All posts by Miss Skinner

UNCRC

Friendship Garden

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At Largs Early Years one of our upmost priorities is to create nurturing and secure environments that allow children to create and sustain relationships with their peers and others. 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏿👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽 We support children to build the foundations for this through daily interactions, our PATHS programmes, daily check ins and reference to our SHANARRI characters. 🐻🦊🤖🐝🍏👾🐘. This helps to instill the 4 capacities for all our children within the curriculum for excellence – confident individuals, successful learners, responsible citizens and effective contributors ⭐

To support our UNCRC articles 15&19 that underpins ‘anti-bullying week’ we discussed what it means to be a friend, voicing each others qualities and how this makes each other feel. To express our thoughts on this we made friendship stones for someone we think of as a friend 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏿👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽❤️

The children located an area in our garden to place their stones which is now a space to highlight and celebrate our unique characteristics, attributes, and is a symbol of how loved we are.

ECO

Rag Bag Collection October 2025

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To help support our eco schools work we will be having a collection for Rag Bag in October. If you are having a clear out for Christmas or there are clothes that no longer fit, then please bring them to the centre by Monday 27th October. They will be collected on Wednesday 29th October. This helps us raise some funds for other eco activities. Thank you in advance for your support.

ECO, Family Engagement, Information for Parents/Carers

Donation Station

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♻️ Our new Donation Station is up and running ! ♻️

As you are all aware we are part of the Eco Schools programme and we are hoping to continue all our hard work with a little help from our children and families. 🌟The children at LEYC enjoy being creative, imaginative and curious and one of the best ways to nurture these qualities is with loose parts play! Loose parts play gives the children the freedom of play using all sorts of different everyday objects as anything they wish them to be. So we are looking for your loose parts !

We would be grateful of anything you could donate, big or small. ( If you have a wee look at the station there are lists of suggestions. )

Is it a kitchen roll tube…… no it’s a Telescope 🔭, a pirate sword 🗡️, a magic wand 🪄

Digital, ECO, STEM, Story of the Month Vote, UNCRC

Woodland Walk

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🍁Adventure in the woods🍁

This morning we had a lovely walk to the woods to collect some autumn treasures. We used a checklist to see what woodland wonders we could find, all of the children were able to find leaves and we all enjoyed watching them fall off of trees.
During our scavenger hunt we came across a QR code, after scanning the code we were provided with information on taking notice of your surroundings and ‘grounding’ yourself. This was supported by SAMH (Scottish Action for Mental Health) Most of the children were able to answer and identify at least one sight, sound or smell within the woods. This experience gave us time and space to think about our surroundings, gather thoughts and create a calming environment.
Working in line with our story of the month, we set up an experience for the children to sit on a log just like the broomstick, and listen to our story of the month “Room on the Broom”, some of the children joined in and finished some of the sentences and identified which item the witch would lose.

Digital, ECO, STEM, UNCRC

World Mental Health Day

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As today is world mental health day 😀 we have been discussing different strategies that can clear your mind. We explored different types of exercise such as bike rides, climbing, running and some children went out on a wellbeing walk. We have also used digital technology to encourage physical activities such as dancing and yoga. By exploring these different methods gives children more of an understanding about how important mental health is, which supports our UNCRC monthly focus. This also links in with our Eco monthly focus on transport emissions, where children are aware of alternative ways to travel to nursery or school.

 

ECO, Family Engagement, UNCRC

Up-Cycling

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To support our UNCRC Article 27 – I have the right to have a proper home, food and clothing and our ECO journey, this month the children have taken part in an up-cycling activity where they have redesigned an item of clothing from their home.

This experience gives the children a better awareness and understanding of issue’s within our environment and ways in which they can help the environment and live a more sustainable lifestyle.

Fabulous designs from all!