A few of Bonnie’s last group photos as promised 🙂

 

From Monday 29th March parents, carers and children will be able to purchase a “Bunny Bonus Ball” to be in with the chance of winning a fabulous Easter bunny balloon filled with yummy sweet treats.

Bunny Bonus Balls will be priced at £1 each and will be available at both drop off and pick up times Monday – Wednesday next week with the generator draw taking place at 10am on Thursday morning.

Throughout the week the children will be taking part in fun easter activities within both bubbles.

Carrie has set a challenge for children AND PARENTS for Wednesday (more details to follow)

And on Thursday we are hoping to have a surprise guest visitor a the ECC.

REMINDER – EAC schools and ECCs close at 2.30pm on Thursday for the Easter break. Doors to the ECC will open earlier on this day to allow for parents and carers to get to feeding schools in time as well as a photo opportunity with our visitor – times are as follows:-

MINIBEASTS – 1.55pm – 2.10pm

SEA CREATURES – 2.10pm – 2.25pm

Children and staff return to the centre on Monday 19th April 2021.

Everyone here at Catrine ECC would like to take this opportunity to say an enormous THANK YOU to Gillian (Harry’s mum) who donated £100 to the centre last week after collecting money from an online bonus ball generator.

We are delighted to accept your very kind donation and the children have already started thinking about some new resources they might like to spend the money on.

Once the votes are in and verified we will be sure to send you a picture of our new toys 🙂

Thank you again Gillian – from Catrine ECC xxx

Thank you to everyone that kindly donated on Friday, for the collection towards Red Nose Day and the ECC Snack Fund. We raised a total of £135.74. Half will be sent to Red Nose Day and half to our snack fund.

Thank you again for your generosity, it is appreciated.

Today Bonnie was introduced to all of our Sea Creatures.

(Our Jellyfish and Starfish group pictures will be uploaded on Monday)

Again, Bonnie had such a fab day and is currently lying exhausted at my feet after meeting so many new friends today 🙂

This bubble also spoke of the importance of having gentle hands with Bonnie and what we need to give her to keep her happy and healthy.

Rhys – bones

April – you need to play with her

Ava G – water to drink

Tyler – a lead so she doesn’t run away onto the road

Theia – a bouncy ball

Logan R – dry and wet food

Have a great weekend everyone. From Team Catrine and our newest recruit Bonnie 🙂

Well, as most of you would have seen yesterday morning Bonnie finally got to make her first appearance at the centre.

Like all of our “new starts” she is on a settling in period just now and in line with her risk assessment is meeting small groups of children, in separate bubbles at a time.

Yesterday Bonnie met all of the Magnificent Minibeasts and she had a ball!

The children have been learning all about nurture and how you would care for different living things such as babies, plants and, of course, animals on the run up to her arrival.

Bonnie joined in at group time for her first day, and listened well to the children’s ideas of what she needs to make her feel happy, loved and cared for. Some of the children even had a wee turn at telling her to sit – she showed off and gave a paw, so obviously got rewarded with a wee treat 🙂

Adam – dog food and treats

Emily C – water

Layla – walks and a lead

Ayla C – poop bags because if you don’t it goes on your shoes

Abi – cuddles

Harry – a bed

While Bonnie was here she thoroughly enjoyed exploring in both of our outdoor areas and can’t wait to get back to the ECC to spend some time with the Sea Creatures.

On Friday 19th March we will be supporting Comic Relief by wearing something red. The children can also come along to the centre wearing something red. A donation bucket will be placed beside Janet at both drop off and pick up times to allow parents to make a donation, if they wish to.

Any money collected will be split in half between the charity and our Catrine ECC snack fund.

Thank you for your continued support.

 

It has been an exciting week here at the ECC celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths with a huge range of fantastic new resources.  Each bubble have had the chance to explore and investigate our terrific learning opportunities with the silent disco being a huge hit!  We have been so busy and the week has been jam packed with learning and laughter. The smiles on the children’s faces and the excitement and curiosity during experiments has been superb. We hope everyone has a great weekend and comes back refreshed and full of beans next week ready to explore our nurture focus ♥

Press on the link below to enjoy this weeks highlights.

Good afternoon boys and girls, I hope you are all well.  We are adding a mathematical theme to our GLOW blog every second week to help promote numeracy and all it entails, using a range of household and outdoor resources.

                                                      

Today we have a little challenge – can you all look through the house and see how many circular objects you can find? When you have found what you are looking for you could draw some pictures and send them to me.

Walking outside, you could also look for circular or other shaped objects and let me know by either taking pictures, or drawing them for me.

 

rena.dornan@eastayrshire.org.uk

Good morning everyone,

World Book Week allowed us to explore so much and we wanted to share with you some of the fun we had.

The link below will take you to lots of lovely photographs of both the children and some of the activities.

Have a good weekend everyone.

 

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We have had lots of fun learning about Elmer. We made our own elephants out of milk cartons, we created different patterns, we collaged a large Elmer and played a colour by number game. We also learned it’s ok to be unique and discussed how Elmer looked different.

Here is a video of the story we have been reading in the ECC for you to listen to at home.

It has been a long and fun week for everyone in the Sea Creatures bubble. We have had so much fun celebrating World Book Week and participating in a wide range of activities.

Today, we were focusing on The Gruffalo, please click the link below to listen to Julie’s bedtime story. I hope you all enjoy and have a lovely weekend😊.

Sea Creatures – The Gruffalo

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The Spring Hardship Payment is a Scottish Government Grant, the application form is now live on the East Ayrshire Council website. You may be eligible for this. Please check the link below for the guidelines;

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndGovernment/Coronavirus/Hardship-payment.aspx

Monday 8th – Friday 12th March is STEM WEEK

Throughout the week the children will be given the opportunity to explore a variety of experiences under the above headings. As a wee treat for the children we have purchased a SILENT DISCO as one of their Technology experiences.

Like any good party, the choice of music either makes it or breaks it. As much as we would LOVE to put on some Whitney Houston songs, Take That, Rod Stewart or GBX tunes it’s not about us (until 3pm hits LOL) so we need your help …..

Can you simply pop your child’s favourite song on the form below to allow us to play it for them and hopefully get them up dancing with their friends?

It can be anything from Disney classics to Gerry Cinnamon, Tik Tok favourites to Ed Sheeran.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKRqhoaEMY8FHkTJQGETc2XZUOVpJUVFMMVJQQ1JJTTNEUUs2Rk42NTJEMi4u

Thank you from DJ Speirs 🙂

 

 

 

Bedtime story

Please click the link to enjoy the story Barry the fish with fingers, read by Amanda.

The children have enjoyed participating in activities such as fishing for number fish, creating/designing shape fish & making bubbles.

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During our World Book Day week the Minibeast have had lots of fun exploring the story ‘Aliens Love Underpants’. We have been using our creative skills to make our own aliens using connects and potatoes with a range of craft materials. We were also designing underpants for the aliens using lots of bright colours. The children have further developed their role play skills when washing the underpants in our water tray. They then created their own washing line to hang  the underpants on, just like in the story.

Here is a video of the story we have been reading in the ECC for you to enjoy at home.

Celebrating World Book Day with more fun in the ECC

                        The Minibeast Litter of pups with Cruella

                    The Sea Creature Litter of pups with Cruella

Celebrating World Book Day

A wee treat for everyone tonight ………..

Catrine ECC’s very own version of our two favourite fairy tales 🙂

GOLDILOCKS

Goldilocks & The Three Bears

Starring

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THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

The Three Little Pigs

Starring

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Can you spot anyone you know?

 

 

Better late than never 🙂

I hope you enjoy listening to one of my ultimate favourite stories ever !!!!!

Click on the link below (no matter what bubble you are in) to listen along with us.

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Don’t forget your child can come to the ECC dressed up as their favourite book character on Thursday 4th March to help us celebrate World Book Day. Gentle reminder – no props or books can be brought into the setting due to current COVID restrictions.

Thank you.

Today the children really enjoyed a bookbug session with Sandra in the green space, the children had great fun singing, listening to stories and using the props, thank you Sandra ♥