Family Engagement – Colquhoun Park Early Years Centre

December 3, 2024

CP NEWS – December Edition

The final month of 2024 is shaping up to be the BEST yet, we have lots going on in centre so before we do anything else we thought it would be useful to give everyone a breakdown of dates for the diary.

Thursday 5th December – Christmas Bookbug session 5pm – 6pm

Thursday 12th December – Decorate Centre for Christmas

Friday 13th December – Arrival of our kindness elf

Monday 16th December – Christmas Crafts (stay & play) 2pm – 3pm

Tuesday 17th December – Christmas Crafts (stay & play) 10am – 11am

Wednesday 18th December – Care Home Visit

Thursday 19th December – WINTERWONDERLAND

Friday 20th December – Children’s Christmas Party 9:30am – 11am

Tuesday 24th December – Centre Closes for Christmas

Friday 3rd January – Centre Re-opens

Family Christmas Crafts

If you would like to come along and spend sometime in centre making Christmas crafts with you child please click on the link below, ensure you input the date in which you would like to attend – Slots will be first come, first served.

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT – REGISTRATION

Winter Wonderland

4pm – 4:45pm – Spaces available

5pm – 5:45pm – FULL

6pm – 6:45pm – LIMITED

Colquhoun Park EYC proudly present to all our families our annual Winter Wonderland, Christmas Experience.

This is a FREE event open to all children & their immediate family members (sorry Gran, Granda, Aunt, Uncle, Dug!)

Each family will be allocated a 45min time slot where they will be able to visit our CPEYC Christmas experience and meet the man of the hour SANTA CLAUS!

There will be a maximum of 15 spaces on each time slot. These will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Where your first choice slot is not available, an alternative will be offered.

**This event will be ticketed, ALL spaces should be booked before closing date on the 5th of December**

** This event will take place on Thursday 19th of December **

Winter Wonderland – Bookings

Progress Meetings

All families should now have had the opportunity to speak to their child’s keyworker and get an update on the progress they have been making.

Can we ask that you all take a few moments (if you haven’t already done so) to evaluate your experience.

Progress Meeting Evaluation

Christmas Attendance

It is common for a lot of our families to take their children out of centre over the festive period, in line with the school Winter holidays. (20th December – 6th January)

If you intend to keep your child off during this period, we ask that you email centre to advise eyc@colquhounpark.e-dunbarton.sch.uk this enables us to ensure staff are deployed effectively.

October 31, 2024

CP NEWS – November Edition

Broom Zoom

Our broom zoom is well underway! Big well done to all our children and a thank you to everyone who sponsored them, we have raised over £100 already!!

For anyone who has yet to hand in or collect a sponsor form there is still time, just ask a member of the team.

Gardening Day

Big thank you to all our families who came along to join us on Saturday (26th) for our Gardening day. We were overwhelmed at the support given in helping us get one step closer to creating our sensory garden and growing space for the children to explore and enjoy.

Bubble, Brew & Science too!

Kevin hosted his very 1st stay an play session. Our event was not only Halloween themed but we managed to sneak a little bit of science in there too!

Spooky Scavenger Hunt!

Big well done to Rachael who organised another successful ‘Spooky Scavenger Hunt’.

Over 40 members of of our CP Family turned out to join us on our Spooky Scavenger hunt! Everyone worked super hard searching for our hidden bats, pumpkins, witches hats & skeletons all around the school grounds. It was so dark we had to get our torches out!!

Spending time having fun with our families is one of our favourite things to do. We hope you enjoyed our Halloween night as much as we did!!

Upcoming Opportunities

Bookbug Session – Slinky Malinki

5th November – 5pm to 6pm click the link to register

Interactive workshop – Managing Big Emotions

6th & 7th November – am & pm sessions available click the link to register

DECEMBER – For information ONLY registration not open!

Bookbug Session – Night before Christmas 4th December – 5pm to 6pm

Christmas Crafts – Stay & Play 16th & 17th December (am & pm available)

Children’s Christmas Party – All children 18th December – 10am – 11:30am

Winterwonderland – Evening event 19th December – times to be confirmed

Quality Improvement Review

Throughout the week of the 4th of November our school and EYC will be visited by the Quality Improvement Team. The team will be spending a week in centre with children, staff and SLT. They will be evaluating practice, delivery, interactions and everything else in between. We encourage you to say hello to any faces you don’t recognise and take the opportunity to let the QI team know what you think about our centre.

Lost Property

Lost property and missing items seems to be on the rise. As a centre we try our best to ensure that children’s belongings are returned to the right owner, however, despite our best efforts this does not always happen. We completely understand how frustrating this can be not to mention costly!

Can I ask that everyone have a look at home through your children’s belongings particularly shoes/hats/gloves, if you find something that you do not recognise as your child’s can we ask that you return it to centre in the hope it can be reunited with its rightful owner.

As always we would ask that names be placed on all items to support us in keeping your children’s belongings safe – sharpies are available in centre if required.

Progress Meetings

Sharing your child’s progress with you is important to us. We believe that working together with a shared understanding of what your child needs is paramount in getting the very best out of their learning journey, supporting them to reach their true potential.

Date and time slots have now been released.

We will endeavour to get as close to your requested time/day as possible, however should we be unable to accommodate due to demand, we will contact you with an alternative.

Appointments are made on a first come, first served basis with, so please ensure you get back to us as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Booking Form – Progress Meetings

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