{"id":1289,"date":"2025-12-16T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:51:15","slug":"up-up-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/16\/up-up-away\/","title":{"rendered":"UP, UP and AWAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1280 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/12\/15161237\/Screenshot-73-300x121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/12\/15161237\/Screenshot-73-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/12\/15161237\/Screenshot-73.png 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Since August 2025, staff in centre have been familiarising themselves with the Up, Up and Away document. This resource is part of the CIRCLE (Child Inclusion Research into Curriculum Learning &amp; Education) framework, and has been created to support early years education in Scotland, by providing strategies to support the development of literacy in our little learners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In January 2026 we will be introducing this resource into centre, focusing on our environment and using the audit tools and guidance to ensure we are creating a space which supports &amp; promotes literacy development to the highest standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Here we have created a short video to explain the &#8216;Literacy Caterpillar&#8217;\u00a0 and the components that this is made up of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/Foqvald_e-4?feature=share\">Up, Up &amp; Away! Literacy Caterpillar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also links to:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/15\/up-up-and-away-literacy-caterpillar\/\">Up, Up and Away \u2013 Literacy Caterpillar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/15\/why-is-literacy-important\/\">Why is literacy important?<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/15\/what-is-literacy\/\">What is Literacy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since August 2025, staff in centre have been familiarising themselves with the Up, Up and Away document. This resource is part of the CIRCLE (Child Inclusion Research into Curriculum Learning &amp; Education) framework, and has been created to support early years education in Scotland, by providing strategies to support the development of literacy in our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/12\/16\/up-up-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UP, UP and AWAY!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,21,156,66],"tags":[49,48,310,408],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-news","category-family-support","category-getting-it-right-for-every-child","category-development","tag-communication","tag-language","tag-literacy","tag-up-up-and-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}