Colquhoun Park Early Years Centre
Supporting Children & Families
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!
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
Adverse Childhood Experiences – NHS Scotland video
ACES Overview – What are ACES?
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are stressful events occurring in childhood including
Growing up with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, neglect, community violence, homelessness or growing up in a household where adults are experiencing mental health issues or harmful alcohol or drug use, can have a long-lasting effect on people’s lives.
This is why preventing ACEs and supporting children and adults affected is a priority for us.
We are working in partnership with a wide range of sectors and services to help reduce the incidence and impact of all types of childhood adversity, focusing on:
We are also working to address the social and economic circumstances in which people live. Social inequalities, such as poverty or gender inequality, can influence the levels of childhood adversity and trauma along with people’s ability to overcome that experience. We know that Covid-19 is likely to have led to an increase in childhood adversity and trauma – and to an increase in these social inequalities as well.
Individuals’ experience of adversity and how they respond will depend on a range of factors, including the existence of supportive relationships and access to financial and other resources. Therefore, it is not possible to determine an individual’s longer term health or other life outcomes based on the number of ACEs they have experienced.
So, while childhood adversity may have a significant impact on children and throughout their adult lives, such experiences should not be seen as placing limits on someone’s aspirations and achievements. This is why we do not advocate scoring the number of ACEs an individual has within service settings.
However, increasing our understanding of ACEs at a population level, through surveys, is important for gauging the societal prevalence of ACEs and understanding how this is impacting on health, the criminal justice system or other services and outcomes.
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