Early Finish
The ECC door will be open on Friday 30th June from 1pm – 1.15pm for pick up. We hope you all have a fantastic summer holiday.
ECC graduation 👩🎓
Well done to all of our graduates 🎓 You are all superstars!
ECC Graduation 🧑🎓
Our ECC graduation will take place in the gym hall on Friday 23rd June. This will start at 2pm prompt. All parents and carers must be seated before 2pm. Please note that only the families of children going to school this year have to attend this event.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 19th June we will be following week 3 lunch menu.
Transition dates this week
This week we have a busy week! On Monday 12th June the children going to school in August will have a stay and play visit in Base 1 with their parents/carers. Can all parents please gather outside the ECC garden and your child’s P1 teacher will collect you to take you to Base 1. The ECC staff will bring all children along to Base 1 to meet you. This stay and play session is from 2pm – 2.45pm. Children MUST return to the ECC after this visit with ECC staff. Parents to collect from ECC following usual procedure to ensure everyone is signed out. Thank you for your cooperation.
Tuesday 13th June one parent per child is invited to attend a school lunch with their child. You should have received an email with your time slot to arrive for this lunch, if not please speak to Mrs Hendrie. Again can all parents please gather infront of the ECC garden area to be collected by P1 teacher. Children will already be in Base 1 waiting for you. When finished lunch please bring your child to Mrs Hendrie who will be waiting in the parents room for your child as the younger children will be having their lunch in the ECC.
Friday 16th June is our pirate transition party in the courtyard for all children going to school. Can all children please bring in a snack to have at the party please (no nuts)
A busy week ahead!
Lunch menu
Week beginning 12th June we will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC.
Graduation photographs
We will be taking photographs of the children going to school in their graduation gowns on Monday 5th June, can long hair please be down or in a low bobble under their graduation hats.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 5th June we will be following week 1 lunch menu.
ECC Sports day
We had a fantastic day today celebrating Sports Day in the ECC. Well done to all of the children for taking part you are all superstars
Sun protection 🌞
This week has to get very hot. Please ensure that your child has a sun hat with their name clearly displayed and that you apply sun cream to your child before they come to the ECC. ECC staff will reapply suncream after lunch to all children. Thank you for your cooperation with this.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 29th May we will be following week 3 lunch menu in the ECC.
ECC Sports Day
We will be having our ECC sports day on Friday 2nd June at 2pm. Parents and carers are welcome to come and spectate this event which will take place on the flat grass located in the school playground area. Children are encouraged to dress in their group colour.
Holiday Reminder
The ECC will be closed on Friday 26th May and Monday 29th May. Tuesday 30th May in an Inservice day. We look forward to welcoming the children back on Wednesday 31st May. Have a lovely long weekend.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 29th May we will be following week three lunch menu in the ECC.
Marathon for Cassie and Ava
The children enjoyed participating in our marathon today to raise money for Ayrshire hospice and for treatment for Ava.
Dates for the diary
Friday 2nd June – ECC sports day 2pm
Wednesday 7th June – Transition reports for children going to school
Tuesday 13th June – School lunch for children going to school
Friday 16th June – Transition party for children going to school
Friday 23rd June – ECC Graduation 2pm parents of children going to school to attend
Our ECC trip to Dumfries House
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our parent helpers who came along to help us at Dumfries House today, we could not of done it without you! The children had a great day exploring the parks and the grounds of Dumfries House.
Holidays
A little reminder that the ECC will be closed on Friday 26th and Monday 29th May. Tuesday 30th May is an inservice day, children should not attend.
Marathon for Cassie and Ava
The ECC children will be participating in our marathon for Cassie and Ava on Thursday 25th May. All children are encouraged to wear sports clothing on this day to take part. We will have a collection bucket in the ECC on this day to raise money for the Ayrshire Hospice and for Ava’s treatment. Thank you in advance for your contribution to these great causes.
ECC trip Dumfries house
Our ECC trip will take place on Wednesday 24th May. Can all parents please ensure that their child arrives at ECC before 9am. We will be leaving at 9.15am. Remember that no lunches need to be brought as we will provide a lunch for every child. Staff will have suncream, medication etc so all that your child requires is to be dressed for outdoor play all day. We will return before 3pm. Parents who are coming along to help please meet in the parents room at 9am. Parents please bring with you a lunch which is nut free. Thank you.
Final PEEP Session
Our families who have been engaging in our PEEP session, thank you very much for your support with these. Our last session of this block will take place on Monday 22nd May at 9am
Lunch menu
Week beginning 22nd May we will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC.
PEEP Session
Session 3 of our PEEP sessions will run on Monday 15th May at 9am in the Parents room for all families who signed up for these sessions.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 14th May we will be following week 1 lunch menu in the ECC. There is a change to Monday’s menu we will be having lentil soup then vegetable sausage rolls and beans or steak mince and mashed potato.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 8th May we will be following week 3 lunch menu in the ECC.
Coronation picnic
The children in the ECC had a great day marking the coronation of the King with a garden party and picnic today.
Sports day
ECC sports day will take place on Friday 2nd June at 2pm. All children are encouraged to dress in their group colour. All parents and families are welcome to come and spectate this event.
ECC photographer
The photographer will be taking individual photographs of the children in the ECC on Thursday 4th May.
Lunch week beginning 2nd May
We will be following week 2 lunch menu week beginning 2nd May in the ECC.
Friday 5th May
On Friday 5th May we will be marking the coronation of the King with a garden party in the ECC. Children are being encouraged to dress up as royalty on this day or they can come to ECC dressed in red, white or blue. There is no need to provide a snack blanket the ECC will provide this for all of the children.
May holidays
Just a little reminder that the ECC will be closed on:
Monday 1st May
Monday 8th May
Friday 26th May
Monday 29th May
Space themed lunch on Thursday 27th April
PEEP reminder
Our second PEEP session will take place on Monday 24th April at the new agreed time of 9am to all families who signed up to be part of this.
Stay and play sessions
A little reminder that we have our stay and play sessions this week for all groups. You have the opportunity to come along to the ECC to stay and play with your child for an hour and a half in the playroom and in our outdoor learning environments. During this session you will have a 10 minute slot to discuss your child’s term three individual learning targets with their keyworker and any concerns in which you may have. Stay and play session as below:
Monday 9am – 10.30am – Blue Group
Monday 1.30pm – 3pm – Orange group
Tuesday – 9am – 10.30am – Green group
Wednesday 9am – 10.30am – Red group
Wednesday 1.10pm – 2.40pm – Yellow group
Thursday 9am – 10.30am – Silver group
Thursday 1.30pm – 3pm – Purple group
Lunch Menu
We will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 24th April.
Our Learning 21st April
This week in the ECC we have been exploring numbers and developing our awareness that the last number of items we count means how many we have (quantity). We have also been creating some lovely pictures of our families to display in our playroom please have a look at these at drop off and pick up time. We are beginning to learn about mini beasts. Our baby caterpillars have arrived they have grown so much in 1 week already.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 3 lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 17th April.
PEEP reminder
Just a little reminder that all families who received an email to inform them that they have been successful in securing a place in our PEEP sessions to promote numeracy at home, these sessions will take place on:
Monday 17th April,
Monday 24th April
Monday 15th May
Monday 22nd May.
All sessions must be attended. We look forward to welcoming you to these sessions all starting at 9.15am.
Welcome back
We hope you all had a fantastic Easter holiday. We are looking forward to starting our last term in the school year, it is going to be a busy one!
Our visit to the local police station
Some of the ECC children enjoyed a visit to our local police station where they learned about the role of the police in our local community. They got to explore all areas of the police station on their Easter egg hunt. They were interrogated in the interview room. They were searched with a medal detector and even put in the cells. What a wonderful time they had.
PEEP numeracy sessions
Just a little reminder that the closing date for the forms to be completed for our families to sign up to join the PEEP sessions on offer to promote the development of numeracy activities at home using everyday items closes on Wednesday 29th March at 10pm. Mrs Hendrie will notify the selected families before the Easter holidays.
Medication
As we are approaching the Easter holidays all children who have medication stored in the ECC are due to have this audited. Can parents/carers of children with medication please come to the parents room between 2.30pm – 3pm on Monday 27th March to audit this medication with Mrs Hendrie please.
Bookbug reminder
Just a little reminder that we are providing a bookbug session for children in the red and silver groups only on Thursday 30th March at 9.15am and 2pm. There are still spaces available. We look forward to welcoming our families along.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 3 lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 27th March.
Our learning this week – 23rd March
The children have been developing their understanding of positional language using bee bots this week in the ECC. We will be developing this skill over the next few weeks. We have also been very creative in the art area by painting our own interpretations of a real bunch of roses 🌹
Help required
We are hoping to carry out some planting outdoors in the ECC. We would be very grateful for any donations of plant pots of all shapes and sizes. If you have any spare seeds these would be greatly appreciated.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 20th March
Bookbug reminder
We will be running a bookbug session on Thursday 16th March at 9.15am and again at 2pm for families in our ORANGE AND PURPLE groups only on this date. Please sign up using the form emailed out to all parents if you would like to join in with this bookbug session.
ECC staffing update
We are delighted to introduce our new early learning and childcare practitioner to Gargieston ECC. Meet Miss Watt who will be key worker to the silver group children at the beginning of the week. Miss Watt will work alongside Miss Quinn to support our silver group children.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 1 lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 13th March
Our learning 10th March
The children in the ECC have been learning about and investigating worms outdoors.
Lunch menu week beginning 6/3/23
The ECC will be following week 3 lunch menu week beginning 6th March.
Mount visit
The yellow group will be visiting the mount on Tuesday 7th March. Please ensure the children are dressed appropriately for the weather.
Visit from PC McPike
We would like to say a huge thank you to PC McPike for visiting the ECC this morning with her police van to show the children. They really enjoyed listening to a story about the role of the police and finding out about the equipment the police use.
Feedback from stay and play
Thank you for your feedback from our stay and play sessions in February 2023. Your views are displayed in our cloakroom.
World book day
The ECC children enjoyed a visit from the P6 children today to read their own invented fairy tale stories and other stories to celebrate World book day.
Lunch menu week beginning 27th February
This week we will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC with a special World book day themed menu on Thursday.
Mount visit 28th February
The purple and orange groups had a fantastic time exploring our local woods on Tuesday morning.
Reminder
Gargieston ECC will be open as normal during the school strike days Tuesday 28th February and Wednesday 1st March.
Mount reminder
The children in the orange and purple groups will be attending the local woods for a visit on Tuesday 28th February. Please ensure children are dressed appropriately for the weather.
Our learning 24/2/23
This week the children in the ECC have enjoyed creating a volcano outdoors using paper mache. They then painted their volcano and carried out a science experiment to make it erupt.
The children in the ECC also enjoyed investigating an obstacle course in the gym hall this week to develop their gross motor skills.
Bookbug
We are providing bookbug session for the ECC children and their families to explore in the Parents Room on the following dates:
| Date | Groups | Who | Time |
| Thursday 16th March | Orange and Purple | Mrs Cotton | 9.15am and 2pm |
| Thursday 23rd March | Blue, green, yellow | Mrs Hendrie | 9.15am and 2pm |
| Thursday 30th March | Red and Silver | Miss Gray | 9.15am and 2pm |
Please complete the form below if you wish to attend these sessions. Thank you
Donations
We would be very grateful of any donations of empty kitchen roll tubes, cereal boxes, juice bottles etc for the children to use to create junk model animals next week in the ECC. Thank you
ECC library books
Over the last few weeks we have been sending home library book evaluation sheets with the children on a Monday. We would like to encourage children and their families to be creative and after reading their library book at home. We would like you to:
* draw a picture of your favourite character
* retell your favourite part of the story
* create a new character for the story
* invent a new ending to the story.
We would love it if children and parents could upload their creative and imaginative way to explore their library book at home on their child’s individual learning journal as a parental contribution. These will be shared with their key group at welcome times. Thank you
Mount visit
The silver and green group children had a fantastic morning exploring our local woods this week. Thanks again to Amelia and Taylor’s mums for coming along and helping out on this visit.
World book day
We are fast approaching one of the most popular days in the school calendar – World Book Day. This will take place on Thursday 2nd March. To make it a special day we are inviting children to dress up as a favourite book character or come to ECC wearing pyjamas or onesies ready for story time
Learning journals parent workshop
We are having a learning journals parent workshop for ECC, P1 & P2 parents on Thursday at 2.15pm and Friday at 9.15am. Please come along if you require any support accessing or using your child’s learning journal.
Transition to P1
The children from our ECC who will be transitioning to Gargieston Primary school in August 2023 will have a visit to Base 1 once a fortnight over the next 6 weeks to explore all three current P1 classrooms and listen to a story from the teacher alongside the current P1’s. These will take place on Monday mornings and Wednesday afternoons.
Pancake Day
Tuesday 21st February is Pancake day. We will be celebrating this in the ECC. Mrs Dante is going to take the ECC children in small groups to bake their own pancakes on a small portable hob. These pancakes will be dairy free.
Mount Reminder
The silver and green group children will be going a visit to the local woods on Tuesday 21st February. Please ensure your child is dressed for outdoor learning experiences.
Lunch Menu
Week beginning 20th February we will be following Week 1 lunch menu in the ECC.
What?
Children’s Mental Health Week – Let’s Connect Take part in ‘Dress to Express‘ to support Place2Be, a charity who raise vital funds to help more children and young people get the emotional support they need.
When?
Wednesday 8th February
How?
Donate to Place2Be and come to nursery or school dressed to express yourself. For example, if you have a bright and bubbly personality you may choose to wear bright and whacky clothing. Remember, they don’t have to match…!
Please no PJs or football clothing.
Why?
Place2Be believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. They create safe spaces in schools where students can open up without pressure, arming them with emotional skills to help deal with everything life throws at them. As a charity, Place2Be rely heavily on the generosity and support of the community to continue their essential work in the future and to reach children before it’s too late.
Please note that we have a section on our blog called ‘Mental Health Support for Parents’ It can be found under the ‘Parents’ tab.
Mount visits
Library books
Week beginning 6th February
Stay and play orange and red groups
Thank you very much to all of our red and orange families who joined us for stay and play today in the ECC. The children thoroughly enjoyed having you join them in the nursery today.
ECC visits to the Mount
Lunch menu – week beginning 23rd Jan
The children in the ECC have been developing their gross motor skills outdoors by taking part in various Highland Games activities outdoors this week at Gargieston ECC. The photographs show the children participating in the Wellie Toss and Toss the Caber games.
Following our successful Stay and Play sessions at Gargieston ECC last term, we would like to invite you to join us for a further session to provide you with the opportunity to spend time with your child in the playroom and find out more about the learning experiences on offer to them.
Please refer to the table below for information about when the designated slot will be for one adult to attend Stay and Play. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate siblings in this experience. During this Stay and Play session, you will have the opportunity to have a ten minute discussion with your child’s keyworker to discuss their Term 2 individual learning targets and any concerns which you may have.
We look forward to welcoming you into the ECC on your designated day.
Tuesday 31st Jan 9am – 10.30am – orange
Tuesday 31st Jan 1.30pm – 3pm – red
Wednesday 1st Feb 9am – 10.30am – yellow
Wednesday 1st Feb 1.30pm – 3pm – green
Thursday 2nd Feb 9am – 10.30am – Purple
Thursday 2nd Feb 1.30pm – 3pm – Blue
Friday 3rd Feb 9am – 10.30am – Silver
Flu Vaccinations
Primary 1 registration week
It is Primary 1 registration week this week from Monday 9th January until Friday 13th January. Registration is to be completed online and submit no later than Friday 13th January. Parents / carers should register at – https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/EducationAndLearning/Schools/SchoolAdmissions/SchoolAdmissions.aspx
Please note that placing requests should be completed online and the closing date for this is 31st January 2023. Thank you
Welcome back
We hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas. Happy new year to all of our Gargieston families. The ECC reopens on Monday 9th January. We will be following week 1 lunch menu this week. We can’t wait to welcome all of our children back to the ECC and welcome some new faces too. See you soon.
ECC medicine
Can all parents of children who store medicine in the ECC medicine cupboard please come to the ECC parents room at 2.30pm on Tuesday 20th December to audit their child’s medicine with Mrs Hendrie. Thank you
ECC Christmas Party 🎅🏻
The ECC will be having their Christmas party on Tuesday 20th December. Please bring your child to ECC wearing their party clothes. We will not be going outdoors on this day. Our special visitor will be coming in the afternoon and ECC staff will ensure that all children have their photograph taken with Santa.
Nativity Friday 16th December
Our ECC nativity is fast approaching and we are so excited for the children to show off to all of their loved ones how hard they have been working on this years performance.
Can we please ask that all ante pre school children bring in a Christmas jumper to wear on this day as they are part of our choir. If you would like to add tinsel, bobbles, hats, accessories to complete your little ones festive look this would be very much encouraged. Doors will open at 1.45pm. All audience members will enter via the main entrance to the school building where Mrs Hendrie will collect your tickets. There will be no extra tickets available on the day all children were allocated 2 tickets per family only. There will be a box for donations for the local food bank and collection buckets for the Ayrshire Cancer charity. ECC staff have taken individual photographs of children in costumes these will be uploaded onto learning journals on Friday.
Our learning 9/12/2022
The ECC children have been beginning to get festive this week. We have put up our ECC Christmas tree, our cheeky little elf Chippy has arrived and has been up to some very naughty behaviour. We have been creating snowmen in the art area. We have been writing our letters to Santa. We have also been developing our counting skills using numbered Christmas trees.
Christmas lunch
The ECC children enjoyed their special Christmas lunch of Roast Turkey or Steak pie on Thursday. Thank you very much to the catering team for providing us with this special treat.
Christmas jumper Day
Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas jumper day in the ECC. We raised lots of money for Ayrshire Cancer Support.
Thursday 8th December
Just a little reminder that it is Christmas jumper day in the ECC on Thursday 8th December. All ECC children and staff are encouraged to wear their Christmas jumpers on this day. We will also be having our ECC Christmas lunch on this day with a choice of a roast Turkey dinner or steak pie and mashed potatoes.
Bookbug
A huge thank you to all of our families who have attended bookbug sessions over the last few weeks in the ECC. We are delighted with how well these sessions were attended. We hope you enjoyed this experience. We plan to provide more bookbug sessions next term.
Packed lunches
A reminder that packed lunches are not permitted in the ECC.
Christmas Fayre
It is Gargieston Primary and ECC Christmas fayre on Thursday 8th December between 3.30pm and 6.30pm. We will be selling snowman soup, reindeer dust, a grotto, bottle stall, home baking, book stall, face painting and lots more! Please come along to support us and help to raise money for our school and ECC! We look forward to seeing you there.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC this week.
Bookbug sessions
We are providing a bookbug session on Tuesday 6th December at 9.05am and 2pm for all blue and orange group families only. Our numbers are high for the morning session but there is still plenty availability for the afternoon session. We would be delighted to see lots of our blue and orange group families at these sessions.
Our learning
The boys and girls in the ECC have been investigating how to use real life tools outdoors.
Childhood Flu Vaccinations
Did you miss or were unable to attend your child’s flu vaccination (nasal spray)? There will be a drop-in session at The Galleon Centre, Titchfield St, Kilmarnock on Saturday 3rd December from 9am-2pm. Please attend if you can.
ECC Nativity tickets
The ECC will perform our nativity of Baarmey Bethlehem on Friday 16th December at 2pm. All ECC families will be issued with 2 tickets only per family for this performance. These will be sent home with the children on Monday 28th November. The children have been rehearsing very well and are working hard on learning their songs and words.
Local park visit 1st December
Our last visit to the local park of this block will take place on Thursday 1st December with the purple group children. Please ensure that children are dressed appropriately for the weather. Thank you
Bookbug
The ECC are running a bookbug session on Tuesday 29th November for the red, green and yellow group children only. We have had to move the morning session to start at 9.05am. The afternoon session will start at 2pm. We look forward to welcoming our children and families there.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 1 lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 28th November.
Calendar photographs
Mr Stewart will be taking the children in the ECC’s photograph as a group on Thursday 24th Nov to be included in the P7 enterprise project to sell at the Christmas fayre on Thursday 8th December
Park date change
Due to the school teacher strikes on Thursday 24th November we have decided to change the date of our green and yellow groups visit to the local park to Wednesday this week instead of Thursday. Please ensure your child is appropriately dressed to access outdoor learning experiences at the park on a Wednesday.
Staffing
We would like to thank Hannah from the TAP team who has been working with the ECC staff at Gargieston ECC over the last couple of months. We are sad to be saying goodbye to Miss Johnston who will finish with us at Gargieston ECC on Monday 21st November she will be very sadly missed. We are pleased to share with you that Miss Ferguson has returned to the ECC to support the children in all of the groups at the end of the week.
Bookbug
A little reminder that the ECC will be running a book bug session at 9.15am and 2pm on Tuesday 22nd for silver and purple group children only. Please complete the form emailed out to you if you wish to attend these sessions. We look forward to seeing you there.
Lunch menu
We will be following week three lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 21st November.
Thank you
A huge thank you to Melissa’s dad who very kindly came into the ECC today to drill holes in all of our tyres outdoors to prevent water gathering inside the tyres.
Thank you
A big thank you to Chloe’s mum who very kindly donated to the ECC canes and tree protectors to allow us to plant our new trees in the ECC garden this afternoon. Thank you to Melissa’s dad and Louie’s mum who very kindly helped to plant these tree’s.
Thank you
Thank you to Lily’s mum and dad who very kindly came into the ECC to build our new pirate ship in the courtyard for the children to explore. I am sure this will be very popular next week when the children see it.
Park visit 17/11/2022
The silver and orange groups had a fantastic morning at the local park today. We made a den, developed our gross motor skills on the equipment and had a camp fire with hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows.
Thank you
A huge thank you to Mr Gilmour (Lachlann’s dad) who very kindly built us our new kitchen role play units for the ECC.
New display
Thank you very much for your feedback on our recent stay and play sessions in the ECC. A display has been created in our cloakroom to show the feedback we received from this.
Flu vaccine
Members of the NHS will be in the parents room on Tuesday 15th November to administer the flu vaccine to ECC children. All parents / carers should have received a letter with a time slot for their child to receive the flu vaccine on this day. Please remember that ECC staff are not able to take your child for their flu vaccine. Children must be accompanied by a parent / carer. Thank you
Lunch menu
week beginning 14th November we will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC.
Blue and red group visit to the park 10.11.22
We had a fabulous morning at the local park this morning developing our gross motor skill on the equipment and having a camp fire where we made hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows
Helpers required
We are looking for some parent helpers to come into the ECC on Friday 18th November to help us dig the garden and plant 10 trees in our ECC garden at 2pm please. Please complete the form below to let us know if you are available to help. Thank you very much for your support.
Monday 14th November
On Monday 14th November we will be having an odd socks day in the ECC to celebrate anti bullying day. Please encourage your child to wear odd socks on this day.
New arrival
Meet The beautiful Shay who arrived on Sunday 6th November. Both Shay and Miss Law are doing very well.
New displays
We have developed our displays in our numeracy area in the ECC to promote a more natural look to encourage the children to explore numbers and counting during their play experiences.
Lunch menu
Week beginning 7th November we will be following week 1 lunch menu in the ECC.
Our learning week beginning 31st October
The children in the ECC have been creating a variety of firework pictures and images in the ECC this week to enhance their awareness of fire safety. We have also transformed our role play area into a vet. If anyone has any resources which we could use to develop our vet area we would be very grateful for these items. Thank you for your continued support.
Bookbug sessions in the ECC
We are offering another opportunity for all of our ECC families to come to the ECC to take part in a bookbug session with their child. Dates as follows:
Tuesday 22nd November – silver and purple groups only
Tuesday 29th November – Red, yellow and green groups only
Tuesday 6th December – orange and blue groups only
Please complete the form that you should have been emailed in order to attend these sessions. We look forward to seeing you then.
Stay and play
Thank you very much to all of our families who attended stay and play sessions this week it was so lovely to welcome families back into the ECC to share the children’s learning with them. The feedback we got from these sessions was very positive.
A huge thank you
We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Bicker who very kindly came into the ECC and put together our new music area for the children to explore outdoors in the garden. We are very grateful, thank you. We are sure that the children will have a lot of fun with this.
Temporary change to orange group
We will be joined by Mrs McAllister to help support our Orange group in the ECC for the next two weeks.
Lunch menu
ReminderWe will be following week three lunch menu in the ECC week beginning 31st October
Our ECC stay and play sessions will take place week beginning 31st October. We look forward to welcoming you into the ECC for your hour and a half session to play alongside your child in the ECC.
Our Halloween Party 🎃
More Halloween fun
ECC local park visits
We have planned for all of the ECC children to attend a visit to the local park where they can play on the equipment, explore stories and hopefully have a campfire (weather depending) We will be using the children’s EV5 forms for these visits. Please ensure that your child has a puddlesuit and wellies for their visit. We are hoping to leave to walk to the park at 9.30am and return for 11.30am.
10th November – Blue and red groups
17th November – Orange and silver groups
24th November – Green and yellow groups
1st December – Purple group
ECC Halloween party
The ECC will be having a Halloween day on Friday 28th October. Children are encouraged to come to the ECC on this day in their Halloween costumes, please be mindful of children being able to access the toilet independently in their costumes. No swords, etc please. We will have Halloween crafts and spooky snack in the morning followed by a Halloween party in the afternoon.
Lost jacket
A jacket the same as this one has gone missing. It has a child’s name clearly displayed on the label inside. If you recognise this jacket could you please check that you have the correct one at home please. We have this one in the ECC to be replaced with the returned jacket. Thank you
Helper required
We are making progress with our music area outdoors in the garden. We are looking for a volunteer parent to help us to drill holes in this reel in the photograph above and drill holes in the tins we have collected to help create this musical station. Please let Mrs Hendrie know if you are able to come into the ECC and help us with this. Thank you.
Donations
We are really struggling for spare socks in the ECC, if anyone is having a clear out over the October holidays we would be very grateful for any unwanted socks that your child has now outgrown to keep for spares in the nursery. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Lunch menu week beginning 10th October
We will be following week 3 lunch menu in the ECC this week
October holidays
The ECC will close at 3pm on Friday 14th October for the October holidays. The children return to ECC on Tuesday 25th October at 8.45am. Have a lovely holiday week.
Individual learning targets
The staff in the ECC have been working on all children’s individual learning targets. These will be published on Monday 10th October at 4pm. Please access these targets. We strongly encourage parental involvement at home to help with the achievement of childrens learning and developing these new skills. We strongly encourage parents to comment and share photographs on their child’s learning journal to share with us how you are working collaboratively with the ECC to help your child achieve these targets. Parents / carers will be invited along to the ECC for a stay and play session after the October holidays where they will have the opportunity to see what learning children have access to on a daily basis. You will also have the opportunity to meet with your child’s key worker to discuss their individual learning targets for this term. Dates to follow after the holidays.
Car parking
A gentle reminder that disabled bays in the car park are for blue badge holders only! All other cars should be parked in the main parent car park and not in the staff car park. Thank you
Reminder Christmas cards orders:
All orders for Christmas cards should be returned to the ECC on or before Thursday 13th October so they can be collected and processed on Friday 14th October. Orders after this date cannot be accepted. Thank you
Lunch menu week beginning 3rd October
We will be following week 2 lunch menu in then ECC this week. Please note this menu is slightly different from the school menu. Please access the ECC menu from the drop down menu above and select ECC menu.
Our new wall displays
Our learning 30/9/2022
We have been investigating a variety of patterns in our creative area of the playroom this week. We have been developing our knowledge of ring games in large groups outdoors and learning how to take turns and follow instructions to take part in simple ring games with our peers.
Outdoor learning
Our ECC children love to investigate outdoors in all weather conditions. Please ensure your child has suitable clothing daily to access outdoor learning. Some photographs of us today making dens in the rain and going on our boat adventure to somewhere sunny.
Christmas cards
Children are currently designing their cards at nursery and they should be home with you by the end of the week.
Please return orders to the ECC as soon as possible as these will be collected before the October break. Please hand these to Mrs Hendrie on arrival to the ECC.
Payments for orders must be paid for when you return the order. We would appreciate payments by personal cheque – made payable to Gargieston Primary School.
We are able to accept cash as an alternative but cheques are the preferred payment method.
Please double check that the order form amount matches what is paid for as discrepancies are difficult to rectify and may delay your order.
Please send your card and cheque in a secure envelope or poly pocket with your child’s name clearly written on the envelope.
Thank you
Book bug
Reminder – our book bug session for red and yellow group children and their families will be going ahead on Monday 26th September at 9.15am – this session is now full thank you for completing the form to attend this session we can’t wait to see you all. We still have spaces available for our 2pm session for red and yellow group children and families. Please come along and join in with the fun.
Week beginning 26th September
We will be following week 1 lunch menu in the ECC this week 🍴
Our new digger area outdoors
We would like to say a huge thank you to Paul at Blackwood Plant Hire for his very kind donation of sand for our children to explore and investigate outdoors in our new digger area. The children are thoroughly enjoying this new challenging to develop their motor skills in a fun way.
Thank you!
Our learning this week
The children have been exploring a variety of ways to create and investigate pattern in our creative area of the ECC this week. We plan to extend this learning into next week so look out for some messy activities going on!
Donations required
We are going to create something similar to this in the ECC to develop our outdoor music area for the children. If you have any tins that you could donate for this it would be very much appreciated. We are looking for a selection of both full and empty tins in order to produce different sounds. We are also looking for old unwanted cd’s or dvd’s that we can use to create a mirrored wall outdoors. These can be given to Mrs Hendrie at drop off time. Thank you very much for your ongoing support
Settling In Phone calls
A reminder that our settling in phone calls will take place as follows. If you are scheduled for a morning call please expect a call between 9.30am and 11.30am. If you are scheduled for an afternoon call please expect a call between 1pm and 3pm. If you cannot accommodate a phone call on your designated date and time please speak to Mrs Hendrie and we will try our best to facilitate a phone call at another time.
Wednesday 21st September AM – Purple group with Miss Carroll
Wednesday 21st September PM – Silver group with Miss Quinn
Thursday 22nd September AM – Red group with Miss Gray
Thursday 22nd September PM – Orange group with Mrs Cotton
Friday 23rd September AM – Green group with Miss Bechelli
Friday 23rd September PM – Blue group with Mrs Dempster
Monday 26th September AM – Yellow group with Mrs Nardini
Week beginning 21st September
A gentle reminder that we are actively encouraging all of our ECC children to try our nutritious school meals for lunch. We will be following week three lunch menu this week. Thank you for your continued support with this.
Bookbug on 12th Sep
We have made the decision to postpone Mondays bookbug sessions for the green, orange and purple group children as a mark of respect following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll. A new forms will be sent out for parents to complete once we have a new date for this. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Week beginning 12th Sep
We will be following week 2 lunch menu this week in the ECC.
Star of the week
Well done to all of our stars of the week this week for super sitting in the ECC.
Our Learning
The ECC children have enjoyed visiting the gym hall this week to explore an obstacle course to develop their gross motor skills.
The children have loved creating their own obstacle courses outdoors using a variety of loose parts.
We have been using grapes and wooden skewers to create and build our own models. We have created bridges, cars, princess towers. It has been so much fun!
Wow wall
In the ECC we like to celebrate the children’s achievements out with the nursery. If you child for examples receives a certificate for swimming, medal for gymnastics, trophy for football, learns to pedal their bike all by themselves we would love to hear about this and display their achievement on our Wow wall. Please bring in their achievements and Mrs Dempster will take a photograph for our display.
Lunch menu week beginning 5th September
We will be following week 1 lunch menu next week in the ECC.
Our new displays this week 2.9.2022
The children have been working very hard this week in the ECC. We have been creating number paintings, creating book reviews of our favourite stories and using our handprints to create a colourful flower in our art area.
Meet Miss McGowan
We are delighted to introduce Miss McGowan who will be working with us at Gargieston ECC for the next little while to cover staff absences. She will be working with all of the children and will be the key worker for the Yellow group alongside Mrs Nardini while she is with us.
Our revamped courtyard area,
We are excited to introduce our new construction corner for the children to explore while investigating our courtyard area.
Lunch menu
We will be following week 3 lunch menu week beginning 29th August
Donations required
We are working hard in the ECC to revamp some of our learning areas. We would be very grateful for any donations of old unwanted items such as: pots and pans, kitchen utensils, baking trays, scales, everyday items of adult clothing for dressing up such as hats, beads, shoes, handbags etc. We are also looking for unwanted real tools, screws, nails. Wooden imaginative small world toys would be fantastic.
These can be given to Mrs Hendrie. Thank you so much for your ongoing support.
new wall displays
The children have been working hard this week to create a “This is me” wall display. We also had a discussion about our ECC rules to keep us all safe in the nursery and we displayed this using mr potato heads.
Reminder
Can I ask parents and family members when collecting your child from the ECC to please ensure that your child does not run out into the reception area when leaving the ECC. Visitors can be sitting here and meetings taking place in the offices located beside the ECC door. Can we please be respectful and walk out of the ECC. Can I also ask that only adults use the buttons to open the doors to vacate the building as we do not encourage the children to use these for safety reasons.
Thank you
New Starts
We are looking forward to welcoming our new 3 year olds to Gargieston ECC this week. A reminder that on your first day we invite you to come along at 9.30am. Please speak to your child’s keyworker or Mrs Hendrie at drop off time about pick up times for new children.
Week beginning 22nd August
We will be following week 2 lunch menu in the ECC this week 🍴
Reminder :
We are operating with a one way system for drop off and pick up in the ECC. Please enter via the main ECC entrance and exit via the top door and out through the reception area. Please no prams and buggies to enter the ECC.
Can we remind all families of children in the ECC to clearly label their child’s name on their items of clothing
We will be following week 1 lunch menu in the ECC on Thursday 18th August and Friday 19th August. Lunch menu’s can be found on the drop down menu above ECC lunch menu
Hello everyone and welcome to Gargieston ECC. This page is where you will find out all the information you need for the ECC.
We are looking forward to welcoming back our returning children and meeting all of our new little faces. All children should of been informed of their start date and time for Gargieston ECC for August intake. If you do not know your child’s start date then please phone the school office on 01653533067 and ask for Mrs Hendrie.
