This year the creative champion roles have been split into focused areas.

Heather will be creative champion with a focus on literacy, linking in with rhyme of the month, Book Bug sessions throughout the terms amongst other things within the room.

Amy will be creative champion with a focus on numeracy, focusing on exploring colours, music and creating resources to be used within the playroom for counting and matching.

Please feel free to ask us about what we’re focusing and our plans.

As an establishment we promote healthy eating based on guidelines from the setting the table document and would like to enlist the involvement of our children and families. As a starting point we would like you to share some healthy snack recipes that your family enjoy at home. We will compile all appropriate recipes into a book which will be available to borrow from our lending library.  Please post recipes on the blog, or if you prefer, hand a written version in to the ECC.

thank-you for your co-operation.

Isobel and Cheryl

(health and wellbeing champions)

The children have been exploring messy play within the creative where they have been exploring shaving foam and goo so far😁

There are some dates arranged for sessions around wee talk home work and the benefits surrounding it

These sessions will be informal and will allow you to gain more information on what is involved

If you would like to attend please write your name under the session you will be coming to

For all our returning parents and children concept cat will be back next week to teach us all about different words

To all our new parents the Word Aware approach has been developed to guide practitioners in implementing the principles of word learning.

We hope to organise in the near future so workshops around word aware but in the main time  please ask your child about word aware.

“Concept cat is a clever clever cat he looks here he looks there learning as he goes”

Parents with new and returning children this term

Some of you will be aware we are limited to space in our peg areas and they can become quite messy with things being misplaced and jackets often falling.

We also often find that some bags contain medication which must be kept in the medicine cupboard, toys which often become lost and food, as this year we have a few children with some serious allergies we ask that no food it brought to the ECC

To try and combat the above the ECC will he providing all children with a drawstring bag, this bad will have their name and group picture on it 😁

We ask that the bag stays within the ECC and that you provide a change of clothes to keep in the bag, children can still bring any comforters they may need if they are unsettled

We hope this will keep our peg areas nice and tidy and reduce the amount of lost property

New lunch and high tea menu, this will also be displayed in foyer with snack menu

Some of our children have recently enjoyed a summer outing to Dumfries house, it looked like they had a fantastic day and they were very lucky with the weather.