Carrie’s Parent Workshop which was focusing this year on drama 🙂

Parent Workshop – Drama

The focus this year was to develop drama skills. Drama provides benefits to children by actively engaging their mind and body, It builds up life skills such as confidence , empathy and comm…

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Thank you to everyone who attended, for the fabulous participation from children, parent/carers and to Carrie for leading this final workshop for the year 🙂

In June we will have lots of new children coming to visit prior to starting after the summer, so we need your help ………..

This is Roxanne our rock snake. It will be situated outside Catrine ECC and we would love to see all of your painted rocks and how long we can get our snake to grow. It will brighten up our path on the walk way into the centre for existing and new families.

It would be great if you could go for a walk with your child and collect stones, to paint and to add to our basket. We do have a small amount to start it off if you wish to lift one.

Pictures of your adventure and creations can also be uploaded to learning journals.

Let’s decorate our playground bright and make everyone happy and smile when they are walking in. Please be careful nobody trips over it and please remind your child not to remove stones that have been placed down with love and care by peers.

Thanks

Carrie

Click on the SWAY links below from our 3-5 ELCP’s to find out what the children have been learning about this month 🙂

Children within our VOES provision can continue to find your monthly “Story” on Learning Journals.

LESLEYANNE AND CORRIE

Safari/Jungle

This month in the landscaped area outdoors, our learning focus has been Safari/Jungle animals and encouraging the children to consider ways to enhance their learning through role play and p…

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SHERRIE

Team Work

In the Square room we have been learning all about teamwork, sharing resources, working together, waiting our turn and supporting others. We have done this by competing in daily challenges …

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RENA

The Brig

The children were learning about fashion and fashion designers, using a range of textiles where they would have the opportunity to explore the job role of a fashion designer. The children …

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LEONI

Greenspace – Planting

Over the last few weeks within the greenspace, the children have had the opportunity to:-

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CARRIE

Babies

We have been learning the tasks required to look after a baby. We have developed a caring and nurturing approach towards our peers and the baby. In the water tray we have been washing and d…

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Another fun month for the children of fabulous planned experiences by a super duper staff team 🙂

Now, onto our last monthly planning cycle of the year (and our busiest month of the year!!!)

Walk to School week is May 18th to May 22nd!

Monday – Crazy Hair Day!

Tuesday – Bright Clothes

Wednesday – Odd Socks

Thursday – Sunglasses

Friday – Dress Crazy!

We encourage all of our children to take part and walk to school, and we can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

Carrie has waited all year for her turn to finally arrive 🙂

We invite you to join Carrie and your child on

Wednesday 6th May

9am – 10am

WORKSHOP THEME – Expressive Arts (DRAMA)

Please click on the link below to confirm your attendance

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Please have a look at the attached sway to see photographs from the health and wellbeing workshop we held within the centre yesterday.  What a great session, thanks to everyone who came along.

Health and Wellbeing – Family Workshop

My family workshop this year was slightly different to workshops I have provided before, and I am glad I did it. What an amazing turn out and the engagement from both children and adults w…

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Parents we need your help!

During the week of the 11th of May we will be having a World of work week, where the children will have the opportunity to participate in lots of fun activities based on different jobs in the world they live in. This allows the children to gain knowledge about jobs they might want to have when they grow up and allows them to build life long skills.

We always like to involve our families in this and we ask if any of you would like to come in and tell the children all about your job. The children love to hear about the different roles, the tools you use, the uniform you wear, the people you help, the products you produce or even see some photos of your workplace.

If this is something you would be willing to do then please speak to Sherrie and we will arrange a date and time that suits.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who came along to join Julie today for an Easter story and some festive songs 🙂

It was an amazing turnout and we genuinely appreciate the continued high levels of parental engagement you share with us 🙂

Below are our SWAYs for the month across our 3-5 playrooms – Our Voes playroom can be found within each child’s learning journal as always.

Have the best Easter everyone, from all the team at Catrine ECC.

Celebrations and Festivals

In the brig we have been looking at and discussing different celebrations and festivals we celebrate, in the month of March we have enjoyed Mother’s Day, the Hindu festival Holi, different …

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Shadows & Reflection

This month in the mill we have been learning about shadows and reflection. The children have been sharing ideas and thoughts on what they think makes a shadow. To do this we made shadow pup…

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The Square – Being Respectful

Over the month of March, in the square the children have been learning all about respect and how to be respectful as well as the importance of this. They have learned about being respectful…

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Road safety

The children have been participating in activities that are based on learning about road safety. We went out walks in the community to practice crossing the road safely. We used the zebra c…

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Wildlife

Over the month of March, within Greenspace the children have been exploring local wildlife. To do this we:-

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