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:

• during July prior to August 2024 start date
  
• during November prior to January 2025 start date
• during February prior to April 2025 start date

Please access the link below:

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/EducationAndLearning/NurserySchoolPlaces/Early-learning-and-childcare.aspx

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 🐥😁

Wellbeing Wednesday

Thanks to everyone who took part in making a poster with their favourite recipes

Thank you to everyone who has responded whether they will be attending the Ceilidh

There are still a couple of days left to respond via the form 😃😃

Look below for couple of dances and songs to practice with your child at home 😃

https://youtu.be/E7fikiE39Ws

https://youtu.be/IsS6_FRlj7A

Ally Bally Bee

First verse only

https://youtu.be/fOE4mMcyG68

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

Wellbeing Wednesday ❤️

We have some exciting news….

Throught the month of December staff are creating a reverse advent calendar, each day an item of food will be donated and put into a hamper

There will be 4 separate hampers made up and on the last week of term a child’s name from each room will be chosen at random to take the hamper home

Please note this is not a raffle just something we are doing to spread a little kindness 🥰

Wellbeing Wednesday

Look who has come to visit our Kindness Elves 🥰

From 1st December they will share different acts of Kindness for you to try at home ❤️

But first they need some names, please vote for your favourite name below you have until next Wednesday to vote

Good Morning

If you attended our Learning Fayre last week we would love some feedback

If you could spare a few minutes to complete the short form it would be appreciated

Thank you 😊

We look forward to welcoming you all along tomorrow for our parents learning fayre

As well as all the information we will be sharing we have joining us

Amanda Latif- Community Practitioner
Financial inclusion team
Speech and Language

You can still come along even if you didn’t complete the online form, we have lots of fantastic information to share 😀