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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are having so much fun with our book of the moment the Gruffalo that we making our very own Gruffalo characters at our playdough station. We have used some of them to retell and act out the story #literacy #storytelling #storyofthemoment

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We would like to express our thanks to some of families and our student who came in to day to read us some stories in their home languages. we were treated to stories in Italian, Urdu, Polish and Scots #literacy #storytime #family #nurserycommunity

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Using our bodies to measure against block play and comparing sizes. Just some activities to further develop our maths and problem solving skills. #mathsweekscotland

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To celebrate maths week Scotland we have been trying out a moving water experience where we moved coloured water droplets with the end of a paintbrush over a lightly oiled page into their corresponding coloured cups at the bottom he,ping us develop our fine motor and matching and sorting skills.

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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 · 17/09/2026

We would to thank all of our families who joined us for breakfast this morning it was lovely to spend time with you all #family #community

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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 · 15/09/2026

One of our friends has been interested in volcanoes so we have spent the morning experimenting making our very own volcanic eruptions. #STEM #curiosity#experimenting

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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 · 10/09/2026

This morning we made apple crumble with the apples we picked in the forest.We used our senses to feel and smell the ingredients. #farmtofork

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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 · 14/05/2026

A big thank you to our families who joined us this morning for our family breakfast #family #community #familybreakfast

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We have been enjoying our story of the moment the hungry caterpillar and recreating the story in our snack area with the fruits from the story. #literacy #storytime

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We have had a fantastic fortnight in our vegetable garden and poly tunnel planting an array of vegetable, fruit and flowers seeds. We can’t wait to see them grow. #nature #healthyeating #growing #teamwork

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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 · 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 · 23/04/2026

Following recent training “cooking on campfire” we have tried making banana rolls. It’s safe to say that they have become one of our favourites and we already have many ideas to use different fruit. “This is yummy” - S. “Thumbs up” - M.

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We had a very special delivery yesterday new sand for our sand pit. We worked as a team to fill our sand pit and have spent the day pouring, filling, mixing, exploring and experimenting with the sand. #teamwork #exploration #earlynumeracy

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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 · 31/03/2026

We have been interested in the sounds letter make so we have made up our own initial sound bags and have had fun exploring all the items we can find that start with the letter we are investigating #literacy #letterrecognition

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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 · 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 · 18/03/2026

Following children’s interest and some of our children becoming older siblings we have extended our home corner with lots of baby accessories. To make it even more fun we have asked our families to share baby photographs that we have displayed in the area. ☺️ #familyengagment #roleplay

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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 · 09/03/2026

Another day , another campfire 🔥 This time our wonderful learners decided to make their own campfire using their imagination skills. “There is a storm coming, we need the shelter for our campfire to be safe.” Ch. We used the rope to represent safety rules. #roleplay #teamwork #denbuilding

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Another sunny day, another campfire 🔥 This time we made yummy toast 🍞 Many of our independent and successful learners have been able to follow safety rules when approaching campfire. Next week we are planning on extending our cooking to toasted cheese 🧀 😋 #safety #outdoorlearning #cookingonfire

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

A big thank you to all the families who joined our BookBug session today. It was a wonderful way to celebrate World Book Day together, sharing stories, songs and smiles. 📚 #WorldBookDay #BookBug #EarlyYears #FamilyLearning

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

“You can find magic where ever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book” Dr Seuss #worldbookday #earlyyears

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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 · 02/03/2026

This morning we got to explore our calm space outdoors to encourage more learners outside. We were enjoying the movement of hammocks and we explored different types of sensory fidgets. “We could read a story” J “When you go on a hammock you must not come off” N “We like it because of the swings” B

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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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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We would like to say a huge thank you to one of our parents who joined us today to share with us what it like to be a nurse. We learned a lot of interesting information, got some first tips and had fun bandaging each other up #nurseryfamily #community #firstaid

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We had had a special visit today from Jeremiah the stick insect. We learned some very interesting facts #insects #curiosity

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Welcome to St Francis Xavier’s doctors office. We have been super busy treating patients from sore ears to bumped heads and making sure our friends are being looked after. #roleplay #imagination #reallifeexperiences #curiosity #keepinghealthy

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Big fun was had today singing, rhyming, enjoying cuddles and reading a funny storybook at our Sea Creature themed Bookbug Session today! Thank you to everyone who came along. Can’t wait for next time! #scottishbooktrust

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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 · 03/02/2026

We have enjoyed our outdoor loose parts to create some fantastic structures. So far we have made a bus, a pirate ship and a train. #STEM #imagination #looseparts

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

We have been super busy tidying up our vegetable garden to get ready for the new growing season ? Team work makes the dream work. #vegetablegarden #growing #teamwork

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

Today we decided we would like to try something different when we paint so we turned one of turned one of our tables upside down a wrapped it clingfilm giving a fantastic canvas for our wonderful art work. #creativity #art #markmaking #imagination #finemotorskills

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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 · 20/01/2026

We have been exploring our book of the week The Three Little Pigs. Using story puppets we have retelling the story and role playing with the characters. #literacy #storytelling #roleplay

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We have been been having so much fun in our craft area with junk modelling and made some fabulous creations. #creativity #imagination #art

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Today we had lots of fun playing “snake slalom“ on bikes. Most of the children have joined while developing their skills of waiting and turn taking. Children have demonstrated great gross motor skills as well as balance and coordination. #balance #playonpedals #safetyawerness #outdoorplay

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St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare @stfranciselc.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What a Marvellous Meal Times our successful learners are having this week! Yesterday we baked delicious bread for soup where we used non standards units to measure. Today we made delicious soup for our lunch tomorrow, we can’t wait to try it ☺️ #marvellousmealtimes #measure #responsibilty #skills

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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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