P2/3 Weekly Update

This week the children in P 2/3 want to share their highlights of their learning adventure.

Wiktoria” I liked playing football in P.E.”

Mark D ” I liked doing handwriting this week”

Poppy ” I liked doing my bidding prayer at our Class Mass.”

Blake ” I liked doing multiplication in maths.”

Abigail” My favourite this week was P.E. and maths.”

Rafay ” Playing with my friends at break was my favourite.”

Abu Bakr ” This week I liked doing maths and spelling.”

Paul ” I loved Free Writing Friday.”

Isla ” Learning my times tables was my favourite.”

Casper ” Free Writing Friday and using the magnets at Smart Start was brilliant.”

Bernice ” I liked everything this week.”

Mark K ” I love FUN 31″

Abby ” Going out in the garden to learn about plants as this is our new topic.”

Aiden ” I liked Mighty Writer at Smart Start as I wrote a fabulous story with Bernice.”

Joshua ” I liked construction and magnets at Smart Start.”

Freda ” I liked P.E. and Free Writing Friday.”

Daniel ” My favourite was P.E. and FUN 31.”

Rutendo ” My favourite was P.E. and R.E. this week.”

Oliver ” I liked learning about all the parts of a plant.”

Lloyd ” I like going to the park after our Class Mass.”

Mirren ” I liked every single thing this week.”

Marcel ” My favourite was learning about multiplication and doing the Daily Mile.”

Nathan ” I loved the magnets.”

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan were very proud of the class at their Class Mass on Tuesday. They behaved so well and sang beautifully.

Have a lovely weekend.

NURSERY NEWS

Friday again!! where do the weeks go when you’re having fun? Busy busy again this week, in with the new and out with the old as we took delivery of new furniture. The children had great fun playing in the boxes !! Welly Wednesday was wonderful as we looked around the environment for different things. We saw snow drops, crocus and a birds nest. In the afternoon we counted the ducks and climbed a fallen tree. All experiences to promote curiosity, investigation and life skills. 3 birthdays were celebrated this week, the children get to make their own cake and celebrate with their friends as we sing Happy Birthday to them. Friday has been so mild!! a little taste of Spring in the air, we were out in our garden and had story in the shed to finish off the week.

NEXT WEEK 

MONDAY –

TUESDAY – Mrs Docherty will be in the nursery to speak to parents at 10.45 and 12.00 about Sleep and the benefits of a good bedtime routine.

WEDNESDAY – WELLY WEDNESDAY, PLEASE REMEMBER WATERPROOF CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR.

 

 

Have a fantastic weekend everybody!! from the nursery team xx

 

NURSERY NEWS

What a wonderful family wellbeing week we had as our Parents came back to play and find out more about their childs experiences in nursery. For this come back and play experience we wanted to include our values. Each day the children explored what each value meant as we discussed these in a child friendly way with parents too.

Monday was LOVE, where children painted their hands and we discussed “who they love”. Some parents got in on the action too!!

Tuesday was KINDNESS day, Children were asked “what is kindness?” their voice were recorded and are on display on our values wall.

Wednesday was FRIENDSHIP where we promoted the importance of friendship and looking after each other on our Welly Wednesday Walk, and discussed who were our friends in nursery.

          

Thursday was HAPPINESS day, the children were to think of what made them happy and to think about feelings. Some children painted pictures of themselves “happy” and these are now in pride of place on our Values display in nursery.

There was no PEEP class on Friday, but this will be back this week coming on Friday 22/2/19.

 

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – HOLIDAY

TUESDAY- IN SERVICE DAY

WEDNESDAY – ALL RESUME, WELLY WEDNESDAY PLEASE REMEMBER WATERPROOF COATS AND FOOTWEAR

THURSDAY –

FRIDAY – ASSEMBLY AND PEEP STARTS BACK \0/

Our P1 transition programme is beginning this month with a visit to the P1 class for World Book Day, the 28th and 29th of February. This will involve all the children listening to a story read by the P1 teacher to the children. A transition booklet and letter is to follow with all the details and dates you will need for your diary.

Hope you have all had a lovely holiday weekend!!

from the Nursery Team x

NURSERY NEWS

This week gave the children opportunities to discover different celebrations of the world. This week it was Chinese new Year. We watched a movie on the smart board that gave us lots of information about it and let us see what they do in Celebration. This gave us lots of ideas to get creative in our nursery and to extend our learning further. On a map in an Atlas we discovered it was only 44 steps to China!.

We could see that Chinese writing was straight lines, Regan copied this onto paper using straws.

The children made a Dragon for Chinese New Year, the AM children made one large Dragon and the PM children made individual Dragons. The AM Dragon was paraded around  to ward of bad luck and bring good luck.

               

Tuesday was also Safer Internet Day and we had a discussion with the children about being safe in our choices when we are online.

Wednesday  brought back our Welly Wednesday Adventures!!!! the children had great fun trying to scale the bendy tree and remembered how to keep themselves safe on the walk. We stopped to talk about the ice that had formed on the pond and how to keep ourselves safe beside the water. In the afternoon the rain didn’t put us off our walk, but it did give us the most colourful rainbow for us to admire and see it’s reflection in the water.

     

Thursday gave us P.E with Mr McCurdy on the large apparatus as we strengthened our core strength and balance skills.

The week was finished off with a taste of the show the p.3-5 children are performing next week as we listened to them singing on the stage.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!!! from the Nursery Team

NEXT WEEK

Next week in nursery we are celebrating the nursery values and relationships we have with our families through come back and play sessions and activities planned around our four core values; LOVE, HAPPINESS,FRIENDSHIP AND KINDNESS. Their are still spaces available if you haven’t signed up for this valuable insight into your child’s day at nursery.

MONDAY COME BACK AND PLAY              10.15am      12.00pm, focus on LOVE.

TUESDAY COME BACK AND PLAY             10.15am      12.00pm, focus on  KINDNESS.       MARVELOUS MATHS and BIG BEDTIME READ BAGS SWAP.

WEDNESDAY COME BACK AND PLAY    10.15am       12.00pm, focus on FRIENDSHIP.       WELLY WEDNESDAY  REMEMBER WATERPROOFS!!

THURSDAY  COME BACK AND PLAY       10.15 am      12.00pm focus on HAPPINESS.           P.E

FRIDAY  NO PEEP TODAY

THIS IS OUR February holiday weekend we will see you all back on Wednesday 20th of February.

 

P2/3 Weekly Update on our Learning Adventure.

Another busy week in P2/3.

In our outdoor learning we were nature detectives and used magnifying glasses to look at a variety of things in the school garden. We had to work in teams and draw the object as it looked with our eyes and then draw it after using the magnifying glasses. It was amazing what we found and as it was frosty it was even more exciting.

     

In Literacy this week we read Hiccup The Viking which was our Word Boost book. We had to listen out for the following words ocean, spine, shriek, ancient, immediately and peculiar and remember if they were nouns, verbs or adjectives. In our reading we worked on our higher order thinking skills of Remembering where we had to write down the setting of our story, the main characters and what happened at the beginning of the story. We also worked on Understanding using our word boost knowledge of adjectives we had to write three adjectives to describe the main character, think of the main idea of our story and describe why the title was appropriate to our reading book.

We continued to work on our addition and counting in Numeracy and are becoming super at our number talks.

Here is a link to a game we used to help us with our addition.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/addition

In our number talks we sometimes use ten frames and we can come up with lots of strategies of what do we see and how do we see it. Here is one you can try at home and you can post your strategies too!

In P.E. we are working on a fitness block and this week we became teachers and worked alongside P1D in a fitness circuit. We followed our school rules of READY, RESPECTFUL AND SAFE. We really enjoyed working with them and want to say a big thank you to Mrs Davenport for inviting us to join in.

   

In Digital learning this week some of us have logged onto Glow and we will continue with this next week. This will also be part of our Homework for next week and we are excited to be digital learners.

We have also been working very hard  during our Smart start in the mornings with lots of focus and great collaborative learning.

    

  

Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan.

Nursery news

What a wonderful outdoor week we’ve had!!

Children are encouraged to build their own play equipment using open ended resources. This develops not only their gross motor skills, but their imagination and personal risk assessment. The area changes constantly from bridges to railways, robots to boats. Such great fun and friendship building through play x

Have a great October break !!

From the nursery team x

Nursery News

What a busy week!!

This month we have been learning about keeping our self ‘safe’,  children take our register to the office each day. They wear high vis vests and keep themselves safe on the journey through the school.

We all wrote invitations this week for our McMilllan coffee morning next Thursday 27th of September. It is in the morning at 10.30 and the afternoon at 3.15. Donations of baking would be most welcome. A monetary donation box will be in the hall on the day for McMillan. Please come along and support such a great cause with a cup of coffee and a cake with your child.

Over the weeks the children have embraced the open ended resources. They take items and make their own toys or experiences in learning from them for example, in the picture you can see children working together to build a tower with the crates. They used their problem solving skills to try to figure out how to reach the top. Working together they were able to risk assess for themselves and reach their end goal.

Apples from a tree were brought in from a garden. We had a great learning experience investigating where these came from and what was inside. Children want to plant the seeds to see if we can grow ‘ a new apple tree’.

NEXT WEEK IN NURSERY

MONDAY– GROUP PHOTOS AM and PM

TUESDAY– LIBRARY VISIT 9.30 am and 1.30pm.

WEDNESDAY– EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES.

THURSDAY– McMILLAN COFFEE MORNING 10.30 am and 3.15 pm.

FRIDAY – PHEW  🙂

HAVE A FABBY FUN FILLED WEEKEND LOTS OF LOVE FROM THE NURSERY TEAM !!!!

Nursery News

In St Ninians Nursery Class our vision statement is;

‘Where Adventure Nurture and Learning go hand in hand’

This week in nursery we have witnessed beautiful evidence of this through children at play. We are embracing loose parts and open ended resources in the nursery, children are using their imagination to use these resources to create their own learning environment. In the garden they built their own climbing frame and a road from crates and wooden blocks as they went on different adventures. The children are learning the routines of the nursery as they go about their day, staff ensure they feel comfortable and foster a nurturing relationship with each individual child to enable each child to feel secure and free to investigate. The children made their own paint this week and have been preparing their own snack each day. The PM children had ‘Teal’ paint made by Kian and you can see what a social time snack is in the picture. Every child is an individual and they learn at different paces. In St Ninian’s Nursery, it is in a free flow environment where children are learning as they play.

NEXT WEEK

Monday –

Tuesday –

Wednesday – Ninians Natter 6-7 pm, come and meet the staff.

Thursday –  P.E.

Friday – All break for Holiday, children back Wednesday 18th September.

Have a lovely weekend from the Nursery team!!

Nursery News

St Ninian’s Nursery has been a hive of activity this week!

 

Our boys and girls who are off to school in August have had an exciting week! On Tuesday, there were transition carousels in P1 classes – this gave the boys and girls a feel for how they will learn when they get into P1. The P1 pupils did a great job of modelling, showing them the ropes in the big school! There was much excitement during these activities, which helps to build the transition to P1 into a positive time of change in our children’s lives! We have also had buddy visits this week – this is a highlight for our boys and girls, who regularly ask ‘is my buddy coming down today?!’. It has been lovely to watch the relationships between the children and their buddies blossom over the weeks 🙂 next week, we have PLAYTIME for transition! On Tuesday, the P1 boys and girls (and buddies) will come to the nursery garden for a ‘playtime’. And on Thursday, they will go to the infant playground for a ‘playtime’, again with the P1s and their buddies. Preschool children should bring a small snack on these days to practice eating, playing, chatting all in the one! A drink is not necessary as they will have milk/water available in nursery beforehand, and when they get to school they will be able to have a water bottle in their classroom and milk after playtime.

In addition to all of this, the P1 classes have been finalised and the children now know which teacher they will have in August 🙂 Miss Boyes and Mrs Davenport (who used to be called Miss Meechan!) are very much looking forward to meeting their new pupils and their families.

 

Our interest in the garden has multiplied since the beginning of this beautiful weather spell! We have more than made the most of the lovely sunshine as we have scooted, climbed, ran, rolled and chalked all over the garden! Our welly Wednesday focus this week was chalk drawings.. we love to look at mark making in different ways and chalking was one of the suggested activities for our welly Wednesday sessions! By the end of the day there wasn’t an inch of garden that was untouched by chalk! We look to build mark making skills from basic shapes and lines, to more controlled written numbers, letters and detailed drawings. Which stage is your child at? Have they access to mark making materials at home? Share your views with your child’s key worker to see if, together, we can help them build their skills and confidence in this area 🙂

 

Jelly proved to be a very popular snack this week! The boys and girls loved talking about how it felt, with some of the AM boys and girls keen to play with it! On Friday we had jelly play and a sensory walk in the garden. The language and vocabulary around this play was fascinating – gooey, cold, gloopy, slidy! Great job boys and girls, maybe this type of messy play will make a reappearance sometime soon!

 

Make sure to consult our weekly update for all the details about wellbeing week next week – parent and child bootcamp begins at 8am on Monday morning on the school field. Mrs Conway and Mrs Martinek will be attending with their own children – will you join them? Letters will come home on Monday about our family wellbeing festival on Thursday evening  (6-7.30pm) – it is set to be a highlight of the term with lots of interesting activities planned – make sure to get you choices handed back asap to ensure you get your first choice of workshops!

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Nursery News

A royal wedding to end the week – what more could the princes and princesses of st Ninian’s Nursery want!

We were jam packed and book bug focussed this week as we celebrated the national ‘Book Bug week’ alongside the P1 classes.

The AM group enjoyed a storytelling session with our special guest – Miss Meechan, who shared a story chosen by the P1 pupils. The boys and girls thoroughly enjoyed this and it was another lovely build up to the transition into P1 by sharing a story with the P1 class and their teacher.

The PM group had another special guest in the shape of Mrs Smith, our depute head teacher. They thoroughly enjoyed a twisted fairytale all about Goldilocks eating her greens! The boys and girls who are going to school are becoming more familiar with school staff in their interactions with them across the nursery session, especially when they get a blether in the office with Mrs Findlay and Mrs Vetesse!

Our welly Wednesday was a glorious one this week as we basked in the beautiful sunshine in the garden. We have planted our veg patch which can been seen on the side of the hill which faces into the school car park.. we have so far planted tatties and will add carrots and Brussels sprouts to our list!

We also planted some sunflower seeds and put them in our little green house to flourish before we can transfer them to pots in the garden 🙂

Our book bug activity on welly Wednesday was being joined in the garden by our P6 buddies and parent helpers where we could all share a story in a small group/pair in the garden. The boys and girls loved this reading buddy set up and many lovely stories were shared.

Thursday was national ‘Outdoor Classroom Day’ where many school staff donned their outdoor learning kit of wellies and waterproofs.. not the staff of st Ninian’s Nursery – who got all glammed up to join their very well dressed boys and girls to celebrate the upcoming royal wedding with a garden party! There were sandwiches, croissants and cakes galore as we all enjoyed music, dancing, a fashion parade and the beautiful weather to mark the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan at the weekend.

At the end of book bug week let us remind you about the fabulous initiative that is Book Bug via the Scottish Book Trust;

http://scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug/about

The below Facebook page gives a list of the free book bug sessions available in West Lothian..
https://m.facebook.com/BookbugWestLothian/

Happy weekend!

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