Author: Mrs Leamy

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At Bathgate Early Years Centre we are always striving to get it right for all our children.

Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) is the national approach in Scotland to improving outcomes and supporting the wellbeing of our children and young people by offering the right help at the right time from the right people.

To support our children in developing their understanding of wellbeing we have begun to use some characters from a recent Care Inspectorate document ‘ Our Creative Journey’. We plan to use the characters to engage the children and support their discussion and learning. As learning opportunities arise we will build on the children’s understanding of the 8 Wellbeing Indicators. As we were looking at Safer Internet Day we had alot of discussion about how do we keep safe and what that means for the children. Please take a moment to look at our display in the nursery entrance.

At the beginning of February all children were invited to take part in our second ‘Children’s Chatter’ where they were encouraged to share their thoughts about nursery.

They were asked: Why do we come to Nursery?

We were delighted to hear that the major themes coming through were learning and playing.

Here are some of their comments:

“I come because l need to learn stuff.”
“I come because l am little and when l am big l will go to school.”
“I come because we have to learn.”
“I come because you learn to be a grown up.”
“So mums and dads can have some peace.”
“To see my friends.”
“To learn numbers.”
“I come to have snack.”
“Because we are little we go to nursery.”

The Children’s Chatter provides an opportunity for all children to express their thoughts about nursery life. Our next steps include:

• Display the children’s responses for parents and carers to see.
• Use the responses to contribute to our Curriculum Rationale.
• Use the same question with parents/carer at our Stay, Play and Learn, Parent’s Evening and Grandparent’s Day to feed into our Curriculum
Rationale.

Our Helper Rota has been updated in the cloakroom area, if you are able to help at all please sign up. We are looking for people to come and read stories and help with crafts.