Today we started our star of the week. Each week our shining star will receive a certificate and their picture on our star of the week notice board. All the children are very excited about this and we look forward to watching them work towards becoming our shining star.

Our first star of the week is Harris Wilmot for always being positive and full of fun in nursery.

This morning we learnt about Rabbie Burns because it is going to be Burns Night on Saturday. We learned that he is from Scotland, he worked on his Dad’s farm and like to write poetry. He got married and had 12 Children.

We also learned that on Burns night people eat haggis, neeps and tatties and read his poems. Some of us had haggis for lunch – we hope it wasn’t our Haggis the dinosaur.

Up until now we have been planning collaboratively as an Early Level Class . However we have come to a point in the year where the interests of the children in Primary 1 and Nursery are quite different. Therefore we have decided to plan separately.

We will still have together time on a daily basis but as it is getting further into the year, naturally the Primary 1’s will begin to transition into being based more in the school than in the Early Level Class.

Please find attached the planning for Primary 1’s new topic: Doctors.

As the weather has calmed down and the wind and rain made way for the frost we decided it would be a fantastic morning for a learning walk.

We noticed everything felt very cold and was covered in white. “Jack Frost has been making it frosty this morning” The children learned this wasn’t snow but tiny bits of water had frozen on everything when it got very cold overnight. The children enjoyed running in the big field listening to it crack under their feet.

We then found a big frozen puddle. The children learned that it used to be a big water puddle but because it got so cold the water had frozen into ice. We talked about why we should stay safe near ice, “It is like glass”

“We might slip and hurt ourselves”

We decided it’s best stay off the ice because even if we don’t slip the ice might break and we could fall into very cold and deep water. We found a bit of ice that had no water under it and showed the children how it easily breaks.

On the way back to nursery the children passed the gruffalo’s house, heard a very busy woodpecker and had to walk up a “big mountain” to get back to our cosy nursery.

Yesterday we had a birthday girl in Primary 1. We were all very lucky as the birthday girl brought in photo booth props AND cake to share with us!

Happy Birthday Ava!

We had a great time on Wednesday at our Christmas Party! We were even lucky enough to get a visit and a present from Santa!

The winner of our Christmas movie night hamper was picked out of hat by Mrs Nimmons.

The winner of the hamper is Alexis McCabe. We hope she enjoys the movie and treats, well done Alexis.

What a wonderful time we all had at our Christmas party this morning. We had lots of dancing and party games followed by a Christmas snack.

After all that excitement we were ever so lucky to be visited by SANTA!! All the children were delighted to find they are on the nice list and even got a present to keep them going until next week.

We were even joined by Mrs Christie and Blair, we think Blair enjoyed his snack and little play in nursery the best, he wasn’t so sure of Santa.

Huge big thank you to all at the Mercat for putting on such a special party for us.

We had a fabulous session in the woods in Friday with some of our grown ups. We read Thr Gruffalo and then worked on building some Gruffalo huts.