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Upcoming Easter Holidays

May we remind parents that term time children will finish on Friday

29th March & can return on Monday

15th April.

The nursery will be closed on Friday

19th April & Monday 22nd April.

The children have had a fun first half term back after

Christmas. We have enjoyed exploring different materials and textures when

playing with our messy activities. We have enjoyed celebrating burns night, Chinese New Year and Valentines Day. We have

welcomed new children into our classroom who have settled well into our nursery. We

are looking forward to a fun filled next term where we will be dressing up for world

book day and also having an Easter egg

hunt.

Newsletter

As always time is flying by and this half term has been no exception! Our children have soon settled

back into nursery life extremely well after a short break over the

festive period.

Over recent weeks we have welcomed lots of new faces to our

setting and we are pleased to report that they have all settled in

really well. We love having new friends to play with and the

children clearly enjoy their time here which is wonderful to see.

We would like to thank any parent or relative who was able to attend our Valentine’s Stay & Play session.

We really do enjoy having the opportunity for our relatives to spend a little more time in our

nursery environment and our next Stay & Play session will be on

Thursday 7th March where parents & relatives once again will be invit-ed in to read some stories with the children to celebrate World Book

Day,

Friday 1st March -St David’s Day.

The children will take part in a range of arts & crafts relating to St David, the patron saint of Wales.

Thursday 7st March– World Book Day.

Children are invited to join us in celebrating World

Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book

character. Parents are also invited in to read stories

with the children.

Monday 11th March —Friday 15th March Red Nose Day celebrations.

Over this week the children will be taking part in various

fundraising activities to raise as much money as

possible. More information about this event will follow.

Monday 18th March – St Patricks day

The children will take part in a range of arts & crafts relating to St Patrick, the

patron saint of Ireland.

Friday 22nd March Prep 1 Junior cinema night.

Prep 1 junior are invited to join us for another fun-

filled Cinema Night, More information will follow.

Friday 29th March – Prep 1 Junior trip to Blue

Planet Aquarium.

This term’s trip will be to Blue Planet Aquarium

Additional details can be found on a separate letter.

Monday 1st April Mother’s day Stay & Play.

Mothers, aunties, grand-mothers join us for a

special stay & play session to celebrate Mother’s day between 9-10am & 2.30-

3.30pm.

Thursday 18th April – Easter egg hunt.

We will be celebrating Easter in style with a

wonderful Easter Egg Hunt around the garden– we are sure the children will love this along with the Easter

crafts we have planned

Tuesday 23rd April– St Georges Day.

The children will take part in a range of arts & crafts relating to St George the patron saint of England.

This upcoming half term is going to be a busy one as we have lots of other

themed activities and events for the children to take part in. Take a look at

the ‘Dates for Diary’ section on the left of the newsletter and encourage your child/ren to join in as much as

possible.

We are pleased to announce that we had our annual Environmental Health

inspection and we received the highest grading of a 5!

A big congratulations to Grace on the birth of her little girl Aurora, mother and baby are doing well. Good luck to Beth who is starting her Maternity

leave next week!

They only thing left for me to say is goodbye and good luck to some of our children in Prep 1 as they move up to the our prep school after the half

term, we are going to miss each and everyone of you, you are all very

special to us! Keep being yourself and continue to make us all proud.

Miss Wakefield

Valentine’s Stay & Play

Pre-Prep

Butterflies Butterflies have loved

exploring different activities,

such as gloop, paints, glue,

foam etc. The children have

loved playing out in the garden

mainly in the rain and snow in

their waterproof suits and

wellies splashing in the

puddles, the children loved

adding paint to the puddles to

see the different colours and

the marks they made. The chil-

dren have been practicing their

physical skills playing on the

climbing frame and are getting

much more confident walking

the steps not even holding

onto the hand rail which is

fantastic. Story and rhyme

time is always very popular

with the children and more of

the children are now joining

in with the actions and words

to the rhymes. As you all may

know 'Dear Zoo' is the book

the children all love and the

children would sit and read it

for hours if we let them. Our

French lesson is very popular

and the children join in and

have so much fun, as soon as

they see the teacher walk into

the room they go and sit in

their spaces on the floor. We

are all so proud of how the

children are developing in

butterflies and I am sure you as

parents are too.

our own Scottish flags and made some shortbread biscuits. We also

celebrated Chinese New year where the children got to taste

some different Chinese food, play in some sensory noodles and rice play with chopsticks in the tuft

tray and also made some Chinese lanterns. We have been working very hard on our Valentine's day crafts for our families and loved

playing with them at the Valentine's day stay and play! We have also been working hard on

our number, letter and shape recognition

and our writing!

The children all settled back in really well after Christmas and

we have also had some new children join our pre prep class who have enjoyed meeting new

friends and bonding with the staff in their room. The children

all enjoyed working on our fairy tales topic this half term for our new display. They created the

different characters from the books, tried their best to copy

over some words associated with the stories and also participated

in activities to do with the different fairy tales like making porridge for goldilocks, building the 3 little pigs houses and also making their own gingerbread

men. The children enjoyed celebrating the Scottish holiday burns night where we decorated

Prep 1 Junior

Since returning after Christmas

we have been very busy getting

back into our learning. We

have been working hard on our

reading and writing, recog-

nising 2D and 3D shapes, we

participated in a numbers week

where the children worked

hard on their letter recognition

and formation. Our main topic

has been dinosaurs after a lot

of children displayed a big

interest in this during their

play. We have been learning

the different dinosaur names

and discussing their features

and the children were very

interest in learning about

which dinosaurs were

herbivores and which were

carnivores. They have been

also been taking part in a varie-

ty of education dinosaur

themed activities, such as

measuring the size of the

dinosaurs footprint, using their

writing skills to write about

dinosaurs, creating dinosaurs

using a variety of shapes,

ordering dinosaurs by size and

doing dinosaur sums. I would

also like to take this

opportunity to wish all the chil-

dren good luck who are

moving up to 'big school' after

half term,

although they

are very excited

for their new

adventure

myself, Anna

and Morag will

miss them all

very

much .

Recent Staff Training

The following staff mem-bers have been busy

updating their knowledge in some important areas.

‘Child Protection’:

Anna

As many of you are aware in both the

entrance of the main building and the

entrance of the Prep unit we have an

Outstanding Practice display. Each month we award one room

‘display of the month’ and one staff

member ‘staff member of the

month’. If you would like to nominate a

staff member for this award then please

either let me know in person or email me

with the staff members name and the reason why you think they should be

nominated. Thank you

Miss Wakefield