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Summer is here!
Hard to believe we are already at the end of Session 2022/2023. We’ve had a fantastic, if very fast, year with all of our little people. We will miss all of our leavers but wish them well as they move on to their next steps in their education journey.
The staff team received so many kind words and wishes yesterday along with some lovely gifts – thank you, we do appreciate them.
We hope everyone has a wonderful summer break, hopefully with a little more sunshine than we had yesterday 🤞🏻😎.
We will be back in August!
Cambusbarron Gala Day
We were delighted to be part of Cambusbarron Gala Day yesterday. We set up our stall with lots of photos and information about who we are and what we do. It was lovely to meet new people and also to see so many of our children from previous years all looking so grown up! There were a few of our current cohort in attendance too although they were pretty hard to recognise 🤣
Summer Train Trip to Dunblane
We took a train trip up to Dunblane for our summer trip. The sun shone and we enjoyed a wonderful day playing in Laighills Park.
Preliminary Ecological Appraisal
Echoes Ecology have now completed their PEA of our proposed site in Gillies Hill Community Woodland. Their executive summary records “There was no field evidence of protected species found during the survey. There is suitable habitat for nesting birds and commuting and foraging for bats. If proposed works are to be undertaken during the breeding bird season (March to September inclusive), then any areas of the Site that need to be cleared of vegetation must be shown to be free of nesting birds prior to works commencing. There are no other recommended surveys.”
Echoes Ecology report lists several species from the Scottish Biodiversity List which may be present in the woodland – these include bats, toads, hedgehogs, red squirrels and native bluebells. We have seen lots of bluebells this spring, we regularly see toads and have once spotted a red squirrel. We need to keep our eyes peeled for the rest!
Our Surprise Coronation Tree
We planted a tree in our orchard in the Walled Garden today to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III. We don’t know what kind of tree it is so it will be a surprise to see what grows. Our children think it will grow really tall and maybe it will give us some pears or apples to eat for our snack 🤞🏻
Visit from Echoes Ecology
We were very pleased to welcome Kay and Heather from Echoes Ecology to our woods this morning. They have picked a beautiful, warm, sunny day to visit!
Kay and Heather are are conducting a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA) of our site in the woods which will document the range of habitats present and will look for signs of any protected species. This initial appraisal will inform the requirement for any future surveys.
Kay is known to us at CVN having helped us put up squirrel and bird feeders in the woods a couple of years ago. We are hopeful that our children can again be involved so that we can learn more about the creatures that live in our woods.
April Volunteer Day @ the Walled Garden
We were pleased to join with so many people at the mid month volunteer session in the Walled Garden at Gillies Hill Community Woodland today. The garden is literally springing into life and there were many jobs on the go including digging over and planting potatoes in a new bed, fixing the door to the poly tunnel, clearing the ever present glass and rubbish, planting strawberry plants and planting a new willow dome. It’s great to see changes and improvements as a result of everyone’s hard work. Despite the long list of jobs on the go there was time for a chat while enjoying a well earned cuppa.
Our job today was building a willow dome and, if we say it ourselves, we were very pleased with the result. It has a little bit of growing to do as we were maybe a little bit over ambitious with our planning but ambition is never a bad thing 😉
We are looking forward to watching it grow!
Community Clear Up Month
Our children have been out today picking up litter in Gillies Hill Community Woodland as part of the Community Clear Up Month. We collected a lot of litter and the bag was very heavy by the time we were finished. We hope you notice that the woods are so much cleaner now as a result of our hard work!
Thank you to Cambusbarron Community Council for lending us the litter pickers.
Mini First Aid
Our children have been very interested in learning about how to keep safe and healthy like their Wellbeing Buddies Safe Stella and Healthy Henry. Children have been asking about the roles of doctors, nurses, paramedics and first aiders too as we’ve had a lot of “accidents” in nursery requiring emergency treatment!! We were delighted therefore to welcome Lynsay Allan with Mini First Aid Fife & Forth Valley and Teddy to nursery yesterday. Teddy is very accident prone and Lynsay showed the children what to do if they have an accident too. Our children learned how to clean a small cut and put a plaster on it, how to put a cool pack on for 10 minutes if they have a bump on their heads, how to help a very poorly person lie on their side and how to call 999 to get help for them.
Lynsay thought all of our children were Superstars!
Cambusbarron Village Nursery 