Category Archives: EYC

Welcome to our Early Years Centre!

Hello!

We would like to officially welcome everyone back into the Gardenrose Early Years Centre. We have already had lots of new children start their first school year in our Nursery, as well as lots of boys and girls returning for their Pre-School year!

We are so pleased to have our returning ladies, Susan and Lee, managing the Red group and the Yellow group again this year. Our lovely, newly-appointed EYP Tracy is our leader of the Green Group, and Rhian, who we all know from last session and Forest School, is managing the Blue group this year. Nicola, our colleague from the Carrick Centre, has came to Gardenrose and is loving leading the Purple group. We also have the pleasure of welcoming our new EYP Esther, who will be assisting in the playrooms and developing great experiences for everyone.

For this year, Miss Grater will be our teacher in the Nursery. Miss Lee is now Acting Principal Teacher, which means she is very busy with management duties. She is very much still involved in our EYC and comes and helps us lots.

We have lots of super exciting things to come in our EYC this year. We are fast approaching Halloween, and so far we have been learning about the Jungle topic, while settling back into the Nursery routines after the Summer holidays.

Watch this space for Dates for the Diary, and exciting pictures and news of what we get up to!

Annual Parental Survey 2020-21

Please can you complete the survey for parents/carers by clicking on the appropriate link below. (Early Years Centre or Primary)

This will help us to celebrate our successes and reflect on any areas where we need to improve. We would really appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete the survey so that we capture the views of the majority of our parents/carers.

***Survey to be completed by Friday 21st May***

 

The link for your parent survey is      

EARLY YEARS CENTRE:       

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EYCParents20-21/

 PRIMARY:                                                               

  https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PrimaryParents20-21/

 

Panto – Scunner Who Stole Christmas

The Scunner Who Stole Christmas

 

Gaiety Theatre Characters, Dame Hylda and Jock the Joker visited the school on 16th  December and engaged the children in a short performance which was video and send to the Gaiety.  We will be one of the five schools who appear in the finale episode of the panto performance of the Scunner who Stole Christmas.

The Kingdom of Ayrshire and Arran has been cursed by Dourina the Soorfaced Sorceress – she’s stolen the Pantomime Recipe Book and cancelled Christmas. Only joy, togetherness and adventure can conquer Dourina’s evil plan and save the day – but with Princess Neat and Prince Tidy keeping their distance; how can Christmas ever be saved? Can Fairy Handwash remember the magic recipe and find the ingredients she needs in our community to save the Kingdom? Can Dame Hylda Rerrterr, behave on Tour? And will Jock the Joker ever crack a one-liner we approve of?

The children have watched episodes 1-3 in school so please use the link below to watch the final 2 episodes at home on Wednesday and Thursday.

https://www.thegaiety.co.uk/savechristmas

 

The episodes go out as follows :-

Thursday 3rd December, Thursday 10th December, Thursday 17th December at 6.30pm, Wednesday 23rdDecember at 6.30pm and Christmas Eve at 1.30pm.

All the episodes are available on their website to view after the screening date and time

Halloween Is Coming!

We have been exploring potions! We have been measuring bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to watch the cauldron bubble. “Izzy Wizzy lets get busy time to make my potion Fizzy”!!!! We has super fun scooping our pumpkins and feeling a variety of sensory materials such as jelly, ice, noodles, spaghetti, playdough and beans!!!

We have been exploring rhyming CVC  words through the story ‘Room and the Broom’.  We made ‘Silly Soup’ using bats, cats, logs, dogs, star and car! We have also been singing lots of Halloween spooky songs.

We have been learning new mathematical language when making our witches wands. We have been exploring height too. How many pumpkins high are you?