The Blue, Purple and Green groups had a wonderful morning at the Centre learning about nature, weather and the seasonal changes of Autumn. We searched for mini-beasts in the soil and under rocks and logs, and made lovely rubbings of leaves that we found along the path.
The Centre is a wonderful riverside setting right here in Edinburgh, on the 44 bus route and would make a great family outing at the weekend too – enjoy!http://www.waterofleith.org.uk/centre/
PICKING BRAMBLES
We had a lovely walk along the old railway picking brambles. We brought them back to nursery and will use them for our snack!
The old railway is just off Russell Road. ‘Brambles’ are the Scottish name berries that in some other parts of the UK are called blackberries.
Mrs Samina Mustaq, our EAL teacher, met with parents whose children have English as an additional language.
She provide advice and answered the questions parents had about how they could support their child’s English and home language development during their time at nursery and at home.
Afterwards some of our feedback from the parents was:
‘A wonderful session for all other language parents’
‘The EAL Session was very helpful and encouraging’
‘The EAL session was really helpful – solved some of the questions we had’.
We had a lovely morning at the Gorgie/Dalry Toy Library. We found out how to join the Library which has over 240 toys for families to borrow and the children had a great time playing with some of the toys.
The Toy Library is in St. Martin’s, Dalry Road, just along from the school. It is open every Monday between 10am – 11.30am. There is also a parent and toddler group at St Martin’s at the same time. Everyone is welcome!
We are starting to have dates for events that will lead into children starting P1 at Dalry in August 2019.
To keep up to date with these dates and events just check back regularly to our Starting P1 page by clicking here.
Our open day for prospective new children and their families, starting in summer 2019, will be on October 31st.
Tours of the school will take place between 9.15AM and 2.15PM
Enrolment week will follow in due course in November the week of the 5th-9th Click here for more information on enrolment week.
The children, parents and staff had great fun in the pool at Dalry Swim Centre on Thursday 10th May and Thursday 17th May.
For some children it was their very first time swimming. Everyone really enjoyed playing with the toys and floats and learning to kick our legs and move our arms in the water at the same time. There are several Swim Centres in the city run by Edinburgh Leisure. The summer holiday is a great time to book swimming lessons and help your child to develop their swimming skills.
At the beginning of Term 3 we gave all our nursery families a Parent and Child survey.
!!!! POP STARS !!!!
Our ‘Top of the Pops’ team popped popcorn all afternoon for the whole popping school during our Spring Fayre. POPitively, POPtastic and POPelicious!!! A BIG POP Thank You to the mum’s of Jashu, Chaitanya and Jaswanth.
The snow cleared and the sun came out and we had a brilliant day at the zoo!
We actually got to see the pandas – they were amazing! We saw so many other animals too and really close up – look at our photos of the lions, tigers – ‘ROAR’. Alden is our very brave new friend of the lion! After a whole day out we were really, really tired (some of us fell asleep on the bus!!!!) but we had some great memories to take home with us!
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