Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York, Patron of the Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity, will officially launch Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail in Edinburgh today. Continue reading Jings! HRH Princess Beatrice of York to launch Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail
The charity Who Cares? Scotland has published first of their kind statistics, revealing that young people in care across Scotland are continually having to fight for basic rights every single day. These have today been published in a report entitled, “We Don’t Have to Wait.” Continue reading Scotland ‘risks a forgotten generation’
Rock Trust and Cyrenians are joining forces to deliver an entirely new local service to reach young people before they become homeless. Continue reading New partnership launched to prevent youth homelessness in Edinburgh
The charity Adoption UK has been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to set up a bold new project that will benefit thousands of families in England, Scotland and Wales.
The project, known as TESSA (Therapeutic, Education and Support Services in Adoption) has just launched. Continue reading £3.6m National Lottery funding to support adoptive families
One in nine children goes to school with an empty tummy and the effect of this is a loss of education. Continue reading Too many children missing six hours of learning each week through hunger
There will be a warm welcome – and a cold pint or two – awaiting a hardy team of walkers when they get back to the Norhet Bar in Davidsons Mains late this afternoon. Continue reading Warm welcome awaits Norhet’s charity walkers
GRANTON PARISH CHURCH
Saturday 8th June 10am – 2pm
New awards recognise Early Learning and Childcare success
A nursery where children built a car out of old tyres and recycled wood is among the inaugural winners of a new awards scheme to boost the quality of childcare.
Other winners of the Scottish Government’s Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) Innovation Award include a nursery where children set up a café for parents and a nursery where children now grow their own food for lunch.
All six winning nurseries set up new creative experiences to challenge children and improve their social and language skills and self-confidence.
The six are:
All of the winning nurseries will receive £5,000 to further develop their innovative ideas.
Children’s Minister Maree Todd visited Clober Nursery and said: “Every winning nursery has gone above and beyond to give their children outstanding opportunities to learn and develop.
“Staff have come up with amazingly creative and fun ways to develop children’s understanding of the world around them, with great results already for the children, their families and staff.
“As quality is at the heart of our expansion plans, the awards will showcase best practice and encourage nurseries to share success with each other.”
Louise McHugh, an ELC practitioner from Clober Nursery, said: “Outdoor learning is an exciting and daily part of Clober Nursery.
“We strive to provide children with opportunities to learn and develop their risk-taking strategies, educate them to understand where food comes from as well as providing them with the opportunity to use their imagination with loose part play.
“We are only at the beginning of our outdoor learning journey and we cannot wait to see where the children’s investigations take us.”
FAREWELL SERVICE: Sunday 23rd June at 1pm
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children is moving to its new home at Little France in July. Continue reading Say goodbye to the Sick Kids at farewell service
Breastfeeding support in Scotland has been rated highly by an expert group looking at provision across the country.
The report from the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) Scottish committee assessed the effectiveness, affordability and feasibility of current support, marking it overall as ‘strong’. Continue reading Scotland ‘working hard’ to improve breastfeeding support, says report
