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Fairtrade Fortnight

 

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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We are an Eco School

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;

  • the importance of saving water and how we can do this in nursery by recycling rainwater and left over water from snack to water our plants.
  • growing plants and beans from seed and observing and measuring the stages of growth and what we need to do to enable them to grow.
  • caring for our garden birds and beginning to identify them by sight and sound.  Have you heard all about the big giant pigeon that visits our garden and eats up all the bird food?  Sometimes we are visited by a grey squirrel too!

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!

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Please come in and have a look in nursery and on our Eco Schools news board to find out more.

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Celebrating Burns Day

On Burns day ‘Granny Janet’ (Erin’s Gran ) visited nursery to share some fantastic Scottish stories, songs and poems with the children and staff. The children loved getting involved with the new songs and poems and were very eager to listen to the tales such as Greyfriars Bobby. At the end of the sessions Mrs Mckay  had very kindly cooked us all a Burns supper of ‘Haggis, Neeps and tatties’ It was a great!

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Chinese New Year at Wraparound

Some of the Wraparound children have been interested in Chinese New Year and dragon dancing. Please come in and have a look at their floor book and find out all about their story ‘The Friendly Dragon’.

 

Do you like their beautiful dragon?

https://youtu.be/y2ctVAua5io

 

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Poppy Scotland at Bathgate EYC

Earlier this month we learned about the important work of Poppy Scotland and why the nursery ladies and other people wear poppies at this time of the year.  We made paper poppies of our own by hand just like the volunteers used to at the Lady Haig Poppy Factory and we created lovely poppy collage pictures and poppy paintings to take home.  We had fun modelling poppies from play dough and using our poppy shaped cutters in our red and black play dough.   On the 10th (Afternoon group) and 11th (Morning group) of November the children went for a ‘Poppy Walk’ and planted poppy seeds in our nursery garden.  Thank you to Poppy Scotland for providing, seeds balloons, flags, and  age appropriate resource materials and thank you to everyone who bought a poppy on sale in nursery and supported The Scottish Poppy Appeal.

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Children in Need 2016

 

 

Well done to all who took part!  Even the children who were too unwell to attend nursery but took part at home 🙂

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Here we are dancing along with Pudsey Bear to our tidy up song at the end of the morning.

 

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10th Anniversary Miniature Garden Competition

Children at Bathgate Early Years Centre took part in a Miniature Garden Competition as part of the 10thBirthday celebrations.

The winners were Mya and Abbie and the photo shows with one of our special judges.

The judges said “It was very hard to make a decision as the quality of all the entries was very high. In the end we selected two gardens which demonstrated careful thought and planning and involvement of the children themselves.”

Mvairi Lynch, Headteacher said “Once again this Home Learning project has been very successful – all generations of our families got involved – well done and thanks to all who participated!”

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