To the right of our communication board is our Makaton signs and Nursery rhyme of the month which is Hickory, Dickory Dock. Please sing this with your child at home and encourage your child to use their imagination to make up rhyming words for each verse as this aids prediction skills and phonological awareness. Awareness of Rhyming words assists your child’s knowledge of sounds within words and aids their ability to read, write and spell at a later stage.

We had a very successful Enterprise week in the centre. Raising a massive £575.00. thanks to everyone for supporting our Christmas market and raffle.

Hi my name is Adele and I have been appointed the communication champion. I regularly work in partnership with the Speech and language team by attending training and network meetings to improve and support communication and language development within the ECC.

I would like to draw your attention to our communication board which is situated in the corridor. Please have a look at this board as the information is updated monthly. This board displays information regarding various ways to support your child’s speech and language development within the home environment.

Inside the Polly pockets situated on the board are leaflets regarding age and stage speech sound development for your guidance;

+please feel free to take one.  

Getting wee people chatting…..

I would like to draw your attention to the Speech and Language facebook page: gettingweepeoplechatting. They are currently running a competition to win a variety of prizes. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to watch a short film and comment below the post before Monday 17^th December 2018. Best of luck everyone.

Eco warriors had their first committee meeting and have devised a plan of action for the new year. this is on our Eco board for all to see.
Please help yourself to a questionnaire to support our Eco committee

Fun activities to raise money for children in need

Thanks for all the support in making our Halloween Fun Day a success.

The costumes were fabulous and the staff joined in the ‘spirit’ of the day too.

Lots of great experiences on offer for the children to partake in, followed by spooky snack and party games before dooking for our apples.

The children in both sessions were excited to have a visit from one of the Kilmarnock divisions of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

Firefighter Craig spoke to the children about what their service do and the children got to try out a real uniform.  Following that they got to try out the hose and sit in the vehicle.

Thanks to the team

Susie visited the children on Wednesday of last week to talk about the importance of hand-washing.  The children were able to see the germs that we carry on our hands in Susie’s “germ detector”.  Attached are some of the photographs that we captured at both sessions.

Follow our link to see what our children were learning about on our recent visit to Dumfries House

https://sway.office.com/w0jlXuRoVC6olHtA