ELC Blog

2021 - 2022

Welcome to the ELC Blog!

Here you will find information and updates regarding our ELC provision.

ELC News - Week 38

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Lost Property

We do still have a number of clothing items to make their way back to the rightful owner. Please do have a look at pick up/drop off to see if any thing is yours. Anything not claimed by the end of term will go to charity.

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Lending Library

We have loved seeing so many of you enjoying our Lending Library. It has been a great success. As we draw closer to the end of term, we politely ask that all books are returned to the ELC so we can provide the same experiences for our children in August.

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ELC News - Week 37

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End of Term Singalong - Thursday 30th June 2022

Information has now gone out about our end of term singalong to be held at the Culduthel Christian Centre. If you have not already done so, please fill in the form at the bottom of the letter and return to us.

We are looking forward to welcoming you along to our end of term celebrations!

ELC News - Week 36

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ELC News - Week 35

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ELC News - Week 34

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2022/2023 Allocation Letters

The allocation letters with your child's hours for next session are coming home in the next couple of days.

ELC News - Week 33

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ELC News - Week 32

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Donations

We are looking for donations of soft furnishings to add to our story and quiet areas. If you have anything that we could use, please let a member of staff know or drop them off to the ELC

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Lochardil ELC - Lending Library

We are delighted to introduce a new home link to you, our Lending Library.

We would welcome you to have a look at the selection of books, at the main entrance of the ELC. If your child would like to borrow a book, please tell a staff member which book you are taking and we will sign it out for you. We ask that you return the book within a week to allow other children the opportunity to borrow the book too. We hope you enjoy the Lending Library!

ELC News - Week 31

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Congratulations Mrs Scobie

We have a new addition to our Locardil family! Baby Lewis arrived safely on 17th April and is already looking forward to vising us very soon. Mrs Scobie is doing great and is settling well into her new role of Mummy!

ELC News - Week 30

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Important Information

Please find attached new information regarding Nivea Sun Creams.

Due to us being a nut free school, we politely ask that this product is not used for nursery and if this is a product that has been provided for your child, we will return and ask for another.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Individual School Photos

Our school photographer will be attending tomorrow to take individual photos throughout the morning.

Children who would not normally attend on a Tuesday should have had an invitation and time to arrive.

Sibling photo's will be taken in May.

If you have any questions regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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ELC News - Week 29

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ELC News - Week 28

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ELC News - Week 27

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Lost Property

We have collected lots of lost property. Items will be left at the front door, please take a look and collect whatever belongs to your child. Items not claimed by Easter will be donated to charity.

Please remember to name all your child’s items to save things going missing.

ELC News - Week 26

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ELC News - Week 25

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Parent/Carer Policy of the Month

Keeping Children Safe - Look, Think, Act Campaign

"It is everyone’s responsibility to keep children safe. It is important that staff teams work well together, communicate effectively and have a shared understanding of roles and responsibilities to keep children safe. Even when busy with other activities we all need to be alert to what children are doing. It is especially important at pick up and drop off times and when outdoors or on outings."

Care Inspectorate

There are still some spaces available for our next Stay and Play block, starting next week. Please see the assignment on Google Classroom to sign up.

ELC News - Week 24

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ELC News - Week 23

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Outdoor Stay and Play Sessions
We are delighted to be able to offer our second block of outdoor stay and play sessions. These are a great opportunity for you to stay and play with your child in the nursery garden.
Please see the sign up sheet on the ELC Google Classroom

Random Act of Kindness Day

With gloomy weather on the horizon, sometimes we all need a little extra something to brighten our day. Today is the perfect day to do something nice for someone you know or even a stranger, as it's Random Act of Kindness Day!

The children have been busy decorating cards and posters for some other staff in the school to say Thank You for helping us in the nursery.

The staff were delighted to receive their cards and cookies this morning. They all said we had made their day!

Let's spread some more joy and positivity!

Change to Lunch Menu 24/02

Due to the delivery schedules after the mid term break, there will be an amendment to the menu on Thursday 24th February.

The ELC choices will be:

Salmon nibbles and potato wedges

Mexican Burrito (V)

ELC Enrolment Week - 14/02/22

Reminder for parents of children returning to the ELC after August. Our enrolment week for the 22-23 session is now live. Please follow the link to enrol your child for the new session.

https://www.highland.gov.uk/info/878/schools/11/enrol_your_child_for_early_learning_and_childcare/2

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact a member of staff.

ELC News - Week 22

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ELC News - Week 21

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Preschool - Safe, Strong and Free Workshops

Our preschool safe, strong and free sessions will be starting this week. The workshops teach children serious things in a fun way.

Each workshop teaches different key messages through puppet play. These are repeated in the storybook your child brings home each week, enabling you to reinforce the key messages at home. These workshops will take place in nursery and in small groups.

Please let us know if you have any questions or if you do not wish for your child to participate in these workshops.

Outdoor Stay and Play SessionsWe are delighted to be able to offer outdoor stay and play sessions. These are a great opportunity for you to stay and play with your child in the nursery garden.
Please see the sign up sheet on the ELC Google Classroom.

ELC News - Week 20

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Early Years Lunch Menu

We will be moving back to a full lunch menu from next week - Monday 31st January (Week 2). It would be very helpful if you could discuss the choices with your child each morning.

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This can also be viewed on the ELC Google Classroom.

Register your interest for 'Ness Castle' Primary School

Please see information for families living within the catchment area for the new primary school at Ness Castle. Please register your interest for August. Enrolment for the new session will be open as usual. Please see the links below for further information and for online enrolment.

Information - http://ow.ly/nzc150HBcSx

Online Form - https://bit.ly/NessCastleForm

ELC News - Week 19

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Attention parents of Preschool children

Our preschool children (those going to Primary 1 in August) will soon have the opportunity to participate in outdoor P1 transition visits from next week. We will have small groups joining the current P1 children and teachers for a story in the playground.

If you have any questions, please speak to a member of staff.

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ELC News - Week 18

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Tuesday 25th January

To celebrate Burns Night we invite children to wear tartan on Tuesday. We will have traditional Scottish foods and dancing throughout the day.

If you have any questions, please speak to a member of staff.

ELC News - Week 17

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Welcome Back

A very warm welcome back. We hope that you had a fabulous holiday with family and friends. All the staff are looking forward to welcoming you back and are exited to hear all about your holiday adventures.

Flu Vaccines

Flu vaccines are now available for children aged 2-5 years. Please contact your doctors surgery if you wish your child to receive this.

The Elves of Lochardil ELC

Our elves were full of mischief this year but we have loved having them visit again! They are away back to Santa’s workshop to help get the last few toys ready for Christmas Eve 🎅🏼

We hope they will come and see us again next year 🥰

'Merry Christmas'

We hope that you all have a relaxing and peaceful holiday. Thank you very much for your continued support this term. We are hoping to begin outside Stay and Play sessions after the February break. We can't wait to welcome you in. A sign up form will be put on the classroom in January.

Best Wishes

All of the staff at Lochardil ELC

ELC News - Week 16

The children were asked if they would like to help create our end of term ELC News. I think you’ll agree they have done a brilliant job 👏🏻

They wanted to focus on the important topic of what they were going to leave out for Santa Claus 🎅🏻 on Christmas Eve.

Santa sure is going to be well fed and watered along with all his Reindeer 🥕

Our weekly ELC News will be back in the new year.

Wishing you all a wonderful and happy holidays.

ELC - Christmas Party

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We had great fun at our Christmas Party yesterday. There was singing, dancing, party food and a visit from our magic Christmas Tree (can you guess who it was?) Please log onto our Google Classroom to listen to our Christmas songs. The children worked so hard to learn all of songs, actions and dances!

ELC News - Week 15

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ELC News - Week 14

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Reminder

Wednesday we are filming our BSL Christmas song so if possible could children please wear a Christmas jumper, t-shirt, or even tinsel!

If you have any questions questions, please speak to a member of staff.

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ELC News - Week 13

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Childsmile Toothbrushing Program

Please find attached information on the ‘Childsmile’ Toothbrushing Program in the ELC.

Children will be enrolled automatically to the toothbrushing program. Please let us know if you do not wish your child to take part in daily tooth brushing. We will assume that you are happy for your child to participate if we do not hear otherwise.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thanks in advance,

The ELC Team 😊

Christmas Crafts

As we are preparing for Christmas, we would be grateful if you could supply us with an empty clear jar for a Secret 🤫 Christmas Gift to be given to you from your child.

It can be any size or shape, but please give it a rinse out and take the labels off if possible! Please send in by Friday 3rd December. If you have more than one spare, we will happily take these off your hands!

Thank you in advance.

The ELC Team ☺️

ELC News - Week 12

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Broomiform - Free School Uniform Orders - Get Ready for P1

Each term the House Captains run a whole school event. This term, the Broom House Captains are trying to sort out our Lost Property.

We all have a name - let’s use it!

AIM

To reduce our Lost Property
To help families take more responsibility for their items
To make Lochardil Primary more sustainable

Please complete the form below if you would like to receive any items of school uniform free of charge. Items will be delivered via school bag mail. Thank you for supporting our "loved again", recycling event.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUsWVZSGR4zoA25cFKL1gqpGuDBdGLVbETkMjWZc0PRSd5CA/viewform

ELC News - Week 11

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Children In Need

Children in Need - Friday 19th November. Children are welcome to wear yellow or come in their Pudsey/Blush dress up, t-shirts, jumpers, headbands, ears etc. We also ask, if you can for a £1 donation to this amazing charity! Thank you 😊

ELC - News - Week 10

Please find attached this weeks news. Apologies this is only being posted today rather than our usual start of the week.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you next week 😊

12/11/21

Remembrance Day

11/11/21

Today at nursery we watched a short video about Remembrance Day and why we participate every year.

‘The war’ ‘people died’ - Amber

‘We have poppies for Remembrance Day’ - Emily C

‘Soldiers save you’ - Isaac

‘Poppies grown in fields’ - Demi

We then observed a two minutes silence to remember all the brave men and women.

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Whole School Closure - Monday 8th November '21

Unfortunately school is closed to everyone today due to rising positive Covid-19 case numbers and staff shortages associated with such. We will update you throughout the day on the evolving situation.

I am so sorry for such short notice and any inconvenience caused. The children can continue to engage with their learning through their Google classrooms during this time and we will provide further information later today regarding our plans for the rest of this week.

Thank you as always for your ongoing understanding and support during such challenging times.

Thanks

Audrey Kellacher

ELC News -Week 9

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed your half term break.

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Fire Drill - 29/10/21

As you may be aware, we had an unplanned fire alarm on Friday. We were able to scoop up the children’s jackets as we left so we could put them on at the field because the rain was awful. However we were unsure of some jackets because there were no names in them. Please could we ask that all belongings are clearly marked with your child’s name so we can return them to you.

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Buttercups - Woods

A reminder for our Buttercups that attend on Monday afternoon. We will be starting our woods sessions on Monday 1st November for 5 weeks.

We will be leaving at 12.30pm and return to nursery at 2.30pm.

Please wrap up warm!

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ELC News - Week 8

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed your half term break.

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ELC News - Week 7

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Cauliflower Cards

Its nearly that time of year again! It's time to 'design your own Christmas card'. The form for the designs will be sent home this week for your child to complete at home. Please then order online using the unique code on the form and return completed designs to us by Friday 29th October.

If you have any questions, please contact us.

Early Closure - Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th October

Unfortunately due to staff illness/shortages the ELC will be operating with reduced hours today (Monday 4th October) and tomorrow (Tuesday 5th October) and will close at 3:30pm. All ELC children will need to be collected by this time.

Also a polite reminder to please keep your child at home if they are feeling unwell at all.

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

ELC News - Week 6

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Bike to School Week

Monday 27th September – Friday 1st October

As this week is bike to school week we are inviting children to bike, scoot, walk or even jog to school. We will be talking about how it’s helps our bodies and the environment and what are our favourite ways to travel.

Wellies...

Wellie weather has arrived and we love outdoor play at Lochardil. We are running out of spare wellies at nursery so please if you have borrowed any, please could you return them to us. Also if you have any at home your child has out grown we would make good use out of them.

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ELC - News - Week 4/5

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ELC – Tempest Photography

Tempest Photography will be visiting on Wednesday 22nd September for individual and sibling photographs.

If your child does not usually attend on a Wednesday, we will be in touch to arrange a time to come in.

If you have any questions, please contact us.

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ELC – In Service Days

A reminder that the ELC will be closed on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th September due to inservice days. We look for we’d to seeing you back on Wednesday 15th September.

Have a lovely weekend.

Parent Club Covid-19 Information

Please find attached information from Parent Club which explains the different requirements for isolating and PCR testing for under 5’s.

If you have any questions, please contact us.

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Recycled Resources
We would like to share with you our home made recycled abacus’ that were made from the yogurt lids we have been collecting.
The children have had great fun at counting and discussing colours and patterns.We are still collecting lids for other projects so we would be grateful if you could keep any and drop them into us 😊

ELC - News - Week 3

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ELC - News - Week 2

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ELC - Crisp Packets

Our Lochardil ECO Team need your help with their Term 1 focus for Climate Action.

They are launching a new campaign for ‘Collect our Packets’ and they aim to collect all of the empty crisp packets so they can be recycled and made into something new. As crisp packets can take up to 40 years to break down, they will be put to much better use being made into something else than in the rubbish bin!

So please bring in your empty crisp packets from home and deposit them into the box we will have at the main door to nursery.

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ELC - News - Week 1

Please find attached our ELC Week 1 News. We like to keep you as up to date as possible so along with our weekly news we will post regular updates on our Google Classroom and School Blog. You can sign up to alerts on our Blog so you don't miss a thing.

We are still expecting some sun ?? so could we please ask parents to provide the ELC with sun cream to be kept at nursery and applied to your child when required. Thank you

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

ELC - Blog Permissions

To be completed by children attending the ELC.

We would be grateful if you could view and fill out the attached google form regarding pictures on our school blog and other platforms. Using the tick boxes, please specify which channels you are happy for your child's pictures to be shared. If you do not wish photos to be shared on any platform, please chose the 'none of the above' option.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cpDb7-gs_T_sHckshLbPKFivl3vXogC0hrIb5c9Wiv4/edit

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Welcome Back

A very warm welcome to children just joining us and welcome back for our children returning. We have loved seeing you all today and hearing all about your summer holiday adventures. We look forward to seeing those of you that have not yet started, through the week.

Congratulations Mrs Scobie

We would also like to say congratulations to Miss Allardice who is no longer Miss Allardice after getting married at the start of the holidays. She has returned to the ELC as Mrs Scobie.