The Council have allocated one-off funding for the financial year 2024-25 to extend the clothing grant scheme to eligible three and four year-olds attending early learning and childcare (ELC) settings within East Ayrshire.
A one-off payment of £50 will be payable for each eligible child whose family circumstances meet the criteria for the early years clothing grant.
The clothing grant will be offered in three phases:
Well done to everyone who handed a bonnet in today, there is still plenty of time to get involved in our Easter Bonnet home link, bonnets to be in by Wednesday
All children who take part will receive a small prize 🐥😁
Make a sound and see if you’re child will copy you, start to take turns. This is a good skill for communication.
Rhyme Of The Month
Nursery Rhymes are important for language acquisition and help with speech development. They help children develop auditory skills such as discriminating between sounds and developing the ear for the music of words.
Pat a cake pat a cake bakers man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a B
Put it in the oven for baby and me
Join us for our family Ceilidh for Burns Day ❤️🏴
This will be held in school gym Hall
We will send out a Microsoft form for you to complete tomorrow, to confirm if you will be able to attend this event with your child 😀
AM Oak and Willow 10.00-10.45am
PM Oak and Willow 1.30-2.15pm
Full day childen will be emailed slots
Birch and Chestnut 2.30-3.15pm
*please note that this is a family event, we do not have staffing capacity for children to attend without a family member, all children will be involved in Burns/Scottish activities within their playrooms
We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for our 1st mince pie and mingle
Tomorrow is……
All of Birch Room, AM Oak Room and AM 2-3 room
Time 3.30-4.15
We will sing our songs all together round the Christmas tree then there will be an opportunity for hot chocolate, toasting mallows and to hang a decoration on our nursery tree, there will also be a wee photo prop
Words for the songs are on the blog
Please remember this is outdoors so plenty of layers
Thank you to the parents who donated our trees and to Asda, Morrisons and Tesco for their donations
The ECC was full of nursery cheer this week!
We put up our Christmas tree, Explored decorations, made Christmas crafts, investigated sensory snow and went a winter walk through the estate and even spotted some squirrels! 🐿 🎄 ❄️ 🚶♀️
This week we have been talking about light and dark which led us on to exploring shadows, we watched a short story on the promethean board about how to make a shadow and then used the light box to make shapes with our hands, following on from that the children decided to make a puppet theatre which we used to experiment with different objects to see what cast the best shadows. Some children drew round shadow shapes and others made shadows of themselves on the wall and floor. Alfie told us “you need a light” and Peach discovered when you move the light it changes the size and shape “my shadow is now big”.
