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.

In preparation for book week next week we made a display for our door of our author of the month NICK SHARRAT who wrote The Shark In The Park.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE NEWSLETTER ON LEARNING JOURNALS AND DISPLAY AT FRONT DOOR FOR BOOK WEEK ACTIVITIES NEXT WEEK.

Have a good weekend

Lynnette x

We welcomed our special visitors from the HMie team who spent the week exploring our ECC and spending time with the children. Information from our visit will be published in due course.

INDOORS

Continuing to explore buildings using problem solving skills with a new resource of sand mixed with shaving foam, allowed children to be creative and extend the knowledge they have been building on.

Children have shown an interest through not only buildings but the construction of boats and using technology to explore further showing what lives in the sea. Next week we will continue to explore boats and the creatures of the sea.

In creative the children have been using different materials to build with junk, experimenting and investigating what sticks best. This has involved using scissors, glue sticks, pva glue, masking tape, sellotape etc.

CfE – EA, science, technology, literacy, numeracy

OUTDOORS

Lots of experimenting and marking has happened outdoors. Paint and paper was used for children to explore pattern and print using their feet, looking at the different wellington boot markings. Children started using  the sand+shaving foam outside before transferring the skills inside making impressive buildings. They continued to develop large motor skills using bikes and learning more about how the body moves. Children took part in ring games such as duck duck goose. New car number plates have been introduced which has created a lot of talk about recognising familiar numbers to themselves as in their age.

CfE – science, literacy, numeracy, HWB

Events to look out for are based around WORLD BOOK WEEK see learning journals and displays for further information.

Have a good weekend

Lynnette x

This week was a short week after the holiday Monday and in-service day on the Tuesday for staff.

Today we explored Valentines Day by creating cards and experimenting with pens and love heart shapes in the water tray showing the love.

Indoors

Children have continued to explore buildings and deepen their learning through use of construction resources.
They used different forms of media to research buildings and further develop their understanding of architecture and how to construct buildings.

Some children explored rockets and this lead to children using junk modelling to create their own helmets. These are currently being used for imaginative play.

CfE expressive arts, technology, social, numeracy, literacy

Outdoors

Children have been experimenting with new spray bottles which has enhanced fine motor skills. This encouraged them to run about and learn the importance of how to keep warm due to cold weather. Some children have shown an interest in planting and a exploration planting area has been created near the mud kitchen until spring time when we can plant seeds and plants.

CfE science, health and well-being, social

We would like to welcome back Jordan who is with us till June as our support practitioner. Jordan works every day from 9.30-1.30.

Have a good weekend

Lynnette x

What a busy week we have had in Mauchline ECC. We welcomed parents/carers in for play and stay all week at different time slots through each day which excited the children involved. We hope everyone who managed along had a fun time and discovered a bit more about what experiences and learning happens for their child.

Staff supported CHILD MENTAL HEALTH  week with a variety of activities from stories leading to painting emotion stones, yoga then deciding on affirmations that are important to us. These will be displayed to allow children to visit whenever they want. Further stories and conversations encouraging talk about feelings and how we are all different making each one of us unique. We are further developing our COLOUR MONSTER check in station to deepen our emotional learning support by PATHS strategy which is a whole school approach.

INDOORS

Children have been continuing to explore the literacy area looking at letters familiar to them and using them to create words. Investigating promethean board using Google maps to source houses and places familiar to themselves. Continuing to explore numbers that represent meaning to themselves, age, house number to name a few. This supports our FRESH AIR Friday walks in the community exploring numbers on doors, cars etc.

CfE literacy, health and well-being, numeracy, ICT

OUTDOORS

Continuing from last week construction was popular where a group repeated the design they had built previous and strengthened the building to allow more children to enjoy it. Due to dry weather the bikes were out encouraging sharing, taking turns and to allow them to explore the chance to do the right thing without too much adult intervention. Lots of opportunities were available for cause and effect activities from skittles, tubes and balls to wobble boards  and hoppers.
CfE  literacy, health and well-being, social.

Remember MONDAY 10th is a school holiday and TUESDAY 11th is inservice for staff.

Children return on WEDNESDAY 12th.

Have a fun, mindful holiday weekend.

Our last week of the year and term has been very festive.

All children have had the opportunity to make Xmas crafts and  were very proud to take them home.

Our pre school children joined in with the school for the pantomime performance of PETER PAN arranged by our parent council, massive thanks to them (if anyone wishes to join the parent council please ask for details volunteers are always made welcome).

All children were very excited to join in with party celebrations, playing games, dancing, eating a very special snack and we even had a very special visitor……………

Our learning indoors, this week has continued to be exploring Christmas through crafts, role play, stories and their own experiences that they have shared about places they have visited for the festive season.
We have wrapped presents in our toy shop and explored using money to buy (not tapping a card or phone). Shared gingerbread tea in our role play cafe again exploring money to purchase items.

Outdoors due to the festive weather children have took part in physical games, sharing, taking turns and practising aiming skills.

Staff would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes for the festive season and wish all our children and their families a very merry Xmas and happy new year.

We return on Monday 6th January 2025 where we welcome new children into the ECC.

Lynnette x

Christmas has well and truly hit Mauchline ECC.

We have had another busy week learning about what Christmas means to us and the world around us. All children were invited to the dress rehearsal of the nativity “whoops a Daisy”  by the school children and WOW what a show the parents are in for a big treat. It was lovely to see how much previous children have gained in confidence and a good chance for our preschool children to see what is to come.

Afterwards we took the opportunity to explore the school and stopped for a visit to the music room where we took part in a few ring games in preparation for our party next week (THURSDAY 19th DECEMBER).

This week we invited parents/carers from the GREEN, RED & BLUE groups to stay for a xmas themed play and stay. Staff took the opportunity to update PLP’s and prepare new targets for term 2. Children were encouraged to make a xmas craft with their person to take home and share with the family.

In the rest of the playroom we are continuing to prepare for Xmas with a wrapping station, Xmas shop and role playing with the costumes from our concert.

We listened to the Xmas story from a book, on the promethean board and used props to role play.

CfE – RME, SOC, LIT, HWB, TCH

Outdoors children experimented with craft materials to create masterpieces. Shaving foam allowed fine motor skills and writing practise. Puffy dough allowed painting and experimenting with change of texture. Children also explored SNOBALL which creates snow and using shapes to decorate the Xmas trees helps with hand eye coordination.

CfE – RME, SCN, LIT, HWB, SOC

DATES FOR NEXT WEEK

Tuesday- YELLOW play and stay

Thursday – Xmas party

Have a festive weekend and only 12 sleeps till SANTA 🎅.

Lynnette x

Welcome back everyone hope you all had a good October break.

Welcome to Teri our new senior lead who joins us covering Cara’s post. Christine has now returned to her own place of work and we thank her for her support during this transitional time.

INDOORS
During the recent inservice day Staff looked at the ECC environment and have changed a few things to further develop our learning.

Our focus this week has been continuing to explore nursery rhymes and incorporate technology into our play.

CfE Literacy, HWB, Technology

OUTDOORS
Children have been exploring  filling and emptying using rice crispies and shaving foam. They were extending and using mathematical language.

Children were talking a lot about the weather and the environmental changes.

CfE Literacy, Numeracy, HWB, Science

NEXT WEEK

We invite the children to dress up for Halloween on Thursday 31st October, we have a fun day planned with messy activities in the afternoon so please bring normal clothes to change into before lunch to allow costumes to remain clean.

Friday 1st November we will be celebrating DIWALI information will be on learning journals.

Please note woodland Wednesday starts on Wednesday 30th October, information on learning journals. Any queries see Beth our outdoor champion.

Have a good weekend, Lynnette x