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This week the children in the Tweenie room have been enjoying planting with Corinne, our nursery gardener. The children decided which flower they would like and planted it in a pot to take home to their mummy for Mother’s Day. We would like to say a big thank you to Corinne and we hope that [&hell

This week the Tweenies have been doing lots to raise money for Sports Relief. We have been taking part in a sponsored obstacle course both in the nursery and in the garden. We have been climbing, running and jumping. We have also made some yummy cakes to sell at our bake sale.

This week the older children have been taking part in the World book week challenge to read 1 million books. We are excited to add our total into the online results. We also found a story book in our literacy hut in the garden from Crammond Nursery, it is part of the ‘Look for a […]

This week at Teddy Bear House the children have been enjoying listening to their favourite stories for World Book day. We took a real interest in ‘Dear Zoo’ and decided to make our own props for telling the story. We had fun making the animals and boxes for keeping them in, we also loved trying

The Tweenies would like to thank Nicole’s mummy for coming into nursery this week to read 101 Dalmatians for wold book day. We would also like to thank Nicole for asking her mummy and daddy to bring in their own dalmatian dog called ‘Pongo’. We loved listening to someone different telling us a

This week the older children have been keeping an eye on our germ experiment. We have been using the magnifying glasses to look at the germs growing on the bread. We have also been researching about germs and have discovered that not all germs are bad there are good germs as well and we are [&hellip

The Tweenie children have been celebrating pancake day this week. We have been busy measuring, mixing and cooking the ingredients to make yummy pancakes. The children spread jam and butter on their pancakes and enjoyed them for snack. Kelly read the children a funny story about Mr Wolf making pancak

This week our older children had a return visit from our friends at Oatridge College. We talked about litter and the landfill site and how important it is to re-use as much as possible. We went on a big scavenger hunt and found lots of plastic bottles and tin cans. We sorted these and then […

This week the tweenies have been taking part in lots of activities to enhance their fine motor skills. We have been working with scissors and trying to cut strips of paper, we were threading the lacing cards, cotton reels and beads. We also made some playdough and had fun rolling it out and then try

This week the older children have been braving our Scottish weather and tackling storm Ciara in the garden. We had wind, snow and rain! Our mud kitchen in the wild woods was very muddy and our wellies got very mucky. We were singing in the mud, this reminded us of the snowstorm and squelchy mud [&he