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Eco Friendly boys and girls at BEYC encourage the local community to put their litter in the bin! #ecofriendly
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Today we are learning all about how Red Nose Day helps others less fortunate. In nursery we heard Haja, a little girl from Sierra Leon in Africa. Haja lived beside a smelly, dirty, dangerous rubbish dump before a project funded by Red Nose Day was able to help.
This is the poem all about Haja we are playing on the Smartboard, please have a look at home.
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Bathgate Early Years Centre had a very busy Fairtrade Fortnight. We would like to thank everyone who has taken part over the two weeks. Wraparound boys and girls took a trip to Scotmid and Freddie and Alfie also took a trip to Morrisons to pick kindly donated goodies for our raffle. The raffle raised a fabulous £72.75 which will be sent to Comic Relief along with money raised on Wednesday 22nd March for our Crazy Hair day. Thank you to Morrisions, Tesco and Scotmid for your donations.
Please look out for the red noses which will be on sale in the foyer!
The children have also been on the look out for the Fairtrade logo on empty packaging to bring to nursery. We have put the packaging to good use by following Ethan and Christie’s great idea to make a Fairtrade and watermelon shop in nursery.
Kyla “I saw a Fairtrade on a kit kat at my granny’s house.”
Rogan “I saw Fairtrade on chocolate.”
Violet”This is Fairtrade, mummy got it for her birthday.”(maltesers) “I got a Fairtrade kit kat from gran.”
Freddie “Look Fairtrade. My daddy gave me this.”(maltesers)
Aidan “I found Fairtrade on ice cream and on Nanny’s bananas.”
Diarmid”I got these for Fairtrade (maltesers) and I got them from swimming.”
Lucas “I got this from Morrisons. Hot chocolate. Look Fairtrade!”
James “I got this from Lidl and it’s Fairtrade.”
Christie “I got the Fairtrade flowers in Aldi.”
Alfie”The farmers get money if they make Fairtrade food. Money for clothes and houses.”
Emily R “It’s Fairtrade.”(chocolate)
Katie “It’s Fairtrade sweeties.”
Freddie “Fairtrade means the farmer gets more money so it’s fair. They use it to buy things”
https://youtu.be/X6stjSV0WEk
A small group of children were recently invited to visit Morrisons to out find out where our food comes from and to find out about the jobs people do at Morrisons. This visit also supported our ongoing eco schools work at Bathgate Early Years Centre and our links to the local community. Thank you to Keith the store manager for allowing the visit to take place and to Lorna the Morrisons Community Champion for organising the visit and showing us around on the day. We also met and worked with Isabella at the salad bar, Brian and Andrea at the butchers, Kay the fishmonger and David and Shirley at the bakery.
Logan “ We made some pizzas with mushrooms and cheese and made burgers. We made cakes with strawberries.”
Sophia “I liked everything at Morrisons. We made burgers and we made pizzas with mushrooms. We saw an octopus.”
Ethan “We learned how food got made at Morrisons. We saw the butchers and the fish bit. We saw the big oven and the rolls went inside. We went upstairs and got our aprons on and our hair nets so you don’t get hair on the food. I liked the octopus.”
Rogan “We made pizzas and saw the octopus brain at Morrisons. I used cream and a strawberry to make a cake. It was yummy.”
Abigail “I liked when we made everything at Morrisons. There was burgers and cupcakes with strawberries on the top.”
Nadia “We all made pizza and cookies. I saw spinning machine for doughnuts. A man was making circle of something (burger) and he used his hand to flat the circle.”
Maja ”Maja looked at a lady cutting a squid and looking at a man doing some meat’
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We are delighted to confirm that Bathgate Early Years Centre has successfully renewed its Eco-Schools Green Flag Award status. Eco-Schools Scotland said it “was an outstanding achievement” and they were particularly delighted to see that everyone had been working hard to encourage wildlife to our outside space and give the pupils age-appropriate insight into global environmental issues such as Fairtrade. They particularly liked our work with outside agencies such as WLC’s Environmental Team, the Butterfly Conservation Society and also Morrisons, Tesco and Scotmid. We are now choosing new topics and creating new action plans with the children, prior to a launch of a refreshed Eco-Schools Scotland process later in 2017.
Well done to Margaret, Miss Heenan, Mrs Ola and all the children who have worked so hard towards this award status.
(A member of staff just announced the pancakes were ready from inside as we took the morning picture on pancake day. Look at the excitement!)
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Fairtrade Fortnight takes place from 27th February-12th March 2017. We have been talking about this in nursery and how farmers around the world deserve a fair price for the hard work they do and that Fairtrade products help ensure this happens. This will mean the farmers and their children won’t go hungry, can go to school, can pay for medical care if needed and also have better living conditions. We have started to look out for the Fairtrade logo on our products at snack and baking as well as at the art and craft area. If you are out and about shopping and buy a Fairtrade product please bring in 1 wrapper/package with a note where you bought it to help add to our Fairtrade nursery activities. (eg.coffee, tea, bananas, chocolate, bubble bath.) Please also look out for our Fairtrade raffle on Wednesday 8th March! (supported by Scotmid,Tesco and Morrisons) Proceeds from this raffle will go to Comic Relief. If you wish, please bring your child to nursery with a different hair do on Wednesday 22nd March for Comic Relief when we also be selling red noses. Thank you for your support.
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As you may already be aware Bathgate Early Years Centre is an Eco School. Children and Mrs Ola and Miss Heenan have been working extremely hard to develop our Eco area and bird hide in nursery.
This month we are learning about;
We also had a special visit from a landscape gardener this week. Miss Robertson’s brother Jamie helped us learn all about his job and what we can do at nursery to grow and care for our plants. He brought along lots of tools and explained what he uses them for at work. He kindly donated sunflower seeds, pots and compost to enable us to grow lovely yellow sunflowers we can plant in our garden when it is summer time and a bit warmer outside. Thank you very much Miss Robertson and Jamie!
https://youtu.be/yGGHbpjup7U
Please come in and have a look in nursery and on our Eco Schools news board to find out more.
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