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Today we had success with out science experiment. We used Diet Coke and mentoes which created a big eruption for our Volcanoe.

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After reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea the children came up with a great question. “Who is the hungriest, the tiger or the hungry caterpillar?” We decided to take a vote. According to the children, the caterpillar is the hungriest with a vote of 18 to 9.

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The children were interested in the blossom that had fallen off our tree. We discussed the variety of colours and decided to create our own blossom tree pictures. The children were very creative, mixing the colours and making different patterns.

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We have been experimenting this week on how to make our Volcanoe erupt. We have tried using vinegar and baking soda and today we tried some iron bru and mentos. We are going to keep on experimenting with this as the children have been very excited trying to see the Volcanoe erupt.

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We had a really exciting visitor today. The children were so excited to see an ambulance in the nursery garden. They listened carefully and learnt what equipment you find in an ambulance and loved hearing the siren. A massive thank you to Niamh’s Dad for taking time out to come visit the children.

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One of our learning intentions this month is using a pencil with increasing control and confidence. We decided to make some colourful spaghetti to encourage the children to play , cut and squish with their fingers . There was lots of letter and name writing too !

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After moving the mud kitchen some of the children were chatting about making the area into a mini beast / bug hotel . We discussed what we might need to do . We gathered leaves, some bricks and wood to start the area off . This is going to be a work in process over next few weeks ! 🪱🐛

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We had some messy play today in the sunshine. We used some shaving foam and the children drew pictures, wrote letters and their names and enjoyed getting messy ☺️

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We have a large selection of books for families to borrow. Please borrow and return books anytime. You can take them home with your bedtime story bag provided. If you have particularly enjoyed a book we have child friendly book reviews you can complete with your child.

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We have a lovely selection of numeracy home learning bags for families to borrow. They have a variety of activities around maths concepts such as measure, shape, pattern, numbers and counting. You can borrow these any day and keep them at home for up to 1 week. Please make sure these are signed out and returned by a member of staff. Information sheets are included to give you ideas on how you can use the resources as well as further challenge ideas. We welcome your feedback on how you have found them, any improvements etc. You can post any photos on your child’s learning journal too.

We currently have some outstanding bags in need of return. Please can all borrowed bags be returned.

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We are looking for children and adult size welly boots for our nursery mud kitchen area. The children have enjoyed planting a variety of herbs in them and have asked to plant more.

Thank you for all your help.

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Over the last couple of days we have been mapping out what we have growing in our garden.

We started off walking round the garden , so we could identify all the different plants and flowers. We then cut out and stuck our paper plants and flowers to the map and some of the children added drawings too .

We have displayed it in the cloakroom area for everyone to see. 🌺🌸🫛🍎

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Bookbug on Friday the 24th of April has been cancelled due to staffing, we apologise for any inconvenience.

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Please find attached a letter from Miss Shanks and Mrs McGurk regarding a Transition PEEP Group for preschool children.

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Transition PEEP sessions start on the 7th of May. It’s a 4 week block on a Thursday morning at 9am for approximately one hour.

This session is only for pre school children as we will be concentrating on the skills they will need in preparation for going to school after the summer.

Dates are: 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of May.

The sign up sheet is in on the board as you come in the nursery. Please ensure you can commit to attending all 4 weeks.

Thank you

Miss Shanks and Mrs McGurk

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We are now taking additional hours applications for August 2026-June 2027.

Please see the email sent today (to families returning to nursery in August 2026) for the attached parent agreement document which includes further information including costs (costs correct at the time but may be subject to change).

Additional hours can be purchased to top up your funded hours. If you would like to make an application for additional hours for August, please email jennifer.2.baird@currie-pri.edin.sch.uk by Friday 1st May with your request. Parents will be emailed after this date to confirm if their request has been successful.

All additional hours requests will be considered but are dependent on staffing and availability. We only offer additional hours during term time, meaning they cannot be used during school holidays or on a Friday afternoon. Please see the term time calendar attached for all term time holidays for session 26-27.

We also take ad hoc requests for additional hours, which must be made at least two weeks in advance. All ad hoc requests will be considered but will also be dependent on staffing and availability.

If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

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This morning we harvested some rhubarb from our garden and the school garden to make some rhubarb crumble. We chopped the rhubarb and measured water and sugar . We then weighed butter, sugar , flour and rubbed the mixture with our hands.We popped it in the oven and baked for our afternoon snack

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Today we had a fire pit, we looked at recipes and decided to make some chocolate bananas. Once the chocolate was melted in the pot everyone got a chance to dip their banana into the chocolate. Mmmmm yummy

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Thanks so much to Sophie’s Granny for the Beetroot and pea seeds. We sowed the beetroot this morning and will do the peas next month 🫜🫛

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if you are free and fancy helping us with making and planting our sunflower/ pumpkin patch and wildflowers tub , please sign up.

It’s May 12th 9.30 ( weather dependant )

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This morning the sun has been shinning , so we were out filling up tubs for planting our peas . We also planted some more sunflowers for our sunflower patch ! 🌻🫛

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We have our annual May Fayre in the school on 9th of May 12-3pm

We are hoping to have our own stall selling sunflower seedlings, sunflower seeds , pumpkin seeds and guess how many sunflowers are in the jar.

If anyone has a spare half hour for volunteering on the day please let me know .

Thanks

Jackie Tatton 🌻

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We got the chance to visit the park yesterday! The children loved the swings and slides. We spent most of the morning here in the nice weather!

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Sign up sheets for May Stay and Play will be available in the cloakroom from Tuesday 21st April. This will be the last opportunity this term. If you have attended a session this term please allow other parents to attend.

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Nursery Lunch Menu - January 2026 - June 2026

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Thank you on behalf of the staff team for your feedback on our recent questionnaire. We value your opinion and would like to thank you for taking the time to complete and respond. We received some lovely feedback; this is always lovely to hear.

We would like to respond to some of your feedback in the form of ‘You said, we did.’

We have addressed the most common types of comments/feedback however, if you would like to meet with staff to discuss your comments please contact Nicky Macnamara or Tracy Sloan so we can arrange a suitable time to meet.

Thank you once again for your support and co-operation.

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4th June - PEEP - week 6 - 9-10am

26th June - P1 Leavers Party - 10-11.45am

29th June - Closed to term time children until 12th August.

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4th May - Closed to term time children

7th May - PEEP - week 2 - 9-10am

9th May - School Mayfair - 12-3pm

12th May - Stay and Plant - 9.30-10.15am

14th May - PEEP - week 3 - 9-10am

19th May - Stay and Play - 9.30-10.15am

21st May - PEEP - week 4 - 9-10am

21st May - Stay and Play - 2-2.45pm

27th May - P1 Parent's Meeting - 5pm

28th May - PEEP - week 5 - 9-10am

29th May - Bookbug - 9.30-10am

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Lots of fun in the garden today. The children enjoyed singing and playing together with the parachute.

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Happy Easter to all our families, we hope you enjoy time with your family this weekend. 

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Happy Easter

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Thank you to everyone who came along to Bookbug last Friday. See you again next time.

If anyone would like to draw me some nice Bookbug pictures to put on the board that would be lovely 🥰

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There has been discussion from some of the children about volcanoes this week. We have looked at a volcano book which led to questions, new learning and more interest from others.

The children were keen to make a volcano in Nursery and made a start today using paper mache.

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Thank you to all our families for your donations and contribution to our very successful bake sale. We will let you know how much we have raised in due course. If you are due any money please bring this into nursery as soon as you can.

Thank you for your support!

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Some of the boys and girls enjoyed a trip to Riccarton garden centre. We bought some flower and vegetable seeds for our garden and visited the animals.

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Some children made a house from our loose parts in the garden. Lots of working together and hiding.

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Maddie the lamb visited us in nursery briefly today. She met some of the children and enjoyed getting strokes. We learnt she is five days old, she is one of seven lambs and sheep have different eyes to us.

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Just a reminder that if your child would like to make an Easter bonnet and wear to nursery tomorrow that are welcome to do so. Please make sure they have their name on it so we can safely return it to you.

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Some of the children helped to put our water feature together in our sensory garden.

They followed the instructions , problem solved and worked together as a team .

They are loving topping it up with water and watching the water splash out !

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This morning we planted our seed potatoes . We added compost to bags , added our potatoes , and then topped up with more compost before watering them .

Some of the children wrote the labels too !

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Some of the children in Primary 5 continue to visit the nursery and spend time with our nursery children every Tuesday and Thursday. The children enjoy building these relationships and spending time with them.

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Thank you for all your donations for the bake sale so far. Everything looks yummy. Please bring cash for your purchases we only have a small amount of change. Thank you!

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Bake Sale

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As it’s nearly Easter the children have been enjoying a matching number activity with eggs. The children enjoyed counting the spots and finding the correct number to match.

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Tomato seedling for Horticulture Competition

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Tomato seedling for Horticulture Competition

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Please help yourself to our homegrown tomato seedlings. You can nurture them over the summer and enter the Currie Horticultural Show on Saturday 29 th of August.

It would be lovely to see as many competitors from nursery as possible 🍅

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We have been busy completing our entries for the schools Easter Colouring competition. We will find out the winner next week. We will let you all know. Good luck to everyone who entered.

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Thank you to all parents/carers who attended our pre-school parent consultations this week. It is always a pleasure to be able to meet and give feedback on your child's learning at such an important time in their nursery journey. Thank you for all your lovely feedback it is always lovely to hear.

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There has been some great tracing of pictures today at nursery. Lots of concentration and good pencil control.

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At keys group this week we took turns to discuss our feelings, read a pop up book, dressed up Terry the troll and played our favourite game-“tickle grandads toes”

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Friday 27th March is the last day to claim any lost property.

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This is a reminder to please bring in any donations of baking from Monday 30th March for the nursery bake sale.

The bake sale will be taking place on the afternoon of Tuesday 31st March and the morning of Wednesday 1st April.

We really appreciate all your support and look forward to sharing the children's baking with you.

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Mrs McGurk would like to invite you to a Bookbug session this Friday 27th March starting at 9.30am. Everyone is welcome if it's your child's day to attend nursery or not. Siblings are also welcome to come along.

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Tomorrow is our March Bookbug session. Hope to see you there.

Everyone is welcome

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This week at PEEP was all about Exploring measure.

Thinking about how your child learns about measuring (size, weight etc) through play and practical situations.

At home you could talk about the size and weight of the things you are unpacking from your shopping.

You could put up a height chat somewhere at home so you and your child can see how they are growing.

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The Children have been requesting this story many times over the week. They have been listening really well and joining in with certain parts of the book.

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Today was a special treat to meet 10 little ducklings. Everyone got a chance to hold or touch a duckling and everyone was so careful and gentle.

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One of the children brought in some coffee pods for us to use in the garden. We scooped out the coffee from the pods , washed and dried pods and popped in the junk. Niamh, Emmie and Jessie then wanted to play with coffee. They worked together and did great sharing. They made pretend cupcakes 🧁

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If you would like to participate in the Easter bonnet competition, please bring them into nursery on Thursday 2nd April, ready for the Easter assembly. We can’t wait to see all the children’s fantastic bonnets!

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Seasons for Growth Parent and Carer City wide community courses summer term2026

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We have been sowing and growing some bush tomato plants for children to enter into The Currie Horticulture show in August .

We will prick these out hopefully before the Easter holidays and if interested , please feel free to take one home to look after and enter the competition. 🍎

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Some of the children sowed some sunflower seeds for selling at The May Fayre . They measured the compost to the line of the pot, popped a hole in and added a seed before watering.

They used great listening skills !

Chloe wrote a sunflower label and explained to other children joining us what to do.🌻

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We have a large selection of lost property. Please have a look next time you visit nursery and claim what belongs to your child. Anything left by the end of next week will be recycled.

Thank you!

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The children are enjoying the change in weather and we’re excited to make paintings today for the nursery garden.

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Nursery Easter Bake Sale

The Nursery are holding a bake sale to raise funds for resources on the afternoon of Tuesday 31st March and the morning of Wednesday 1st April.

We would appreciate any donations of home baking from families from Monday 30th March.

Thank you

The Nursery Team

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This morning we caught up with some of our gardening committee . We discussed what we had been growing recently, what we will be growing next and we chitted some more potatoes !

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Some of the children made a shower for some of the dolls 😊

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Today the children enjoyed helping to make up a variety of shape matching/sorting activities. The children really enjoyed coming up with ideas and really wanted a challenge.

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A reminder if your child wishes to participate and wear something red tomorrow (Friday 20th March) for Comic Relief they are welcome to. A donation can be made via ParentPay if you wish.

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Today we talked about what happens in Spring and things we have noticed in the garden. Lots of children noticed that it was getting a bit warmer and some flowers had started to grow. We painted some daffodils beautiful daffodils just like the ones in the garden.

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Some of the children have been exploring the garden and taken an interest in some of the residents that live in the garden, worms. The children enjoyed make a nice environment for them to live in - a wormery. We will observe this over the next few weeks and watch the soil and sand turn into compost. The instructions are attached if you would like to make one at home.

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Some children wanted to try and make a box after seeing the idea in a new craft book we borrowed from the library. They worked hard to measure, cut, fold, glue and decorate. They look amazing!

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This morning some of the children helped make up some sunflower kits to take home . Inside are some sunflower seeds , compost, a cardboard pot to grow in , some instructions and a chart to measure sunflowers. 🌻

Please help yourself to a bag if you fancy and we would love to see any photos of your sunflower progress 😊

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This morning some of the children took a trip to the library. We discussed how we keep safe walking up the road , stopping at the kerb and looking out for traffic .

We had a great time choosing books to take back to the nursery . Mrs Buchan read a story and then we waited to get our books stamped before heading back.

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Happy St Patrick’s Day to all our families celebrating today. ☘️

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Thank you for coming along to the second PEEP session.

Last weeks session was all about ‘things to do and talk about together’ it’s all about the importance of everyday interactions in supporting children’s communication and language skills while learning about the world around them.

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The children listened to the Gruffalo story and enjoyed using the masks and props to tell the story. We spoke about the author and the illustrator and their role in creating the book.

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Jessie asked if we could do some planting this morning. We decided to sow some cucumbers, spring onions and leeks.

Brodie was interested in checking the carrots in the polytunnel. Nothing has popped up yet but we gave them and the other seeds in the polytunnel a water .

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Please use the QR code to submit any suggestions throughout the year. If you would like a personal response please remember to include your name at the end of the form.

We look forward to hearing your suggestions.

Thank you!

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QRCode for Currie Primary Nursery Suggestions Box (1)

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Thank you to those who have filled in our parent questionnaire. If you are yet to complete this, we kindly ask that you do so by Friday 13th March. We really appreciate your feedback and encourage you to use the comment section at the bottom to expand on your feedback. Please only one response per family.

Thank you for your co-operation

The Nursery Team

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This week the children have been exploring new instruments in the Nursery. This has been very popular and great to see the children enjoying making music, singing songs and dancing.

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We would like to wish you a warm welcome to Currie Primary School Nursery. Our team of dedicated staff are looking forward to working with you and your child and are sure we will have a successful jou

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Just a little reminder to bring in some photos or anything you have picked up on a day out, play date etc that’s special to you. If you need us to print photos off please send them to your child’s learning journal and we will print them off for you.

See you tomorrow 😁

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We are looking for a handful of small sized water or juice bottles that we can use for watering cans .Thanks 🪴

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Today we soaked the compost in polytunnel before doing some sowing . We planted beetroot, spinach and some salad . Some of the children wrote the labels too !

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Some of the children spent a long time working together in the garden building a house made of loose parts and painting it. Good team work following instructions and working collaboratively together using their imagination.

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Comic Relief Red Nose Day - Friday 20th March 

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Comic Relief Red Nose Day - Friday 20th March 

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We would like to invite the children to wear red to nursery for Comic Relief Red Nose Day on Friday 20th March.

Please find below the link to the fundraising page if you wish to donate:

https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=20529

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This morning we used our homemade pots to sow some broad beans. Rudra asked if we could make some pots to take home. We got some of our recycled paper , decorated it and made some individual pots . We then added compost and popped some peas in them . We didn’t water them as thought it might be a bit messy to transport home. If your child made one , just give it a wee water when you get home and place on window ledge .

Continue to water and you can plant the pot straight outside next month ! 🫛

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We’ve loved playing with slime this morning! The children are enjoying pulling it apart, making shapes and putting colours in it!

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Yesterday’s PEEP session was so much fun, we hope you all had as much fun, focussing in how we can help our children understand their emotions.

The puppets made yesterday were amazing, there were so many different emotions talked about and created on the spoons.

Thanks to everyone for coming along again yesterday, it was lovely seeing you all again. See you next Thursday.

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I have attached the handout from yesterday PEEP session. I hope you have lots of fun with this one.

As mentioned at the end of the session yesterday you will need somethings you’ve collected on an outing, event or play date. This could be anything from visiting friends or family, a trip to the park or zoo, going to a birthday party, going on a bus trip etc. if you go out on a trip this weekend or through the week next week, maybe pick some things up on you trip, bus tickets, shells, wrapping paper, caress, anything at all. If you take photos while out you can send them of your child’s learning journal and we will print them off if you don’t have access to a printer. We are making a book next week so it would be lovely to have some things to add into the book.

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The children enjoyed making a stick house and a brick house outside in the garden. Children have been really enjoying the story of the 3 little pigs this week and had great fun today making houses for some pigs.

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Today we welcomed Quinn and Orla’s mum for our mystery readers today for world book day. They read two books each to a group of children which they really enjoyed.

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We had a story round our fire pit yesterday. It was “whatever Next”.

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Some children helped to make bird feeders for the sensory garden. We can’t wait to see what birds will come.

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There has been lots of discussions this week around World Book Day so we introduced a puppet theatre into nursery. The children have enjoyed creating their own stories with the puppets and retelling their favourite parts from familiar stories.