Please see below our Improvement Plan and Standards and Quality Report for 2023-2024.
NHS Exclusion Criteria
Good Morning,
Please see the attached updated NHS guidance on exclusions from nursery for children and staff. The guidance stipulates for each condition, virus or bug how long children should be excluded from the setting if required.
Kind Regards
Yvonne Jarvis
Depute Head of Establishment
Woodhill ELC Tour
Winter Jacket Requests
Good Morning Everyone,
As you may be aware South Lanarkshire Council launched a winter clothing campaign prior to the Christmas holidays, whereby members of the public could donate new or nearly new winter jackets at a range of supermarkets across SLC. The campaign has been very successful with around 1000 jackets being donated with some of these donations being brand new jackets. The community laundry team in Blantyre have been collecting, laundering and sorting these ready for distribution.
They are now in a position to start allocating the items to children and young people who need them. The following sizes are available: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 2-3 years, 3-4 years, 5-6 years, 7-8 years, 8-9 years, 9-10 years, 10-11 years, 11-12 years, 13-14 years, 14-15 years, adults S, M and L (both male and female sizes), ladies 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 20.
The aim of the project is to support families who may be living within houses that are cold, undertaking remote learning, and even when schools return ventilation in classes will still be required, so pupils will need layers and good quality winter jackets for outdoors. South Lanarkshire Council have jackets in good condition, some brand new in all sizes from newborn baby sizes right through to adult sizes. If you already asked for jackets, you can request more!
If you would like to request a jacket then please contact Lesley or Yvonne on the nursery email gw20woodhilloffice@glow.sch.uk or telephone 01555 894026 , Please outline size, gender and number needed. If you can get in contact with your requests as soon as possible, this would be greatly appreciated.
Welcome Everybody…..
A Warm Welcome to our Nursery BLOG page. We have created this page to ensure parents/carers feel included within the life of the nursery. We will use this as a method of communication to share information and updates within the nursery.
We may post pictures and artwork of the children’s, to share with you the learning which has took place and this platform will give you the opportunity to make comments, sharing your views and opinions. The blog will be used as a way to capture our parents/carers views and opinions which will be used to influence the children’s learning and development.
Christmas is almost here…..
Well everybody, the Christmas Tree is up and illuminating the room, the star has been placed on top and we are all ready for the man in the big red suit to arrive. Stockings are out and the cookies and drinks out for Santa to enjoy and remember the carrot for the reindeer – Ive heard carrots make the reindeers fly faster!!!
We would like to Wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we hope you all have a lovely time with your family
from
Everyone at Woodhill ELC
Our First Day at Woodhill Early Learning and Child Care
Published: Monday 14 September 2020
Staff at South Lanarkshire Council’s newest nursery have been busy preparing for the arrival of its first young learners.
Woodhill Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) in Kirkmuirhill opens its doors to children this week (Monday 14 September 2020) with staff starting on site earlier this month to get everything ready for the first term.
South Lanarkshire is engaged in a large-scale programme to expand early years capacity with the construction of new nurseries and the expansion of existing ones.
The Head of Establishment for the new Woodhill ELC, Lesley Cowling, said: “We were very excited to get into the building and to begin preparing for the arrival of our first intake of children.
“This new, purpose built setting has been designed from the ground up to be the best early years learning environment possible, we have fantastic inside and outside space which will support the team in delivering a huge variety of interesting and exciting activities.”
The Woodhill ELC offers 63 places in total while, once completed, the new build and expansion programme across South Lanarkshire will have increased capacity in the council’s early years units by 1,658 places.
South Lanarkshire’s Chair of Education Resources, Councillor Katy Loudon, said: “I am delighted to see the new team at Woodhill ELC starting to settle in and prepare for the arrival of the first intake of children.
“I know there is a great combination of staff with many years of experience in early years education and those just starting out on their careers and I am sure the children will benefit from that mix.”
South Lanarkshire Council Executive Director of Education, Tony McDaid, said: “This is an important milestone in our expansion of early years capacity.
“Inevitably our programme was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but it is a tribute to all those involved that we have been able to get back on course relatively early in the recovery phase and are in the position for work to resume in a safe and responsible manner.”
If you are a parent or carer interested in applying for a place for a child in Woodhill Early Learning and Childcare then contact the nursery by email or by calling 07385 377209.
Parents of children aged three or about to turn three can find more information about nursery placement on the Early Years and Childcare pages of the South Lanarkshire Council website. Some children are eligible for funded childcare places from age two, eligibility criteria can also be found on the council’s website.
