While we don’t “teach” maths at Nursery, children are using early math skills throughout their daily routines and activities. Early maths doesn’t mean taking out a workbook and calculator during play. We learn about shapes and colours, size and measurements etc. everyday in Nursery through ALL of our classroom activities. The Preschool Curricular Guidance lists […]
The Education Authority has provided schools throughout Northern Ireland, some advice for Newcomer families who have been learning English while at school. It is really important that this learning continues at home so that when the period of school closures comes to an end, each child has a smooth transition back to using English with […]
Tomorrow is a new month and begins with a silly start so let’s stay positive. Have fun! Be silly x PSE – Talk about things which make you smile and things which make you laugh. Remember it is fun to laugh with others but not laugh at them, that would hurt their feelings. WAU – […]
Today let’s turn a negative into a positive – let’s make keeping clean fun. We have covered lots of these ideas in school already but now is the time to reinforce it at home. Ready boys and girls… PSE – Let’s get a clean routine ASAP. Eat a healthy breakfast, brush your teeth, put on […]
“Unprecedented” “Unusual” “Unfamiliar” The words that keep getting used in the news at the minute are not very helpful. While it is apparent, that no one has ever had to deal with a situation like this before, the best way forward is to encourage one another and help each other to help the children. We […]
Hi boys and girls! Thank you so much for all your kind messages. The staff at Ballymena Nursery School will miss you, but we are confident in the fact that you are in the safest place possible at this time – at home. Over the next wee while we will be adding “observations” on our app for […]
This week has been good fun exploring stories, both old and new. We have enjoyed story sacks, big-books, story telling CDs, movie magic, fiction and non-fiction books. Lending library was popular as always on Tuesday, then when the book fair opened on Thursday, we were overwhelmed by you support. We raised £300 worth of books […]
www.ci-ni.org.uk/parentline-ni Parentline is a phone service for parents and carers of children from birth to 18 years old. They offer confidential and anonymous counselling and support on parenting issues. Their qualified counsellors are available to: talk about any issues to do with parenting and your relationships with your child help you with ways to cope and […]
Last week we had great fun learning how to play drums with Nathan @funwithdrums We experienced different drums and used different volumes, tempo and rhythm to make music with our hands It was so much fun the days our parents joined us! We were also able to “share from the start” with a drumming lesson […]
What a nice way to settle back into nursery after the Christmas break – to have a special week long show and tell! However each family celebrates Christmas we love that the children share in each other’s excitement when we listen to our friends discuss the Christmas they had. It helps us learn about one […]
