January has been a busy month for all.

We welcomed 11 new children and families into the centre, as well as our new Equity and Excellence Practitioner and 4 college students who we will continue to support to  settle over the coming weeks. We  were involved in a very successful authority audit, offered a parent workshop and staff have been busy creating Personal Learning Plans for our January starts ahead of our Settling In meetings next Wednesday. (If you are still to book your time for this, please do so at pick up time today or phone in to choose one).

Now for all the fun experiences that the children have been exploring 🙂

Please click on each of the links below to find out more and look through our photos from each of our different rooms and areas 🙂 (Families within our Voes playroom can find their photos on individual Learning Journals weekly)

Music in the Square

Within the square, we have been learning about music, sound and instruments. We have been using instruments to listen and repeat the sounds, learning the names and sounds of each instrument…

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Architects/ Builders (the mill)

Over the month of January within the mill the children have been exploring the roles of Architects and Builders. To do this we have had discussions on what we think they are, used books, vi…

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Weather & Ice

We have been participating in a wide range of activities based on learning about ice. Firstly we discussed what ice was made of and how water can change. We worked as a team to experiment o…

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Robert Burns/Scotland

This month in The Brig the children have been learning all about Robert Burns, where he lived, Scottish poems, Scottish songs and created their own portrait of Robert Burns. They also got t…

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Have a great weekend everyone 🙂