Please find attached the ECC Weekly Reflection Diary from week beginning 11.9.23.
Please open the attachment to find out all about last week’s wonderful learning experiences.
I hope you agree, the children in the ECC are provided with a wide range of excellent learning experiences and this is facilitated through our commitment to play pedagogy utilising both the indoors and outdoors environment.
With kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Throughout the year, the ECC staff engage in the self-evaluation of our performance, acknowledging successes and recognising there are things we could change in our on-going commitment to improvement.
As part of the self-evaluation process is to improve how the ECC works for children and families, we gather the thoughts of our parents and children through the annual questionnaires .
I have collated the views and these can be found by opening the link below.
child questionnaire collated data 23
Parent Questionnaires collated data 23
We are of course delighted to read such positive feedback.
With kind regards, Mrs Nouillan
Please find attached our Duty of Candour Report for this session.
Kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Oh wow!!
Our ECC excelled with their Christmas Concert Extravaganza, and it was wonderful to have an audience of family members join us!
Once again, The Reindeer Pokey was a huge success.
Thank you to all the ECC Staff for their ongoing hard work in all they do, but especially in bringing the concert alive with singing, dancing, poetry and Makaton. Thank you to Mrs Buchanan who accompanied the children singing Silent Night by playing her flute.
We will share more of the photographs next week, below is a small sample.
Kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Leader of East Ayrshire Council, Councillor Douglas Reid, officially broke the ground at the site of the new Dunlop ECC, alongside the very important guests, stood our own little VIPs!
Councillor Reid was joined on site by Councillors Maureen McKay, John McFadzean, John McGhee, Ellen Freel and Stephen Canning; Linda McAulay-Griffiths, Andrew Kennedy, Head Teacher Mrs Kelly, Depute Head Teacher Mrs Nouillan and representatives from Education, Facilities and Property Management and the main contractor, Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd.
The ECC, which is called The Bridge, is being built on a site overlooking fields just off Lugton Road. The design, which will ensure that children have access to quality learning opportunities and experiences both indoors and outdoors, will see the number of place available to local children increase to 72 places.
This project is also the Council’s first Passivhaus building. This means that the ECC will be built to a world-leading energy efficiency and thermal performance standard. Heat loss from the building will be minimised reducing energy usage and helping the Council move towards achieving sustainability targets while providing an environment with a high standard of internal comfort.
Councillor Reid said: “I was very pleased to perform the official ground-breaking at the new Dunlop Early Childhood Centre with Calvin, George, Sophia, Isabel and Sandy. The new ECC will increase the number of places available to local families, which is great news, and will also provide a high-quality facility that will ensure our youngest learners have access to both indoor and outdoor learning experiences. The facility is also our first Passivhaus build. Building to the Passivhaus standard means that the ECC will be very well insulated and that fuel costs will be much lower than a normal building. We are leading the way in Scotland with this technology and I know that other local authorities are following our journey closely.
“This development in Dunlop builds on our commitment to both tackling the climate emergency and ensuring that every young person in East Ayrshire benefits from the very best start in life.”
Please open the link below to the official authority reporting on this important news for our ECC but also for the village of Dunlop.
https://newsroom.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/news/official-ground-breaking-at-dunlop-early-childhood-centre
Kind regards, Mrs Nouillan
On Wednesday 23rd November 2022, 5.30pm – 6.30pm, we openened our ECC doors and welcomed in our children and parents to join us for Bedtime Bookbug Stay and Play.
As it was nighttime, we had all the children in cosy pyjamas or onesies and they changed into their slippers once in the setting. We even had some parents come dressed for this too!
To begin, the children and parents enjoyed free flow play in the ECC and the children led their parent around the different activities. Then Mrs Mack led Bookbug with rhyme time, a new story for the children and she finished off with the elastic game, which everyone loves! After this, everyone settled down with a cup of something hot and chocolatey and a little cookie too, and then Mrs Marshall read another new story. Sadly, it was then time to go home, I think the staff needed their bedtime after this long day!
Please enjoy the photographs below from our Bedtime Bookbug and we hope next time, more children ad parents will join us.
Kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Keeping Children Safe – SIMOA
The Care Inspectorate have introduced SIMOA, the elephant, to all ELC settings.
The SIMOA campaign is designed to support ELC settings in raising awareness and acting responsibly to safeguard, protect and support children’s wellbeing.
SIMOA says be:
Safe
Be alert to all potential risks in your setting.
Inspect
Look around and inspect the environment to make sure a child can’t leave an area without staff or their parent/carer.
Monitor
Regularly check that all children are accounted for particularly when they are outside, on outings or using transport.
Observe
Observe children and think about their feelings and emotional security – use these observations to support children to feel loved and secure.
Act
Assess and take action to keep children safe.
Please open the link attached to see the Care Inspectorate SIMOA poster.
Care Inspectorate SIMOA poster 2022
With kind regards, Mrs Nouillan
We are absolutely delighted that the youngest children of Dunlop and the surrounding areas will get a brand new establishment situated within the village.
We are amazed by the design of new learning environment and the quality of the state-of-the art facilities that will be part of the design for both the indoors and outdoors, and after years in the planning, work has now commenced!
With Dunlop Primary and ECC at the very heart of the Dunlop community, we all look forward to the opening of the new ECC and providing the children with the finest early year’s experiences.
Please have a look at the progress so far!
Kind regards, Mrs Nouillan
We had a very special visitor this afternoon, Mrs Miller brought along a beautiful lamb to see the children in the ECC. The children named her School Girl Rainbow Sunshine.
Thank you Mrs Miller.
Mrs Gray, Mrs Thomson and Mrs Murray.
We had great fun rolling in the mud and exploring the Mini Forest.
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