Welcome back, the winter break seems like a distant memory and yet we have barely blinked, and here we are in FEBRUARY!!
2025 has already had us sharing some very sad news about the passing of the wonderful Ann Marie who was our go to women in the kitchen for many years.
Ann Marie was well known in our school community for her wicked sense of humour and unfaltering love of all our children. She will be sorely missed by many.
On behalf of our EYC we would like to thank Ann Marie for all the love, care, attention and big smile, that she always met our children with.
Sending lots love and strength to Ann Marie’s family and everyone who was lucky enough to know her.
We do however, also have some extremely good news to share, as not ONE but TWO of our staff team got engaged!!
We would like to congratulate both Kirsty & Rebecca on their engagements. There is no doubt in our minds you will both make the most beautiful brides.
Family Engagement
We have 3 upcoming opportunities for our families to come into centre and take part in Valentines themed activities.
Tuesday 11th February 2025 – Stay & Play – 10am to 11am
Thursday 13th February 2025 – Stay & Play – 2pm to 3pm
Tuesday 18th February 2025 – Bookbug – 10am to 11am
Please remember all these sessions can be attended by alternative family members such as Gran/Granda, Aunty/Uncle etc. All we ask is that if they are not already known to us in centre that you email us a photo, this allows us to effectively carry out security checks prior to them entering the building.
If you would like to attend please complete the link below. If there are multiple sessions on offer we ask that you state clearly the day and time you wish to attend.
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT – REGISTRATION
Primary School Transition
We have been sent dates from our feeder schools on transition visits that will be taking place for your pre-school child.
Colquhoun Park Primary
Westerton Primary – P1 Induction Dates 2025
Inservice Day – EYC Closure
Our centre will be closed on Wednesday 19th of February for in-service day training. These days are essential for our staff members continuous personal development, ensuring that we can continue to provide the best possible care and experience for our little learners.
February mid-term
If you are planning on keeping your child off during the February mid-term can we ask that you drop us an email to let us know, this allows to to ensure that our staff are deployed effectively.
EYC car park
We would like to remind everyone that the car park at the side of the EYC is for staff use only. There has been a few near misses over the past couple of weeks one of which resulted in a member of staff having to reverse back out onto Canniesburn road during rush hour traffic to avoid collision.
We kindly ask that all our families use the car park at the pitches when dropping their child at either school or EYC.
2025/26 Allocations
Notifications and information has been sent out to all our families regarding application process for the year ahead. If you haven’t already done so, or if you are unsure about anything please click on the link below to find out more.
Registration Forms/Care Plans
We are currently reviewing our registration forms and care plans. We will be looking to recruit some of our families to review the new format for these prior to sending them out in July for completion. We will require these form to be completed by all children intending to return for our 2025/26 session.
If you would like to be part of our reviewing process, please let us know.
Social Media Engagement
We would like to ensure that we are using the correct platform to share our information. We have received feedback from some families that prior to joining us that they have found it difficult to get a feel for our centre as the majority of learning experience and opportunity offered for our little learners is shared on private accounts.
Over the next few weeks we will be looking at this more closely and would be keen to get some input. I will be circulating a questionnaire and would urge everyone to take a moment to complete.
