Link attached to complete the questionnaire, thank you.

This week we have been exploring autumn animals and their habitats and how to care for them. We were also exploring nocturnal animals and different types of nocturnal animals. The children made their very own habitat for a hedgehog 🦔.

Links to the Curriculum;

Science, Technology, Expressive Arts.

In the creative area we have been exploring autumn and using different objects to create leaf people, using their imagination and creativity to create recognisable features of a person. 🍁 🍂

Links to the Curriculum;

Science, Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing.

Outdoors this week we have been exploring the autumnal change in the weather; collecting leaves, discussing patterns, shapes and colours in the leaves. We were also working collaboratively to construct different designs, exploring in our sandpit, ordering numbers in the hopscotch.

Links to the Curriculum;

Science, Numeracy, Health & Well-being, Literacy.

STEM home link if you haven’t already done so you can take part in this over the holidays, enjoy!

Have a lovely October break everyone, Cara.

Summer is well and truly over in relation to weather!

Within the playroom we have been exploring the change in the season. Children have been investigating nocturnal animals such as squirrels and finding out some facts using natural materials and the promethean board.

curricular area TECHNOLOGY, HWB, LITERACY.

Within the creative area children investigated sunflower heads that one of the returning children brought in. They had grown from the seeds children planted before the summer. We used them as a prop to be creative.

Curricular area SOCIAL STUDIES

An autumn tree was created too exploring the colours of autumn and range of creative materials.

curricular area EXPRESSIVE & AESTHETIC, SCIENCE.

OUTDOOR

The weather wasn’t the kindest to us this week but children being children still enjoyed going out. They continued to build knowledge of number doing hop scotch and using wooden number blocks.

Lots of encouragement was given this week to dressing and undressing for outdoors and self selecting their own suits.

curricular area NUMERACY, HEALTH & WELLBEING.

Gentle reminder we close on FRIDAY 14th for October holidays, normal pick up time 2.45pm.

Have good weekend, Lynnette x

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Indoors this week, the children have been super busy learning all about farm animals 🐱🐹🐰🐴🐖🐓🐑 They have enjoyed exploring our wooden farm resources & animals and discussed their favourite animals throughout 🤎

We have also been using books and the promethean board to investigate where milk comes from as well as fruit and vegetables 🥗🥕🌽

All children have been provided with multiple opportunities to explore shapes and numbers throughout the play room and have been developing their imaginations through small world play  🔵🟥

*Our library also started back up this week 📚 Please return all books on a Wednesday to allow us rotation on a weekly basis 📖

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Outdoors this week the children have been following a new photo stick system 📸 The system allows the children to find their picture stick and take it outdoors, helping to keep themselves safe. This allows staff to monitor which children are indoors and outdoors, which is valuable in the event of an emergency.

Most children have also been exploring our new sand pit 👏 This has been a great success and all children have loved being creative with the sand and it’s resources. Some children have also helped to revamp our outdoor surroundings as we are continually trying to better our resources and the area 🌿🍂

Have a great weekend 🤩

This week on outdoors the children have been very excited to play in our new sandpit 🏖

Art and Craft 🎨

The children have been introduced to the The Colour Monster story this week. They have been learning about the different colours that relate to our emotions and how we can use them in the playroom.

The children have also created a How do you feel corner? Using coloured jars and emotion logs to discuss how they are feeling throughout the day.

CFE: Health and Well-being and science.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend 😊

🍂🍁September already! 🍂🍁

The children have been working hard on getting to know the routines of the ECC and have been settling in really well.   We have continued to build on the positive relationships with adults and children and it’s been lovely to watch the early roots of friendships forming.  🥰

Outdoors the tools have been extremely popular and many children have been using their imaginations to be mechanics and builders.  Lots of pathways and ramps have been created becoming more and more challenging throughout the week.

Developing fine motor skills and hand eye coordination by using the tongs to sort coloured animals and paintbrushes to explore mark making.

CFE: Health and Well-being and Social Studies.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to more adventures next week! 😊

Our nursery is taking part in the NAP SACC UK research study

Our nursery has been selected to take part in a national research study which is looking at ways to support nurseries in the work they do to support children’s health. This study will test a programme from the United States, called ‘NAP SACC’.

The NAP SACC programme is being used very successfully in nurseries in the United States.  It consists of a package of support for nurseries to make them the healthiest places they can be for children.  Nurseries already do a lot of this sort of work themselves and the NAP SACC package will give them additional ideas and plans for things they can do to make their nurseries even healthier.

NAP SACC has been adjusted to be suitable for UK nurseries (‘NAP SACC UK’), but this UK version needs to be tested to find out if it really makes a difference to children’s health before it can be offered to nurseries across the UK.

So, to test the programme fairly, half of the nurseries taking part in the trial will receive the NAP SACC UK programme and half will continue with their usual policies and plans. Specially trained research staff will visit all of the nurseries, and will follow COVID-19 safety procedures, to take measurements to see if the programme made a difference.

The researchers will be asking around 700 families from 56 nurseries to agree for their children to take part.  These children will have their heights and weights measured and will be given a small activity belt to wear around their waist; they will also have photographs taken of their food at nursery. This will tell the researchers whether there are any differences in the children’s growth, the amount of activity they do and the food they eat at nursery.

The research team have already tested NAP SACC UK on a small group of nurseries, and parents and nurseries told them that they were happy with it.  Our nursery is taking part in a larger study that will tell the researchers whether NAP SACC UK makes a positive difference for children’s health.

If your child is aged 2 years or older, is not yet attending school, and is attending the nursery for 12 hours per week across the year or 15 hours per week during term time you will receive an invitation for them to take part.  If you would like to speak to someone before you make up your mind, we can signpost you to the research team or you can also contact the research team directly by email or telephone: sphsu-napsacc@glasgow.ac.uk or on 0141 353 7642.

What do I do next? 

If you have read this information and are happy for you and your child to take part in the study, please return the completed consent form and the questionnaire in the freepost envelope. Or if you would prefer to complete these online, please visit this link: tinyurl.com/napsaccuk. We would be grateful if you could only use one of these methods and complete these within a week of receiving the forms. 

All parents will receive a £10 gift voucher on return of their child’s activity monitor to the
nursery as a thank you for taking part in the measurements.

NAP SACC Study packs will be sent out today for you to sign up.