Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing

Suncreen Please

Health and Wellbeing, Holiday, Playscheme,

Staff at IMFC take pride in meeting health and wellbeing targets. Please support us in doing this by adhering to our rules:

Lots of children have been arriving for their playscheme session without having had sunscreen applied at home prior to arrival.

Your child MUST have sunscreen applied prior to arrival. Staff do not have time to spend applying sunscreen to numerous children.

Staff are happy to ‘top up’ children who attend a full day session. Children should also come each day with a sun hat.

For information on keeping safe in the sun please go to:

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Summerhealth/Pages/Childsafety.aspx

or

http://www.nhsinform.co.uk/health-in-focus/campaigns/have-a-safe-summer-in-scotland

 

Water Fun Wednesday!

Health and Wellbeing, Playscheme,

 Tomorrow is supposedly going to be the warmest day of the year so far……if your child is attending IMFC Playscheme, please bring along a cozzie, towel and sun cream (also sun cream applied before arrival at the FC).

We will have lots of water themed activities ongoing throughout the day. If the temperatures soar; no worries……we also have shady spots under our colourful parachute strung across the trees in our forest area!

Loads to do at IMFC!

‘Talking Together Project’

Health and Wellbeing, Parent Groups

The Talking Together project supports parents to chat to their children about growing up, puberty, relationships and sexual health.

The project is run in partnership between East Renfrewshire Council, the CHCP and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

An awareness session for parents will take place in Barrhead Library, Lowndes Street, Barrhead on Thursday 13th March between 6pm and 8pm.

At this session parents will be invited to sign up for workshops which will take place at the following times:

17th, 24th and 31st March – 12.30pm to 2.30pm – the ARC

20th, 27th March and 3rd April – 6pm to 8pm – Barrhead Library.

Not A Box!

Cara, Curriculum, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics, , , , , ,

For any parent wondering who our visitor in the foyer is……..or why?

Miss McNeill has used the book ‘Not a Box’ to support children’s developing knowledge across the curriculum.

Based at the creative arts area over the past few weeks Miss McNeill has incorporated curricular areas literacy, numeracy, health & well being and expressive arts into children’s learning……

Literacy: Extending book knowledge  through discussing the title, author, illustrator of the book  ‘It’s Not a Box’ which was used to develop the context for learning. Encouraging children to develop an interest in print, texts and pictures. Recognising words, understanding print is meaningful and can convey as message. Understanding positional and comparative language, giving a personal response.

Numeracy: Describing and ordering in simple mathematical language ‘first, next, last’, touch counting items required, following and giving instructions using: in front, behind, beside, under, in, out, on top of, next to. Describing position, identifying and naming 3D shapes and objects. Describing length using long/longer, short/shorter and height using tall/taller and small/smaller. Solving problems and evaluating solutions.

Health and Wellbeing: Expressing thoughts and abilities, communicating with growing confidence within a group of friends. Recognising mistakes can provide opportunities for learning and working as a team – co-operating with others. Demonstrating how to tackle a ‘problem’. Taking responsibility.

Expressive Arts: Gaining confidence to explore and experiment with materials. Using tools and equipment to develop control of fine movement of fingers and hands. Selecting own materials. Use 3 dimensional form to convey thoughts and feeling and the experience of having a piece of work being ‘exhibited’.

And you thought it was just a box………………..

Can you think of any other skills your child may have developed through recycling junk!?

Scotland’s Big Laugh

Health and Wellbeing, Special Events,

On Monday 27th January the children and staff from the Family Centre celebrated Scotland’s Big Laugh by hosting a day of action!

We invited everyone to come along to ‘Monday Mayhem Day’ with crazy hair ready for a fun and laughter filled day with jokes and face painting.

Laughter easily gets lost in our busy daily lives, yet it is essential for keeping us healthy, happy, healing pain and strengthening our relationships.

I hope our photo’s of the day make you laugh a little!

‘People Who Help Us’ – Can you help?

Curriculum, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics, Social Studies,

Children in our Cara playroom have been developing their skills across various areas of Curriculum for Excellence through the introduction of ’People Who Help Us’.

Relating to the Social Studies area of Curriculum fro Excellence; children are beginning to explore and investigate the roles people, shops and services play in the community with Miss March who has recently taken some groups of children to our local Waitrose. Children investigated money and the vital and important role of shop staff. Children also developed skills in numeracy and literacy as they wrote out their own shopping list and proceeded to count out and weigh items in store.

 Miss Gaffney is supporting children as they begin to develop aspects of Health and Wellbeing. Children are sharing their thoughts and ideas in relation to describing the roles and responsibilities of people in the wider community, such as the doctor, police and lollipop services.

 We will observe and see how the learning develops in response to children’s thoughts over the coming weeks.

Can you help?

To further support children’s learning – it would be wonderful to have a variety of parent’s share their skills and talk about their job with the children. Perhaps you are a florist? You could share your creative skills with the children and tell them about what floristry involves. Perhaps you are a dentist, a police officer or a lorry driver…..what ever your skill….the children will be very interested to hear from you!

If you can give up half an hour of your time, it would be very much appreciated! Speak to Miss Gaffney if you are interested in coming along to the Family Centre to share your knowledge!

Play, Talk, Read Bus coming to East Renfrewshire

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, , ,

An interactive play bus is pulling in to East Ren next week, so that parents and carers of  children in their early years can climb aboard and find out how to play, talk and read, to give youngsters the best start.

Staff from IMFC will be taking children who attend on an extended day placement to visit the Play, Talk, Read bus at Neilston Leisure Centre on Tuesday 21st January.

In addition to the stop off in Neilston, the bus will also visit Clarkston, Barrhead, Busby and Eaglesham, Giffnock and Thornliebank and will highlight the importance of parents spending time playing, talking and reading with youngsters, to benefit their learning and development at an early age.

The ‘PlayTalkRead’ bus will be kitted out with games, DVDs, interactive books, a baby massage area and resources to give people ideas of ways they can engage with tots.

Councillor Lafferty, East Renfrewshire Council’s convener for health and social care said: “Simple easy steps, such as reading books together, singing songs and playing together, aids a child’s development. The PlayTalkRead bus will give lots of tips on low cost and free ways that locals can play talk and read to their children every day to give them the best start.” 

If you would like to attend, or would just like to find out more please visit the council website at: http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4001

or go to: http://www.playtalkread.org/   

 

Scotland’s Big Laugh

Communication, Health and Wellbeing

Scotland’s Big Laugh

Scotland’s Big Laugh is an entire day dedicated to sharing and creating laughter. We will be marking this occasion on Monday 27th January by hosting a ‘Monday Mayhem’ day. The aim is to see and hear laughter spreading across the whole of Scotland.

The Big laugh is an ideal chance for everyone to get together, have some fun and get the giggles!

Laughter easily gets lost in our busy lives.  Yet it’s essential for keeping us healthy, helping with pain, and strengthening relationships.  See  Scotland’s Big Laugh Facebook Page for more informatin or follow on Twitter @Scotlbiglaugh

Taking part is easy, encourage your child to come along to their usual session at the Family Centre with ‘crazy hair’!! We will be face painting, playing games and telling jokes all day to help create laughter and let as many people know to help spread the cheer.

Please note: We are hosting our event on Monday 27th January and not on Friday 24th as we are celebrating Burns Day then!