All posts by Alana Speirs

ECC OPEN EVENING

To celebrate our return to our beautifully refurbished Newton Street site, we would like to welcome family, friends and surrounding communities to our Open Evening on Wednesday 1st February from 6.00-7.30pm.

Come along and see our fantastic spaces for learning, excellent new resources and our wonderful outdoor areas. Please note this invite is for anyone – with or without children currently attending our setting.

We are so proud of how great Catrine ECC is looking, and we can’t wait to share it with you all.

(under 16s to be accompanied by an adult please)

We need your help !!!!

We have been on the Tesco waiting list for some time now, and its finally our turn 🙂

Please tell your family and friends, share it on social media sites and don’t forget to lift your blue tokens every time you are in store from now until March 🙂

The winning applicant gets a whopping £1500. If we win our aim is to transform our natural greenspace into an area full of risky play equipment developing gross motor skills, confidence, coordination, resilience and much, much more.

So remember, next time you are in

TESCO AUCHINLECK – VOTE FOR US 🙂

Catrine Early Childhood Centre.

Thank you millions 🙂

And we’re in :)

What an amazing day 🙂

We are thrilled to bits at how today went. The children were fantastic, staff had a ball and it was lovely to hear such positive comments from parent/carers.

We know the majority of you are keen to see the other playrooms so on Friday we will be opening our doors from 2pm onwards for anyone that would like to drop in and explore with their child before taking them home.

Please note this is not a community open door day. We ask that it is at very most 2 adults per child simply for a wee walk round.

We will open our doors fully to extended family members, the community and residents of other nearby villages at our open night (tbc)

Thank you for your continued support throughout our decant –

love from a very happy TEAM CATRINE ECC.

 

 

Film Stars at Catrine ECC

On Tuesday 15th November myself and Lesleyanne had the privilege of attending the CYPIC conference in Glasgow SEC where our video clip was presented showcasing Catrine ECC and our fabulously famous children 🙂

Scottish Government asked us to discuss some of the changes we have made so far whilst on our journey to becoming a Communication Friendly Environment with the collection of data and quality improvement methods in mind.

Below you can find the link to the video clip where you might see some familiar faces (Riccarton ECC appear first in the clip with Catrine following on a few minutes later)

https://vimeo.com/channels/1821612

Supporting Early Communication in East Ayrshire

Thank you to everyone that returned permission slips prior to filming.

Change of clothes

The children have had a ball today exploring how fast/slow they can go adding water to our slide …. however this has resulted in some slighter wetter clothes upon our return back inside.

Lots of children have empty bags and clothes needing topped up.

Please continue to send clothes in so that experiences like these can continue.

Week 2 Expressive Arts home link challenge

Thank you to everyone who sent in their videos to my emails. The children have loved watching each other. Sorry it didn’t work on learning journals.

This week’s challenge is nice and easy. Can you make your own musical instrument? This can be made from anything you can recycle and can be brought in by Friday 18th November. The children can use them in our musical corner and we will have a marching band parade around the playrooms.

Here are some ideas …