Category Archives: ELC 23/24

Hello everyone, we have changed the dates of the safe, strong and free sessions. The new dates will come out shortly to parents once I have received all the new information.

Safe, Strong and Free are coming to Nursery after the Easter holidays, to deliver 3 sessions to our 4 and 5 year olds. The dates and times are stated below on the attached poster along with a QR code that you can scan to find more information on what the sessions cover. A copy ofContinue reading “Safe, Strong & Free”

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!”

Nursery photo’s will be taking place at 12.45pm today. Parents who normally collect their child at 1pm can still do so.

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!

The children were very engaged in developing mark making skills and awareness of print outdoors this week. Lots of the children were able to find some of the letters in their names and some were even making words! Wow what super work everyone 😁