Please see below our calendar for children transitioning to Catrine Primary School in August 2026. Please also note that registration for ALL CHILDREN going to school in August 2026, regardless of which school, is from Monday 12th January – Friday 16th January.

Transition Calendar 2025-26

Event have already taken place as noted in the calendar above and will continue to do so over the coming academic year.

More formal class visits with the teacher begin in March. These dates along with other events will be shared with parent/carers along with the January to June 2026 Dates for your Diary newsletter in the new year 🙂

If you have any further questions regarding transition please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s keyworker or Alana.

We cannot believe we are now at the end of November!

It has been yet again another busy month for the children and staff within the ECC.

Click on each of the links below to find out a little about what has been on over the past month.

Sherrie was out and about in the community lots looking for BEARS 🙂

We’ve been on a bear hunt!

We have been exploring a wide range of different activities based on the story We’re going on a bear hunt. Here are some of the activities we done, we listened to stories in different ways,…

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Plenty of exploring the village this month – Abby has been introducing the children to navigation and directional movement whilst out and about also.

Maps and direction

This month in the outdoor area we have been exploring positional language and direction. We have been using digital technology to explore maps we then used the information we had learned to…

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Julie was reinforcing ways in which we could regulate our emotions in the Square. We have taken resources away from this room to enable it be a calmer, quieter, more nurturing space for children who find the main playroom a little busy or overstimulating at times

How to regulate our emotions

This month in The Square we have been looking at ways on how we can regulate our emotions. To do this we have been participating within a variety of experiences such as: Breathing technique…

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A huge thank you to Cerys and Nighean’s mummy who came into the centre to support Leoni’s learning about the Police. The children thoroughly enjoyed it – as did the staff 🙂

Police

Over the month of November within the Brig room the children have been exploring the police and their job. To do this we:-

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And finally in The Mill Lesleyanne and Corrie were creating wonderful stories through a range of media and developing their creativity using loose parts

Story Creations, Dinosaurs and Loose Parts

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Children within the Voes – you can continue to find out about your room planning on your child’s monthly learning story and weekly photo dumps on Learning Journals 🙂

Have a great weekend, everyone, and we will see you all on Monday for the start of some festive fun 🙂

Reminder – Thursday 4th December from 9.15 – 10am is our Christmas Bookbug session with Alana, followed by optional mince pies and a hot drink if you wish to stay on afterwards.

Please click on the link below to book in and to allow for staff to purchase the correct amount of pies 🙂

Christmas Bookbug – Fill in form

Booking will close on Tuesday 2nd December at 4pm

Please click on the link below –

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