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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Following our vegetable haul yesterday we made our leek and potato soup today for another lunch option. This experience supported the children to develop their fine motor skills. #cookingskills

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We have discovered some of our vegetables are ready to harvest. We were able to pick some lovely potatoes and fantastic leeks and we are going to use them to make some delicious potato and leek soup. #farmtofork #growing #healthyeating

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🍂 Autumn treasures! Our children loved creating their own collections using natural materials found outdoors. They counted, compared colours, shapes and sizes, and shared their discoveries with friends. 🍁 #EarlyYears #OutdoorLearning #LearningThroughPlay #Autumn

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We have returned to a bumper crop of apples.we collected some today and used them to do some baking #healthyeating #growing #farmtofork

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We have been super interested in bugs and today we were exploring bug specimens from around the world.We thought the spiders and scorpions were our favourites #nature #curiosity #exoploration #STE

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Why is this grass sticky?” 🌱🔍 That one question led to a brilliant microscope investigation, exploring textures, patterns and tiny details we couldn’t see before. Real curiosity, real learning. #FalkirkCouncil #EarlyYears #Curiosity #LearningThroughPlay

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Over the past week, children created self-portraits in our woodwork area as an end-of-year project. Using hammers, saws, screwdrivers, rulers and plenty of imagination, they built skills, confidence and creativity. 🪵 #EarlyYears #LearningThroughPlay #CreativeLearning

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We would like to thank our nursery families for joining us to celebrate Eid we had a lot of fun celebrating with you all #nurseryfamily #celebration #bookbug

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We have been exploring poems and created our very first poetry basket mix a pancake complete with props. We have enjoyed learning the poem, the actions and using the props. #poetry #literacy

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

What a beautiful day for a campfire 🔥 Today’s special was pitta bread and cheese 🧀 We are becoming ready to start our cooking on campfire sessions ☺️

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

To celebrate the start of British science week we tried out one of their activities can we make dirty water clean? To our amazement after following the instructions to make a filtration system our muddy and sandy water became cleaner. #britishscienceweek #STEM #curiosity #experiment

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Less stress more chill, we could learn a lot from our little learners embracing the outdoors. Take some time with your favourite people to recharge your batteries. “We’re just chilling”, could be our new moto here at St Francis Xavier’s ELC! #Outdoorlearning

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Engaging, nurturing and purposeful spaces to relax, regulate and pause ☺️

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Another safety campfire this morning to prepare our wonderful learners to begin cooking on the campfire. 🔥 We love to practice our safety nursery rhyme. “Fire, fire never touch, It can hurt you very much.” #safety #campfire #outdoorlearning

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We had a fantastic World Book Day at nursery! 📚 Children brought their favourite books, dressed as beloved story characters, baked a tiger cake, and explored a Goldilocks tuff tray. A day full of stories, imagination and fun! #WorldBookDay #EarlyYears #LearningThroughPlay #NurseryLife

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

How incredibly lucky our children and families are @stfranciselc.bsky.social to have such fun, passionate and imaginative adults who create memories like this one! #Proud

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Our fabulous community of family partnerships. Rich and meaningful learning, shared in a fun and imaginative way 📚🎶

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Many thanks to parents and grandparents who read stories to the children for #nationalstorytellingweek. Some of the stories were in Urdu, Irish Gaelic and Polish 📖

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We have been super busy using junk modelling to create cars and masks using mathematical language. We have also been super creative and curious about “under the sea” crating wonderful fish tanks ☺️

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We have enjoyed our book of the week the 3 little pigs so much we decided to make some props so we could act out the story. #literacy #storytime #roleplay #creativity

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We have been exploring sensory play shaving foam in our craft area. It has been so much fun and we have loved getting our hands in the foam to experiment and mark make. #art #sensoryplay #markmaking #finemotorskills #exploration

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

❄️Children showed strong interest in Christmas stories, and we believe literacy should be everywhere in the nursery. Using a Christmas book, we also promoted numeracy through decorating a gingerbread man, counting buttons, and present sorting☃️ #EarlyYears #LearningThroughPlay

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We were delighted @stfranciselc.bsky.social and @carronelc.bsky.social to share our child-centred pedagogical approach to children’s learning. What a turnout of passionate educators within Falkirk.

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This morning we enjoy exploring the change in the weather. We used hammers to smash the ice and observe the change in properties of water. 💦 ❄️ We used great problem solving skills to melt the ice in warm water 💧

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

More ice for our curious and adventurous learners ❄️ We enjoyed saving frozen sea creatures and going on an ice hunt round the garden comparing different sizes of ice ☺️

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This morning we re-introduced our campfire sessions 🔥 We have been learning what’s safe and unsafe round fire. The children demonstrated great listening skills and we are now ready to make toast on the campfire next week 🔥🍞☺️

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What a busy day with visitors at St Francis Xavier’s ELC📖We had a special story in Spanish 🇪🇸 from a family member and a visit from local author Carrie Taylor who read her book My Little Brother Is So Annoying! Thank you so much for reading to us on Book Week Scotland #ScottishBookTrust

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Story time at St Francis Xavier’s ELC for Book Week Scotland 📖Some children listened to our story of the week Pirates Love Underpants, voted by the children! We had parents reading stories.Some stories were in Polish 🇵🇱.We even had children sharing favourite stories from home! #ScottishBookTrust

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Many thanks to our special visitor today who came to remind the children about road safety. The children gave good examples of stopping, looking and listening before they cross the road with an adult #RoadSafetyWeek

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Carron ELC @carronelc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Nene our safety elephant came with us to the woods to help remind us on how to keep ourselves safe. We had good looking eyes, listening ears and all children listened to all instructions perfectly.🐘🪾

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Looking forward to sharing our child-centered pedagogy @carronelc.bsky.social and @stfranciselc.bsky.social Sign up via CPD manager for this fantastic opportunity to connect with our wonderful practitioners across Falkirk!

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Today we were busy shaking the trees to watch the leaves fall 🍂 Zero percent formal education, 100% fun and curiosity! #LearningThroughPlay #EarlyYears

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Carron ELC @carronelc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The boys and girls at craft were very busy making their playdough bonfires. We had lots of discussions around fire safety and what to do to keep us safe. This was also a fun activity to practice fine motor, language, co-ordination and colour. How amazing!🔥🎆

“Stay away from the fire and don’t touch” R
“Only let grown ups touch fireworks”C

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Our children showed great interest in building the Three Bears’ house, which led to a brilliant idea – we decided to rebuild our shelter and turn it into a Numeracy Den! 🧱🐻 A wonderful example of child-led learning and teamwork in action. #MathsWeekScot #LearningThroughPlay

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Carron ELC @carronelc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

At craft this week we are strengthening our fine motor skills through mark making, scissor control and threading. We are developing our pincer grip by using tweezers/tongs and exploring small objects such as google eyes and cotton buds.

“This is tricky to pick up with these” (tongs) L

“I can cut the squiggly lines” S

“This is my broom. I’m the witch from the Room on the Broom story” B

“This is my skeletons head and all his bones” R

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It’s amazing how much learning can come from one simple woodwork activity! 🪵✏️ Children wrote the first letter of their name, counted nails, used hammers safely, and weaved yarn to form their letter – building fine motor skills and confidence. #LearningThroughPlay #woodwork #STEM

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Today we harvested our nursery potatoes 🥔 The children compared sizes, counted carefully, and one child joyfully exclaimed, “It’s like a treasure hunt, guys!” 🌱✨ #EarlyYears #OutdoorLearning #NurseryLife #LearningThroughPlay

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Carron ELC @carronelc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Today in the garden we provided some empty bottles and asked the children if they would like to chose their own natural resources to make some music shakers. They searched the garden and finally decided on some stones, twigs, rice and pasta to create different sounds.

“It’s so loud”
“I can shake it hard”
“This one sounds a bit quiet”

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Carron ELC @carronelc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We used some natural materials brought in by someone from their garden. We intentionally set out a few pattern examples and role modelled mathematical language relating to patterns, also discussing texture and size of our materials. Here are a few examples that children made. #MathsWeekScotland

“Leaf, stone, stick, leaf, stone, stick….” H

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Maths is all around us – even in the sandpit! 🎂 We baked birthday cakes with 5 candles, remembered the number 0, and when we shared our cake, we discovered it could be whole, halved or quartered. #MathsWeekScot #LearningThroughPlay

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Navigating Bee Bot using directional and positional language to co-ordinate the movement. Developing a sense of length during play experiences #mathsweekscotland

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Developing early mathematical concepts though our love for song, rhyme and play. #MathsWeekScotland

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Kim Talbot @kim-talbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

#MathsWeekScotland Today our young learners were exploring opportunities to develop mathematical concepts like counting, sorting, matching, pattern-making, exploring shapes, and understanding symmetry #NaturalNumeracy

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🎨 Our art area has been buzzing with creativity! From drawing monsters to making spoon dolls, wrapping gifts, and crafting mobile phones — our wonderful children never run out of ideas.💡🧒👧 #NurseryLife #CreativeKids #ArtFun

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Falkirk Council ELC Team @fceyteam.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Is your child starting an ELC Setting in Falkirk Council from August 2025? Please see out new guide for Parents - Click on the QR code for more details

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thank you to our families who joined us this afternoon to celebrate #EidMubarak

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We made pizzas this morning but instead putting them in the oven we made them on a campfire ! 🔥 “Could we try roasting some tomatoes?” -O. Sure we can ! We love heathy choices that our wonderful learners make. #marvellousmealtimes #campfiresession #outdoorlearning

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Falkirk Council Quality Improvement Team @fcqiteam.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Falkirk's Learning Festival. 31st March - 3 April. Theme: Powered Up Pedagogy Take a look at the full Festival schedule 👀 bit.ly/LTA25SIGNUP #LTAFest25

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