week beginning 26th February. Please note the following information:

– Monday 26th- Big Bedtime Story in the hall from 5-6pm for nursery to P3 children and adults.  Wear pyjamas!

-Wednesday 28th- STEM Curriculum evening and whole-school challenge from 6-7pm in the hall for P1-P7 children and adults.

-Friday 2nd March-World Book Day. Dress down as a character from a favourite book. No money needed.

-Friday 2nd March- P4 assembly at 10am.

Have a lovely Sunday evening!

Love Miss Baillie xx💖

 

 

 

 

 

We have had a short week at Springfield and Bonnytoun after the holiday weekend.

Children in P6-7 are working hard on their Lion King performance and costumes and scenery are beginning to take shape. Thanks to all parents who are helping us by making costumes. We couldn’t do it without your support and we are very grateful!

In response to the interests of a pupil, the nursery have just taken delivery of a beautiful, new fish tank and the fish will come to their new home next week. The children enjoyed setting up the tank and can’t wait for their fishy friends to arrive! We are hoping that the fish tank provides a visual stimulus in the nursery and supports our calming environment.

Across school and nursery children have been undertaking further learning on the Chinese New Year. We are going to make a wall display of our efforts. Keep an eye out for it in school.

Two of our  little, P3 girls came to my room this week to show me their Dragon Dance. Thank you to A for bringing in her mask to help the class with their learning.

Here are some achievements from this week…

Here are two of our lovely P3 boys with their football souvenirs from attending a mini-camp last week. One of these pupils plays for Hearts boys and we are very proud of him and keen to track his progress in football.

Here is gorgeous B from P2A who popped along to show me his writing the other day. B is coming along an absolute treat in all areas and we are extremely delighted with his efforts! Good work B!

We honestly have the loveliest children in the world , who are a credit to their families. They are a pleasure to work with. Every day at Springfield and Bonnytoun is  an absolute joy.

Have a super Sunday!

Love Miss Baillie xxx💖💓💖💫

 

 

 

 

I hope that you are all enjoying the holiday weekend and are making the most of a couple of days off work and school. Here is our news from last week…

We held a lovely assembly last Friday when Anita, Jayden and Lucas took centre stage to share with us how they celebrate Chinese New Year. We watched a video of The Dragon Dance and learned about different Chinese customs that are traditional to this time of year.

Next week, all children will make or write something in classes to do with Chinese New Year and we will make a whole-school display of our work. We really enjoy learning about different cultures and broadening our understanding of global citizenship.

Here are some of our certificate winners for this week:

Our birthday children are pictured below, including two of our little nursery pupils who also celebrated a birthday last week. Happy Birthday to you all!

Finally, an achievement for last week. Here is G in P1B with his Enjoy-A-Ball trophy. Well done G, we are very proud of you!

The nursery children had a visit from Zoo Lab last week and really enjoyed learning about different animals associated with Chinese New Year. Did you know that 2018 is the year of the dog?

See you all back in school and nursery on Wednesday for a nice, short week.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Love Miss Baillie xx💖💓💖