Tag Archives: Cara
End of Term Trip
All children from the Cara Playroom are invited on an end of term trip to Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve on Thursday 19th June.
A coach has been booked and paid for from funds raised following our recent Enterprise Event. There is an additional cost of £5.oo per child which covers the entrance fee to the Nature Reserve.
Please collect your child’s consent form from Mrs. Todd on Monday.
Children from Balta, Texa and Lamba will enjoy their trip over the summer playscheme.
Come and help on BIG DAY DAY!
Children attending Isobel Mair Family Centre have access to a variety of outdoor spaces including the large playground with hill and forest area, pirate ship, sensory garden, outdoor atrium and adventure trail.
Children love to play and learn outdoors and the spaces we create and use can help to support children’s play in so many ways…….from helping children to be creative and expressive to helping support problem solving and risk analysis.
Our outdoor area is already really good, however…..we want it to be excellent!
For this to happen we need YOU to help!
Come along to our BIG DIG DAY on Tuesday 17th June.
Bring any unwanted seeds, bulbs, bedding plants or compost, spare fencing, unused patio slabs or gardening tools.
OR…..
Just bring yourself!
The more the merrier…..remember, this is your children’s play space!
Let’s make it the best it can be.
IMFC Graduation Celebration 2014
Thank you to everyone for attending our Graduation Celebration Event – what a wonderful night with a fantastic turn out! For our 36 graduating children we had almost 100 supporters coming along to clap, cheer and celebrate this stage in their child’s life. Well done to all our Graduates!
Isobel Mair Family Centre Graduation Celebration
Tonight we will host our 3rd annual Graduation Ceremony for all pre school children leaving to move on to Primary School come August.
You should have received your invitation by now but if not click below:
Please come along to the Family Centre door; the children will make their way to the Cara playroom and parents, family and friends will be escorted along to the MOD.
Some parent’s have asked how many family members are allowed to attend tonight. We have use of IMS MOD (gym hall) tonight therefore we are not required to place a limit on numbers attending.
We look forward to seeing you tonight and joining you in celebrating your child’s achievements.
Upcoming Events!
We have lots to come before the end of term:
Graduation Celebration Event: Wednesday 11th June from 6.30pm – 8pm
Dig Day: Tuesday 17th June – morning and afternoon – all invited
Miss Darroch’s Wedding Day! – Friday 20th June
Sports Day: Monday 23rd June – all invited
End of Term Parties: Tuesday 24th June – Am and PM
Early Closure 1pm: Wednesday 25th June
Playscheme begins: Thursday 24th June at 7.45am
We are also trying very hard to re-schedule trips for children in Cara playroom before the end of term. The trips had previously been planned for the week of our inspection and had to be postponed. We will let you know as soon as we have trips organised.
Thank you!
Help!
Big ‘Shout Out!’
For old wellington boots……..
All sizes please……and thank you!
Enterprise Update
Thank you to all parent’s, family and friends who supported their child and the Family Centre by coming along and supporting our Enterprise Event today.
Not all children’s art work has been sold as yet, however I am delighted to announce our total so far is an amazing £300!!
Thank you once again and we will let you know our final amount when all pieces of art are sold!
Children’s Weekly Workout
All parents should by now be receiving their weekly What’s Happening Email Bulletin.
This bulletin has proved to be a great success in terms of communication and this was reflected recently in our parental questionnaires. (*Feedback from the questionnaires is currently being collated – we will share the outcome of this and alert you to any ‘action points’ the family centre need to address.)
The weekly parent email not only informs parents and carers of the events for the forthcoming week, but also gives parents an idea on some ‘workouts’ and/or ‘talking tips’ to carry out at home.
The workouts and talking tips stem from staff’s knowledge of child development and we think about each of the workouts and talking tips in terms of how we can best support children’s continued development in all areas of the curriculum.
Even the simplest colouring in task (last week’s workout!) is helping support child development in a number of areas for example:
Fine motor development
- hand – eye coordination
- hand skills
- pencil grasp
- control of pencil/implement
- securing preferred hand
- development of pencil control leads to better control when forming letters/numbers
- awareness of matching, naming, sorting colours
- perseverance in task – even when tricky i.e. staying in the lines
- Maintaining attention skills
- Increased focus
- Completion of task through to end
- Following instructions
- Increasing confidence on completion and handing in to staff member
- Celebrating success when praised after completion
- Sense of achievement at having work displayed on wall
The list is endless……………
I wonder what next weeks workout will be!?
Holiday Reminder
Parents are kindly reminded the Family Centre will be closed on Monday 5th May 2014 as this day is a public holiday. Children should return at the usual times on Tuesday 6th May.
In addition, the Family Centre will be closed for the May Weekend on Friday 23rd and Monday 26th May 2014. Tuesday 27th May is an In-Service Training Day – therefore children should return to the family centre on Wednesday 28th May.
Many Thanks.
