Oh, what fun the Early Level had celebrating Chinese New Year! We tasted traditional foods, made our own lanterns, dragons and willow plates.
Now we have the beautiful creative work we made and some wonderful memories to take home and share with our families.
Some more of our nursery children visited the water of Leith centre this week.
We had a great trip, despite the rain! We were mat by Sandie and Ruth who work at the Centre. They told us a story about Ollie the otter who didn’t want to learn to swim and catch his own fish because he didn’t want to get cold in the river water! Then we went for a walk along the Water of Leith riverbank and look for the different places that animals liked to life. By then we were a bit cold and hungry so we came inside and di some lovely art work and had snack too. Thank you to all the parents who came with us. We hope you all enjoyed it!
The nursery and P6 children, along with parents and staff, went to St Martin’s Church for a ‘guid ol’ ceilidh. We skipped, twirled and marched our way through the dances and had a great time!
We’d like to take the opportunity to remind parents to send kids in weather appropriate clothing where possible during the snow.
We encourage the children to play outside when the snow is sitting or light and would recommend boots, gloves, hats and coats to help avoid wet feet and cold hands and where possible waterproof trousers.
The nursery visited theWater of Leith Visitor Centre on Monday to learn about the effects of winter weather on the natural surroundings.
We met Sandie and Ruth who work there and they took us on walks along the Water of Leith and we also did some creative collages inside inspired by our visit.
Our new Be relilient Unit is called “Respect Yourself”
Here is the leaflet that is going out at hometimes.
We celebrated Christmas in the nursery with a ‘Family Party!’ We played party games, had lots of lovely food to eat, raffled a Gingerbread House and when Santa arrived we all visited him in his Winter Wonderland Grotto. What a great afternoon we had.
MERRY CHRITSMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
“The Dalry Christmas Clan Craft Event” took place this week with the children touring the school over the day, in clan groups of mixed ages, to produce some amazing christmas crafts.
At the end of the day we gathered in the hall and each clan showed their work to the others.
Lots of mess and fun was had.
We have recently added a new area to our parent zone pages hosting phonics resources for parents and carers to try out with their children at home.
You’ll find it here.
These resources include posters of all the letter sounds for you to work on reading and saying at home , great songs and videos to help learning and an audio catalogue of all the basic letter sounds.
When we teach in school we do so using the sounds of the letters rather than their names. We would encourage you to use these resources to help you to do the same at home.
Please check back to our phonics resources area often for new resources including common words (the, they, their etc) and digraphs of other common sounds in English (th, ck, sh etc).
All the nursery children had the opportunity to visit Gorgie Farm during the week
We saw amazing things growing in their garden and greenhouses. Look at the runner beans, leeks and tomatoes we saw.
We also looked at the farm animals and enjoyed our snack together.
