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Life in Catrine ECC

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Our last 3 weeks have been full of more fun and learning as always 🙂

Please click on our 5 x  SWAYS to find out what each room/staff member has been up to

(Look out for our Voes Room on Monday)

 

The Mill – Babies – Sherrie

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The Brig – Favourite Stories – Carrie

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The Square – Farm to Fork – Tammie

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Outdoors – Birds – Rena 

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Greenspace – Save our Planet – Julie N 

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When children say they didn’t do anything at nursery ……

As we completed our second planning cycle of 2025 today,  we wanted to let you see a snippet of what the children have had the opportunity to engage in over the past 3 weeks.

Each ELCP has created a SWAY (separate to individual Learning Journal entries) which shows both the breadth and depth in learning the children are offered here at Catrine ECC.

Please click on each link below to see more 🙂

First up is Sherrie and Carrie who were responsible for outdoor learning across both out Greenspace and garden area 🙂

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Next up is Leoni who was in The Mill

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Rena had a fab time in The Square

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And Julie was responsible for The Brig

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I wonder what next month will bring 🙂

Have a great weekend everyone – from TEAM CATRINE

More trips out and about :)

More super experiences have been taking place here at Catrine ECC.

Last week a small group of children visited Pets at Home in Kilmarnock. We organised a petting session for the group and we wanted to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful staff for allowing us to visit and meet some of the animals there.

Please click on the link below for photos and more information 🙂

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Pets at Home Sale

 

AND THEN …… on Wednesday this week, another group of children were welcomed by PC Aitken and PC Shirkie into Cumnock Police Station. Again, another big thanks to all of the staff we met there and for allowing us into their busy workplace.

Click on the SWAY link below for more pictures 🙂

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Hundreds of Police Scotland officers suffer 'long Covid'

 

Family Support

Here at Catrine ECC we are constantly looking for ways to support children and families not only in the centre but whilst at home too.

Between August and December we had numerous daily chats, settling in meetings for new starts, progress meetings for returning children and Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings with those who work in partnership with other agencies such as Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Health Visitor etc.

During these conversations and through observations made within the centre we wanted to offer opportunities to try best support families to achieve some of these developmental milestones.

Please follow the link below to book in or out to each of the sessions according to what you feel would be of benefit.

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Catrine ECC Christmas Raffle :)

Tickets will go on sale at £1 a strip from Wednesday 4th December.

The draw will take place at the end of our Christmas Family Event on Thursday 19th December. 

If you still have raffle prizes you wish to donate you can do right up until Wednesday 18th.

I would like to thank everyone who has donated so far and to the staff at Catrine ECC who have made up 4 fantastic big hampers that will also be up for grabs on the same day 🙂