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Hello everyone. Please click on this link to view a message from Alison Vandal DHT

 

Dear Parent/Carer

We hope you all managed to have a lovely Christmas at home together.

We understand that the year has begun under very challenging circumstances with the new lockdown restrictions in place to fight the spread of COVID-19, however we are hopeful that this will be short term.

We want to take this opportunity to reassure you that, although most of our children are at home with their families, we will continue to be here for you and will try to provide as much support as we can.

We wanted to share some of the ways we plan to keep in touch in the weeks ahead in order to ensure continuity in your child’s learning and to work together to support their progress:

• Your child’s key worker or a member of the team will contact you once per week to check in and see how you are doing and if you need any support.
• We will share the targets we have set for your child for this term across literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing.
• We will upload a range of experiences to Seesaw that you can engage in with your child to hopefully give you some ideas of how you can have fun together and this will also support them in achieving their goals. If you do not yet have access to Seesaw please get in touch and we will resend your child’s link.
• We will update our blog regularly with a range of activities, ideas and general information – https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/wpsnursery/.

We know that the situation at present is not ideal, however we also know that it won’t be forever and there is hope for the future.

Please stay in touch and we will get through this together.

Kind regards

Williamsburgh ELCC Team

Hello everyone, can you believe it we have snow again. Lets use this time to try these activities again.

Sledging 

Have you got a your sledge ready? You can enjoy sledging around your garden with some help from mum and dad or you could go to your local park and enjoy sledging down some hills.

Don’t worry if you don’t have a sledge an old baking tin works a treat 🙂 let’s see what other things you can find that can be used in the snow.

Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

You could go into your garden and build your own Olaf!

What do you need to build a snowman?

Snow Painting

Lets add some colour to the snow.

If you have some paint then add a little bit into either a plastic sports bottle with some water or a spray bottle and shake it until its all mixed.

If you don’t have some paint at home then add some food colouring to a bottle of water and create your masterpiece using that.

Take It Indoors

If you’re getting too cold out there then why not bring some snow indoors. Get a large bowl or a tray, fill it with snow and continue to enjoy exploring it…how long will it last inside before it melts? Why does that happen?

You can also use your paint or food colouring mixture inside, but brushes dipped in to the mixture may work better indoors (and be a bit less messy).

Please enjoy the snow, enjoy playing with your family and siblings and creating amazing things with it.

Please add photos of your experiences onto seesaw so we can see what fun you have gotten up to today.

 

 

http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/schoolsupdate-2212

Christmas has well and truly arrived in our nursery! The boys and girls in the Ladybird room had lots of fun at our Christmas party! We played games, danced, enjoyed some party food and…

We had a special visitor! SANTA came by to leave some presents for everyone! WOW – thank you so very much, Santa!

Our kind neighbours, Porrelli Ice-Cream, have very kindly donated some yummy ice-cream for boys and girls to enjoy at the Christmas party – thank you so much to everyone at Porrelli for making our party super sweet!

We had an amazing day and fantastic Christmas party! Merry Christmas to everyone! 🙂

As you may be aware we have been undergoing infrastructure building works within our Early Learning and Childcare Class and I wanted to provide an update on this.

The weekend of the 19th December the contractors will be working on removing the internal partition which will provide us with access to the new extended part of the building.

This will mean that rather than having two separate playrooms, we will now be operating within one larger playroom. The contractors will then begin internal works within the old ladybird playroom.

This will impact on how families enter and exit our building.

Drop off in the morning –

• Between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 9.15 a.m. there will be a member of management there to welcome you and your child.
• We would ask that you continue to make use of queuing at both sides of the nursery gates at this time and adhere to 2 metre distancing. We would also remind all parents/carers that the use of face coverings is advised.
• All children will enter via the door which was the entrance to the butterfly room and be escorted to their bubble by an adult.

Drop off and collection in the afternoon –

• For children who are being dropped off or collected in the afternoon, can you please ring the bell to the butterfly room and a member of staff will bring your child to you. Again can we remind you to adhere to guidance in relation to social distancing and the use of face coverings.
• We will renew external markers and signage outside the nursery grounds.

Care Inspectorate Guidance –

• In accordance with guidance from Care Inspectorate we will now be operating within 3 bubbles within the nursery, all of which have free-flow access to an outdoor space.
• Your child’s keyworker has not changed.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big ‘THANK YOU’ from us all at Williamsburgh ELCC for your patience during this time.

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Williamsburgh ELCC Team

Hi Everyone, if you haven’t already done so can you please click on the link below and complete the attached questionnaire.

We really appreciate your feedback.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBqea8LCEzTVmDL6yVKI_j4eSDy7PKmwKa0XMLWw7m9ycnFA/viewform

 

The boys and girls in the Ladybird room have been enjoying exploring maps. Last week we looked at Google Maps where we worked together to find our nursery. We used the option of ‘street view’ to explore our nursery’s neighbourhood. Some of the children could even follow their way home from the nursery – on the virtual map, of course!

Would you like to join us in having a wee look at different things in our community? Below is the link for google maps – feel free to explore the whole planet Earth – countries, beaches, mountains… There is so much to see! And all from the comfort of your home! We bet the boys and girls can tell you exactly what different colours and symbols on the maps are?

Google Maps

Do you think you can find the way to North Pole? Can you have a peek in Santa’s garden?

Can you find your friends and family’s houses?

What about your local shops and parks – for example Barshaw Park?

Can you make your own map? What about a treasure map?

Have lots of fun and let us know where you travel on the map! 🙂

Our children love to spend time within our cosy book areas and enjoy reading stories together.

This week in honour of Scottish Book Week we are enjoying ‘Squirrels who squabbled’ this is a tale of how two greedy squirrels greedy squirrels Cyril and Bruce, they both have their sights on a very special prize: THE VERY LAST NUT OF THE SEASON! As the nut bounces crazily though the forest, the squirrels race after it, between the trees, over boulders, down the river and – ARGH! – right to the edge of a waterfall! Working together might be the only way to save themselves now …

We are helping Boris and Cyril to share, this experience also helps children to develop mathematical concepts such as a sense of size, amount and even very early fractions!

Please share with us any stories you have been enjoying at home via the blog or on Seesaw 🙂