Category Archives: UNCRC

Digital, Planning, STEM, UNCRC

Exploring Maps

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In line with our current literacy planning and October’s UNCRC focus, which surrounds World Mental Health day, we looked at the benefits of using the outdoors, walking and moving our bodies as a method of boosting our mood 😃

We used the promethium board and Google Maps to locate the nursery and trace routes digitally using the board pen to some known places we could walk to opposed to taking the car. 🚙

We explored how to access the internet by identifying the google chrome logo and were introduced to using the keyboard, learning that the letters we typed sent information to the computer 💻

⭐️ Curricular links ⭐️
🔴 LIT 0-13a – I mark make / I use small tools
🟢 HWB – 0-15a – I know that being active keeps me healthy.
🛜Technology 0-01a – I enjoy playing with and exploring technologies to discover what they can do and how they can help us.
🛜 Technology 0-12a – I explore materials software and tools to help solve problems and plan

Digital, STEM, UNCRC

Festival of Winter Walks

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To celebrate the Festival of Winter Walks underpinned by our UNCRC focus on play, outdoors and being active and to learn about different technologies we took a morning walk around the school grounds. During this we identified many forms of technology from fire alarms, speakers, electric gate openers and electric car charging points and took pictures of these on our iPads to document them.

During this we spoke about the benefits of being outdoors with children voicing the benefits and playing in the natural environment around them.

⭐️Curricular links
📱Technologies 0-05a – I enjoy playing with and exploring technologies to discover what they do and how they help us.
🟢 Health and Wellbeing 0-015a – I know that being active keeps me heathy.

ECO, UNCRC

Litter Picking

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In line with our Eco focus this month – waste management and our UNCRC articles 31 – right to rest, leisure and play and article 24 – the right to clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

Some of the children went on a litter pick. We discussed the importance of why we shouldn’t litter and what happens to our environments when people litter. The children worked as a team to clear up the litter.

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.

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!

 

 

Community, ECO, UNCRC

Harvest Day/Foodbank Donations

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Donald and friends from Fairlie Gardens donated lots of produce to LEYC for our Harvest Day. Some of the children helped organise all the produce so this could be out on display for families to take away. In return families kindly donated items to be given to our local food bank!

Teamwork makes the dream work 🌟

Links to our UNCRC focus of the month:

UNCRC Article 27 – I have the right to proper food.

ECO Focus – Waste Management, Taste don’t waste!

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.