We had an amazing visit from Jenny Knight, a local artist who specialises in crayon art.
The children and staff were buzzing with excitement, creating their own crayon art masterpieces.
We can’t wait to display these in the nursery for all our parents to see.
We also learned all about how art can affect how we feel and bring out different emotions.
What a fantastic day, thank you so much Jenny!
If your child was born from 1 March 2014 to 28 February 2015 they can start primary school in August 2019 and you must register them during registration week.
Most schools have open days this Wednesday 31st October with registration taking place w/c 5th November. There are some useful links for you below (‘read more’ for app users)
Please note that even if you are thinking of deferring your child next year you must still register them at your chosen school.
If you have any questions about registering your child please do not hesitate to give your nursery manager a call.
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/primaryschoolsopenday
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/schoolplaces
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/catchmentmaps
The children at Old Coates House love using loose parts in our play-doh area.
We have have collected lots of autumnal objects and are getting creative.
Play-doh is a brilliant way to engage children with developing fine motor skills, hand eye coordination and imagination skills.
It can also be calming and therapeutic with the children smashing, squeezing and rolling the play-dough allowing them to release extra energy or stress.
We are excited to announce that Maureen Crandles, our owner and director, will be taking part in a feature on Friday morning on BBC Radio Scotland.
Maureen will be talking to the host on gender stereotypes and how we combat them in our nurseries.
Tune in at 11.10am, it is sure to be a great discussion!
We are currently recruiting a qualified teacher to join our pre-school teaching team.
Each of our 4 pre-school nurseries employ a qualified teacher, and these teachers work closely together to deliver the highest quality of teaching and to share best practice.
As a teacher with us you will expected to:
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Have a good working knowledge of Curriculum for Excellence, Building the Ambition, How Good is our Early Learning, Child at the Centre and Pre-birth to 3
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Lead the learning and teaching in the room
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Provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social, intellectual and aesthetic education
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Ensure our children have fun whilst learning in a safe and caring environment
You will be working 4 days a week, and will enjoy a competitive salary, over 8 weeks holiday a year and on-going support and career development from our dedicated team of managers.
Requirements:
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GTC Qualified
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Experience of working in a nursery, school or other childcare setting
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Enthusiastic, motivated and caring attitude
This post is considered regulated work with children and/or protected adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. You will be required to join the PVG Scheme.
If you are interested in this opportunity and feel that you have the required skills and experience, please submit an up-to-date CV to recruitment@earlydaysnurseries.org.uk
We are so excited to announce that all of our staff have now attended a 2 hour training session on Yoga for Children.
During this training we covered many different yoga positions, breathing exercises and group yoga moves.
Yoga helps to engage the heart, mind and body. It helps children to develop their emotional intelligence, communication skills, trust and empathy.
It is also a great non competitive activity which helps to nurture teamwork and leadership, and helps to provide a calmer and more productive learning environment.
But most importantly, it is lots of fun!
We are so lucky to have Steve and our Forest School team back in action after the Summer.
All our pre school children have the amazing opportunity to enjoy Forest School once a week.
From climbing our very own mountain, Blackford Hill, to picking brambles to bake with back at nursery, the boys and girls enjoy every minute.
Congratulations to our June and July Employee of the Month Winners in Mindfulness.
Doune Terrace Nursery – Zowie and Idrani
Early Days and OCH Nursery – Jose and Georgia
Walker Street Nursery – Jenny and Veronica
Melville Street Nursery – Dionne and Kismet
Support Staff – Kay and Isabel
August Incentive
Our Employee of the month, staff incentive focus for August will be on Room Area Planning. The criteria for this are as follows:
Area planning is a tool used by practitioners to develop areas in each room.
This provides children with challenging and stimulating learning experiences.
Please feel free to look at these sheets on the planning boards outside each room and feedback would be much appreciated.
We have been developing our house corner at Old Coates House and the children are loving it.
We have added resources for writing shopping lists, letters, and cards. This is bringing literacy to life and the children are completely enthusiastic about sending out special messages.
We have also started to add different herbs from our herb garden.
This is developing language skills as the children are learning the names of the herbs and our discussions are all about what foods the herbs can be found in.
The children now want to add a window box with herbs so that they are available and can be accessed independently.
Our pre school children at Melville Street enjoyed a sunny afternoon at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, playing on their new summer installation.
It was such a lovely day, just a short stroll from the nursery
The event is running every afternoon until Sun 12 August. They also have a special End of Summer family party on the last day!
Have a look at their website for more details
