Pencaitland Primary Blog

 The morning nursery group came over to join P1 this morning to take part in a live glow meet with Emily from the Scottish Seabird Centre. Emily told us the story of Percy the Puffin, and we all joined in with noises and actions. We even felt the spray from the sea thanks to Mrs [...]

Parents and carers joined us this morning to look at and contribute to their children’s learning stories.   It was a great opportunity for parents and children to work together in their nursery.  We plan to build on the success of this morning and hold similar events in the future.
We are always happy to involve parents [...]

If you’re a new reader, welcome to our Nursery blog and the first entry for 2009. The children returned to nursery refreshed and eager to meet up with their friends again. The afternoon nursery children were very excited to have some new friends joining them this session - welcome to Euan, Hope, Jack, Calum, Charlie, [...]

It’s almost the end of another year and the children in Nursery have had a busy time. There have been lots of celebrations which generated some very interesting chats and art work with the children. Some of our younger children chose to dress up on the 31st October. We had two witches,one with a less [...]

Last night was quite magical at the school. The hall was decked with fairy lights and moon and star balloons, seven soft areas were covered with cosy cushions, and beakers of milk and yummy biscuits were prepared. Then our Nursery and Primary 1 children arrived in their jammies with a teddy and a grown-up! We [...]

The nights are fairly drawing in! The changing colours of the trees and the arrival of conker season has given the children in the nursery lots to talk about. We’ve had great fun collecting leaves of different sizes and colours, sorting, matching and printing with them and the children have brought in enough acorns to [...]

A new session is underway in nursery and we would like to welcome back our new pre-schoolers and extend a warm welcome to our new children in the afternoon. Our new children are settling well into the routines of nursery and enjoy using the outdoor space and we’re all looking forward to exciting times ahead.
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June is a busy month for nursery. Our pre-school children are taking part in lots of activities to ensure a smooth transition to P1 and have met their new teachers regularly throughout this session. We have our nursery sports days , a teddy bears’ picnic and an outing to East Links Park [...]

The weather has finally taken a turn for the better and nursery children are enjoying making use of our outdoor space. We encourage the children to take the air, even on days when it’s less than perfect, so it would be really handy if the children could bring wellies with them on wet days (nursery [...]

During our recent Health Week the children in the Nursery enjoyed a variety of activities, including an aerobics session and obstacle course designed and managed by P7 pupils. The children had a super time, so a big thanks to P7.
In the Nursery, in the lead up to the Easter break, we discussed road safety. [...]

In honour of Rabbie Burns, the children in Nursery helped to prepare a traditional meal of haggis, neeps and tatties to be enjoyed at snack time. In keeping with this theme we also joined in with some traditonal Scots rhymes about the weather and a scary creature called a horny golloch! The perfect introduction to [...]

It’s been a long time coming but finally, it’s here! Welcome to the first Nursery blog of the session. This is another way for us to tell you all about Nursery events, and provide an opportunity for you to comment.
Last Thursday the morning children enjoyed a visit from The Puppet Lab who performed the [...]

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