Category Archives: Community

Community

Happy and Healthy

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Thank you to all the children and families who have attended our Happy and Healthy community group throughout the summer. These groups have had a focus on Infant Nutrition, with lots of discussion around nutrition, weaning, eating well on a budget and fussy eaters. We hope all who attended left with lots of ideas to try at home. Many of the children have enjoyed lots of sensory play with foods whilst exploring different textures, colours, smell and tastes.
Thank you to Costa Coffee Largs for hosting our first session, Alyson Baillie (Infant Feeding Support Nurse) and to Jamie Dorran’s (Public Health Scotland) for attending and supporting our sessions.
We ran these first 3 taster sessions and have been delighted by the uptake, we are now making plans to run monthly sessions in the new academic year, please keep an eye out for updates
Community

Beat the Street June 2025

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Well done to our families and staff for joining in with the 6 week ‘Beat the Street’ challenge. We have came 1st place in total points in the community category and 3rd place in average points in the community category. We have won some vouchers which we will put towards buying some new resources 😃.

Community, ECO

Community Beach Clean

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To begin our morning staff welcomed families to the event. Staff were giving out free dog poo bags to the community. Julie read the story ‘The Life of a Little Plastic Bottle’ before we all headed out onto the beach to begin our clean up mission. Throughout the morning ‘Cycling Without Age’ provided rides along the sea front. Beat the Street provided a bonus beat box for our event and the children loved receiving some goodies during the event. To end the morning children selected a piece of fruit from our donation basket from Morrisons and also visited Beachcombers to receive a free ice cream for all their hard work 😃.

We would like to thank all our families who came out this morning to support us with our beach clean – what a wonderful turnout it was.

We would also like to extend our thanks to:

🌟 Cycling Without Age for coming and providing free rides along the prom for our children.

🌟 Morrisons in Largs for providing free fruit for all the children.

🌟Beachcombers Largs for kindly donating a free ice cream to each of our nursery children.

🌟 Streetscene who provided us with litter pickers, bags and vests.

🌟Beat the Street Active Nation representatives who came out and kindly brought lots of freebies for the children as well as raffle prizes.

🌟 Councillor Alan David Hill for coming along to support our beach clean.

All the support is very much appreciated. A special thanks and well done to all our children for working so hard this morning to make sure our Largs beach is clean and safe ♻️.

Team LEYC 🌈

 

Community, ECO, UNCRC

UNCRC April – Earth Day

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Throughout the month of April we had a focus on ‘Earth Day’ linking with the UNCRC Articles 6 ‘The right to life, survival and development’ and 24 ‘The right to food, water, health and environment’.

Some experiences we carried out to support this were:

  • Paperless Play – Using the iPads to create digital artwork, drawing on recycled materials such as a cardboard box or old artwork. We also used the paper bags our lunch came in, to design our own bags to use at home. Using cut outs from magazines instead of printing out pictures. 
  • Community Posters – To raise awareness of Earth Day, some children created posters to display around the town using recycled materials. * Thanks to the following businesses and shops for letting us display these posters – Costa Largs, Haylie Stores, Samantha Kennedy Florist, David Gavins and All Hands On Earth.
  • Captured Creatures – To gain perspective of the impact litter has to life under the sea, we created a station filled with rubbish with sea creatures trapped inside. The children were then tasked to free the creatures and discuss why it’s important to put rubbish in the bin.
  • Litter Pick – The children went on a litter pick adventure around the garden and campus to clean these areas free of rubbish.