Kady – Page 39 – Colquhoun Park Early Years Centre

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Domestic Abuse

Domestic abuse is persistent and controlling behaviour by a partner or ex-partner which causes emotional, physical, sexual and/or financial harm.

It often gets worse over time. In a majority of cases it is experienced by women and children and is perpetrated by men. Anyone can be affected by domestic abuse, regardless of age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or socioeconomic status. Domestic abuse is a violation of human rights and never the fault of the victim (East Dunbartonshire Women’s Aid).

The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 created a statutory offence of domestic abuse against a partner or ex-partner. The offence defines abusive behaviour as that which is violent, threatening or intimidating. Behaviour whose purpose is one of the following:

making a partner dependent or subordinate;
isolating a partner from friends, relatives or other sources of support;
controlling, regulating or monitoring a partner’s day-to-day activities;
depriving a partner of, or restricting, freedom of action; or
frightening, humiliating, degrading or punishing a partner.

For more information on the support and services available within East Dunbartonshire please click on the link.

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WORRY

The children in Colquhoun Park Early Years Centre have recently been given a secret magic gift…. this magic gift gives them to power to make any worries they may have DISAPPEAR!!

The secret…. Talk to someone!

When we talk to someone about what is worrying us our worries get smaller and smaller until eventually they disappear.

Why not watch this RUBY FINDS A WORRY video so you can share in our magic too!

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Promoting Positive Thinking Strategies – PATHS

What is PATHS?

Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies is a Health and Wellbeing
programme. It aims to help children to be aware of their feelings, to be able
to talk about them and to find good ways of dealing with uncomfortable
feelings. It also teaches the children problem solving skills and helps them to
develop good relationships with their peers.
Each week the children will have a circle time where they will have the
opportunity to learn about and discuss their feelings, with the help of
Twiggle and his puppet friends.

As part of this time the children are going to be learning about
compliments. Each week a child will be chosen to be Twiggle’s special helper
and will receive compliments from the rest of the children that will be
written up and given home at the end of the week in a special certificate.
When it is your child’s turn, we ask that you would also share a compliment

with them. We hope that this will help the children to develop in their self
esteem and the support and respect they show each other as friends

Here are some suggestions of things you can be doing at home to support
and develop this learning;

• Talk to your child about their feelings
• Encourage them to name their feelings
• Ask them how they know someone is feeling a particular way by looking
for facial clues
• Ask them to give you real life examples of how they feel so they can
link their experiences to their feelings.
• Encourage them to recognise how other people might be feeling, e.g.
family members or characters in books or films