Month: June 2020

Good Morning Everyone,

We hope you have all had a good weekend.

Keeping In Touch

We have enjoyed seeing your new photo’s on your Learning Journals, thank you for keeping in touch.  Since Covid-19 has had an effect on our lives and home learning began, you have responded and risen to this challenge amazingly by continuing to keep your little one’s minds active with fun learning experiences, invaluable life skills and lots of fresh air and exercise, which is so important for their health and wellbeing.

The Learning Journals have proved to be a great resource helping us to remain contacted with our families – we are very proud to announce that so far we have received over 464 posts from families keeping us updated with their child’s learning and progress.  Thank you so much for this, we are very proud of all our little ones and everything they do.  Please continue to keep in touch, this not only helps to build and maintain relationships between families and our Early Years Team it also gives us an understanding of your child’s experiences and how they have developed and coped over these last few months helping us to support them further when they return to nursery.

Sports Day at Home

Did you make your own Medal?  We hope you rewarded yourself for trying hard – you deserved it!

Our own little learner organised her sports day independently at home for her family to participate in and look at the fun they had. Well done – what a star! We are very proud of you.

Well done to everyone for trying this at home, we are so proud of you all.

Cycling

Have you had fun staying active? We have enjoyed looking at all the photo’s you have shared with us and many have been outdoors exploring Calderwood and Almondell on bikes, scooters and foot.

Another little learner of ours has shared his amazing cycling achievements, what a star!

Encouraging your little one to cycle or scooter promotes many learning experiences whilst having fun.

• Moving at different speeds, levels and directions and understanding speed in simple terms.
• Maintaining balance when moving.
• Developing knowledge and understanding of what a quality movement looks like and feels like.
• Starting and stopping quickly and understanding speed in simple terms.
• Learning how to stay safe with using equipment safely and being aware of roads, traffic cyclists and pedestrians.
• Developing an awareness of self and an increasing self-reliance in dealing with new situations and new learning.

 

West Lothian Libraries

Information from West Lothian Libraries to share with our families.

As we approach some lockdown restrictions being eased and your services resuming in some way I am contacting you to advise about the digital resources we have available free to children who are members of West Lothian libraries.  I would be grateful if you could share this information with parents and carers please.

Every child in West Lothian can and should be a West Lothian library member and we endeavour to engage with and register as many children as possible as part of the ECALM initiative.  However, if a child is not already a library member and their parents/carers are interested in their child becoming a library member then they can simply complete the online application here: http://bit.ly/Join-WL-libraries they will then be sent their child’s membership information and will have access to our digital resources and all of our libraries when we reopen.

During the lockdown we have significantly increased our collection of children’s e-Books and e-Audio books.  These can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/WLlibebooksChildren

We also have also purchased e-Books and e-audio books which allow multiple downloads, so there are no waiting lists for these.  The latest addition is Flying Fergus, The Great Cycle Challenge by Sir Chris Hoy and this can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/FlyingFergusTgcc    

The e-audio books are particularly good for younger children providing them with their own personal story times, often with famous actors or even the authors themselves narrating.

If you require any assistance on the use of these resources or library membership applications please do not hesitate to contact me. Email: helene.rennie@westlothian.gov.uk

 

Hopefully this week’s weather and our summer ahead will continue to provide lots of opportunities to get outdoors with your little one and enjoy the benefits of fresh air and exercise.  Please continue to share your fantastic photos, news and everything that makes you so very proud of your little learners as much as we are.

Further support and inspiration for learning is available at https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/snonursery/

EC Nursery Team