World Book Day

Good morning  all ,

Yes its World Book Day on Thursday 7th March , All children are welcome to bring their favourite book to share with us at nursery(clearly named please) and to come along dressed as their favourite character from any book . There's also a Scholastic catalogue out at the moment - you can use your WBD tokens for this , and please have any orders back by Friday 8th.
Its also Mothers' Day on Sunday- please don't forget ! Of course we always celebrate this special day at Craigton so  make sure you check your child's folder/file......we wouldn't want anyone to miss a special creation:-)
We have some more celebrations this month too- Its busy in March this year! Its St.Patrick's Day on 17th and Easter 31st. The clocks also go FORWARD on this date as British summertime starts(no comment!) and we can look forward to lighter evenings and hopefully the arrival of spring.
Our fruit trees have now been planted in our new orchard - the sunflowers did a great job digging and clearing and planting , under the expert guidance of Joanne from Gardening4Kids. The children are looking forward to caring for the  young  trees , though I don't think the trees will grow quickly enough to please them! Hopefully we can start preparing the growing areas soon , and get planting  some faster  growing crops too :-)

Staff have recently attended the following training :
First Aid
Child Development
Food Hygiene
Messy Play- under 3s
Music and Movement
Kitchen Chemistry
Treasure Baskets
Staff appraisal and Supervision Skills
Stimulating Outdoor Spaces
Observation and assessment
Self  Evaluation
CfE
Leadership and Management in Early Years

A reminder that we shall be closed on the following dates this year
Easter Monday - 1st April
May Day - 6th May
Local holidays - 8th July and 23rd September