The Rainbow Room 

Rainbow Room

Central School Nurture Hub/Rainbow room is located on the lower floor, which is set up to provide a warm welcoming space for children to learn. Some children need to spend more time in the Nurture Hub for a variety of reasons . Some children find it difficult to settle in a large class and a short time in the Hub can enable them to feel more relaxed and ready to learn. Nurture Hubs focus on the following principles, communication and language skills, positive relationships, social  and emotional skills. It is evident that many children benefit significantly from support offered in the Nurture Hub. Children have an opportunity to come to the The Rainbow Room/Nurture Hub from Monday-Wednesday. Each day has a different play/learning focus, Monday -construction play, walks/visits/shopping for ingredients for cooking. Tuesday-puzzles/board & card games and cooking which encourages conversation, sharing ,turn taking and social interactions. Wednesday-Art Therapy /creative games/activities. Art therapy aims to enhance a person's physical, mental and emotional well being by using the creative process of making art. It supports self- expression, emotional exploration, stress management, the development of self-awareness and self esteem in children.  Each morning on rotation children who attend the Nurture Hub have literacy and numeracy activities. Each day we have a discussion focus which is linked to supporting children's social and emotional needs. 

We made cakes for a special bithday boy !

Art therapy, painting our mood!

Inspiration from our mood monsters!

Fun was had by all in the Nurture Hub!

Autumn has arrived ! 

We painted the fallen crunchy daytime Autumn leaves.

More of our beautiful leaves focusing on the colours of Autumn.

We discussed the dark evenings of Autumn and walking on the crunchy Autumn leaves. Nature is a healing force!

We made cheese wheels

They were yummy!

We followed the recipe and copied it, now we can make our own at home!

We played a game to spot what the following meant: to tease

to bully

to be unkind. 

Magnet construction!

We remember all the strategies we can use to keep calm!

Calming strategies we use everyday.


We made cylinder Halloween art characters!

We made an alien city!

We had great fun creating symmetrical paintings

We had a 'Mummy' disco for Halloween with our furry friends!

We shopped for our ingredients

We organised our ingredients

We baked our pizzas in the oven and then had a pizza party!

We stand tall and strong like a tree when we have good relationships. We chatted about our relationships and how we all need people to care for us to be able to grow and have a healthy mind and body. 

We organised our ingredients to make fairy cakes for a special birthday boy!

Mixing all the ingredients is great fun!

Time to put the cakes in the oven!

We learnt how the Gingerbread man body reacted when he was angry and what strategies he used to calm down!  

We have been making rooms for our lego people.

We decided to buy ingredients to make scones!

We wrote the recipe for scones and drew the ingredients!

We enjoyed making and eating our yummy scones!

We have been busy creating a hedgehog and Leo the learning lion. We used Autumn leaves as a material for their spikes and fur!

Leo the learning lion!

We wrote the recipe for a special birthday boy's fruit cake!

Mixing up and smelling the ingredients!

Eating the cooked fruit cake , it was delicious!

Characters from our story 'Sam Moves Away!

We wrote our recipe of ingredients foe Marshmallow Christmas Krispies!

These are the ingredients we used.

We enjoyed eating Christmas Krispies!

We played a game 'Pass on the Praise' ! We all thought of something special to say about the person beside us. This game encouraged our confidence to grow! We then wrote our praise of others onto a love heart!

We decorated our biscuits for Christmas treats!

We made Christmas jelly!

We decorated our Christmas Jellies and then we eat them! Delish!


We discussed 'Special People' who help us at home, school and in our community in Peterhead. We know they treat us with respect and care for us so we should do the same.

We made cakes for a special birthday girl! They were delish!

We have been making Christmas decorations in our Christmas craft classes in the Nurture Hub!

Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year from all in the Nurture Hub!

We have been reading lots of Christmas stories this week in the Nurture Hub, this book was our favourite!

We celebrated with New Year pancakes! We wrote our recipe and drew the ingredients!

We mixed our ingredients together and cooked them in a pan whilst listening to the pancake song!

Happy New Year 2024 

from all of us in the Nurture Hub!

We discussed new beginnings and new targets which we want to achieve! 

We made New Year  resolutions for 2024!

We decorated out pancakes and enjoyed eating them, they were yummy!

We counted the ingredients!

We wrote out our recipe for 'Quiche' and we drew the ingredients!

Sorted our ingredients!

Cooked and enjoyed eating our lovely quiche it was yummy! We shared it with others! 

We created firework pictures to celebrate the New Year 2024!

Swirls , spiky, curvy fireworks!

We discussed New Year celebrations around the world and decided to focus on Chinese New Year which is being celebrated in a few weeks time. We watched the dragon dance parade and made  dragons

We made our favourite supermarket from lego, Morrisons!

We wrote out our recipe for scones and drew the ingredients. We counted our ingredients!

We organised our ingredients!

We mixed our ingredients, it was fun!

We set the table for our snack. We baked our scones and eat them together. We shared with others!

We discussed how amazing everyone is and how different we all are !

We made a 2D dragon form different shapes. We recapped the story of  the zodiac animals for Chinese New Year and found out what animals we are!

Look at our 2D dragons we made. it was fun!

Rainbow Hub Term 3 Newsletter.docx

Term 3 2024 Newsletter 

Construction Day! We enjoyed making our garage and town!

We made Tiffin as a present for Valentine's Day! We wrote and drew our recipe ingredients and counted them.

We mixed our ingredients to make Tiffin. We tasted it and shared the Tiffin , it was delish!

We made Valentine's baskets for our Tiffin and Valentine cards! Happy Valentine's everyone. Enjoy tour mid-term break! 

We discussed different types of bullying :

We listened to a new song about being a good friend and joined in singing together, it was fun!

We worked as a team and built houses for our zoo animals!


We went on a walk to spot signs of Spring!

Then we played together in our local park, it was fun!

We bought ingredients to make home made pizza dough. We love shopping for ingredients!

We made the pizza dough and left it to rise.

We rolled out our pizza dough and put on our pizza toppings. We noticed that some of the topping we put on are the same but some are different. We discussed our similarities and differences, this is what makes us unique! 

On our Monday walk we spotted new signs of Spring! We saw colourful crocus's ,  We thought they were beautiful!

We wrote out our Mothers Day recipe for cakes and we drew the ingredients!

We measured out all the different ingredients to make cake mixture, it was fun!

We decorated our own cakes to bring home as a gift for Mothers Day!

Mum will be happy!

We made a special Mother's Day card and wrote a special message inside the card!

Happy Mother's Day !

We made crazy animals, sharing our ideas and we played with them!

We wrote our pancake recipe, sounded and blended our words to read the recipe and counted the ingredients!

We drew the ingredients!

Our birthday boy decided he would like to make pancakes today because that's  his favourite, he loved mixing up all the ingredients to make the pancake batter!

We went of a walk to Victoria Park and spotted sign of Spring ! We aw daffodils!

We read our recipe and weighed the ingredients for cornflake tray bake!

We mixed and rolled our biscuits in cornflakes ready for baking!

We wrote our recipe and drew the ingredients!

We wrote our recipes for Easter cakes. We weighted and mixed the ingredients.

We put the mixture into bun cases and left them to harden in the fridge.

We listened to the Easter story and then remembered the squence of events to place the story in the correct order! We read the words on each picture!

We made an Easter story wheel using pictures to retell the story!

Have a wonderful school break everyone! See everyone in term 4!

We wrote out our recipe for scones , then we weighted out all the ingredients!

We mixed all the ingredients to make our scone dough!

We rolled it out and used a cutter to make the scone shapes, then baked them in the oven!

Our  discussion this week was 'Caring for our World'. On our walk to Victoria Park we went litter picking and we spotted vehicles that help keep Peterhead tidy!

We organised our ingredients.

We wrote out our recipe and drew our ingredients!

We made our apple turn overs and put them in the oven , they were very tasty , we shared them!

We read a book called Rosie Revere the Engineer. The message in our story was to never give up, have an I can attitude and learn from your mistakes. Rosie Revere dreamt big and we can too!

We wrote our 'Macaroni Puffs Recipe' and drew the ingredients. We sounded out and blended our words to read the recipe.

We made macaroni cheese with pasta and cheese sauce! It tasted yummy!

We put the macaroni into the pastry squares and folded them into a triangle shape then we brushed them with melted butter. 

We put them into the oven to cook!

We are eating them on our picnic at Lido beach today!

This is Harold the giraffe and he read us a story ''The U Factor' is was about our talents and how practice makes us better ! Give everything a go and learn from your mistakes.

Harold asked us to read these questions and discuss our achievements and what we can do to improve what we are good at. 

We wrote our recipe for Fairy Cakes and drew the ingredients. We weighed our ingredients and mix them together to make the cake mixture. We baked them in the oven and enjoyed eating them!

We discussed what we saw on our visit to the Lido beach in Peterhead and made a beach picture!

In our art therapy class we watched a video all about dragonflies and then we painted them!

In constuction we made all different shapes and buildings!