Clarence House Nursery

Getting ready to celebrate Chinese New Year

The day had hardly begun when one of our learners created this amazing ship from construction materials. To extend the learning we asked if they thought it could float in water, they were not sure so we experimented right away and to everyone’s surprise and delight it was able to float. The child then asked if newspaper could float, they rolled up a little ball of paper and again we were amazed to find this also floated! This inspired some more ship building from the other children – looks like it’s going to be a day of finding out what floats.

Some of our team attended this fantastic training session yesterday. We learned about how we are all interconnected in the world. It showed us how many unique factors shape how we see the world and how we can use our individuality to teach others. There was a large section on anti racist education which was very informative and gave us lots of food for thought.

Today our rainbow group were excited to see some snowdrops poking their way through the mud down at the river today. We are learning about being gentle and leaving the flowers to grow so that we can see them again the next time

The stormy weather of Scotland has been a big talking point with the children this week and so our star group made a fun science experiment with shaving foam and food colouring. We compared how different colours sank through the water and how the water changed as more and different colours were added.

The babyroom are making shortbread today. We know it can often be tricky to manage spoons for measuring so we provide the babies with little cups making scooping and pouring much easier.

Our stick insects need fresh ivy to eat and each week we take a walk to the river to collect some. When we get back to nursery we clean out their habitat and see how big they have gotten.

After our Burn’s supper with our (vegan) Haggis, Neeps and Tatties we had the pleasure of listening to one of our parent’s playing the bagpipes for us. Thank you very much we are all very much wowed!

This year our star group are learning some jungle yoga

Starting 2024 off with a tasty cup of hot chocolate to keep us warm on this chilly day