South Ayrshire Council - Local authority early years learning centre . Where connections take place and the image of the child is at the heart of practice.
We said a fond farewell to our much loved teacher Katie today. She has left an imprint on many hearts and minds at Space Place - big and small. 🥰 We wish you lots of luck and love in your next venture in education 🌟
Things that move...We have been on a train to Prestwick Airport today! We loved going on the train, seeing the vehicles under the overpass to the airport, using escalators, looking at planes and exploring the airport🚉✈️🚐🚘
#exploringourcommunity
Thank you
@GPAPassenger
We are developing our panels of documentation making links to Reggio Emilia pedagogy.We are proud of our work and we look forward to delivering a Reggio environment workshop in the October authority inservice day.
@ESTeamELC
@suzannezeedyk
@ReggioChild
#StrongerTogether
#RtA
Our learners like to role play with real materials and crockery . We simply love ❤️ our new china set for fine dining experiences
#reggio
@LynnTaylorEdu
@EducationScot
@suzannezeedyk
Merry Christmas 🎄 to all our families 🚀🎄🎅🏻 😊🎄🚀🎅🏻
Baking carrot, apple and bramble muffins🥕🍎🍇
We are: weighing and measuring, following a recipe, taking turns, listening well, talking about different kinds of food, using our senses to explore our ingredients and so much more!💕
#crosscurricularlearning
#makinglearningfun
What a fabulous morning with our friends from Queens Care Home this morning! We were making biscuits together and sharing our books💕
Intergenerational learning at it’s best💕
What a fabulous trip to Queens Care Home this morning: meeting the residents and staff and singing together💕Such a lovely opportunity for developing inter generational relationships and growing our links in the community. We can’t wait to see our new friends again soon 💕
Our local community: neighbours are so excited to have our children temporary in the community centre 🎃lots of imaginative story telling with our giant dragon and pumpkin 🎃 visitors
@educationscotland
Our children are showing lots of interest in the sea and sea animals. We are listening 👂💕 Today, we created our own sea full of sea animals, with chalk on the ground🦈🐡🐠🐙🌊 then we played games and sang songs on it, pretending we were under the sea💕
#childledlearning
We said goodbye and best wishes to our lovely Tracy today as she starts her next venture in her early years career next week. Thanks for all your hard work and love for our children, you will be very missed! 🥰❤️ 🚀
#Teamspace
Forest School at Space Place where our Reggio approach means that we consider our environment as the third teacher and we value child led learning, exploration and curiosity💕
We would like to welcome back all our lovely Space Place children today! We can’t wait to see you all! And a huge good luck and best wishes to our preschoolers all starting primary 1 today! You will all be amazing 🌸
We are so excited about the amazing transformation of our outdoor space💗 This is all thanks to the hard work of our wonderful staff and the huge kindness and generosity of local businesses💗
Plants from
@sainsburys
Artificial grass from Cy Turf
Crates from
@RoyalMail
Happy Friday! The children have been busy this week at Space Place! We’ve been learning about traditional stories and telling the time!
@fyfe_caroline
@SACEarlyYears
As we move towards our new term in August we want to wish our Depute Kirsty "congratulations" on gaining a Principal Teacher post with the central team, we will miss you lots but wish you well on the exciting new journey ahead , best wishes from your Space Place Family 💫
We are taking advantage of the lovely sunshine this morning by developing our Sunshine Room garden. The children took ownershipmof this and were super at helping by tidying, moving and making big decisions on where things should be! 🌿☀️
#effectivecontributors
@SACEarlyYears
We are learning about money and what better way to understand how it works than a trip to our local cafe to buy a snack and drink with our friends💕🧃🍎🍌💕 Thank you William
@prestwicktennis
Busy Inservice day for all 📚📚 *Focused *Collaboration *Debate *Empowered team *Revised policies *3 read revisiting CLPL *Peer Obs planning *Transition : Well done Lorna and Katie leading part of our training 👏🙂👏
@educationscotland
The sun is shining ☀️so we are making the most of it and taking the learning outdoors!😎We were looking for signs of spring🌱🌸🌼learning about our bodies 👥and singing songs with the parachute🎶🪂
#funinthesun
#outdoorlearning
#springtime
We have returned to our extended Space Place Centre and the families are delighted with the build . We are beginning to create a beautiful Reggio inspired centre. The sensory room is a shared space for all learners
@EYTagteam
@EducationScot
@earlyyearsscot
@SACEarlyYears
We had our first PEEP Numeracy Outdoors session at Prestwick Beach this morning🌊☀️ It was the best environment for learning about numbers! Natural resources, fresh air and our special big people💕
#familylearning
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#outdoorlearning
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#learningthroughplay
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Thank you
@SAC_FLT
Pirate Day at the Beach for us today. I can invent my own characters and stories through role play was the plan but so many areas of the curriculum were touched on- literacy, expressive arts, HWB, RME, Social Studies- and what an adventure had by all!🏖💕
The rainbows have also been exploring the farm and all the animals! They have been learning about where our food comes from and our life cycle!
@fyfe_caroline
@SACEarlyYears
@CaFTeam
🌊Beach Day🌊
Our children told us they wanted to:
🏰“Build a sandcastle city”,
🦖 “Make dino dens”
🥫 “Eat hot beans”
That is exactly what we did! They learnt so much creating, eating, exploring and playing together💕
#outdooradventures
#childvoice
#childledlearning
Our children are settling back into the nursery routine and are engaging in group gatherings to explore curriculum learning linked to planning . We are very proud of our children following the script for the day 🌈
@SACEarlyYears
@ScotGovEdu
@CareInspect
@EducationScot
#BeingMe
In celebration of
#MathsWeekScot
we have shared some learning taking place in our environment this week to illustrate Early level numeracy can take place in many forms. Co-constructing learning begins with the child‘s interests.
#Reggio
@SACEarlyYears
Our Early Years team have been planning and implementing different varieties of play experiences for the children to explore with the staff and their peers🥰
#reggioemilia
@SACEarlyYears
@EYTagteam
Children exploring emotions during carpet time, learning all the different ways to express emotions from😞sad,😃happy,😮shocked,😜silly and using the mirrors 🪞to see how everyone is different..
@SACEarlyYears
#emotions
#natural
#nurturing
What fun we had at the beach: using our creative and STEM skills to build sandcastles and bury treasure, running away from the waves, spotting rainbows and warming up with hot chocolate
💕 Beach days are the best days💕
#Local
#OutdoorAdventures
Feeling calm and happy at the beach: taking in the views, watching and listening to the rhythm of the waves, collecting treasures, building and exploring this fantastic natural environment🌊💕
#OutdoorAdventures
#Outdoorplay
#Local
We were exploring our local community this morning: learning about the different amenities; and the purpose of money. We enjoyed a yummy snack and drink at our local cafe💕
Thanks
@prestwicktennis
and
@freshtasty115
for always looking after us💕
#communitylinks
#skillsforlife
We have been baking lemon, coconut and oat cookies today💕Lots of lovely sensory experiences- smelling and tasting lemon and coconut🍋🥥 We were using new tools in the kitchen too- grating and squeezing - and subitising with the cookies on the tray🍪🎲
Our children are using technical skills as part of play experiences. The children are learning about leadership, enterprise skills and customer care all part of life long learning 👇👇👇
@STEMedscot
@PlayPioneerScot
@SACEarlyYears
"Hot beans" at Forest school today - by popular demand of our little learners🥫🔥We are extending our cooking skills, using different tools and exploring our outdoor environment.
Our children are showing lots of interest in building, construction and transport so we have been out in our local community visiting the train station 🚉
#communitylinks
#familylinks
#childleadlearning
Thank you
@ScotRail
for our fabulous new books💕
Congratulations Vicki on gaining a new term time job we wish the very best and remember to pop back to your Space family for a coffee ☕️ You came to us a student 👩🎓 and have grown into a wonderful Reggio educator all the very best
#reggio
#RtA
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The children had a great time at ‘Make your own book’ workshop with local children’s book illustrator Garry Thorburn. We absolutely loved your vegetable and fruit book characters too, thanks to all who participated
#worldbookday
#alternativebookcharacters
#imaginativefamilies
Another busy week at Space Place! Lots of talk about the weather in the moon room and the daisy room have been focusing on mini beasts!
@fyfe_caroline
@SACEarlyYears
PEEP Taster Session to introduce our families and children to PEEP and the wonderful Nicola💞 We joined in songs and rhymes and made spiders🕷️
#FamilyLearning
@SLC_ELC
PEEP at the beach this morning🌊🐚 We were developing our gross motor skills with digging and shaping sand, filling up buckets and playing ball games🪣⚽️
Thank you
@SAC_FLT
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We are learning about Autumn and healthy eating. We have been baking healthy Oat and Bramble Muffins for snack💗 Counting, measuring, turn taking, listening and working together💗 Yum😆
Our final Numeracy Outdoor Session with PEEP at Prestwick beach today💕What fun we had learning about number, and the value of number, whilst doing a treasure hunt, building sandcastles and playing games in the sand🌊☔️💕
Thank you Nicola
@SAC_FLT
we have loved every minute!💕
Our wider achievements tree 🌲 is placed in our reception, has your child attended football , learned to dress , slept in their own bed 🛌 etc share your news with Space Place 🌟📝lets celebrate together 🌟
Listening to the child using consultation and Reggio pedagogy supports a relationship of respect and care. Our child was keen to document a story of his daddy telling us he’s a pilot and works in the sky
@ESTeamELC
#beingme
@LynnTaylorEdu
@EYTagteam
The children at one setting in Scotland have access to an outdoor area with loose-parts musical ‘instruments’, and have even built their own stage, finds Annette Rawstrone
🏴Space Place Burns Supper 2024🏴
With our lovely friends from Queens Nursing Home💕 What a morning we had! We performed Scottish songs, danced to Scottish music and ate haggis, neeps, tatties and Scottish oatcakes together💕
#Scotland
#Traditions
#intergenerationallearning