I n d o o r s –

This week the children have been further exploring the characteristics of a castle, exploring the structure of a castle and the materials used to build a castle. The children have also been exploring block play further, introducing large blocks which provided depth to their learning in terms of constructing their own designs and utilising their imagination and problem solving skills. The children also used ICT to research castles for inspiration. Some children explored the fantasy aspects of castles, exploring potion making in the water tray and adding their own materials and herbs from the outdoor garden.

The children made their own stained glass windows where they looked at shape, colour and design. These are how displayed in the ECC. Some children also made their own shields, marking making with control to design their shields.

Links to the Curriculum; Expressive Arts, Literacy, Numeracy, Technology, Science.

O u t d o o r s –

The children have continued to explore pirates outdoors, building their own pirate ships and ‘walking the plank’. We have started to introduce the concept of treasure and what this might mean to others. Next week we will explore this further to provide depth in children’s learning.

Links to the Curriculum; Technology, Social Studies, Health and Well-being.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

I n d o o r s –

This week in the ECC the children have been further exploring dragons, investigating dragon sounds, what dragons look like and we have began creating our own 3D dragon. The children have also been using loose part materials to problem solve whilst creating their own designs.

A focus has been made on routines, sharing, turn taking and boundaries in the ECC.

Health and Wellbeing, Technology, Social Studies, Literacy.

O u t d o o r s-

This week the children have been role playing outdoors, using their imagination whilst exploring with the small world pirate ship and small figures. The children have also continued to construct their own pirate ships using large building materials and transporting materials in the outdoor area in order to utilise to support with constructing their designs.

This week the children also created their own pirate flags outdoors and used the ipad to research the meaning of the skull and cross bone on a flag which means they are ready to fight. The children have been very keen to fact find about pirates to extend their knowledge.

Technology, Social Studies, Expressive Arts.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

I n d o o r s

This week following from the children’s interests, we have been exploring castles, using the internet to research and fact find about castles 🏰. The children have also been using their imagination whilst exploring in the small world castle and also exploring their interest of princesses, knights and dragons.

Links to the curriculum; Social Studies, Health and well-being, Technology.

O u t d o o r s

This week outdoors the children have been exploring their interest of pirates, working as a team constructing their own pirate ships and  using their imagination to role play being pirates.
The children have also been exploring in the water, exploring colour mixing, discussing forces and floating/sinking.

Parent meetings have been scheduled times to sign up are in the ECC main entrance where you sign your child into the ECC.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara ☺️

Welcome to all at Mauchline ECC

Welcome back to all our returning children and also a huge welcome to all our new start children, we look forward to getting to know you and watching you all flourish in your time at Mauchline ECC ✨

Keyworker Groups-

Green Group- Lynnette Cook 💚

Yellow Group- Beth Watson 💛

Blue Group- Lisa Kilday 💙

Red Group- Rebecca Thornton ❤️

Purple Group- Jen Slater 💜

Lunch Menu-

There will be a board within the ECC main entrance that will display what the lunch choice is each day. Also everyday in the ECC playroom there will be a display where you will be able to see what your child has ate for lunch each day.

Lunch menu attached below ⬇️

Newsletter-

Every month/second month there will be an ECC newsletter detailing all the important information and dates/up coming events in the ECC to keep you all up to date.

Keep your eyes peeled for information with regards to personal plan meetings. On Monday 25th August there will be an important letter being sent out to all children if you can please be aware of this.

Sharing children’s learning-

Every week children’s learning will be shared via online learning journals and on the blog, if you can keep your eyes peeled to see the fun learning opportunities your children have at Mauchline ECC.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara ☺️

Staff would like to thank all families for their support over the year. attending our play/stay events, Learning together sessions and filling out our all important questionnaires. It has been a privilege to be part of you and your child’s learning journey.

Good Luck to those going on to primary one  (remember and pop in and say hello).

For those returning in /august we start back at 8.45am on WEDNESDAY 20th AUGUST.

We hope you ALL have a wonderful summer

Lynnette x

INDOORS

We continued with the interest of transport this week. Children explored the hot air balloon learning about how it stays up and what material it is made of.  They used ipads,  books and promethean board to look at different types and the engineering of the balloon.

With this academic year coming to an end. We have looked again at our play environment and what resources we need. Please check out  the mauchline page on Facebook for a list of things we are requesting.

OUTDOORS

The interest of transport is big outdoors where children took an interest into where to park their bikes. They took the lead using chalk to mark their bays and used mathematical language in measuring how big and using the bikes to check. They then used their knowledge of number to mark the bays.
Some of the children then wanted parking bays For the small role play area so the tuff tray has been transformed to accommodate this. This has led to directional language and extend mathematical understanding.

Children going to school have continued to meet up with their buddies as part of  transition and our new ECC children starting in August also came for a visit. 🏫

Next week will be our last week for this academic year, details of our ECC end of term party will be published on Learning Journals. With the primary school closing on Friday at 1pm, we will open the ECC door to accommodate this. 😎☀️⛱

Have a good weekend

Lynnette x

REMEMBER once a week, take a peek!!!!!!!

Welcome back to Cara (senior lead) who has been on maternity leave and ready to swap nappies for paperwork.

Learning this week has been exploring different types of transport. With only 2 weeks left till the summer break the popular transport that children wanted to explore is the airplane. We have used the promethean board to look at different types of planes. One mode that has also fascinated the children has been the hot air balloon. A 3D creation was made where lots of collaborative working and creativity was shared amongst several children.

In creative area the children were busy making “special” cards as well as exploring patterns that different vehicles make with their tyres.

Outdoors, children were exploring textures through a variety of sensory activities such as shaving foam, homemade chalk paint and slime. As well as building on their physical skills with the bikes and scooters.