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We have been very busy bees recently. Many of the children have been very interested in all the bugs and insects found all around the setting. Exploring this interest we carried out a mini bug survey where the children hunted for specific bugs and ticked them off on the chart demonstrating excellent team work andContinue reading “What’s been happening in Nursery recently?”

Today our older children joined the Primary 6 children in school for their weekly buddy session. The P6’s had prepared a super activity for the children to help them to practice their numbers to 5. Super job everyone and thank you to the big buddies for all the hard work they put in to preparingContinue reading “Developing number skills with our P6 buddies”

The nursery children enjoyed a visit from our Primary 6 pupils this week. This is the beginning of an exciting part of our transition programme for children moving up to Primary 1. Over the coming weeks children will be matched with a P6 buddy who will then go on to support them as they moveContinue reading “Primary 6 Buddies!”

As adults and parents sometimes we see mud and we think of the load of washing we are going to have to do, we think of the dirt under our children’s fingernails and that extra bath that might be needed. We look at the muddy hill in nursery and think it looks awful. As earlyContinue reading “Mud, mud, glorious mud!”

Lots of children have been busy planting sunflower seeds recently. We are hoping for some good weather soon so we can begin to bring the nursery garden back to life. If you have any gardening skills you would like to share, please come and speak to one of the team – this is a bigContinue reading “Signs of Spring in Nursery”

In our nursery lots of our planning stems from the children’s interests. Staff then work hard to create and provide fantastic learning experiences around a huge range of topics. At the moment, a large group of our children are learning about people who help us. Today we had an exciting visit from the police. WhenContinue reading “People who help us”

Today in Nursery we had an excellent time developing logical thinking, creativity, concentration, patience and perseverance as we counted, measured, compared and built with kapla. Marvellous mathematicians and engineers in the making!

Today a small group of children were working with Mrs MacFarlane to practice identifying number digits, counting using 1:1 correspondence and ordering numbers. What a brilliant bunch!