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Nursery – Diwali

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In nursery we have been learning about the festival of Diwali. We started by watching a power point presentation on our smartboard. The children asked to create a restaurant in our house corner. We looked at pictures using pinterest and decided to make an Indian restaurant following the theme of Diwali. The children selected their own pictures to use in our role play area. To extend their play adults provided rice to use in role play cooking. The children chose the colour they wanted to make the rice and had lots of fun squashing the rice and paint together in a food bag. The children have enjoyed using the rice in their role play cooking. (so has the floor)

We listened to the short story of Diwali and the children noticed the funny patterns (Rangoli pattern) during the story and wanted to make their own patterns. This was carried out in a variety of different ways including painting, smartboard and drawing.

The children have enjoyed the experience of learning about Diwali.

 

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P 3/4

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We have been busy in Primary 3/4.

Maris: “Making our Monster Listening Posters”

 

Adam: “We learnt to listen like monsters using our mouths to listen, you be quiet and don’t say any weird noises.”

Oliver: “You can listen with your brain by thinking about what the person is saying.”

Leivi: “They listen with their hands by putting them on their lap and not fiddling with anything.”

Ciara: “They listen with their feet by crossing their legs and keeping their feet in”

Leah: “They listen with their eyes by looking at the person who is talking.”

Brodie: “Their heart, they care about what people are saying.”

Connor: “They face their body to the person who is talking.”

 

Brodie: “We have started using Sway to let parents no what we have been learning.”

 

Maris: ” We have been learning about not bullying other people and we went in pairs to create an anti-bullying poster and then coloured it in it to display in Westfield.”

Oliver: ” We have been learning about hygiene and germs.”

Maris: “To show we know what germs are we designed a germ each and we had to give the germ a name, where it lived, how it spreads, its symptoms and the treatment.”

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P3/4 Superheroes

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P3/4 have really busy since we have come back! We have been thinking about the qualities of superheroes and how we can be super classmates.

Leivi – We have been writing postcards.

Findlay – In Numeracy we have been practicing switchers and creating fact families.

Josh – We used ICT to create our own superheroes and made these into tray labels.

Maris – We were imagining we were superheroes and writing poems about ourselves using similies.

Callum – We were discussing what our “future self” might do as a job and recording this using Skitch or Comic Life.

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First week back!!!

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In our first week back on Tuesday we made some symmetrical drawings of ourselves. It was very hard, we had to be unique and use our shading skills to help. We also did a getting to know you, where we wrote down on paper, clues about ourselves to see if the class could find out who we were.

On Wednesday Mr Muller came to teach for the day and we were set a challenge. We were to build the tallest tower out of uncooked spaghetti and dry bread, some met the challenge successfully and some were not as successful but tried their best.

When it came to Thursday, in the afternoon, we started to think about what articles we could use for our class charter. We also thought about what our table names could be.

On the last day of our first week, which was Friday, we started deciding what our class charter could look like. Each table decided on four designs for our class charter which we will vote on, on Monday.

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Community Links

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On Thursday the nursery enjoyed a visit from two of the residents at Blackfaulds House Nursing Home, and their carer.

There is growing research on the benefits, to both young and old, of such generational integration.  The children and visitors enjoyed playing and listening to stories together. We are planning on Thursday visits, from Blackfaulds House, becoming a regular occurance.

 

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Nursery Vision

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Our Vision:

“Westfield a Place to Smile”

Our vision puts enjoyment and happiness at the heart of all we do, as we believe, in order to thrive and excel, children need to be happy.

To ensure our vision accurately reflects Westfield Nursery, we are consulting all stakeholders; gathering their ideas, views and opinions.

The children have been consulted and their thoughts are now on display, in our cloakroom, for you to view.

This consultation has shown us the children value:

  • The opportunity to make friends at nursery
  • The opportunity to play
  • Having choice in their play
  • Learning to be independent and responsible, by preparing snack for themselves and others

 

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Children in Need

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The children in the nursery baked cakes to raise money for Children in Need. They mixed sugar, butter, eggs and flour together, then they spooned them into small cake cases before cooking the cakes.

 

Next, after the cakes had cooled a mum came in to nursery to help the children decorated their cakes with icing sugar and Pudsey Bear designs.

 

Lastly on Friday morning the children sold the cakes to raise money for Children in Need.

 

The Nursery raised £42.20 by making and selling Pudsey cakes, well done everyone!

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Nursery News

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Another busy week in the nursery started with the children collecting sticks to make a ‘campfire’. Songs and stories were shared around the ‘campfire’ and fire safety discussed.

Later in the week the learning about fire safety was extended through some messy play set up by Miss Hirst, our visiting student Teacher. The children really enjoyed ‘putting out’ the fire (red paint added to shaving foam) while discussing and learning more about fire safety.

 

Every week the children are learning all about food and food hygiene through helping prepare snack. The nursery staff are keen for the children to experience a big variety of food. Last week the children helped make macaroni cheese.  They examined the uncook pasta and described how to cook it.  They looked at the difference between cooked and uncooked macaroni and they added the cheese to the cooked macaroni.

This week the children enjoyed making and tasting apple pie.

The children have also been developing their pen control and artistic skills through creating self portraits. We think the look great. Please check them out in the gallery below.