Needing some meditation and calming breathing  during these tough covid times … try and follow these breathing techniques to help support anxiety and stress.

Welcome to our new emotion of the month wheel (week for each cohort), this is where each month we will focus on one emotion and every cohort will add to it and you at home can help add to it by emailing pictures of each emotion and quotes for us to put up

This is the new cohorts for October to December starting after the October holidays.
To clarify incase any parent has missed this information, that throughout the year unless things change and guidelines loosen for us, our children will be kept in cohorts and these cohorts will change every holiday period. This is to ensure that children will make new ECC friendships throughout different groups which is always beneficial for children and will be particularly beneficial for children going to school as this expands the friendships and support children will have.

kind regard Leanne S

At Lainshaw ECC, we are actively  encouraging  the children to celebrate their achievements and success with their peers and staff.  We discuss and recognise achievement and what this means to the children.  We will be introducing a new target lanyard which instantly recognises children’s ECC achievements.  We would like to extend this to home life and all staff and other children would love to hear what the children have been achieving at home.

Have they been getting dressed on their own? Have they been sleeping in their own beds all night? Achieved in a hobby or weekend challenge? Please let us know about home achievements, we can display these within the ECC.  Please email any of these achievements and any pictures, certificates or any comments from home for us to see to leanne.strathearn@eastayrshire.org.uk which is my glow email that I will be using mainly.

Kind Regards Leanne S x

Here at Lainshaw ECC we strive for an environment fit for curiosity, inquiry and creativity and look at what some of our amazing ladies have created… this environment certainly hits the spot for our wee ones and taking forward their learning about the Gruffalo and extending it into our Autumn season!
Well done ladies for setting up a truly wonderful environment for our kiddies at Lainshaw ECC! Also loving Karen’s new registration tree!

Is your wee one struggling to follow instructions or to understand what you are saying?

Here are some strategies which will really support them with their understanding and reduce both your frustration, and theirs:

1. Eye contact: Get the child’s visual attention before giving them an instruction.

2. Single instructions: Give your child only one instruction at a time.

3. Simple language: Keep language simple and direct.
   Break verbal instructions into parts: Instead of “Go and get your lunchbox and your hat and go outside”, say “Get your lunchbox.” When the child has followed that instruction, say “Now get your hat” then “OK, now you can go outside”.

4. Repeat: Get your child to repeat the instruction to ensure that they have understood what they need to do (e.g. “Go and get your bag then sit at the table. What do I want you to do?’).

5. ‘First/Then’: Use this concept to help the child know what order they need to complete the command (e.g. “First get your jacket, then put on your shoes”).

6. Clarify: Encourage the child to ask for clarification if they forget part of the instruction or have trouble understanding what they need to do. Encourage them to ask for the command to be repeated or clarified (e.g. “Can you say that again please?”).

7. Visual aids (e.g. pictures, gestures, body language and facial expression) can be used to assist the child’s comprehension and recall of the instruction.

8. Visual cues can often be very useful to help the child to follow longer instructions as it provides them with something to refer back to if they are having difficulty remembering what they need to do. It also highlights the order in which they need to complete the instruction.

⚠️If your wee one is struggling to understand simple instructions, or if you have an older child who is struggling with more complex instructions, please call our Helpline (all information pinned to the top of our page ⚠️

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Here we have more amazing gruffalo pictures created by our silver group! Amazing work! Love the individuality and creativity! ❤️

Wow look at this lovely invitation to be creative using the autumn resources in the green and yellow group created by Debbie and Dawn.
It was a learning opportunity to encourage imagination and creativity through our autumn transient art station 🖼  Looking forward to seeing some of the end products girls.

Have a look at our Fox, Snake and Gruffalo art work from some of our 3-5 children ☺️

Our 2-3 and silver cohort have been exploring their senses through our water tray. Today we had some children feeding Leanne S some rose and lemonade tea and some orange juice ☺️