Thanks to everyone who came along to our session yesterday afternoon to catch up on our progress in our move to the woods.
We understand that this is a very busy time of year so please be assured that we intend to have more of these events to help everyone keep everyone up to date. But also, there is no obligation to come along if you have other commitments. If you have questions at any time please just speak with a member of staff.
We had an unusual visitor to nursery this week when Jordan spotted a frog on the path!
We wondered where the frog had come from and where it was going when we don’t have a pond or any water close by.
The children stayed very quiet so as not to scare the frog and when they listened carefully they could hear the frog saying “ribbitt, ribbitt”. Some of the children were able to copy the sound the frog made.
The frog was very slippery and was trying to squeeze out of Jane’s hands. The children agreed that the frog might be a bit scared of all of us because we were so much bigger than it so we decided we should put it somewhere safe. We decided not to put it back on the path because someone might stand on it and “squash it flat”. The children decided to put the frog in our bug hotel and let it decide where it wanted to go. We sat the frog down and watched it hop away into the hotel.
”It jumped really high!”
Thank you to everyone who attended today’s stay and play session. It was lovely to spend the morning with you all. We hope you all enjoyed your visit as much as we did.
If you missed today or, indeed, if you want to come back for more, our next session is scheduled for Wednesday 12th March 2025.
This week’s sign of the week is very appropriate for the snow and ice we’ve had recently : Winter
Our 2025 calendar is now available 🎉
Copies (priced at £5 each) can be collected from the Community Centre or drop us a message or email (jane@cambusbarronvillagenursery.com) to reserve your copy/ies.
We were delighted to learn that our recent application to the Cambusbarron Community Fund was successful and we have been awarded a £10,000 contribution to developing our shelter in the woods 🎉🎉🎉
Slowly but surely we are making progress 💪🏻
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We have been busy in the woods marking out a boundary on our woodland site and learning how far we can roam when we are playing. Over recent weeks our children have all been very engaged in tying knots with rope and last week with wool in our spider web. This week they practised enthusiastically with a new material, boundary tape.
We were pleased to receive an email telling us we had been successful in applying for a free LEGO® Education Build Me Emotions set. It arrived this week and our children have been making up figures with a variety of emotions to match their own faces.
We’ve had a very busy first week back at nursery following the October holiday. We’ve been very pleased to welcome Lisa to our staff team and she has very quickly settled in and is getting to know all of our children and families. We had a visit from another Lisa, this one our friend from Childsmile and she brought along some of her puppet friends and our children took turns to practice their toothbrushing skills. Lisa also brought along some toothbrush cases for us so we will be able to take our toothbrushes to the woods with us.
We celebrated Hallowe’en with pumpkin soup, ghoulish slime, pumpkin bashing, spider webs and other spooky things in the woods!
We finished our week welcoming Eliza and Lorna from Early Years Scotland to join us for an extra session in the woods.
