CP NEWS – September Edition (2025)

Children are leading their learning at Colquhoun Park EYC 

A vote was cast and animals won. We are now 3 weeks into learning all about the animal kingdom. Here’s a snapshot of what we have been up to.

 

How to feed the birds

Animals that live on a farm   

 

 

 

Natural Habitats

 

Animals that no longer live

 

 

 

If you would like to see more please take a look at our learning walls in the playroom where you can find and follow our whole journey!!

Mini Explorers

Our introduction programme to Mini Explorers kicked off. Children had the opportunity to take part in a variety of different experiences over a 2 week period such as;

Risky business – children learn to identify and manage risk.

Den building – working together children collect resources to build dens.

Bug hunt – children use visual prompts to find bugs in and around our grounds

Clay modelling  – children made bugs and insects out of clay

The Animal man came to visit centre. All children were invited in to take part in this show. Children had the opportunity to learn, see and even touch the

animals. We got to see a chicken called Nando, a tortoise called Michelle, snakes, cockroaches, leaf insects, and even a tarantula!  

We were all super brave and loved every minute! This experience was only made possible thanks to our families contributions to the children’s fund.

For more information on our children’s fund, how to make your contribution and what its used for please click on the link.  Children Fund Letter

 

Stay & Play sessions 

Big thank you to all the families who joined us in centre for a morning/afternoon of play. We we delighted to have you and our children are always so excited when their adult comes to visit.

 

Upcoming Events calendar

October 2025

Wednesday 1st – Book Bug (5pm – 5:30pm) – Bookbug sessions explore stories, song and rhyme with our children and their families.

Week commencing 13th – Ante-pre progress meetings – Parents/carers will be invited into centre using a booking system to discuss their child’s progress.

Week commencing 20th – 2yrs progress meetings – Parents/carers will be invited into centre using a booking system to discuss their child’s progress.

Saturday 25th October – Gardening Day (11am to 2pm) – Children and families throughout our school community are invited along to take part in our gardening day, helping to get our early years centre and school ready for the season ahead.

Week commencing 27th – Sponsored Broom Zoom – Children will raise money for the children’s fund by zooming round our grounds on broomsticks!

Week commencing 27th October – Introductory tours (3:15pm onwards, by appointment only). Prospective new P1 families are given the opportunity to arrange a visit to our school and take part in a tour around our building.

CPPS P1 families invite for tour

Spooky scavenger hunt 30th (5pm-6pm) – Children and families are invited to take part in our spooky scavenger hunt around school, we use our torches to search high and low for our Halloween surprises.

Interactive Workshops – Supporting Big Emotions

We will be running our interactive family workshops on

  • Wednesday 7th November, 2pm – 2:45pm, In centre  &
  • Thursday 8th November, 10:30am-11:15am via TEAMS.

 

This sessions focus will be SUPPORTING BIG EMOTIONS.

We will look at the triggers, validation, and how we help our little people to navigate and regulate their emotions effectively.

If this is something you think you may be interested in attending please complete the link below.

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT – REGISTRATION

 

Centre Improvement Plan

What Influences our Priorities 

National Improvement Framework & Local Authority Service Plans 

The National Improvement Framework (NIF) and Improvement Plan sets out the vision and priorities for Scottish education that have been agreed across the system, and the national improvement activity that needs to be undertaken to help deliver those key priorities. This complements the ongoing implementation of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), and Developing the Young Workforce (DYW), which are the three supporting pillars of the Scottish education system.

´The local authority uses the NIF to inform a local plan which is updated annually.

How Good is our Early Learning and Childcare & Care Inspectorate Quality Framework for daycare of children, childminding and school-aged children.

´We use ‘How good is our Early Learning and Childcare’ and Care inspectorate indicators to evaluate our capacity for improvement in centre. Challenge questions support self evaluation and quality assurance.

2023 – 2024 Centre Improvement Plan 

´The evaluation process of the previous year’s Centre Improvement Plan often flags areas in which can be identified as an area of priority for the following or naturally lead us into an area for improvement focus.  Our accomplishments from this year are published in our CP EYC Standards Quality Report 2023-24

To read this years improvement plan in full click on the link below

Colquhoun Park Centre Improvement Plan 2024-25

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