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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Some of our children have been busy designers!✂️🧵 From the first sketch to final detail, their focus, creativity and pride in their work is evident. So much patience, resilience and imagination in one experience. #SewingSkills #ChildLedLearning #BeingMe

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Gillian Laird @glaird.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I am so impressed and proud of our creative children. Our practitioners give them the opportunity to be inquisitive through experiences that challenge and provoke their thinking. Most of all we have fun learning together, I also tried out the human Spirograph 😃 it was great fun #LearningIsFun

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Gillian Laird @glaird.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I love seeing these happy smiling faces, it had been fantastic to have everyone back filling the nursery with love laughter and fun 🥰 #Friendships

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Falkirk Council ELC Team @fceyteam.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

We are delighted for our colleagues at @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social who were the ELC winners of Maths Week Scotland: Finn’s Wild Maths Adventure. Huge congrats to all the children, staff and families for this fantastic achievement. Click on the link to find out more mathsweek.scot/news/finns-w...

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Finn's Wild Maths Adventure Winners - Maths Week Scotland

We are delighted to also announce the winners of our Finn's Wild Maths Adventure Contest! Well done to everyone who entered, we really enjoyed going through all the different creative submissions.

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Gillian Laird @glaird.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Huge thanks to the team and @karenweir.bsky.social for her amazing ideas and filming skills 🎄🎅🏻 Merry Christmas everyone 🥰

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Falkirk Council ELC Team @fceyteam.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Another opportunity to start the New year with a new position - we are looking for an experienced EYO @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social closing date 4th January 2026 - don't miss out myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/fal...

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Early Years Officer - FLK13550 | Falkirk Council | myjobscotland

View details and apply for this early years practitioner / child care / nursery role in with Falkirk Council on myjobscotland

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In the quiet room learners have continued their interest in flags. As well as making their own interpretations of their favourite flag, educators provided flag puzzles to complete. Lots of problem solving, perseverence, matching and sorting. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇳 🇦🇺

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thank you for joining us at our Scottish themed Bookbug. We enjoyed a Hairy Maclary story and sang some Scottish songs. 🎶 📕

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

In the Quiet Room we have began exploring flags of the world. Learners have been identifying different colours, shapes and patterns that make each flag special. They have been drawing their own interpretations of their favourite flag. 🇮🇳 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

In the music room learners have been exploring the nursery rhyme 5 little monkeys, singing songs, role play and mark making their own monkeys 🐒🎵🎤

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

At the block side learners have continued their interest in forces. Using blankets learners noticed their hair standing up. Educators provided balloons for learners to rub on their hair. We then experimented with tissue paper to see how many we could lift up with the balloon.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Outdoors this week our learners have been exploring the forces push and pull. Describing how each different force feels using mathematical language. Our learners have also noticed the change in weather and have been predicting how ice is made. ❄️🥶

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

As learners continue to explore Room on the Broom, they wanted to make the witches spell. Educators provided ingredients for learners to choose from. We made lots of colourful, smelly, fizzing potions with learners recalling the magic words ‘iggety, ziggety, zaggety, ZOOM 🪄

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In the big room block side the learners have been exploring forces through using magnets and predicting what might happen. The educators provided materials and the learners have been using their problem solving and curiosity skills to decide what was magnetic and what wasn’t. 🧲😊 #forces

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Thank you for joining us at our water/rain themed bookbug today. We enjoyed the story Tip Tap Crab and heard some lovely singing. 🦀 ☔️

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The learners in the music room have continued to explore the song 1,2,3,4,5 through making their own fish to act out the song as well as exploring their left and right 🐟🐠🎣

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In the big room children have been developing their interest in patterns and sequencing. Children have also been using different resources to create their own space ships and participating in discussions about space.🪐☄️🔭🛸

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In the Big Playroom children have been developing their interest in patterns and sequencing. Using various resources, children are predicting what will come next in a range of two and three colour pattern sequences with some beginning to create their own. 🔴🟡🔴🟡🔴🟡 🟢🔵🟢🔵🟢🔵

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who came today to join in with our Bookbug session all about being kind to ourselves and each other. 📚🐛☺️

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Learners continue to explore stories in the quiet room. We have been enjoying experiences focussing on Room on the Broom. Learners have been using props to act out the story and even made their own broom 🧹 📕🧙‍♀️

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We had a Spooktacular Bookbug today singing lots of Halloween songs rhymes and a story all about trick or treating monsters. 🎃🧛🏼👻

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

In the music room the learners have been exploring the song “1,2,3,4,5” the learners have been focusing on number sequences through fishing as well as using their hands to represent numbers 🐟🎣

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In the music room children have enjoyed doing YMI, children have also used there creativity to make a giant clock and using there bodies to show the correct time, also enjoying using different animals to re enact the rhyme.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In the quiet room we have been exploring The Leaf Man, where the learners have created their own interpretation using a storyboard format 🍂🍃🌿🍁🧡

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In the garden we have explored forces by flying our kites, finding autumnal objects, using mathematical language to explore measuring and making lots of yummy treats in the mud kitchen.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In the main playroom (door side) the learners continued to further develop their directional language by using beebots. We have researched maps and town planning, creating their own interpretations

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In the garden this week our learners have been continuing to explore mathematic language using transient art and Big and Small! Our leaners have been exploring their forces using their bodies and objects. We have also been developing our self help skills when putting on suits, wellies and jackets☔️😁

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In the big room blockside we have investigated other ways to measure ourselves and objects. We have baked delicious blueberry and apple pies in our home corner.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In the music room children have continued their interest in Hickory Dickery Dock, children have used their creativity to stand on the correct numbers of the clock and create there own mice to re enact the rhyme.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This week outdoors we have been celebrating maths week, we have used natural resources, been out in the community and explored different number concepts ☺️ #mathweekscot

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In the music room children have continued their interest in traditional nursery rhymes with a particular focus, this week, on Hickory Dickory Dock. Children have used their creativity to make their own clock and use these props to re-enact the rhyme.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The learners in the main room (door side) have continued their interest in learning directions, forwards and backwards using Beebots, a road jigsaw and maps of Kinnaird.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In the big room block side we have been exploring Big Maths Week Scotland promoting mathematical and numeracy skills by measuring and discussing wholes and halves.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Following the continuing interest in Autumn and the book, Leaf Man the learners have been for a Autumn walk to collect resources to make their own Leaf Man.🍁🍂Also some learners have been exploring the book, Paper Chase and made their very own paper. 🌳🗒

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In the big room the learners continued their interest by looking at the houses that we stay in by using positional and directional language and exploring our local community. We have also used different types of technology to support their interests 🚶 🗺️ ⬅️⬆️⬇️➡️

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Kinnaird Waters children are gliding & plunging, circling & swooping their paper planes round the trees of Kinnaird. A final twirl and it’s nosedived to the boys and girls in @whitecrossps.bsky.social ✈️🌳👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽📙 #Paperchase #Collaboration #Stories

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In snack we are continuing to settle our new learners in and helping them establish snack routines. Learners are making their own choices around what they choose to eat, promoting independence. We’ve had some amazing helpers to chop our vegetables to make healthy soup.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In the Garden the learners have been continuing to use their autumn finds to match/ sort into groups or grouping the conkers to the corresponding number, some of the learners have also been looking for numbers in the local community ☺️

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In the music room learners have been exploring traditional nursery rhymes through our ‘what’s in the basket’ experience. We have also engaged in YMI sessions both with Ashley and Helen and the learners have continued to explore the ‘5 current bun’ props independently 👩🏼‍🍳✨🚣🐑🕷.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In the big room block side we have been exploring measurements making our own matching game, creating our own shops and serving up delicious food.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We had our first book bug session today. We enjoyed singing about autumn and a lovely story about the ‘Leaf Thief’.

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Gillian Laird @glaird.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

How exciting 🤩 listening to and watching an author read her new book. I wonder if a copy of the new book will arrive tomorrow 🤔

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The learners in the garden have enjoyed going out on autumn walks. The children helped to find Conkers, Acorns, sticks and leaves. We then discussed the different shapes and sizes and what they could be used for. They also enjoyed making obstacle courses, working as a team to create there own. 😊🍂

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In the big room block side the learners have been exploring their features similarities and differences with their peers with self portraits.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The learners have continued to work on their self serving skills in snack. With cosy season approaching, the children prepared vegetables for a pot of soup, using a variety of resources. They discussed the differences in shape, size and consistencies. Well done, it was delicious ☺️🥣

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This week, learners in the garden have been using their gross motor and problem solving skills as well as their numeracy skills to take part in hopscotch. Learners have also been exploring the mud kitchen where they have been creating their own recipe cards 🪴☺️ #numeracyskills #mudkitchen

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The learners in the block side have continued their interest in their families, Educators and learners created family albums for the learners discuss/compare families. Also creating their own houses the learners used sphero to collect their small world figures that represented their families ☺️❤️

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This week in the music, dance and drama studio learners voted for which nursery rhyme they would like to explore. ‘5 Current Buns in a Bakers Shop’ had the most votes. Lots of learners have been keen to take on the role of the ‘baker’ and brought the rhyme to life, serving up current buns 👩🏼‍🍳🍒.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In the quiet room we have continued to explore monkey puzzle, differences and similarities.

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Kinnaird Waters Early Learning Childcare Centre @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In the Atelier this week our learners were discussing the changes in the weather which led on from our beach scenes to autumn beach scenes. “The leaves are red, orange & yellow” CK. Our learners have shown an interest in sewing developing their hand eye coordination & fine motor skills. #autumn 🍁🍂

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