Matthew’s Dad came to nursery to help us make plaster casts of our hands. We had a great time and our hands were fantastic!
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We had a visit from Kay Coull our Health Visitor. She told us all about what happens when we need to visit the Doctor and what we should do to keep ourselves healthy.
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We went for a walk up to Ormiston main street. We collected conkers, acorns and lovely autumn leaves.
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We would like to welcome back our pre-school children. Nice to see you all again and a warm welcome to the new children who started after the summer.
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For our Christmas entertainment ‘Jo-Jingles’ came to visit the Nursery. We had lots of fun!
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The morning Nursery Group had a visit from one of the biggest kinds of owl – European Eagle Owl – called ‘Charlie’. The children have been finding out lots of information about owls. Charlie came with his keeper, Environmental Officer ‘Carl’.
Lots of the children were very brave and stroked Charlie’s lovely, soft feathers.
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This week saw the older group from the Nursery visit the Butterfly Farm near Dalkeith. This trip was very enjoyable as you can see in the photos. The children have been learning about butterflies in school.

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Jo Jingles visited Ormiston Nursery this week which was a great success. The nursery children took part in movement and games. This was for the younger group as a special end of session treat.
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Primary Four visited the Nursery this week to see the tadpoles. Some of the children took photos of the displays about frogs and their lifecycle. Then we noticed how Primary one have been learning about minibeasts. They made their own lifecycle pictures for a frog. In primary four we have been learning about animal classification – putting creatures into sets of invertebrates and vertebrates. We made ladybirds to help us understand about features of an insect and then we made a lever so that the wings would move.
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