Milngavie Early Years Centre

Apologies for the very short notice – we have just been told that our Nursery group photos will be taken tomorrow, in the upper school gym.  Our Morning group will be taken at 10.30am and our afternoon children will be taken at 1pm.

If your child does not normally attend on a Friday, you are very welcome to bring them in for the photo.  You will have to wait with them in the gym till the photo is taken.  This sometimes takes up to 20 mins.

The photographer is just taking a group photo tomorrow.  She will be back at the end of October to take individual and sibling photos, perfect for family Christmas presents!

The roof is on!

Building the frame

Eric Avenier, Emile’s daddy, has been creating a fabulous wee meeting house for us in our playground.  He has sourced pallets and reused wood and built a wonderful wee place with internal benches for us to sit on, for stories and discussions and a wee shop awning for retail role play!!!!  The children are so excited about this- they had a chat with Maureen about going out to have a closer look at what Eric was doing and they thought about how they could keep safe while doing this.  They discussed this and decided to wear hard hats and goggles, because, ” That is what builders wear.”

Outside, Eric talked to them and told him what he was doing.  They had a really good look at all the special tools that he was using to cut the wood and join it together.  Some of them even had a turn of using the hammer and nails.

Eric has sparked real interest in building and we are planning to develop a new woodworking area outside the nursery beside the mud kitchen, with a work bench and proper woodworking tools (closely supervised of course!), to extend the children’s experience and interest in construction.

Listening to Eric

Building sites are exciting places, but we have to be very careful.

This year, our football coaching session will take place on Thursday -9.50- 10.30am.  It is going to run for 10 sessions and the cost for this is £10.  There will be a letter out to pre-school parents with payment details this week.

These sessions are great fun – the children learn ball skills and rules, through fun games,and the coaches are always super-enthusiastic and supportive.  The sessions take place in the infant gym in the lower gym.

If your pre-schooler does not normally attend nursery on a Thursday, you can still bring them along for the session, as long as you can stay with them in the gym.  It’s lovely to see the children’s  progression over the weeks and their confidence grow as their skills develop.

Our ante-pre-school children will have a chance to take part in this next year.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR TREAT/SNACK FUND FOR 2019/20

Our Treat Fund is a very important when it comes to supplying our children with healthy snacks, baking materials,  a birthday book, food for our parties and a Christmas Present  throughout the course of the year.   We rely on these parental donations to provide these things, which enhance our children’s nursery experience.   The cost per session is £0.50 and £0.80 per full day .  Full day children have at least 2 snacks per day, often 3.  Donations can be paid termly, or yearly in cash or by cheque made payable to “Milngavie Nursery Fund”.  We would be very grateful to have 1^st term donations in by the end of September, to allow us time to find, and buy, our  Christmas Presents in plenty of time.   Please put them, in an envelope with your child’s name on, in the black post box in the nursery hall.   Many thanks!

Sessional Children

Full Day Children

If your child combines sessional days with full days, you will have to add up the relevant amounts.  If this does not make sense or you have any queries, please do not hesitate to ask.  Calculations have been done on 3 terms of 84, 60 and 43 days taking into account the inservice days and holidays.  Children do not start till half way through a term will receive an amended bill.

A huge thank you to our lovely PTA for funding our music sessions again this year.  We have an amazing music specialist – Susan Tighe – who has been part of our nursery for many years.  Susan’s own children attended our Nursery!  Her music sessions are active and fun.  She introduces us to a wide variety of music and instruments and teaches the basic musical concepts with lots of warm enthusiasm.  Mr Snappy, Susan’s constant companion, has a wee backpack and every session he brings something different to show us.  This week he brought an inflatable globe – we looked at where Scotland was and then Susan showed us the continent of Africa.  Our music this week was African – from the Lion King- with rhythms that made us want to dance!  We all love Snappy Sounds sessions on a Friday – it is a lovely way to celebrate the end of the week and we always learn something new and interesting!

Susan and Mr Snappy

We are so looking forward to welcoming all our children, returning and new, tomorrow.  We have been changing our nursery over the summer and have some lovely new areas for exploring, and exciting new resources to try out.  Our garden is like a jungle – all the beans, peas, potatoes and garlic have been growing very fast over the summer and there is a huge new pitch in our orchard, which we will be playing in very soon!

We hope you are as excited as we are about coming back and are ready for a really amazing year at Milngavie Nursery!

We have a super new area for transient art activities

Look what Emile’s dad, Eric, is building for us in our playground!

Come and make a cup of tea in our beautiful house corner

We have created a wee meeting area in our hall- great for reading or for having a chat with friends!

There are lots of great stories to read in the book corner!

Look at the lovely table set in the house corner!

There’s a new, corner position for our construction area! Our wee builders are going to love it!

We’ve got some apples on our wee trees!

We’re all set to write stories on the Mighty Writer Board

Dear new nursery friends

We are really looking forward to seeing you on your first day at Milngavie Nursery. Everyone is very friendly and welcoming. During your visit you will meet the nursery staff, your Key Worker and some of your new friends. You will also meet our fish: Gilly Goldie McSurfer and Bubbles Dan McSplasherfin!

It is going to be a lovely day!

When you arrive have a look at our plant pots at the front door; can you spot our beautiful butterflies?

Then come inside for a look around. Your Key Worker will show you where to hang your jacket and bag. We will walk round the playrooms together. There are lots of fun and interesting things to do. Look out for our friendly puppets waiting for you on our tree! They can’t wait to join in at storytime.

Next we will go on a big adventure into our garden. There is so much to explore! Would you like to play in the mud kitchen or have a go on one of the slides?

Back indoors, our little mascot waits for all the children to arrive at the library counter. Can you spot him? There are lots of good books to borrow. Perhaps you would like to take one home?

There is so much to see and do at Milngavie Nursery. We hope you are looking forward to joining us!

See you soon

The Milngavie ELCC Team 🙂

It has been a busy time at Milngavie ELCC. The nursery staff and various helpers have been preparing the centre for next session, inside and out! Everything is looking great! Thank you so much to all our helpers – we couldn’t do it without you!

We are really looking forward to seeing all our children and families again soon and welcoming our new children and families to the Milngavie ELCC community!

To help prepare our new children for starting nursery we have posted a letter explaining a little bit about what their first visit will look like including some photographs of things to look out for (see our next post). Please can all our new families share the letter with their child and look out for new posts to read together over the next few weeks. Thank you. We will be in touch by phone and email soon to finalise arrangements.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon for another great year at Milngavie ELCC.

Thank you

Caroline McMenemy

Depute Head of Centre

Milngavie ELCC

A massive thank you to our amazing children, parents and families for making the last few days of term at the nursery so special. We are very touched by your kind gestures and the beautiful cards and messages.

All our children are very precious to us and we love what we do – it has been a pleasure watching them all have fun, learn and develop over the past year and we look forward to seeing them achieve and grow next session and beyond!

We have had a few enquiries about the fantastic tea towels and we are pleased to tell you they are available to buy at Clober Nursery over the summer.

Tea towels will be available to buy from Milngavie Nursery tomorrow (Tuesday 2^nd July) between 10am – 4pm.