The Robert Burns Week W/B 24/01/22

Hey everyone!

Hope you have been having a great last few weeks, here is what we got up to during Robert Burns week. We had so much fun celebrating Robert Burns day, we also have been learning about castles and what we can find in them and what we know about them.

Apologies for the lateness of this post as, myself (Mr McNab) was away gallivanting in Paris on holiday (typical haha) and never had a chance to post the amazing wee we had but its here and ready to go!!

Hope you enjoy what we have been doing – so lets get at it!!

Robert Burns

We had an amazing morning celebrating wee Rabbie Burns birthday, we kicked it of by designing our own tartan with different materials. We asked each other what tartan pattern was our favourite and also where we can find or see tartan. We then stuck on our dancing shoes and tried some highland dancing, now you all know how talented our children are – well they pulled of some amazing dancing. Some of us put on our construction minds to work and built Edinburgh Castle in our construction area and again we all know that we have wee professional builders in Deans Nursery.

After all the Scottish themed activities, we all sat down to have some auld haggis, neeps & tatties and a wee bit of Irn Bru to wash it all down (was referred to by some of the children as spicy juice). To top it of we had some shortbread, I think the staff enjoyed it a wee bit too much..

We hope you all had an amazing and tasty Robert Burns day from us staff and the wee patriots at Deans Nursery.

As we have been professional builders, the children have sparked an interest in castles. From old castles to princess castles we have been learning everything about them. We recently looked into Edinburgh Castle and its history as it was part of our Robert Burns day activities, now we have been looking into other types of castles. The children have been interested in king, queens and princess and the castles they live in. Some children were able to describe some of the features of castles, the children mentioned there is different sizes of castles, they have big doors and can stay far away. I think once we built our own castle, we will have new kings and queens of Deans Nursery, watch this space…

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