Welcome to Dickson Nursery Unit.  The class teacher is Mrs Morrow. Miss Dumigan is our Nursery Assistant.  This year we also have Miss Dowey, Miss Henry and Miss Moorhead working as SEN assistants. 

September

We had a very busy month in September welcoming all 27 children into the nursery class.  We have had lots of new routines to learn and toys to play with.  It has been fun. Sometimes we had tears because the children did not want to go home!!  If you click the link to the right under related pages, you will be able to view some September Play Photographs. 

October

During October, we had lots of fun collecting apples from the trees in the big school and making apple crumble.  We painted with autumn colours and stapled leaves onto pages.  We made spiders at the sticky table and enjoyed a dress-up day at the end of October.  We had party food and ate the monster buns we had made. Please click on the link to the right to view some October photographs.

 

November

In November we were learning about Fruit and Vegetables and Wild Animals.  We made fruit salad and vegetable soup. We played intoe house corned shop, selling real fruit and vegetables. Learning about wild animals was also fun. We dressed up, made animal noises and sang lots of fun songs. Henry Wee Wheels visited our Nursery and we all got to give him a cuddle.  He is a very special dog who shows us  how we can help others.  Henry likes to get his ears scratched because he cannot do it himself. It even snowed in November and we had good fun playing in the snow and building a snowman. 

December

I can assume everyone will be able to guess what our topic for December was.......Christmas!! But we also learnt about Winter weather and seasonal changes. The children had lots of fun dressing up as Santa or elves, making and putting up decorations and, of course, learning all our Christmas songs for our Activity morning.

January

In January we learnt about the New Year and made some celebration pictures. We were also learning all about Ourselves and Birthdays. We had lots of fun learning about emotions, body parts and making portraits of ourselves.  We learnt about brushing our teeth and got certificates.  We sang songs, played party games and had lots of pretend birthday cake for our birthday topic.  

 

February

In February our topic was People Who Help Us. For this topic we enjoyed a visit from the community police and an ambulance crew. We learnt about hospitals, doctors, firefighters, dentists, opticians, gardeners, teachers and farmers to name a few. The children enjoyed making pictures, dressing up and playing with our small world resources. We sang songs about emergencies and had lots of fun with our learning. We celebrated Red Day and made pancakes on Pancake Tuesday. 

 

March 

In March we celebrated World Book Day.  March saw us learning about Hairdressers and Space, alongside Spring and Easter.  We had fun being a customer and being the hairdresser.  We played with rockets, spaceships and dressed up as astronauts and aliens.  We learnt about Spring animals and the life cycle of frogs. We also had a visit from Wee Critters to meet some minibeasts and prepare us for our next topic.Rebecca Brennan from Hands to Heart also visited the school to teach some life-saving skills.  We finished off the term with an Easter Hunt and got some yummy chocolate treats.