The Scottish Government’s expansion of the early years provision is rooted in delivering a high quality experience for children utilising both indoors and outdoors play.

In Dunlop ECC, we wholeheartedly believe in outdoors play and investigation and we provide  daily opportunities to play, investigate, discover and learn outdoors, in all weather!

The experiences we provide ignite curiosity while developing a wide range of skills, enabling our youngest children to become Successful Learners who have a love of outdoors!

Learning outdoors enables the children to experience the changing seasons, the weather, wildlife, planting and growing as well as just being able to explore, investigate, discover and play.

We believe there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing and to enable the children’s on-going participation in a wide range of outdoor learning experiences across the changing seasons, we have the proper clothing and footwear to keep the children cosy and dry.

Since returning in August 2019, our outdoor clothes have been replaced to include new outdoor jackets and new Mini Forest School wet weather suits.  On behalf of the children and the ECC staff team, we say a massive thank you to the Parent Council who very kindly paid for these and they are already being well used.

Please look out for our continuous blog posts which show outdoor learning is at the heart of the children’s experiences.

with kind regards, Mrs Nouillan