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Nursery Newsletter October 09

Open Night

It was good to see so many of you at the recent Open Evening in the nursery. We hope you enjoyed

looking at your child’s Early Years Learning Profile Folder and at the many displays, pictures and

 photographs around the nursery.

Please remember you can look at your child’s folder at anytime.

TopicsThe children have been learning about traditional stories through books, puppets, felt

story boards and role play. We have been looking at size while learning the story of 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have also been

learning to use the tools on the interactive white board to help us tell the story in

sequence. The children enjoyed decorating and eating their own Gingerbread man after 

reading the story. As well as the work we did within the nursery we also participated in a whole school

‘warm up to books week’. The children decorated the nursery door with the story of the ‘Gingerbread

Man’ and on the Thursday we all had a fantastic time joining in the parade around the school in our book 

character costumes with the rest of the school.

We are also still concentrating on settling the children in, learning routines and rules and encouraging

sharing, turn taking and friendships. Every day we discuss the weather and the days of the week. Wealso have a sound of the week table which we encourage the children to add to by bringing something in

from the house that begins with the initial sound we are discussing. We would also ask that you consider 

environmental print as well as resources. For example when ‘a’ was our sound of the week we discussed

‘Asda’ so the children could bring in an ‘Asda’ bag.

Falkirk Football Club

As you may remember last month the children had a visit from Falkirk Football Club and the BBC came

to video the children playing ball games. The footage was broadcast last Tuesday on the BBC and a

DVD will be made of this. Once we have the DVD we will be happy to make you a copy of the broadcast

if you supply us with a blank DVD. All children have also been given a certificate in celebration of this.

 

Autumn walk 

The children went a walk to the park before the October holiday and observed the

changing colours of the leaves on the trees as well as finding lots of chestnuts and

twigs. Within nursery the children have enjoyed

exploring the natural world in our Nature Area. We

would like to thank parents for encouraging the

children to bring in some leaves and chestnuts to add to our nature area.

On our walk we also reinforced the importance of holding hands and we

 practised how to cross the road safely.

Eco Schools

The nursery and school now have their Eco Schools Green Flag award. The children in

nursery will continue to be involved in reducing litter and waste, improving the nursery

environment and also reducing water and energy use. They recently had a talk from two

children from primary 6 and 7 about being eco friendly and about our ‘Walk to school on

Wednesday’ initiative. The children were very good at listening and answering questions that

the big boys and girls asked. We hope you will support us in encouraging the children to be considerate

of the environment that we live in and if possible support us in our walk to nursery on Wednesdays. We

will be competing with all the other classes in the school to see how many children walk to school on

Wednesdays.

Dental Hygienist

The dental hygienist has been into visit the children and has shown them all how to brush

their teeth. Children now have their own toothbrush and brush their teeth in nursery on a

daily basis.

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Pantomime 

The PTA have arranged for M & M Productions to perform Peter Pan on Monday 26th October in the

afternoon. We therefore invite all morning children to come to nursery at 1 pm that day.

There will be no morning nursery. Children should be collected at 3 pm. All afternoon

children should also be collected at 3 pm.

All snack/activity money should therefore be paid on Tuesday morning/afternoon instead of 

the Monday morning/afternoon.

Halloween

On Friday 30 October we will be having a party in Nursery. All children can dress up if 

they wish or if they are not too keen just let them bring a prop like a pumpkin, a spider or a

witch’s hat. All children will be involved in lots of fun activities. Please ensure that the

children do not wear masks that may scare other children as it should be a fun day for all of the children.

Outdoor Play 

Even on a cold (and some wet) winter days the children will have access to the outdoor 

area. We know many of you come by car but please ensure your child has a jacket with

them in case they wish to play outdoors.

W.I.L.F. (What I’m looking for) is a little, wooden owl in the nursery who, along with staff, is looking

to see if the children are being especially kind, caring and helpful to others. In celebration

of this the child will get a leaf to put on the Caring/Sharing Tree. Please encourage and

celebrate your child’s achievement by putting the leaf on the tree together!

Visitors to the nursery this month

We have a Teaching student (Karen Mitchell) with us for two days this month and then for two weeks in

 November.We also have a work experience pupil (Craig Fraser) during week beginning 26 October.

DATES TO REMEMBER 

 

Monday 26th October Pantomime

ALL children to attend in the afternoon

(No Morning Nursery that day)

Friday 30 October Halloween Party

Monday 16th November Nursery Closed – Staff Development

Tuesday 17th November Nursery Closed – Staff Development