Category Archives: Nursery

Summer Fun

The holidays are here and we are hoping that the lovely weather we have been having recently will continue.

Now lockdown is easing and the restrictions are relaxing, what better way to get back out and about than on your bike!

Here is some cycling information with regards to Covid-19 and some challenges and games that the whole family can enjoy during the summer holidays.

https://bit.ly/2WJMbKC – Cycling Scotland COVID info

Sustrans Outside In Weekly Challenges

https://bit.ly/37Fx3C2 – week 1

https://bit.ly/3e08SQv –  week 2

https://bit.ly/3efKeMx – week 3

https://bit.ly/3ehNVky – week 4

Also next week the British Nutrition Foundation are running a Healthy Eating Week @ Home Challenge.  Resources for this can be found by clicking the following link. https://bit.ly/3eifeLB

Wishing all our families a lovely summer break. We look forward to welcoming you back in August!

Christmas Countdown

“On the third day of Christmas Toronto staff gave to all……

Charleston, break dancing, ballet

EDM and Hip hop

and

10 dancing Christmas elves.”

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We would like to wish all our pupils and families a restful and peaceful Christmas break. Merry Christmas, we look forward to welcoming you back in the new year!

Toronto Nursery Challenges

Hello everyone,  we hope that you’re all lovely and cosy in your homes enjoying watching the snow falling down on us, or maybe you’ve been lucky enough to jump around in the soft fluffy snow making snow angels?  Whatever you’ve been choosing to do today so far we really hope that you’ve had fun!  Now, knowing you all like we do, we thought you might be looking for some more ideas by now so why not have a wee look at the grid and choose a few fun activities to do if you have time?

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*Remember that tomorrow is our Big Bedtime Read launch day (hopefully) so pop your jammies on, and no doubt wellies too, grab your teddy bear and head in for a day full of fun!

See you all soon,  The Nursery Team

Nursery Loose Parts

As some of you may know from following us on Twitter, on Friday we were lucky enough to have been awarded ‘Very Goods’ by the Care Inspectorate who dropped in on us last week for a formal visit.  The role play in our brick area has substantially evolved and after the introduction of reels, bamboo, tyres and material the results were golden! We stood beside the inspector in awe of our talented children and she was blown away. We knew as practitioners to stand back, observe and allow our amazingly creative children to do what they do best…play! Here’s a teeny snippet of a very real day at Toronto! Enjoy 😊

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We were feeling extremely humbled in Nursery today when Alison from the charity Mary’s Meals came in to collect a cheque for an incredible £80.38!

As part of our recent work on citizenship, Nursery staff decided that instead of accepting Christmas gifts from our lovely families, this year that we would ask them to forget the gifts for us and to try to contribute 25p so that we could raise £13.90 to feed a child for a year in a developing country. Mary’s Meals offered to double whatever we Managed to raise. Our amazing Nursery parents loved this idea and blew our target out of the water! We raised £80.38 which, once doubled by Mary’s Meals, will feed 12 children for a whole year! We can’t believe it! We are so grateful to have the most incredible children and families in our Nursery!

Alison, the representative from Mary’s Meals, was overjoyed to be invited in to speak with the children and she said that she had never heard of any other Nursery doing such a lovely charitable act in this way. Stuart from The Courier caught professional snaps and these photos will hopefully be published in The Courier next week or the following week.

For more information about the Mary’s Meals charity, follow this link:
https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/sponsor-a-school

Thank you again to our thoughtful families – we are overjoyed! Remember – no Christmas gifts! #familyengagement #citizenship @marysmeals