Lucy’s Blue Day
Author Chris Duke is coming to visit the ECC and Primary School on 27th November. Make sure you pre-order your book no later than the 25th to ensure your 20% discount and free delivery to the school by selecting author visit at checkout and using code DALRYMPLE.
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Forest School
The children have been enjoying exploring the woods again, building on previous skills and knowledge from May. They have especially enjoyed having P1 with us in the morning and the support from parents and carers out helping us has been phenomenal.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have already participated and remind others that its not too late to join us.
Wrap up warm and lets enjoy the next 3 weeks.
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Morrison’s Competition
The children participated in a small competition with Morrison’s, where the children were asked to name their new children’s trolley’s. Mrs O’Driscoll was given an anonymous list of trolley names and chose the following winners:
- Lacey with Nessie
- Fara with Rabbie
- Savanna with Neeps
The girls were taken along to the stores opening ceremony and had their pictures taken with the trolleys and collected a prize for participating. Well done girls.
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Halloween Party
The Werewolves will howl…
the Monsters will mash!
It’s time to celebrate, with a Halloween Bash!
As we are in the woods on Halloween, come to nursery dressed to impress in Halloween fancy dress on Friday 1st November.
It’s going to be Spooktacular
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Talking Time Workshops
Our Communication Champion Marcia and Community Practitioner Gail are inviting you to attend a series of Talking Time Workshops, where we can share strategies and experiences of effective ways of communicating with children and building their communication and language skills. The workshops will contain a mixture of informal chats, videos and fun activities with your child.
The dates of these workshops are as follows:
Monday 28th October 10.30/12.30 – Introduction (Parents/Carers only)
Monday 4th November 10.30/12.30 – OWLing, fun activities (Parents/Carers & child)
Monday 11th November 10.30/12.30 – Bookbug stories (Parents/Carers & child)
Monday 18th November 10.30/12.30 – Puppet workshop (Parents/Carers & child)
Monday 2nd December 10.30/12.30 – Evaluation session (Parents/Carers only)
We look forward to seeing you there
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Forest School 31/10/19 – 5/12/19
Forest School is due to start on Thursday 31st October 2019 and will continue for the next 6 Thursdays.
The programme will be slightly different to the one we implemented in May this year but we hope to have just as much fun as we did and explore even more of our local woodland.
In the morning we will meet at the nursery as normal and walk to the woods with P1 at 9.15am, returning to the nursery for approximately 11.45.
In the afternoon, we will leave at 12.45 and return approximately 2.30.
Please ensure your child is wearing warm and waterproof clothing for these days.
If you have any further questions please speak to a member of staff.
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Autumn Home link
We hope you have all had a fabulous autumn break. Please return any home link activities you have for the children to explore and discuss.
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Winter is coming
Now the colder weather is starting to come we would like to remind you that we do like to go out in all weathers so please ensure that the children have appropriate clothing for the weather conditions that day – puddle suits are ideal as outdoor play can be messy too. Your child’s own wellies, rain jackets, and waterproof trousers can also be left on your child’s peg at the nursery.
Thank you 
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Baby Massage
Classes will start this Friday (Oct 25th) at 1.45pm with our community practitioner Helen. These will be held in the parents room within the ECC.
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Grandparents Day 7/10/19
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our Grandparents (A massive 96% of you) for attending our Stay and Play session to introduce Intergenerational work into the ECC. It was lovely to see so many faces and to hear the children telling you all about their learning.
We have discussed many ideas to continue this collaborative work and have already began planning further sessions.
We look forward to seeing you all again soon but in the meantime, here are some of the lovely interactions we have captured of you with your grandchild/ren.
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Recycling
If you are having a clear out in the near future, please keep Dalrymple ECC in mind. We are looking to recycle any adult clothing, handbags, glasses, shoes hats scarves, gloves and jewellery for our role-play area.
We are also looking for any jigsaw puzzles or children’s games.
We would be grateful of any donations that you no longer need. Thank You.
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Holidays
The October Holiday begins on Monday 14th until Friday 18th October 2019. The centre will also be closed on Monday 21th October as this is an East Ayrshire In-service Day for staff training. All children return on Tuesday 22nd October 2019. We hope everyone has a lovely October holiday.
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The Big Bedtime Read
Wow what a fantastic turn out for the launch of our big bedtime read project. Big thanks to Marcia for organising such a brilliant event to promote the importance of a relaxed bedtime routine and the benefits of these quality interactions between you and your child will have on their communication development. Everyone had a great day coming to nursery in their pyjamas, reading stories, singing songs, eating popcorn and of course we can’t forget the pillow fight. Thank you to all our families for supporting us.
Here are some pictures of the fun we had…
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17/09/2019
Good morning,
We have been very busy since returning in August.
The children began the session with an interest in the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’. In this traditional tale, one of the little pigs goes to an apple orchard and we are very lucky to have our very own orchard within the school grounds which we can collect tasty fruit from to have from our snack. We talked about what else we could use the apples for and enjoyed making a delicious apple crumble with Natalie. Some of the apples we collected couldn’t be ate, so we used them to create some lovely paintings.
“I used the green apple tool to cut the apples” – Chelsie
The children have been exploring a range of materials to deepen their learning of the story. We retold the story using puppets and props, watched the story online, designed houses and explored bubble painted (blowing like the big bad wolf).
“Huff and he Puff” – Logan
This year we have decided to move our fish tank from the Jungle Room into the Forest Room. The children named all 6 of the fish and began asking lots of questions about them so we have introduced a variety of books to explore different parts of fish and will learn how to look after them.
“We feed the fish a little drop so we don’t scare them.” – Charlie P.
The children are continuing to explore the fish but are beginning to show curiosity in colour mixing and building castles. Keep looking back to see our future learning and please feel free to come and look at and leave comments in our floorbooks.
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