Nursery

Here is what we have been learning about in the ELC:

2024/2025 - Mrs Carswell/Mrs Copland/Ms Dawson

Term 4

ELC have been focusing on Spring. They have designed their own flower shop, where the children can engage in role play to buy and sell flowers, using money and a till to really bring the shop experience to life. The children have also planted their own sun flowers and learning about the growth cycle of a seed.

In Literacy the children have been working with the Jack and the beanstalk story to build their own beanstalk and play with the characters from the story in the small world area.

We had a visitor from our local community police officer who came to speak about what he does for his job and what to do in the case of an emergency. The children enjoyed having a look at the police car and talked about how to identify a police car.             

Term 3

ELC had a fun day on World Book Day, coming into school dressed as a character from their favourite story.

At the moment the children are enjoying learning about all kinds of dinosaurs, including the herbivores, carnivores and omnivores!

ELC had a fantastic inspection report from the Care Inspectorate which highlighted that ‘Children were developing their curiosity, imagination and problem solving skills through high quality play experiences’  and  ‘Children experienced very warm, caring and nurturing support from staff who knew them very well’ – Well done to the ELC team on this achievement.

The children are always developing their skills through play indoors and outdoors through a range of activates which are available everyday for them to enjoy. 

Nursery have led a SHANARRI assembly about inclusion and did extremely well singing their song and learning their lines. 

2021/2022 - Mrs Carswell/Mrs Brown/Ms Mair

Term 4 - Week 5

The children took part in a self-awareness task! They were each asked to peek inside the box 📦 inside this box they would see the face of a very kind and beautiful person. Once each child had looked, they were asked to raise their hand if they recognised the face in the box. Each child raised their hand, concluding it was their reflection in a mirror and that as individuals they were all kind and beautiful people! 💖

The children’s number recognition is developing with each child being able to recognise numbers up to 10 and relate them to the correct quantity. They have counted the correct amount of letters in their name and we’re able to write the number from memory! ⭐

Term 4 - Week 2

We have had a busy week, we introduced Space while learning about the solar system and what planets do.

We used a variety of shapes to create out rocket 🚀 pictures.

We have also been doing lots of numeracy and learning how to recognise numbers 1-10 using hats and number boards matching bottle lids with corresponding numbers.

Active sports programme stated on Monday Finn had us playing toilet & tunnel tig then has animal races it was great fun.

The pre-school children started transitions by joining in the first face to face assembly hosted by Mrs Johnston and p1-4 talking about words. 

Term 3 - Week 12

This week in ELC we focused on initial letter phonics. The children had some great examples (Reggie red rabbit, Ollie ostrich, Angus awesome apple, Isabella icy igloo). 

We created Mother’s Day pictures, learning about feeling, celebration and compliments. 

We also enjoyed lots of water play using technology and our Goldilocks puppet show which was put on by the children 

Term 3 - Week 10

At ELC this week we started our new topic which is Safari Animals, we learned about the food chain and which animal we would like to find out a fact about.

We have been learning about matching which pattern matches with which animal.

We have used our fine motor skills to roll out and make animal footprints 🐾 in our mud playdoh.

We are continuing to learn about syllables clapping out our Safari animal, you can continue this at home and ask your child to clap 👏 the number of syllables in their name or their favourite toy.