The Best Start Grant School Age Payment is a £250 payment made around the time a child normally starts Primary 1.
It is open to people who get tax credits or certain benefits and are a parent or carer of a child born between 1 March 2016 and 28 February 2017.
People are encouraged to apply online at https://www.mygov.scot/best-start-grant-best-start-foods or by calling 0800 182 2222
If eligible you can also apply for Scottish Child Payment and other Best Start Grant payments at the same time.
The children were all very excited this morning to come and have a look at our caterpillars! They have now all formed a chrysalis. We have moved them into their nets ready for their big transformation! All our groups have been talking about the life cycle of the butterfly and we are all very excited to be observing this process!
We need your support! The challenge is for every pupil in the nursery and school to travel to school sustainably (walk,scoot, cycle or Park and Stride) every day for one week.
We will be recording our results every day in nursery using our numeracy and data handling skills. We will also be discussing the health and wellbeing benefits of using these methods to get to school.
If you can please walk with your child or let them cycle or scoot to nursery. We understand that some people will have to drive in but if you do please consider parking further away and walking the last wee bit to allow your child to join in.
Thank you.
Last week the Red group went on a walk in the school grounds to look for signs of spring. While they were there they took some time out to enjoy climbing and playing in the trees.
We love playing in our garden in all weather, especially when it rains! Thank you to our adults for bringing our waterproofs and wellies in to enable us to make the most of these enormous puddles! Look at how much fun we had in the blue and orange group and in the purple group too!
Following our discussions about recycling at gather this morning, we took a walk to the recycling centre in the school grounds. We took our used paper and cardboard and spoke about what might happen to it when it gets taken away. Come and see what we got up to.
Each morning the children gather in their groups to spend some time with their key worker. Here is a glimpse of some of the learning taking place in those groups.
During the Easter holidays this nursery child donated 12 inches of her hair and raised £285 for the Little Princess Trust. What a fantastic achievement. Well done and your new haircut is beautiful.
The purple group were very nurturing today when they cleaned out the tank for our nursery snails! I think the snails were delighted with their clean house and tasty fresh food! Great job girls!
