Catrine Early Childhood Centre

Dear Parent/Carer,

Thank you for once again for your understanding of the current situation in regards to the school and centre closure period we find ourselves in.

It is absolutely critical that parent and carers are aware that the emergency school and centre provision is only when all other childcare options have been exhausted.

Please do not attempt to send your child to the school/ECC provision being provided if you do not meet the key worker catergories noted in this link:

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndGovernment/Coronavirus/Schools-ecc.aspx

We are sure that you will fully understand our need to minimise the number of children and young people attending such provision.

Yours sincerely

Linda McAulay-Griffiths
Head of Education

Please do not phone the ECC regarding provision for your child from Monday 23 March as information is changing hourly. As soon as the ECC has been advised, the information will be shared with you via this APP and Glow.
Thank you for your continued cooperation and understanding at this time.

Please follow the link below to find a useful list of fun, educational online resources.

Throughout the weeks ahead the staff here at Catrine ECC also aim to do the best that we can to post ideas, activities and resources onto our GLOW blog.

We thank you for your cooperation and support at this time and hope you enjoy our Home Link Programme 🙂

Catrine ECC online learning list

Please click on the link below:

Online learning list ECC.PS

The staff at both Catrine P.S. and ECC would like to thank you for your support and understanding during these unsettled times. We appreciate your concerns and worries and hopefully by working together we can answer your questions.

We will update our GLOW Blog and APP with any further updates following the First Minister’s announcements this afternoon. All EAC advice and guidelines will also be shared via these channels.

ECC staff have compiled a list of appropriate websites that you can access with your child over the coming weeks. This list will be posted on ECC Glow blog and APP this afternoon – look out for it!

ECC staff will be posting activities/learning suggestions every day, so please ensure that access GLOW on a daily basis.

Thank you.

Mrs Govans

coping_calendar

A great way to take one day at a time as we try to support each other during this time.

Collection of children at ECCs – 17.3.2020

Please follow the link with regards to new procedures to be put in place as of tomorrow 18/03/2020.

Please click on the link below for further information:

Coronovirus symptoms letter – updated guidance – 17.3.20

No heating – no problem !

We didn’t let the chilly temperatures get us down on Friday as we carried on regardless with our Stay and Play Sessions.

We kept busy throughout and the children showed super ownership of their ECC as they took parents and carers around the setting exploring their environment both indoors and out.

Woohoo – you will all be glad to hear that our heating problem has been resolved and we will be back open again TUESDAY 17th MARCH at 8.40am.

We hope to see you all again tomorrow.

Alana Speirs

Today Group 2 returned to Primary 1 for their second visit.  Together we read the book “Supertato” then created characters from the book.

The ECC children and their buddies worked together to construct models with the wooden blocks and played the Yeti counting game on the promethean board.

Please note Catrine ECC will be closed on Monday 16th + Tuesday 17th due to heating issues. Further information will follow.

Thank you.

Please click on the link below for further information:

Poster 1

Poster 2

With regards to the ongoing COVID-19 situation this is a reminder that all communications from school and ECC will be done via:

• school APP – ECC/primary school
• GLOW – ECC/primary school
• ParentPay email (primary school only)

It is important that parent/carers check these communication channels on a daily basis to ensure that you are kept up to date with East Ayrshire Council’s latest updates.

If you currently don’t have access to any of the above, please contact Catrine Primary School office who will help you.

Thank you.

Mrs Govans

We have been advised that due to our heating problems this morning that the Early Childhood Centre will unfortunately be closed on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th March. Engineers are working to fix the problem.

We will update you on Tuesday 17th March.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Alana Speirs

Depute Manager

Due to a problem with heating this morning we ask that you dress your child with warm clothes giving us time to try and resolve the issue.

Engineers have been called.

Thank you for your cooperation.

All set up ready for tomorrow’s stay and play sessions.

Come along and join in some of our Literacy and Expressive Art experiences both indoors and out.

Fabulous workshops were held today within Catrine ECC providing parents with information about how ECC’s and schools deliver quality teaching around the topics of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

This afternoon we made banana loaves –  the children looked at the recipe and helped to measure out all of the ingredients.

They all got a turn to mix the ingredients using the electric mixer.

Great language used throughout the activity, ” it looks like slime, gloopy, yuck!’ After it was made – ‘that smells yum , yum, emmmmm!’

Today the children had opportunities to explore mud painting, number formation, hanging bird feeders and recreating the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ using masks and props.