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Extended Play Day at Calderglen
Extended Play Day: Thursday 21st June
Reminder about our longest day of the year all together play day!
Plan for the Day!
Destination
Calderglen Country Park, come rain, hail or shine! We will be embracing this outdoor learning opportunity no matter the weather. This is an outdoor nursery day that you attend with your child. There will be no nursery session at IMFC on this day.
Time
Staff will be at the park from 9:30am – 3pm. Please feel free to attend whatever times suits you. Some parent will be there all day and others have requested that they only attend for part of the day.
Please let Joanne or Donna know your intentions for the day.
Travel
Please note that everyone should meet us at the park. If you require any advise regarding travel arrangement please see Joanne or Donna.
Things to do
Zoo – small charge to access this please see website
Café, Play Park, Forest Adventures, Splashing IN the river (Please ensure you have a change of clothes), Parachute sessions
Clothing
We would suggest everyone is prepared for all weathers as we all know we can have 4 seasons in one day! If anyone requires a full waterproof suit please speak to a member of staff and we can lend you one.
Please note the adult who is accompanying your child has to ensure that they are supervised at all times.
Website for more details: http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/info/113/calderglen_country_park
ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE SEE JOANNE OR DONNA
Easter Celebrations
Easter Celebrations
Are you ready for our Easter Bonnet competition on Wednesday 28th March?
Bring a homemade bonnet for our parade and to enter our competition.
This is taking place on the same day as our Easter Craft Day where you are welcome to stay and join in with some Easter crafting.
Our friendly Easter Bunny might also make a special appearance!
Balta and Texa playrooms are focusing on a sensory Easter craft day, so if you are coming to join in please wear old clothes as it may get a bit messy!
We hope you come along
Celebrating Who We Are Week
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
All staff at Isobel Mair Family Centre would just like to say a
HUGE ‘Thank You’
for your wonderful support of our
‘Celebrating Who We Are’ week.
So far we have raised a total of just over £350, however we still have more bags and ‘shrinkie’ key rings to make and sell so the grand total will increase, with every penny donated to our three named charities.
Thank you for your support.
If you have not yet received your pre-ordered pens, trolley tokens and wrist bands – please let us know as we have a few surplus in the office. In addition, if you have not had the opportunity to purchase your child’s hand made reusable bag and/or shrinkie key ring – please let us know!
‘Celebrating Who We Are’ Week
We are celebrating who we are. Blue eyes or Brown eyes? Long or short hair? Downs syndrome? Epilepsy? Autism? What ever it is that makes us unique we will be celebrating it this week.
The three charities we will be supporting this year include Downs Syndrome Scotland, Epilepsy Awareness and Autism Awareness. Thank you in advance for all your help to raise funds for these charities. Many of you have already placed orders for trolley tokens, pens and wrist bands to support these charities.
In addition to this we are hosting three special themed days:
Wed 21st March
Lots of Socks Day for Downs Syndrome Scotland – wear LOTS of socks, bright socks, odd socks, socks on your head….whatever you fancy!! Bring a donation to add to the bucket!
The children are also invited to bring in an ‘odd sock’ to make a sock puppet with Colette in Cara playroom
More info at: https://worlddownsyndromeday.org/lots-of-socks
Thurs 22nd March
Epilepsy Awareness – Wear purple! Purple trousers, purple top, purple ribbon, purple socks! Whatever you fancy!! Bring a donation to add to the bucket!
Friday 23rd March
Autism awareness – Wear a Onesie Day! A superhero onesie, a shortie onesie, any kind of onesie! Whatever you fancy!! Bring a donation to add to the bucket!
To make our ‘Celebrating Who We Are’ week even more special the children have been busy making a variety of themed items for you to purchase with all proceeds donated to the three charities. Please come along with your purses and wallets at the ready to ensure purchases can be made, raising awareness of these charities and the excellent work they do.
If your child attends the nursery on the Family Centre bus – do not worry, you won’t miss out! If you wish to purchase the items your child has made please give money to the bus escort in a sealed envelope marked with your child’s name.
We appreciate your support of our charity fundraising! Many thanks to all who have placed orders already and many thanks for your participation.
Easter Celebrations
We certainly got into holiday mode today by coming to nursery in our pyjamas to help support Isobel Mair School’s very own Special Olympian Rhythmic Gymnast, Amy Clark.
We have raised £74.39 for Amy to help support her venture to the GB National Games.
In addition to our pyjama day, we welcomed a very special fluffy friend who delivered some Easter Treats to all our children, courtesy of the Parent Council – many thanks from all our delighted boys and girls.
Nursery will reopen after the Spring Break on Tuesday 18th April. Have a wonderful holiday.
Chinese New Year 2017
Chinese New Year is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
Here are a some photos of our children enjoying a Chinese themed snack consisting of noodles rice crispy seaweed lychees and green tea! The children worked really hard to handle the chop sticks which caused a lot of hilarity! Children improved hand skills and hand eye coordination using the chop sticks and also when pouring their own Chinese Green Tea from the beautiful Chinese tea pot.
The children were inspired by the Chinese New Year decorations, newspaper and calendar and used the items to begin putting their own ideas and thoughts on paper….some children had a go at writing some Chinese characters and we all practised saying ‘Kung Hei Fat Choi’.
Celebrating Burns Day 2017
The children had a wonderful day celebrating the Bards birthday on 25th January.
We had recently sampled the traditional haggis, neeps and tatties during St. Andrew’s Day celebrations in November, so for our Burns Supper the children decided to taste a variety of Scottish foods. The children all voted for the food they wanted most and counted the votes using tally marks.
Have a look at our photo gallery below!
