🎅🏻✨🎄Christmas Fayre 🎄✨🎅🏻 Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Christmas Fayre to kick start the festivities! #FamilyFun #TisTheSeason

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Last week, the 3-5’s celebrated St Andrews Day 🕺 We did some Scottish dancing ✏️ we made our own tartan with rulers to make straight lines 👗 we dressed up in kilts.

3-5, Please have a look through our lost property, if items are not claimed by the end of the week they will be added to our spare clothes collection. Could we please remember to label all clothes 😍

📱📷 Today, a few friends in the 3-5 room explored technology and took selfies! We loved pulling funny faces 😜

We had a lovely time celebrating our families attending Cook to connect. We had our celebration afternoon tea this afternoon. Thank you to all who attended .We glad you had as much fun as us!

🚦Road Safety Week🚦 In the 3-5 room, we have explored more aspects of road safety through… 🛑 Making our own road signs in the art area 🚗 Playing with cars and making roads with the blocks 🚦 Making our own traffic lights and playing “Stop! Get ready… Go!” outside

Getting into the festive spirit on our visit to Cunningham House today. Our children brought along some Christmas crafts to make some cards for the residents today and enjoyed singing some Christmas songs 🎄🎅🏻 #IntergenerationalLearning #FestiveFun

exploring colours and shapes in the under 3’s suite. We had so much fun identifying the different colours. We also developed our awareness of circles and squares. 🔴🟢🟥🟩🟦

We are delighted to be opening our doors on Saturday 29.11.25 at 11am for our Christmas Fayre 🎄 We hope to see you there 😀

As we had a colder spell last week, we enjoyed some time practicing our fire building skills. We enjoyed time watching and talking around the fire, sharing stories about our day and what made us smile. On Thursday, we even had Bookbug join us for some songs and stories!

🚦This week is road safety week🚦 🚗 The 3-5’s went out in small groups on a walk to practice road safety J - “stop, look for cars coming“ 🚸 We noticed lots of signs and chatted about what they meant N - “that’s holding hands, for school” T - “triangle“

Our wee people in the Pod shown an interest in using sponges with paint to be creative. They choose some sponge shapes and colours of paint. KS “star” which then led to us singing “Twinkle twinkle little star”.

✨📚it’s National Book Week Scotland!📚✨ In the 3-5’s room we kicked this special week off with a visit to our library and picking out which books we would like to have on our shelf!

🧸💛 Children in Need Day 💛🧸 In the 3-5 room, we dressed up in our Pudsey clothes and our pyjamas! We explored Pudsey and Blush play dough and took part in our ‘Challenge 25‘ 25 minute dance! Thanks to all who donated! 💛

For our cook to connect session we made some yummy cheesy vegetable cous cous. Lots of skills involved including chopping and discussions on cooker safety. We cant wait for our party next week 🎉 #cookingTogether

Our children and the residents had great fun role-playing with the dolls and cars at this week’s Cunningham House visit. It is great to watch the flourishing relationships between the children and residents! #IntergenerationalLearning #BuildingBonds

We had such fun celebrating with Lea ahead of her upcoming wedding. We dressed her up in a beautiful toilet paper dress, danced to so music and played with the confetti cannons. We want to wish Lea and Ross a lifetime of happiness and enjoy the day 💍

We are delighted to be opening our doors on Saturday 29.11.25 at 11am for our Christmas Fayre 🎄 We hope to see you there 😀

We started Nursery Rhyme Week by singing and exploring the rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’! We listened to the rhyme during our YMI session then some of our friends created their own ‘pie’ for the king! #WorldNurseryRhymeWeek #EarlyLanguage

We used our real life experiences to role play in the POD. We took care of the babies and made a yummy dinner of pasta. S: “I’m cooking. It’s too hot” A: “baby sleeps”

This week we created Pizza Faces at our Cook to Connect session. We chopped the vegetables, spread the sauce and sprinkled our cheese before selecting our toppings! We all enjoyed the tasty treats we made! #FunWithFood #FamilyLearning

Enjoying our little tea party in the under 3s suite. Lots of fine motor skills and hand eye coordination along with sharing “your turn” JD ”tea” TGS ☕️🫖

👮🏻‍♀️ The police came to visit us!👮🏻‍♂️ 🚓 We got to chat with the police officers and look at the police car! 🚨 We heard the loud siren and saw the flashing lights!

This week in the 3-5 room, we have been exploring a range of experiences based on guy fawkes night. We… 🔥 made a fire out in the garden 🎨 used paint to make firework creations ✨ explored the sparkly firework playdough 🍂used natural materials to make firework pictures outside

Last night was Bonfire night and we had lots of fun showing our creativity making firework pictures. We used both books and the iPad to find out what they looked like then used our mark making and fine motor skills to create amazing, sparkly pictures! 🎆🎇

One of our friends in the 3-5 room has lost their bunny. If you have accidentally taken this home, please return this asap. Our friend is sad without her bunny.

Today in the Under 3’s we had lots of exciting experiences to explore around bonfire night & fireworks🎆

Thanks for joining us at our Cuddlers and Babblers session we look forward to seeing you at the next one! We spent time singing songs together, exploring the colour monster through sensory experiences and enjoyed listening to the story. 💚💙🩷❤️🖤💛

Our first litter picking session. Thank you to all the parents who came along. We managed to collect lots of rubbish that was around the nursery. 🚮🗑️

Happy Halloween 🎃 the 3-5s have had a super fun day. We loved getting our faces painted, exploring the witches gloop in the garden, carving a pumpkin, & finishing off with a spooktacular bookbug ❤️ the best memories made with our friends. ⭐️

This week we have been exploring all things Halloween in the POD. We were curious about the pumpkin and what it looked like inside then decided to decorate it using lots of colours. We went on a pumpkin hunt, read lots of spooky stories, sang spooky songs and explored using our senses.

We have had a fun day in the under 3’s suite celebrating Halloween through exploring different experiences. We really enjoyed our dance party though, monster mash is a big favourite 🎃

Our first cook to connect session of the block. We made yummy stir fry. Lots of skills involved including cooker safety. We really enjoyed chopping the vegetables to put in it. Looking forward to seeing you all next week 🧑‍🍳🍴

We have been using our senses by making potions in the garden. Using spices, adding leaves and sticks from the garden we used our imagination to make some spooky creations 🎃👻

Our trip to Cunningham house. We had so much fun during our book bug session followed by icing biscuits. It was lovely speaking to our new friends.

What a superb way to round off our block of Nurturing Nature 🌲🔥 We had a walk through the woods then stone painting before our final campfire goodbye ♥️🔥 A great experience with a very passion group of parents! #FamilyLearning #ExploringNature

We have been building aeroplanes with the blocks so we decided to extend our interest by visiting the airport to see the planes taking off and landing. It was so exciting to see how fast and loud they were! J: “Jet 2 plane” A: “it’s going into the blue sky” “it has wheels”

On our walk yesterday we hid some pumpkins 🎃 Keep an eye out for them on your walks in the community and let us know if you find all 10! #ExploringOurCommunity #PumpkinHunt

Our Fareshare is topped up with some fab items... even some fresh flowers which are enjoying a drink of water! Lynette also took some round to our friends at Cunningham House to enjoy looking at it the lounges. Please help yourself 🥰 #fareshare #community

On Monday the fire and rescue services came out to visit us. We loved exploring the fire engine and hearing all about it but our favourite was when we got to used the hose 💦 🔥 🚒 #Fire #PeopleWhoHelpUs

This morning in the under 3s suite, we went on a bus trip to the local police station. We were so excited to sit inside the police car, but we were even more excited to press the siren. We can’t wait for the community police officer to come visit us. #ExploringTheCommunity

Yesterday in the garden, some of the boys and girls were using their imagination as they role played. They decided to build their very own campfire. We remembered all of the rules of how to stay safe around the campfire! O - “It’s hot like the lava!” K - “Let’s add the logs to keep the fire going”

🍂 Here are some pictures of the walk some friends in the 3-5 room went on last week. 🌈 We spoke about the autumn colours we could see which ties into our room interest of colours!

This week in the under 3’s suite we have been creating our own colour Monster using different coloured paints. To continue our interest in pouring and scooping we have been using different utensils, pots and measuring scoops To mix our own paints. “Blue,big eyes is sad”OB #colourminster#earlymaths

We are excited to start our sewing and threading journey. We started practicing today using some leaves threading them through the holes. We were developing our fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. We are starting to build our confidence when using the needles. 🍂🍁🍃

Reminder all welcome to pop along to our Bookbug session at 2.15pm today with Jane! Collect your little one and join in ☺️

exploring Autumn in the tuff tray. Making autumn soup using leaves and twigs that we collected on a walk. we Counted leaves as we put them in our ‘soup’ “1,2,3” MC “Hot” TGS “Orange” OB

We had so much fun in our junk modelling space today making robot costumes using our imaginations and creativity, look what we made 🤖 #creativity #imagination #friendships #fun #smilesandlaughter

In the POD our interest has been in construction. We made our own construction site using bricks and dumper trucks! We spoke about being safe and why we should wear helmets. Lots of rich discussion was heard,we also watched big diggers on iPad. JC “ big wheels”. IRMC “ I use the bricks to build”

Today was our first visit to the residents at Cunningham House. This week Jane brought Bookbug along to join us for some songs & stories before the children shared their own Story Books! We started to get to know the residents before our next visit. #CommunityPartnerships #IntergenerationalLearning