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Nursery News

We are fast approaching the end of May !!! and what a week we’ve had!

Pond visits, Library visits and Parent consultations all go go go.

Monday was a holiday and we landed straight into Tuesday with a visit to the Lanthorn Library. The children sit and listen to a book then have the opportunity to choose a book of their own to have a look at. Children are then invited to share their learning and stand up in front of the group to talk about what they have read. On the way home from the pond we popped over to check on our baby Cygnets. They were in the water already!!

Our teaching student Miss Young joined us this morning for a two week placement, I’m sure she will love her St Ninian’s Nursery experience as much as we do.

On Wednesday we had another visit to the Swans, but this time we took them some sweet corn. We had to be very quiet and very respectful as the Swans were very anxious with us beside the Cygnets.

Parent Consultations were very well attended and a great success. Thank you all so much for your continued support and kindness over the last session.

Thursday is P.E day with Mr McCurdy, today we were practicing throwing a bean bag and the correct stance needed to throw them a long way.

Friday gave us the chance to watch the mini glee club perform their latest songs. We all had great fun listening and watching the children sing so beautifully!!

Have a great weekend everyone lots of smiles and laughter from the Nursery Team xxx

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – TRANSITION TO P1, THE CHILDREN WILL BE OUT FOR PLAYTIME TODAY CAN YOU PLEASE PROVIDE A SMALL HANDHELD SNACK.

TUESDAY –

WEDNESDAY – WELLY WEDNESDAY

TRANSITION CHILDREN WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A FOOTBALL SESSION WITH THEIR BUDDY TODAY.

THURSDAY – P.E

FRIDAY – ASSEMBLY PEEPs

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What a wonderful week we have had in the nursery this week. The weather has been fantastic and has given us all great fun experiences in our garden and out to the trim trail.

Come back and play has been a great success thanks to all of the parents and carers who found the time to come along and share our learning in the nursery.

Our area manager Miss McClory was around this week and will be next week too. She is loving her time in our nursery and loves welly Wednesday!!

The children moving on to P1 had transition on Monday. The groups visited both classrooms and were given the experience of literacy and numeracy activities with Miss Boyes and Mrs Davenport.

We celebrated Sophia’s 4th birthday on Monday too.

Welly Wednesday was a bit different this week we had a play on our Trim trail track at the front of the school. We then had a picnic snack in the sunshine. Please remember to apply sunscreen at this time of the year and a hat to keep them safe.

The Swans have had Babies!! We had a walk along on Friday to see how many and give them some of our left over snack. We had a look on our smart board to find out what Cygnets like to eat. We found out they like to have sweetcorn. The children will visit the local shop next week to buy some to take with us on Welly Wednesday. The female Swan is called a ‘pen’ and the male is a ‘cob’ and they eat sweetcorn 🙂

Have a fantastic fun filled weekend!! Remember Monday is a Holiday and we will see you all back here on Tuesday xx

NEXT WEEK IN NURSERY

MONDAY – HOLIDAY

TUESDAY – 9.30 and 1.30 LIBRARY VISIT, Please dress for the weather.

WEDNESDAY – WELLY WEDNESDAY, A BIT EARLIER THIS WEEK 8.30AM AND 12.15 PM. Transition 10am and 2.15pm. PARENTS EVENING -5-8PM PLEASE contact the office if you have any issues signing up for an appointment.

THURSDAY – P.E with Mr McCurdy. PARENTS CONSULTATIONS 3.15 – 5.15.

FRIDAY – PEEPs

Nursery News

What a pleasure it is to work in this Nursery and provide such a warm educational environment for your children. This week has welcomed children to our setting and children back from holiday. ALL of them have settled back so comfortably and have been engaged in quality learning experiences.

MONDAY – saw three children join us in the nursery, the children were so welcoming and responsible as they helped these children to fit in with the Nursery routines.

TUESDAY – Education Scotland paid a visit to our school and Nursery today to ask staff, children and parents about our wonderful Head Teacher and the impact she has made to St Ninian’s Primary School. The children had an extra P.E session this week with the P.E students. They were amazing and provided a great athletics session up on the field.

WEDNESDAY – Welly Wednesday gave the children the opportunity to see the Swan on her nest. Lots of discussion followed about Cygnets and how many babies she will have. We will revisit her each week to see!! Some of the ducks were following us on the path, I think they though of bag of sticks was a bag of bread. This gave the children to see the birds up close and identify the colours and differences in the feather patterns.

THURSDAY – Following on from yesterday’s experiences with the ducks some children were engaged in hand painting Swans. We decided to look in our birds book to find out what the ducks were called. They are Mallard ducks. The female has the brown feathers and the male has green feathers on his head. P.E with Mr McCurdy involved the High Jump. Children were encouraged to run along the benches and jump over the elasticated rope. A great Athletic experience thank you Mr McCurdy.

FRIDAY – lots of outdoor play and investigation outside today as the children helped to look after our resources. The quality of play is amazing as the children risk assess and use open ended resources to build frames and constructions.

Have a lovely long weekend everyone!!! Love from the Staff Team x

Nursery returns on Wednesday 8th of May

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WEDNESDAY – WELLY WEDNESDAY Waterproof clothing suitable for the weather thanks!!

THURSDAY – P.E with Mr McCurdy.

FRIDAY – PEEPs

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WELCOME BACK \o/

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter break and are all ready for the last term!!

We started the week on Tuesday welcoming everyone back and finding out what we did over the holidays.

Welly Wednesday was much warmer than our last one in the snow. We were joined by primary 1 in the woods to look for Goldilocks and the 3 bears. The nursery children took responsibility to look after the P1 children by telling them the boundaries we have in the woods. We had to find the 3 bears that were hidden in the woods. The children had great fun running around using their senses to find the bears. Children made their way back to the nursery garden and had pom bear snack to finish the session.

Thursdays P.E lesson was outdoors up on the field. The children were given the opportunity to take part in Athletics, a relay race and laps of the track.

Friday came so quickly, we went to the Assembly and found out about being resilient and how important it is to be a good friend and “a back up” for others in the nursery and the school.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!

NEXT WEEK IN NURSERY

MONDAY – 3 new children will be joining our nursery. We would like to welcome Francis, Logan and Katy to our family x

TUESDAY – TRANSITION AM red and blue to P 1D for SWAY green P1B/ PM red and blue P1B SWAY green P1D.

WEDNESDAY – WELLY WEDNESDAY please ensure your child is appropriately dressed for the weather. P1 Information evening 6pm.

THURSDAY – P.E.

FRIDAY – Assembly 10am

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What a final week to this term !!

Monday was fun filled and children were (amongst lots of other experiences) practicing their fine motor skills. Little fingers had to manipulate keys and padlocks to find which key opened which lock.

Tuesday was our Special person and Grandparents Day. The children loved singing to the audience and sharing learning experiences around the nursery.

We also said farewell to Mrs MacDonald today. We will all miss her in the nursery, but wish her all the best in her new adventures xx

Wednesday was Welly Wednesday, not only did we have snow, but an Easter egg hunt too!!

Thursday is P.E day and today we had a lesson with Miss Ford as Mr McCurdy looks after his new baby at home. I the morning we played duck duck goose and in the afternoon we sat in the nursery and practiced some stretching to the hungry caterpillar story.

and then it was Friday !!!

Block play, magnetic shapes, Easter collages and crackers for snack all finished off with a run around in the garden 🙂

HAVE A LOVELY EASTER BREAK WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND DEDICATION THIS TERM.

LOTS OF LOVE FROM THE NURSERY TEAM XX

SEE YOU ALL TUESDAY 23rd OF APRIL !! X

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WHAT A WEEK!!!

This week was so fun filled and eventful from Monday all the way through to Friday 🙂

Monday gave us two birthdays, Chloe and Harvey from the morning group both turning 4.

Tuesday was our achievement assembly in school. Two children from the nursery given accolade from the whole school during this. Kian for now being able to ride his bike, well done Kian!! and Sophia M who achieved a new belt in tiger cubs, Well done Sophia!!

Wednesday was our trip to the five sisters zoo. All the children were so well behaved and had such a fun time looking at the animals and handling some of them too!! After lunch all the children had the chance to burn off some steam in the soft play area and then it was time to get on the bus for home. What a fantastic place to visit and I hope your child has shared some of their experiences from the day.

Thursday gave the children the chance to make invitations for our Grandparents celebration next week and the pm children made a very special gift for their Mummies for Mothers Day on Sunday.

Friday was fun packed and flew past quickly with the am children making their gifts and getting the chance to play outdoors to end the week.

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – New children enrolling 3pm.

TUESDAY – GRANDPARENTS DAY 10am and 2pm. Grandparents or a special person are invited to the nursery to have a visit and a cuppa.

WEDNESDAY – EASTER EGG HUNT FOR WELLY WEDNESDAY, The children will be joined at the woods for an Easter egg hunt. P1B am and P1D pm.

THURSDAY –

FRIDAY – LAST DAY OF TERM….. ALL RESUME 23/4/19

Have a lovely weekend with your families and friends. Happy Mothers Day on Sunday!!

from all the staff team xx

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The new furniture and resources have been well received by the children in the nursery. The atmosphere is very calm and the children are embracing the new learning experiences and life skills available to them. Children are now responsible for their own snack and wash their own dishes when they are finished snack. This promotes independence and confident individuals.

Transition this week gave each child making the move to school the experience of playing in the P1 classrooms. The children interacted with the P1 children and were all very comfortable in their new surroundings.

Welly Wednesday was fun this week, we were litter picking and taking care of our local environment. We also had the chance to look for signs of Spring in out local woods. We found Daffodils growing and a bumble bee!

Natural resources and independence of thinking is preparing our children to be responsible citizens of the future and successful learners at school.

Have a lovely weekend everybody!!!

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MONDAY –

TUESDAY – ACHIEVEMENT ASSEMBLY, If your child has achieved any awards or certificates please bring them in so we can celebrate their success with the whole school.

WEDNESDAY – FIVE SISTERS ZOO TRIP!! ALL CHILDREN (AM AND PM) ARE ALL GOING TOGETHER. PLEASE COME TO NURSERY FOR 9AM WITH A PACKED LUNCH, CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND CLOTHING SUITABLE FOR THE WEATHER.

PACKED LUNCH SUGGESTIONS

SANDWICH
FRUIT
DRINK
SNACK

ALL CHILDREN (AM AND PM) SHOULD BE COLLECTED AT 2pm from the nursery.

THURSDAY –

FRIDAY – PEEPs

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This week in nursery we have met our buddies, gone on a bug hunt and looked for signs of Spring. Thursday was windy ! The weather is certainly colder! The children have been using our outdoor literacy to decide what the weather is like in the garden.

Amelie was so excited to meet her buddy on Monday and show her around the nursery.

Sophie celebrated her birthday on Monday, Mrs Mushet was happy!!

On Tuesday we visited the library and brought back a book about a scared spider.

This gave us an idea to look for bugs on our welly walk this week.

We found spiders, slugs and a centipede. There were signs of Spring in woods, we saw flowers beginning to grow and will check next week to see if they have flowered.

The afternoon children decided to make signs on the path “so we know which way to come back” They used chalk to draw signs on the path and then discovered that they could make patterns in the mud with their wellies too.

We celebrated Mahnoor’s birthday on Thursday in the nursery.

and Friday?? fun fun fun and PEEPs to end off the week xx

Have a lovely weekend everybody. Snow is forecast so wrap up warm !!

From the nursery team xx

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – RED GROUP TOP1 FOR TRANSITION.

TUESDAY- BLUE GROUP TO P1 FOR TRANSISTION

WEDNESDAY- WELLY WEDNESDAY, please come dressed in waterproof clothing

THURSDAY- GREEN GROUP TO P1 FOR TRANSITION

FRIDAY-PEEP SESSION 5

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A fun packed week this week in the nursery. Children were busy busy all week. We have new dishes in the snack area, the children now have china cups and plates to have their food on each day. Any donations of small side plates and little cups would be great receives as we move away from plastic to a more Froebelian approach to nursery.

Transition started this week, all of the children moving on to P1 this August had the chance to visit the P1 classrooms and see where they hang their coats etc. Everyone was so excited and happy to have a look around. For world book day the children from each session visited for a story.

We celebrated pancake day on Tuesday, children had pancakes for snack and had the opportunity to toss the pancake at the end of the sessions.

On Wednesday the weather was vert wet and the children remembered the word boost word soggy as we splashed through the puddles and played Pooh Sticks at the Lanthorn bridge. Primary 3 visited us on Wednesday to share their fabulous bedtime stories with us and Thursday and Friday was World Book Day for our children we were all in our pyjamas and went to visit primary one to share a story they had bought from Waterstones the book shop.

fantastic learning experiences!!

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – MEET THE BUDDIES

TUESDAY- LIBRARY VISIT, DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR THE WEATHER

WEDNESDAY- WELLY WEDNESDAY, WATERPROOF CLOTHING PLEASE

THURSDAY –

FRIDAY- PEEP SESSION 4

Have a wonderful weekend !! from the nursery team xx

Nursery News

What a busy week for St Ninian’s nursery!

Our boys and girls are really embracing our new word boost words and trying hard to understand them. There have been lots of lovely thoughts and ideas of what words mean and how they sound, this is growing week by week! The word boost words for this week were;

CREAK

DISCOVER

GIGGLE

SHIVER

Please support your child’s learning at home by using these words regularly and encouraging them to be adventurous with their vocabulary 🙂

Moving on from the word boost work this week – the children showed interest in making words and letters out of wool. Some children even moved on to using the sounds they know to spell out the word ‘LUV’ – fantastic ways to experience and experiment with early phonics!

Our welly wednesday was a focus on finding signs of spring on the back of the very UN-Scottish weather we have experienced this week (which has been a welcomed delight!). We found lots of green shoots and some pockets of colour that made us very happy! We also had a chat about picking flowers after seeing some had been picked and left lying.. we decided to rescue them and bring them back to nursery to put them in water! We seen a duck wandering through the trees which sparked lots of questions; what is it doing? Where is it going? More than all of this – we continue to learn to be responsible in our local environment on Welly Wednesday – taking opportunities to keep ourselves and others safe.

On Thursday we had a great time working with P5 in gym where we were learning to make baskets with our hands to catch a various assortment of items. We love working with P5 and learned a new term ‘underarm throw’, when we threw things back to our friends in P5.

Friday always comes around too quickly – but we went to the hall and had fun being dingle dangle scarecrows, using our bodies in different ways to flip, flop and wobble.

PEEP class this involved meeting our new puppet – an old lady (not Mrs Beattie…) who was telling us all about her eating habits! Swallowing spiders, flies… sounds yummy, no? We learned a Spring song and banged a big drum in time to share with everyone how special we are and our own name. We love PEEP – Bang, Bang, Bang!

Have a lovely weekend!