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Daily Challenge Monday March 23rd 2020
Closure from Friday March 20th
I’m sad to say that, following the recent announcement by the First Minister, Cambusbarron Villahe Nursery will be closing at the end of the week until further notice. We are still awaiting confirmation of details and will pass these on as soon as we can.
The staff team are working on providing some home link activities to support children and families at this time.
We thank you in advance for your understanding and patience.
Exploring the woods
We spent the morning exploring the woods today. We walked to the Walled Garden, along to the Curling Ponds (where we found frog spawn!) up to the Swimming Pool and back down through the Dark Woods. It was pouring with rain most of the time and so we enjoyed lots of splashing and stomping in muddy puddles.
Children’s Wishlist
Our children have been thinking about what they want to have in their new nursery building.
- Big windows to see out
- a fire in the house
- A play kitchen
- Hot chocolate – great thinking
- A cupboard
- water – but clean water
- cold water
- a funny shape
- make it with wood and sticks from the trees that are falling down by themslves
- hooks for our coats
- a spoon
- buttons to get the TV on (but there’s not electricity in the woods so we can’t have a TV)
- table for lunch
- a pipe for the chimney
- flags and cushions
- we can’t make a big house until we chop down some trees
- windmill to make us cool down in the house
- a telescope
- we need a wolf to scare away the other wolves
- bed
- somewhere to keep paper
- lights
- a chimney to let the smoke out
- a chimney so Santa can get in
- forks and knives
- a stove to keep us warm
- a bathroom
- upstairs and downstairs
- lights
Advice on the Coronavirus for places of education
COVID-19 Guidance
We have been asked to share the following information on coronavirus, COVID-19.
The general principles which help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses are :
- washing your hands often – with soap and water, this is particularly important after taking public transport
- covering your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throwing the tissue in a bin.
- people who feel unwell should stay at home and should not attend work or any
education or early learning and childcare setting - children, pupils, students, staff and visitors should wash their hands:
- before leaving home
- on arrival at nursery
- after using the toilet
- after breaks and sporting activities
- before food preparation
- before eating any food, including snacks
- before leaving school/setting
- use an alcohol based hand sanitiser that contains at least 60% alcohol if soap and water are not available
- avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands
- avoid close contact with people who are unwell
- clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces
- if you are worried about your symptoms or those of a child or colleague, please call your GP or NHS24 (111). Do not go directly to your GP or other healthcare environment but phone.
- see further information on HPS COVID-19 website and NHS Inform
Face masks for the general public, pupils or students, or staff are not recommended to protect from infection, as there is no evidence of benefit from their use outside healthcare environments.
Full details available at :
Click to access 1_covid-19-guidance-to-educational-settings.pdf
Worms at the bottom of our garden
We have been saving all of our food scraps in a composting bin for some time but decided that it would be interesting to to set up a home for worms in our garden and feed the worms our scrap food. This week we set up our new wormery. We made the worms a bed by soaking a coir brick in water – it went from being hard and light brown to being soft, dark brown and very messy. We put our worms in, they were slippery, cold and slimy and looked, we were told, like a monster truck 😉
Tree planting
We were very pleased to be invited to help plant a tree in the park this morning in memory of Lt Colonel Francis Saunders. Mrs McAllister told us he was a very important man in Cambusbarron history and that he lived to be over 100 years old.
The tree we planted was a Sorbus or Rowan tree. The gardeners were very pleased to have our help as we dug and stamped and moved the earth around for them. We were such a good help that they asked us to help plant another 4 trees!
Cambusbarron Village Nursery 