The Chronicle

This week we continued to enjoy plenty of pirate fun, but finally the princesses got to join in too! We read the story of the Princess and the Pea and played some lovely listening games to go with it. Taking turns to be the princess, each child lay down, on a mattress, on top of a pea and went to sleep… their friends then took turns to pass round the Queen’s keys, trying not to make a sound until the princess woke up and guessed who was hiding them! Everyone enjoyed the game, but it was very hard because Miss Lisa’s keys were too quiet… next time we must remember to borrow Mr Steve’s school keys – they jangle really loudly! 

As we come to the end of our pirate and princess fun we are starting to think about our next exciting learning theme, we will begin looking at everything ‘Autumny’ next week so that our Autumn display can be almost as good as the sparkly display in the Two Year Old room. We love looking at their happy hedgehogs, and after hearing about the hedgehogs living in Miss Maxine’s garden we want to find out all about them. 

We have a couple of requests: if you are out and about this weekend please bring something in for our Autumn display, and if you are having a clear out we would love any old CD’s of nursery rhymes, children’s songs and stories, thank you.

For further details of what's happening next week in Nursery please click here for the Weekly News. 

Leanne Jones of Drama Tots led Stay ‘n’ Players on a journey of make-believe when she visited the baby and toddler group on Wednesday 18 September.

This was a repeat visit from Leanne as part of a programme of activities at the weekly group and Stay ‘n’ Play was thrilled to welcome her back.  Involving all ages, Drama Tots blends imaginative play with music and movement to transport children on exciting adventures. Our Stay ‘n’ Players were transfixed thanks to Leanne’s enthusiasm and warmth.

Little Crackers Stay ‘n’ Play continues weekly in term-time and will feature a special autumn crafts session on Wednesday 8 November led by Gail and Mary and the rest of the team.

Stay ‘n’ Players are warmly invited to attend an exciting session in our Nursery from professional children’s singer and songwriter Nick Cope on Wednesday 27 September from 3.00pm to 3.30pm. 

Nick Cope is highly recommended by our Head of Music and the entertainer has spent most of the summer performing in his own show at the Edinburgh Festival.

This is an additional session to our usual morning Stay ‘n’ Play and has been arranged by our music department. The cost to attend the session is £3.50 which can be paid on the door. If you plan to attend, please bear in mind that the finish time is close to the collection time for the school and so you may wish to park farther away than usual.

Click here for a biography of Nick to tell you more about his work.