Health and Wellbeing – Bathgate Early Years Centre

February 18, 2021

Try at Home: Single Use Plastic Activity

At Bathgate Early Years Centre we are a proud Eco School and through our work at BEYC we like to look after the environment in whatever way we can. Can you take part in the activity below from Keep Scotland Beautiful?

Go around your home looking at products that are made of or packaged in plastic that will be only useful during the life of the product. That is what is called ‘single-use plastic’. Examples of this are toothpaste tubs, plastic toothbrushes and yogurt pots. Count how many different types of single-use plastic products or containers can you find at home.

Keep Scotland Beautiful

BEYC Eco Song (sung to the tune of Frere Jacques)

TAKE CARE NEAR ROADS

OH DON’T YOU

STOP AND LOOK AND LISTEN

WE WILL TOO

WE LOVE GARDENS

OH DON’T YOU
OH DON’T YOU

PLANT SOME TREES AND FLOWERS

WE WILL TOO

WE LOVE BEING HEALTHY

OH DON’T YOU
OH DON’T YOU

EXERCISE AND EAT RIGHT

WE WILL TOO
WE WILL TOO

WE RECYCLE

OH DON’T YOU
OH DON’T YOU

SAVE IT FOR THE FUTURE

WE WILL TOO
WE WILL TOO

SWITCH THE LIGHT OFF

OH DON’T YOU
OH DON’T YOU

TRY TO SAVE SOME ENERGY

WE WILL TOO
WE WILL TOO

We would love to see a clip of you and your family singing our Eco song or a photograph of the single use plastic items you have found around your home. Please email, tweet or upload onto your Online Learning Journal

Curricular Areas

Technologies To help care for the environment, I reduce, re-use and recycle the resources I use. TCH 0-06a

Technologies I enjoy taking photographs or recording sound and images to represent my experiences and the world around me.

Expressive Arts Inspired by a range of stimuli, and working on my own and/or with others, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through musical activities. EXA 0-18a

Sciences (Materials) Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different purposes. SCN 0-15a (Sorting what can be recycled or not)

February 12, 2021

Try at Home: Snow Much Fun

February 4, 2021

Try at Home: Stick Man

Welcome to our Try at Home Sway inspired by one of Bathgate Early Years Centre’s most popular books Stick Man. Please use the arrows below to navigate your way through the sway.

We would love to know if you try any of the activities, please do share your photographs onto your Online Learning Journal (We have attached a little how to video to help you do this)

October 5, 2020

October Newsletter – 2020

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July 29, 2020

Tour of Bathgate Early Years Centre 2020

Hello everyone,
We hope you are all doing well and looking forward to returning or starting Bathgate Early Years Centre soon. We have been missing you all.

Please take a look at Miss Collins and Harry the Hedgehog showing you around some of the areas at BEYC. Which area are you looking forward to playing in?

July 10, 2020

Keeping your under 5 safe online

We have been so thankful during this time that we can stay connected by using a range of technology but as always we emphasis the key message of using these devices responsibly and safely especially when your child is online.

Please have a look at this ThinkUKnow article with lots of information on the benefits of young children using technology and tips on how to support them.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/articles/keeping-your-under-five-safe-online/

During this time we will continue to share useful online safety activities and try at home activities in the meantime please have a look at these websites for helpful online information and tips covering a range of ages…

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
www.Childnet 3-7 Year old resources
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/

June 15, 2020

NYCOS Active Nursery Learning lessons.

Hello everyone .

We all hope you are well 🙂

Who remembers Nycos music sessions with Mrs Ola, Miss Toner and Mrs. Collins? We sang different songs, nursery rhymes and played different games, we used various resources that helped in developing new skills, e.g. rhyming skills, syllables, developing listening skills, developing independent thinking and many other skills. We know how much fun this session gave you and that’s why we wanted to share with you Nycos Active Learning lessons.
That you can enjoy at home too 🙂

Please click on the link below .

Have fun everyone
Nursery Team .

June 12, 2020

Minibeast Hunt : Try at Home

Please use the arrows below to navigate through the sway to view a fantastic song and dance from Miss Collins and a story all about a very brave caterpillar read by Miss Kelly. After you have watched the videos you may wish to take part in the try at home minibeast hunt activity.

It was a very rainy day so after a short hunt in the garden Harry the Hedgehog then completed the minibeast hunt using the Adventure by Jess YouTube videos indoors.

June 10, 2020

Transition to Primary One 2020

Hello to all of our pre-school children,
Transitioning to Primary 1 is such a exciting milestone in your journey and we are looking forward to supporting you all during this. We have collaborated with staff from Bathgate West Nursery School to create this sway filled with lots of information and activities to help support your transition. Please continue to check you inbox for weekly updates and PEEP activities from Mrs Ola.

If you have any concerns, problems or questions about your child’s transition to Primary 1 please don’t hesitate to contact Miss Kelly (tayloranne.kelly@westlothian.org.uk) and I will get back to you asap.

June 8, 2020

Bathgate Procession 2020

Hip Hip Hooray!
Although it was a very different Procession/Galaday we hope you all enjoyed it safely in the sunshine.
Thank you to everyone who sent in photos/videos please continue to do so. It is great to see and really makes the nursery ladies smile!

BEYC Stay at Home Superheroes – Children’s video.

BEYC Stay at Home Superheroes – Staff Video