Welcome

We are the TAP (Teacher Access Programme) Team for East Ayrshire Council. We are a team of early years teachers who work to promote learning and development across the early years through play.

Our vision of the child is that each is:

”unique and a competent active learner whose potential needs to be encouraged and supported.  Each child is a curious, capable and intelligent individual.  The child is a co-creator if knowledge who needs and wants interaction with other children and adults.  As citizens children have their own rights which includes early education and care”

(European Commission, 2014, cited in Realising the Ambition: Being Me p14)

Part of our job also involves supporting the delivery of training to staff, some examples include ‘ELLAT Assessment through Play’ and Outdoor Learning workshops.

Meet the Team

Principal Teacher

Emma Williamson

Home Visiting Teacher 

Emma Morton 

Peripatetic Teachers (Early Years)

Avril Dante

Carol Rennie

Laura Walton 

Gemma Thomson

Hannah Polland

Amy Wilson

Mandi Hayes

Trish Howie