News / Nunn Road / 2016 / December 2016

The 2016 school term is coming to an end.  Looking back we are glad to have another year of blessed opportunity to watch children growing up healthily and happily at Nania.  Children started here as young child who need this warm environment that we strived to have at Nania and every year some of these children will graduate and leave us as upright young children to start another phase of their life journey. 

This year we have 3 three-year-olds who are becoming very independent. They have quickly adapted to the daily class rhythms and are capable of changing with minimal help and putting away their own belongings after that.  They eat on their own and help to set up tables for lunch whenever they can.  They are the favorite playmates who are always being included in the bigger children’s creative activities.

The four-year-olds sing and recite poems well. They play creatively and happily with the bigger children in the class.  After class dismissal, these children still want to play with each other and often they are reluctant to part with each other after school.

Throughout the year, the 5-year-olds showed their ability to organize games to play with the younger children. Most of the time, they imitate the games played by the older children.  So while the 6-year-olds were at their literacy hour in the afternoon they started turning dividers into aeroplanes, cars or motorcycles, blocks into castles and zoos and flat boards into vehicle tracks. They decorated their ‘houses’ built from dividers with cloths in rainbow colours and also used colourful yarn as drapes for the windows.  Every day is a busy day as I watch all of them growing up at Nania till it comes the time for them to move on to begin another new phase of life’s journey at the primary school.

Christmas Festival is behind us now.  The children always do wonderfully during the final rehearsal compared to the actual day’s presentation.  But no matter how they did on the actual day, all of these children have always put in lots of effort while practising in the class.  Of course they have fun too.  I am certain that all of them are still singing and reciting the Christmas songs and poems at home.

Next year we welcome many new children to the class. I am  looking forward to get acquainted with them and to experience new class dynamics with these children.  I am also confident that our present children are children that are capable and generous enough to include them in their daily routine here. The new chapters of days in Nania are going to be re-written all over again.

 I wish to take this opportunity to wish everybody Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 

                                                                                                                                Teacher Nora