Happy Halloween from everyone at Bathgate Early Years Centre.
Happy Halloween
Farmer Visit
The morning children were very excited to have a farmer visit nursery as part of our continued learning in Harvest time and the journey produce makes from ‘farm to fork’.  We all gathered around the farm yard area over the morning session to meet the Farmer (Finaly’s Dad) and had lots of questions ready to ask him to further develop our learning.  The children  learned about what animals he had on his farm and were amazed that there were 180 cows “now that’s a lot of milk!”  Please look on our planning wall in nursery at our ‘Harvest Learning Story’ to find out more.
If you would like to know more about what we are learning about Harvest, please click on this link to our learning story…..
The Royal Highland Show 2015
On Thursday the wraparound children had a fantastic time at the Royal Highland Show. They enjoyed getting up close with the animals and trying new experiences such a milking a cow, making a candle, tasting fresh honey and yummy treats and milk. Everyone was very tired when they got back to nursery after having such a busy day and walking so far. Thank you to our parent/grandparent helpers for making this trip possible.
On Friday in nursery, we tuned into Glow TV to discover even more about the animals on show at Ingliston.
Have a look at our photographs to find out more……
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Looking after our local environment.
Today we had a visit from Environmental enforcers David , Alan and some of the team from  NETS and Land Services WLC to talk to the children about looking after our environment, focusing on picking up litter and dog poo.
Children enjoyed the interactive session, looking at pictures and video clips on the Smartboard and loved to see nursery staff dress up as if they were going to work in the rubbish dump for the day!
The team have provided us with lots of dog poo bags and reflective strips to wear to show you are a responsible dog owner and clean up the mess. Please feel free to take home bags and a strip if you have a dog.
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Hip Hip Hooray for Bathgates’ Beautiful Birds.
Breaking News! Frogspawn discovered in garden pond.
Once again this year we have been very fortunate to discover frogspawn in our garden pond. Children are checking the progress daily, patiently awaiting the tadpoles to hatch. Please feel free to have a look for yourself. We will keep you posted on the developments.
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Creepy crawly caterpillars.
We have been very busy transferring our caterpillars into their individual little ‘homes’ so they can munch up all their special food. If you know the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Crale then you just might know what is going to happen next….
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National Spring Clean 2015
Children and staff at Bathgate Early Years Centre took part in National Spring Clean 2015 in conjunction with West Lothian Council and Keep Scotland Beautiful this week. The Environmental Warden team provided appropriate Litter Picks and Bags as well as also removing all of the rubbish collected afterwards. As part of their ongoing eco schools work, the children have been learning about caring for and helping the environment by putting their litter in the bin and also the importance of recycling litter. Well done everyone, the garden looks fantastic.
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Stay Play and Learn
Thank you to all who got involved and supported the children’s learning at Stay, Play and Learn this month. Â Have a look at the gallery to see what a fun, busy week we had…..
Fairtrade Fortnight and Comic Relief.
We recently celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight in nursery. A small group of children enjoyed a visit to Scotmid to search for Fairtrade items in the store. We used our vouchers that were kindly donated by Scotmid to buy Fairtrade bananas to use for snack as well as buying Fairtade ingredients to use for baking and smoothies and to make banana splits on our firepit. We also bought a selection of Fairtrade products for prizes for our Fairtrade raffle for parents and staff. Tom the Manager was very helpful and spoke to the children about Fairtrade and shared Fairtrade chocolate and bananas with them.
Thank you to everyone who bought raffle tickets. Proceeds will go to Comic Relief. Thanks also to everyone who took part in our Fairtrade competition. We collected lots of Fairtrade packaging which we used in our Fairtrade cafe and shop and also in our art and craft area.
Well done to everyone who dressed in red, wore a ‘funny face’ red nose and donated to Comic Relief 2015. The total amount raised this year was £73.
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