Our Wishing well is hoping to have some distributions next week …… our Elf Cheeky Charlie may even have a little surprise for anyone who drops in their last dummy or bottle.

And come along and join us on Monday 17th December for our Christmas Stay and Play session, some festive treats and our Bookbug Bonanza !!!!!

AM Session – 10 -11.30am

PM Session – 1.30 – 3pm

See you all then.

Well, the tree went up, the decorations came out and the word Santa is now totally acceptable in all homes and ECC’s 🙂 haha.

Over the past 2weeks the children have been learning all about the First Christmas and how we came to celebrate it.

They’ve had tonnes of fun with paints, handprints, glue and of course at this time of year …… glitter and lots of it 🙂

We even went to the church to watch the schools fantastic Nativity Show on Thursday.

Our SHANARRI focus this month has been Healthy and the children showed great interest in finding out about what is inside our bodies. They did exercises to find out what happens to our heart when we move about lots and spoke about the importance of tooth brushing and hand washing.

Only 11 more sleeps to go !!!!!

Please join us on Friday 7th December from 6.30 – 8pm .

Tickets are £1.50 for adults – Children go free.

Enjoy fun games, bottle stalls, face painting, hot dogs, tattoo stations, craft and baking stalls, raffles and much much more with all funds raised going to the school and ECC.

You never know……. there might even be a Grotto …….. 🙂

As part of our SHANARRI initiative this week we have been learning how to keep ourselves healthy. We’ve played bingo games to help us recognise different fruit and vegetables as well as chopping and peeling real ones to discover what they look like inside.  You may also have tasted our delicious and extremely healthy orange and banana scones we baked with Debbie and Hayley on Monday. Recipes got sent home for you to try with your child (more are available if your child was absent).

Both Leyton and Amelia were on our moon this week ! Big congratulations to you both – keep up the hard work!

At outdoor play this week Jill didn’t let the rain spoil her fun in the garden – she suited and booted the children and they went looking for puddles !

And as for Friday ………. what a fantastic day we had !!!!! Our sponsored walk and bounce was so much fun. We even managed to enjoy a tasty Scottish snack of haggis, neeps and tatties on oatcakes with some Scottish music playing in the background.

We thank everyone who took part today and will hopefully have a grand total to post up next week! Can any remaining sponsor forms and money be returned to the ECC on Monday at the Snack table please.

Check our board each day to find out who our Responsible Citizen is for the day!

This week in the ECC, we have carried on with our Space theme due to the children’s interest in it. We know lots of facts about planets in our solar systems – try asking us about the sun, the moon, earth, and what space doesn’t have that makes us float and bounce about a lot! We tried real space food that the astronauts would eat and made our own planets with balloons and paper mache. We predicted what might happen in more experiments and evaluated our findings on last weeks “glowing eggs”. Connie reached our moon on Wednesday with her fantastic recall on what she had learned about Space.

Well done Connie !!!

Through the use of the SHANARRI indicators we have  introduced our new character “Healthy Hannah”  to the children. They have been sorting out healthy and unhealthy foods as well as using scales and spoons to measure out the sugar content in some of our drinks ! We know too much sugar isn’t good for our teeth and our bodies.

Whilst outdoors we were using our problem solving and prediction skills to investigate which balls would fit down which tubes according to their size and shape.

And just look at how high Harper can bounce on that trampoline!

Well done to everyone who took part in Children in Need!

Everyone looked fantastic.

The children have been busy this week learning all about Space and the planets in our solar system.

Some of the children helped Alana to build the new space station using tools and very helpful instructions.They have also been learning lots about safety.  We went on a road safety walk and talked about keeping safe in the community. We also explored internet safety. They also carried out their own risk assessments in the room.

The enjoyed working cooperatively with each other on a wide range of tasks.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended our Grandparents Day on Monday 8th October. It was fantastic to see 26 people coming along to enjoy some songs that the children had been practicing  and a fun filled story about Hairy McLeary.

We hope you all enjoyed it as much as the children and staff did.

MAY
Monday 7th May – HOLIDAY

Friday 25th May – Monday 28th May – HOLIDAY

Week beginning Tuesday 29th May – Health Week

JUNE

Monday 4th June – Parents appointments to follow

Wednesday 6th June – Parents appointments to follow

Thursday 7th June – P1 Induction day 1 – 1.45-2.30pm ( P1 Information talk for Parents)

Friday 8th June – ECC and P1 trip to Kidzplay

Friday 8th June – Hurlford’s Got Talent, Community Centre

Thursday 14th June -P1 Induction day 2 1.45-2.30pm

Friday 29th June – School closes at 1 pm