Recently, we were lucky enough to have some plants donated by a parent and so today some of the children went off to the allotments in Leith to do some planting. It was a lovely walk to get there and the children had a great time.

Today the sun shone and the children brought their cuddly toys to nursery for a Teddy Bears Picnic. Jam sandwiches, biscuits and even ice cream cones. We all had a wonderful time!

As many children move towards transition to school in the summer, we have been encouraging children to develop expressive language skills and to describe what they draw or paint. Here is an example of this where two girls made a collage and then told us the story to go along with it. This is just the beginning of imaginative writing and a great place to start. Well done Sara and Chantelle.

Today we set our butterflies free in the sunshine and watched as they flew away around the garden.

There was more excitement in nursery this morning as the children discovered we had some butterflies from the cocoons.

This week, the preschool children and their parents were invited along to listen to a story and do some arts and crafts. The children were introduced to the book ‘The Tobermory Cat’ and made cat masks and puppets with staff from Community Learning.

The children all received a Reading Rainbow bag containing lovely story books to be enjoyed at home and we will follow this up with a trip to the local library next Tuesday.

The children got messy today and really enjoyed making some pink ‘slime’.

Rachael thought it was ‘squidgy’ , Cole said ‘it feels like glue” and Samyam loved feeling it through his fingers!