Nursery – Page 19 – St Ninian's Primary School

This week we have welcomed eight new friends to our nursery classes! All of them have been absolutely fantastic and have settled in really well. We hope they have enjoyed their first week at Saint Ninian’s Nursery 🙂

We have continued to use our visual planning wall to showcase our ideas and plans. The children have expressed their interest in going shopping and building bridges so far! We love to hear their ideas and we would love to include the suggestions of our parents too!

Also this week we have had lots of discussions about making new friends and sharing our toys and resources. As a follow on from this, our book of the week will be “The Rainbow Fish” and we look forward to planning lots of experiences around this theme.

This week we also said goodbye to Father Paul as he moves on to his new Parish. We thought about all the ways he has helped our school community and we made him a thank you card by painting our hands to make flowers.

Finally we would like to remind you of a few up coming dates-

Wednesday 7th September at 8:45am- parents helpers information meeting
Thursday 15th September at 6:00pm- Ninian’s Natter evening

Please ask a member of our nursery team if you would like anymore information regarding these events.

Have a lovely weekend,

The nursery team 🙂

Nursery News

What a quiet and peaceful week we have had in nursery! It has been so lovely to welcome back our older children who have enjoyed exploring their surroundings and getting used to the rules and routines again. 🙂

Our first task this week was to learn how to keep the nursery tidy and organised. We used our tidy up cards which show us what each area of the nursery should look like when it is tidy. The children have been absolutely fantastic with this new approach and all the visitors to the nursery have commented on how organised and responsible the children are. Well done boys and girls!

Our next job is to get everybody involved in using our visual planning wall. This wall will showcase the learning experiences that are taking place in the nursery and will reflect everyone’s ideas and suggestions. We especially welcome ideas and suggestions from our parents and carers. Please let us know if you would like to contribute to our planning wall and we will help you get started!

Next week we will begin to welcome our new nursery pupils into our Saint Ninian’s family. We are very much looking forward to meeting our new friends and we are excited to show them all that nursery has to offer!

Unfortunately we were so busy with all our activities this week that we forgot to take any photographs!! Oops! We promise we will take lots of photos next week!

Have a wonderful weekend,

The nursery team 🙂

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Another week has flown by in the Nursery. Our school corner continues to be popular with the children practising their writing and mark making. We have also had lots of role play with the fire station and house corner.

In the creative area this week some of the children made masks to be super heroes and some banners were made for our Sports day planned for next week.

Robots and astronauts popped up at the construction area and in the library we have been reading “Elmer” which is our book of the week.

Today it was the turn of AM children to have a bake sale along with Mrs Roy’s class and the fantastic total of £172 was raised. This will be split between the two classes and we will discuss with the children what they would like to buy for Nursery with this money. A great big thank you to all the parents and carers who very kindly donated lots of delicious and yummy cakes. We really appreciate your support.

We also celebrated our last Achievement Assembly of this session today and a big congratulations to our successful learners and confident individuals Casper from AM and Poppy from PM. Well done to you both.

Just a little reminder that we will be having our Nursery Sports Day on Tuesday 21st June at 10 am and 2pm (weather permitting). If possible could the children wear a top the colour of their group and wear appropriate footwear. It will be fun races and there will be a race at the end for the parents and carers. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday. Our Nursery Graduation for our preschool children is planned for Wednesday 29th at 10am and 2pm. More details on this will follow next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Nursery Team.

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Another busy and exciting week has flown by in Nursery. Our Transition programme continued with our pre schoolers getting the opportunity to have a school lunch in the dinner hall alongside our school pupils. They all coped with this new challenge so well and there were plenty of empty plates !

We enjoyed the lovely warm weather and took our learning outside a lot this week. The children used their curiosity and creativity when they made a den out of material, pegs and bricks and worked really well as a team to complete this. Our buddies also came along to play with us and we enjoyed showing them all the exciting things we were able to do. Our potatoes are really growing well in the heat and hopefully we can use these when they are finished growing. The children also enjoyed singing and dancing on our stage. What talented children we have! Can we please ask that the children come to Nursery in hot days wearing suntan cream and a hat. Thank you for your help in this.

We had a special visitor in our AM session when Eilidh brought in her pet turtle Sheldon to see us and some children were brave enough to hold him. We were able to think up some interesting questions to ask her about him. Thank you Eilidh.

We continue with our Transition programme next week with our two moving up days . On Tuesday 7th June the children should be brought to the main entrance of the school for 9 o’ clock where you will be taken into the main school hall. The children will be taken down to their new classes and get the chance to meet their new teacher and the other children in their class. There will be a meeting for parents while the children are away where you will be given important information about the school. The children will be brought back to the hall at 11 o’ clock.

On Wednesday 10th June the children should be brought to the infant playground for 9 o’clock where they will line up at coloured cones and the Primary 1 teachers will come out and collect them. The children should then be collected from the cones at 11 o’ clock. As the children will also go out at playtime on both these days they can bring a small snack to eat when out. Please ensure children have suitable clothing depending on the weather.

Transition letters have been issued with all the information for these two days. As usual if you have any worries or questions please don’t hesitate to ask any member of the Nursery team who will be more than happy to answer these for you.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine if it stays.

The Nursery Team.

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It’s not long until some of our children start school so we have set up a “mini school” at our nursery and we have left out uniforms for the children to role play with. It’s been so much fun getting ready for school!

We have enjoyed lots more of our school transition activities this week. The preschool children took part in a joint Science and Outdoor learning project with the Primary 1 classes. They worked together to find and record information about Mini Beasts. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Caskie, Mrs Roy and Miss Diamond who planned this activity for the children. 🙂

Next week we will continue to enjoy our school transition activities and spend time with our Primary 6 buddies. We will also be continuing with our weekly visits to the Lanthorn Library. I wonder what stories we will hear this week???

Pre School Lunch Experience
Week beginning Monday 30th May

A little reminder about the arrangements for next week’s lunch experience. We hope it will be a valuable experience for the children who are attending school in August.

Children should be brought to the main school front entrance on their allocated day at 11:50am sharp where a member of our nursery team will meet them.

AM parents are welcome to stay for tea and coffee in the school hub while their children eat lunch. PM parents do not need to stay as their children will be taken straight to their nursery session after their lunch experience.

➢ RED GROUPS- Monday 30th May
➢ BLUE GROUPS-Tuesday 31st May
➢ YELLOW GROUP-Also Tuesday 31st May
➢ GREEN GROUPS-Wednesday 1st June

As always, if you have any questions at all about this experience, please do speak to a member of our nursery team.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

The nursery team 🙂

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Wow what an even busier week than usual in Nursery. We have been taking part in lots of activities during Health week. These included football, yoga, the Daily Mile, playground games with the buddies and dance clips on the Smartboard. We have been discussing what we need to do and eat to stay healthy and building on teamwork and working together.

The children in both sessions also visited the local library and enjoyed listening to a story about a baby kangaroo called, ” No room for Roo,” which was then followed by a talk about Australia using animal puppets. The children all enjoyed this fantastic opportunity to visit the library and we have planned three more visits which take place on Mondays starting with Monday 30th May.

Next week our transition programme continues with the children who are starting school in August joining the Primary 1 pupils for 10 minutes to experience playtime in the playground. This will involve both sessions. This will be outwith the normal playtime hours so it’s not too busy for them for their initial experience. We would appreciate it if the children could bring a small snack with them which they can eat during the playtime. The nursery children will also be joining the Primary 1 children for a shared learning experience which will be Science based. There will be a lesson in the classroom and one in the Outdoor area. We are sure they will all enjoy this collaborative learning. The nursery children will also be asked to choose their lunch for the following week as they will be able to have the experience of joining the school at lunchtime in the dinner hall. More details of this will be given out next week.

Also next week we are planning a Polish breakfast on Wednesday 25th May and Nathan and Leons’dad has very kindly offered to come in and help us with this. All AM children are welcome to come to this when Nursery opens at 805am.

Just a wee reminder that Nursery is on holiday on Monday. We look forward to seeing all the children back on Tuesday. If you haven’t received a time for our Parental consultations on Wednesday and Thursday and would like one please contact the school office and they will be happy to give you a time slot.

We hope the children have all enjoyed Health week and we are sure they would be very tired. The Nursery Team certainly were! Please check out our Nursery Parents Facebook page for more photos of Health Week.

Have a lovely holiday weekend.

The Nursery Team.

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Although a shorter week at Nursery it has been as busy as usual. We have continued with our Fairy tales topic with the children leading on the planning and learning experiences.

Our AM children have been busy in the construction area building lots of exciting models including the Gingerbread house. They have been writing about the characters in the story and drawing them too. We also had some special visitors on Wednesday. Four teachers from Panama were visiting the school and nursery. They were very impressed when we greeted them in Spanish and loved our bright and nurturing environment.They took lots of photographs to take back to their school.

Our PM children have been loving the puppet theatre and have been retelling the story of Hansel and Gretel using the puppets they made themselves. The audience have been very impressed by the shows! They have also been busy in the construction area with lots of fantastic models being made.

We have also been outdoors and continued with our construction ideas using our natural materials. We are hoping for lovely warm weather soon,

Our transition programme continues next week with our PM children who are going to school in August visiting P1R to rake part in some carousel activities. They are looking forward to having this exciting experience. We also have some special visitors on Monday and Tuesday. Watch this space next week for details!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

The Nursery Team.

Nursery News

Another busy and exciting week in Nursery. Our transition programme is well underway with the Talking Books making their way round the children. Our AM children visited Primary 1D in their groups to take part in a Literacy carousel. They all did extremely well and looked so grown up. A big thank you to Miss Diamond and her super class. Our PM children will have their visits in the week beginning 9th May. All details of our transition programme are contained in the transition booklet which was given out last week. If you have any questions on any of the activities please ask any member of the Nursery team.

In our consultative planning with the children the topic of Fairy Tales came out as the firm favourite. Our AM children chose The Gingerbread Man as their first story. This week they have listened to the story, drawn pictures of the gingerbread man, made headbands with their favourite character from the story on them. They also got the opportunity to smell real ginger and even made some gingerbread men biscuits which they then decorated and ate! They were yummy.

Our PM children chose Hansel and Gretel as their favourite story. They also listened to the story, made the cottage covered in sweets and managed to decorate it without eating the sweets! They also made puppets of the characters in the story and they plan to use these next week to retell the story in our puppet theatre. We can’t wait to see that! They also listened to a song about the story and sang along to it.

Just a little reminder that Nursery is on holiday on Monday and Tuesday. We look forward to welcoming all the children back on Wednesday.

Have a lovely holiday weekend. Hope the weather improves!

The Nursery Team.

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This week we were loving the beautiful sunshine and enjoyed lots of outdoor play and learning. The children planted seeds and potatoes that we will be watching closely over the coming weeks and months. We also used recycled materials to make wind socks that show us the direction the wind is blowing.

Following on from our Nursery Rhyme themed week, we have started to look at Fairytales. This week the children have enjoyed role playing with our puppets and props for the three little pigs. What Fairytales do you read at home? If your child has any Fairytale stories that they would like to share with us at story time please send them in. We always love to hear the children’s favourite stories.

We also had time this week for Nursery Natter. Thank you to all the parents who came along to have a learning conversation with their child, we hope you enjoyed finding out what your child has been learning. Please remember that you are free to look at your child’s learners journey at any time.

Our PM Nursery class hosted the bake sale on Thursday afternoon and our final takings were £45.00! Thank you to everyone who baked, donated or bought cakes. We really appreciate your support. We will consult the children to get ideas about what we might buy with the money. We will let you know once we have reached our decision!

Please check our Nursery Parents Facebook Page for lots more photographs from this week.

Have a lovely weekend,

The Nursery Team 😄