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w/c 28 April 2025
Our Busby Band! The children have had so much fun experimenting with musical instruments this week. One of our friends brought in her wonderful instruments from home to show us and shared them at Together Time.
Using musical instruments engages the brain and body, promoting holistic development and has lots of benefits including -
cognitive and language development,
fine and gross motor skills,
increased creativity,
social skills
listening skills
Enjoying Outdoors We went on a letter hunt in the sand, using our gross motor skills to dig and search for letters. We can tell our friends words that begin with the letter sounds we found - great skills everyone!
'B... ball'
w/c 21 April 2025
We hope all our families had a lovely break over Easter and enjoyed the lovely sunshine.
The Joys of Water Play! Everyone had a great time experimenting painting the fence using water. This helps build creativity and confidence to experiment and develop early writing skills. All we needed was water and a brush, and the sunshine helped!
'I made a 'p' '
'I made a handprint'
Teamwork Makes The Dream Work! The children worked collaboratively together to create a ball run. There was lots of creative problem solving on display as they discussed where to position the guttering to allow the ball to roll down, and how to fix it when it broke. Terrific teamwork and ideas!
'Put this here to stop the ball'
'Why does it keep falling off? We need to put this bit up'
'The bridge is broken, move it
further away'
w/c 31 March 2025
Family Wellbeing Walk The children enjoyed a lovely Wellbeing Walk to Busby Glen this week. We explored our senses and closed our eyes to carefully listen to what noises we could hear in the park. We found lots of daffodils to smell and trees to touch (and hug!) The children went on a scavenger hunt to spot signs of spring such as flowers, leaf buds, bird nests, blossoming trees, birds singing and seedlings. What glorious weather we had and we even had time to pop to the park before heading back to nursery for lunch. Thanks to our families for coming along, we hope you had a great time and look forward to our next one!
w/c 24 March 2025
Sewing Skills We are enjoying learning about sewing and developing our skills by hand sewing letters with buttons and a needle. We designed our cushions by choosing our fabric and worked hard to sew the fabric together using the sewing machine - great skills everyone!
Some of our beautiful designs
w/c 17 March 2025
STEM Stay and Play It was lovely to welcome parents to our STEM Stay and Play this week. One of our parents kindly came to demonstrate a water rocket experiment, showing us how forces make objects move by pumping air into the rocket - thank you!
Watch out, it flies high!
Looking after our garden
Technologies Children downloaded a picture of their choice and learned how to edit it themselves using an iPad. Wow, impressive technology skills!
Building Bridges We are finding out about bridges to promote an understanding of basic engineering principles, such as balance and structural integrity. It was fun finding ways to cross them and lots of creative teamwork on display!
'We need a block'
'For cars and people to cross'
w/c 10 March 2025
STEM
What a busy and exciting week we have had for our STEM week. STEM supports the development of habits of mind, such as curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, scepticism, openness the list is vast! All of the above and more was evident at Busby Nursery’s STEM events. Here's a taster of our highly engaged children, exploring and deepening their learning through many fabulous learning opportunities.
Our Bodies Learning about the body and where your organs are placed.
'The inside of the body'
'Look at my leg'
'Stomach, finding where the pieces go'
Scavenger Hunt - promoting data handling
'There's no bees, we need to find flowers now'
Teamwork
'I found a feather'
Looking for spiders
Making Jelly - changing properties
RNLI Richard at RNLI came to talk to us and we found out how they help people, and how to be safe in the water.
'Are they going to save the people?'
'He sees something in the water'
'It would be dangerous'
'You need to hold hands'
'You go to swimming lessons, I went up a level'
'You need to phone the rescue boat'
'Call 999'
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle We had a visit from Viridor, a recycling and renewable waste company. We found how important it is to recycle and how items gets turned into electricity, producing enough electricity to power 40,000 homes - wow! Everyone loved trying on their safety outfits.
w/c 3 March 2025
Another fun and busy week at Busby Nursery! We made delicious pancakes for Pancake Day and everyone enjoyed them after lunch.
Measuring the ingredients
Time to mix the ingredients
The Taste Test!
Yum, yum!
Bonnyton House We visited the residents of Bonnyton House who were delighted to welcome us - and Baby Bookbug! The residents sang along to our songs, some of which they knew already. Everyone joined in clapping, cheering, and bursting and popping bubbles too! The children did the conga through the room as they left whilst singing goodbye everyone. We will visit again soon!
'A big bee'
'Catch the bubbles'
'A big fox'
'Thank you for coming'
'Thanks for coming'
Resident comments
We're Going On A Number Hunt! Finding numbers and learning how to record our findings.
Let's Paint Outdoors!
w/c 24 February 2025
Welcome to Busby Hospital!
The children chose to turn our role play area into a hospital. They are learning about their bodies and how it works by looking at skeletons and x-rays, as well as fixing any injuries with bandages!
The Doctor will see you now!
'I'm fixing her foot, she's been running so fast'
'Breathe in, and again'
Green Fingers We are getting our garden ready for Spring and Summer by preparing the soil and planting flowering seeds and bulbs. Great teamwork everyone, thanks for helping!
Snip, snip!
Having fun creating collages and flowers while developing scissor skills. Cutting experiences help develop numerous skills such as -
Fine motor skills
Build hand strength
Attention skills
Writing skills
Hand eye coordination skills
w/c 17 February 2025
Welcome back and we hope everyone had a relaxing half term break. The children are continuing to develop independence and life skills helping set up for snack. We are being very responsible!
Teamwork
The children are continuing their interest in countries and world food, and asked for croissants for snack. Thank you to our team of helpers who prepared snack by confidently cutting croissants in half! We also made our own sandwiches and cut bread, cucumber and tomatoes.
'This was my first time eating croissants in nursery, yummy' H
'Thank you for giving me croissants, it comes from France. What do they make croissants out of?' R
'We've been to France' M
'I got croissants from Aldi, I put them in the oven' N
'I know French, au revoir' O
Super Sandwich Making Cutting, spreading, grating, and eating!
w/c 10 February 2025
The Art of Storytelling
We are learning the term 'stories without books' and finding different ways to tell stories. This is a way of engaging in live literature with an Oral Storyteller (no book present) that enlists the help of everyone involved, to use their full imagination in order to experience the story in deeper ways.
This will encourage children to engage, cognitively, musically, dramatically,
physically, socially and emotionally. The stories will touch on many themes including friendship, belonging, caring and bravery.
Children naturally create their own stories without using books all of the time during their own creative play and the beauty of making this a focus is to encourage, enhance and strengthen the language development that already exists.
We look forward to reflecting on how the children will make ‘Stories without books’ of their own.
Helicopter Stories This is another fun storytelling method which encourages children to be natural storytellers. How it works is adults scribe the child’s story then with their peers they gather around the ‘story stage’ to retell and re-enact the story. The author of the story can choose which character they want to be, then from there the adult supports turn taking with the children to assign the rest of the characters. Everything comes from the child and their imagination. The adult is the facilitator.This week there’s been an excellent array of stories including Rapunzel, dragons, fairy gardens and superheroes! It’s a truly magical experience for all involved.
Take a look at Helicopter Stories - https://helicopterstories.co.uk/
w/c 3 February 2025
We are learning about flags and countries, and looking at different types of food from all over the world.
The children have been sharing their knowledge of countries they have visited, and had fun choosing and creating their own flags.
'My mummy had paella'
'I love sausages!'
'I like hamburgers'
Happy Helpers The children are developing their life and independence skills by helping set up for snack. Thank you for being so helpful and responsible by carrying dishes, glasses and food carefully to the table. Great teamwork!
'Making a line is fun'
'Let's count them'
w/c 27 January 2025
The Year of the Snake
It's been an exciting week at Busby Nursery as we have been learning about Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year. We found out it is linked to the stages of the moon and during this special time, some people around the world come together to celebrate for 15 days. The children have enjoyed taking part in lots of experiences such as learning about the animal race, exchanging lucky money bags, exploring Chinese writing, completing puzzles, ribbon dances, creating lanterns and eating noodles with chopsticks.
You might see a life size colourful dragon in our playrooms and outdoors, but don’t be alarmed it’s not a real dragon!
Yum, yum, noodles for snack!
Problem solving
The Dragon Dance
One of our parents kindly came to read us the story of Chinese New Year, wearing a beautiful traditional skirt.
We all enjoyed your visit, thank you so much for coming!
Bonnyton House
We visited Bonnyton House to celebrate Chinese New Year, and the children were brimming with excitement to share their experiences with the residents. Making a celebrity appearance with the children of course, was the dragon puppet, which was a big hit! The residents clapped and cheered to the music as the children danced the conga through the room. Exchanging the lucky money bags was a fitting finish to the visit.
w/c 20 January 2025
Learning Together Thank you to everyone who came along to our Stay and Play. It was lovely to see parents and grandparents enthusiastically taking part in learning opportunities such as creating bird food feeders, outdoor play, block play, stories and role play. Fun, joy and laughter filled the playroom!
w/c 13 January 2025
“Imagination is more important than knowledge….Imagination is the highest form of research.” Albert Einstein
Using our new authentic tea set, crockery, cutlery and foods children showed initiative and advanced social skills while acting out various real life scenarios during their imaginary role play. The crockery made a pleasant clinking sound too as they set the table which inspired a discussion of what the crockery was made of!
'get a cup of tea'
Independence skills
Children demonstrated their independent learning skills by taking responsibility for zipping up their own jacket to get ready to go outdoors. Lovely to see this intrinsic motivation in action.
How many undirected tasks and skills does your child do at home? Sometimes this does takes a little longer however given freedom and opportunity to explore and learn self-help skills empowers children.
What's for lunch today?
“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place”
JK Rowling
You don’t need a book to tell a story! Indeed there are many ways to tell stories. This week the children were actively participating in telling stories, using all kinds of interesting props and promoting a feeling of wellbeing, fun and relaxation.
w/c 6 January 2025
Happy New Year! We hope you had a lovely break over the holidays. It's been a busy first week back! We have welcomed new friends to our nursery who are enjoying exploring their new space and making friends.
We Are Scientists! Children explored part of the water cycle as they focused on the process of water changing from a liquid to a solid, then back to liquid.
Let's select the materials we need for our experiment - balloons, pipettes, water, eco glitter and food coloring.
Filling up our balloons!
Building hand strength and coordination by sucking up and squirting coloured liquid into balloons.
Next stop - the freezer!
What do you think happened next?
Observing the changes of ice as it melts was the most fascinating part, it sparked childrens curiosity while using all their senses.
The ice made a wonderful crackling sound as it melted.
What therapeutic fun was had by all!
'I threw it and it didn't break!
Like a rock!' R
We're Going On A Bear Hunt!
Developing language skills and confidence by retelling stories using props.
Creativity The children enjoyed exploring our small wooden shapes (Froebel's Gifts) and being creative with them - endless possibilities!
'A house with so many arms on his head'
Making letters!
'I made a hat'
'Maybe we could use sticks for the hair, I'm using sticks for the teeth'
'A rainbow!'
w/c 27 April 2025
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