This term parents night will be on

Wednesday 9th October.

Active Literacy

The whole school is going to be embarking on an exciting new method of teaching Literacy – specifically, phonics, spelling and reading.

All staff have already been, or about to be, trained in Active Literacy and will be working with the children on this all the way from P1 to P7.

We would like to invite you to an information session and hopefully answer any questions you may have.

Historic Environment Scotland have organised a community event on Sunday 29th September 12-4pm, with a tented village on the castle hill. Actors will re-enact the different time periods of the castle from an iron age chief to the present day. Archaeologists will also be on site for visitors to chat to and see what they have been finding during their digs so far.  

On Sunday 29th September there will be a scarecrow competition at Dean Country Park to celebrate Autumn Fest. Autumn Fest is a free event and runs from 11am until 3pm. The theme is space. After discussion the children in the ECC decided to create Yoda the scarecrow. Yoda will be at Dean Park on Sunday for everyone to meet. Please go along and vote for Yoda as first place will win a prize for the ECC garden.

Good Luck Yoda!

The ECC is delighted to welcome our new early learning and childcare practitioner Miss Blades. Miss Blades will work on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday covering all of the key groups to allow key workers time to complete children’s targets, personal plans and scrapbooks. Miss Blades will cover the orange group all day on a Friday to allow Mrs Cotton to run communication groups in the ECC.

Reminder that all ECC parents meetings will take place next week. If you have not yet booked your slot with your keyworker please speak to them regarding this.

Red group – Monday 30th September

Green group – Tuesday 1st October

Yellow and Blue groups – Wednesday 2nd October

Purple group – Thursday 3rd October

Orange group – Friday 4th October

The ECC staff have been working very hard to develop our outdoor learning area today. We are delighted to show off our music station area, water play area, den building area and mud kitchen. Thank you very much for all of the donations we had to help create our mud kitchen and music station. Keep an eye out for our new story area coming soon!

Can I please remind all ECC parents that children have access to outdoor learning on a daily basis, please ensure that your child has suitable footwear to allow them to access this, they will get messy!!!

Last week we  introduced Word Aware,  for the majority of our pre-school children/parents this will be something they are familiar with however for our ante-pre children/parents this is new.

Every second week the children will be introduced to a new word and learn the concept of the word through small group activities. The word for the next two weeks is ‘wet’.  Can you talk to your child about things that are wet and not wet e’g at bath time hair, face, body.

If you want further information on word aware please click on the link below or feel free to speak to ECC staff.  http://thinkingtalking.co.uk/word-aware/

We will be closed  for the September weekend holiday

Friday 20th and Monday 23rd September .

Tuesday 24th will be an in-service day.

Pupils will return on Wednesday 25th September.

Have a lovely break !

Net ball after school club starts next Friday 27th September

and on the following dates-

4th, 11th and 25th October.

1st, 8th , 15th and 22nd November.

3.15 – 4.15pm

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Pupils must be collected at reception by an adult after club.