Category Archives: Nursery News

Nursery EAL Support Advice Meeting

SUPPORTING YOU EAL CHILD

(English as an Additional Language)

TUESDAY 3rd DECEMBER 2.00pm- 2.45pm

Mrs Samina Mustaq, our specialist EAL teacher, met with parents whose children have English as an additional language.

She provided advice and answered many questions about how parents u can support their child’s language development in more than one language. The main advice is keep your home language alive by using it! This will help develop connections in your child’s brain between English and their home language/s, build on your emotional relationship with them and enable them to speak to other members of the family and language community too!

Don’t forget to join the City of Edinburgh Library too, where you can order books and other resources in many different languages for both adults and children.

https://yourlibrary.edinburgh.gov.uk/web/arena/join-the-library

Nursery Library Trip

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TRIPS TO FOUNTAINBRIDGE LIBRARY

The Purple and the Blue Groups enjoyed a trip to Fountainbridge Library on Tuesday 26th November for stories, songs and snack. There we met with the RVS and some older people they bring to the library every fortnight. We all made bookmarks and exchanged them with each other. Thank you to the parents who came with us and made this a very enjoyable experience.

Nursery Trips to Fountainbridge Library.

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The Red and Orange Group enjoyed a trip to Fountainbridge Library on Tuesday 19th November for stories, songs, creative mark making and snack. There we met children and staff from our neighbours at Tynecastle nursery and had snack together.

Joining the library is free and you can join on line. 1000’s of books are available – including books for adults and children in other languages.

Thank you to the parents, and grandmother too, who came with us and made this a very enjoyable experience.

Diwali Fun

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Our parents and families recently put together our yearly Diwali spectacular festival of dance.

Thanks to all who danced and choreographed, organised and helped.

Also thank you to Sainsburys Murrayfield for the south asian snacks they supplied.

Nursery Final Group Trip to Tollcross Fire Station

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The Blue, Purple and Red Groups visited Tollcross Fire Station on Monday 4th November. They were shown around the station byCommander Gavin Kotlewski and the Red Watch. The children saw inside a fire engine and tried on Fire Fighter uniforms and learned more about how to keep themselves safe and away from fire and fire works. This time of year, with Fire Works Night on the 5th of November, the fire station gets twice as many call outs as usual. Teaching the children about fire safety is very important!

Generous Donation From Wickes

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Some of our children and staff visited Wicked on Stevenson Road where they met managers JP and Hugh Garrity and assistant Ennie who presented they with FREE liners for our sand pit. The children will enjoy helping to put the liner and sand in place during the coming week.

Thank you once again to the staff of Wickes and our own Mrs Brown who arranged the gifting!

Nursery Trips To Fountainbridge Library

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The Green and Yellow Group enjoyed a trip to Fountainbridge Library on Tuesday 12th November for stories, songs and snack. There we met with the RVS and some older people they bring to the library every fortnight. We all made bookmarks and exchanged them with each other. Thank you to the parents who came with us and made this a very enjoyable experience.

Nursery Fire Day

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We went to Tollcross fire station where we learned more about the role of the fire service, how they keep us safe and what I can do to keep myself safe too. This is especially important at this time of the year when people celebrate Halloween, Diwali and Fire Works Night with fireworks, by lighting candles and having bonfires.

We saw inside fire engines and learned more about their equipment and including the fire fighters uniform, helmet and masks and I got to practice using the fire hose.

We also saw two fire engines leave the fire station to respond to emergencies.

We gave the firefighters a BIG box of biscuits as a thank you!

Thank you to all the parents who joined us and made this trip possible.

Nursery Harvest Celebration

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Parents and all the nursery children join us as we visited St Martin’s Church for our annual Harvest Celebration where we gifted the food and toiletries our generously donated to the church so that they can be distributed to those in need in our local community.