Wonderful afternoon sharing our sewing & weaving opportunities with a group of families, great conversations around the skills our children are learning as well as finding out the grow ups own creative abilities 🪡🧶

We launched our first Feel Good Friday walk with some parents and children. Promoting positive relationships and wellbeing. Join us on the first Friday of the month for more Feel Good Walks 💕

We welcome our Woodlands families to join a parent workshop to have a go at learning and exploring our sewing and weaving opportunities just as the children do! This Thursday at 2pm with Ann & Emma - see the sign up sheet in the hall for more information 🪡✨🧵

Annie, Rhian & Donna had a wonderful day at the Edinburgh Froebel Conference 💕🍃

Guy Fawkes provides the opportunity to learn of a historical event which provokes learning of history, citizenship, ethics, and safety. 🎇🎆 At Woodlands ELCC many children are extremely knowledgeable around fire safety. 🔥

Calling all Woodlands ELC Centre families …. Who wants to join in with our “Feel Good Friday” ? Time to walk & talk & enjoy the beautiful outdoors. We would love to see as many of you join in that can make it .. 🍂🚶🍃🚶‍♀️🍃🍁

FAMILY SPACE A gentle reminder for any families who would like to connect with other parents or maybe just want to pause for a bit with a cuppa. All Woodland ELCC families welcome to use this space. 💕🍃

We’ve had a fun day today creating spooky experiences using natural resources #nature pedagogy

Our very talented Annie has been crocheting these beautiful pumpkins throughout the October holidays.🎃 #MakerMovement #Gifting #SlowPumpkins

HaPpY Halloween 🎃 Lots of Halloween experiences have been happening throughout the week - where children are invited to gather & participate across our various spaces both indoors, outdoors & offsite… I wonder what spooky Halloween fun will be happening today. 🎃 🧙‍♀️🧹

Many children have participated in real life community experiences this week which have created wonderful rich learning opportunities. Thank you to all the people who make these places so special. 💗🍃 * Dollar Park - Walled Garden 🪴 🎃 * Local Library 📚💕 #FREEFamilyPlacesToGo

For our Woodland ELCC families with children aged to start school in August 2026 please check your inboxes & see the information on the nursery family wall. We appreciate having conversations around your plans to support #transitions 📆

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein Play gives children the opportunity, time, and space to explore their imaginations and develop their creativity!

Apply for the Happy By Nature Fund 📣 In partnership with @wwf.org.uk, we're offering grants, guidance, and support to help 10 schools transform their outdoor spaces for nature, learning, and play. Could your school be one of them? Visit out website to learn more! Apply 👉 ltl.org.uk/projects/hap...

#OutdoorClassroomDay is next week! 🤩 Are you ready to step outside with your pupils next Thursday to celebrate outdoor learning and play? Sign up to Outdoor Classroom Day now or discover some ideas for celebrating on November 6! Sign up 👉 outdoorclassroomday.com Ideas 👉 ltl.org.uk/news/outdoor...

Calling all Falkirk Practitioners! 📣 You are invited to join us at the Learning to Achieve Marketplace in November. Come along and be inspired! #yourinvited #PACTFalkirk

THIS SATURDAY! Are you swithering about that Christmas instrument purchase? Do you have a guitar or ukulele and could use some playing or maintenance tips? Come along! 📍Falkirk Library 📅 Saturday 1st November, 11am-1pm

It was lovely to welcome everyone back to nursery today. Lots of happy children highly engaged with many experiences offsite, in the garden & playroom . 🧡💛🤎🍃

A lovely article by Laura Rouch, which certainly chimes with Woodlands ELCC offsite in nature experiences: “a willingness to step outside and give children the gift of slowing down”. “…it all begins with a pause”.

Start a learning journey towards sustainable futures with 2 free courses 🌐🌳🤝​ ​ Choose a 5-week course (running now) or join our 2-week course which runs in parallel with the UN #COP30 #Climate Conference. Act now: edin.ac/4ppht4G edin.ac/4qeo9Dn

Are you looking forward to Bonfire Night? Check out our play ideas and risk guidance that we created with Scottish Fire and Rescue www.playscotland.org/resources/pl...

Had the privilege of attending The book launch - The power of Froebel in Early Childhood Education by Lynn McNair and Luke Addison, featuring amazing practice across Scotland. This features a chapter on some of the work Donna Green has led and inspired. 💛

Good luck to Annie, Dara & Rhian beginning their Froebel in Childhood Practice course today through the University of Edinburgh today.

It’s World Mental Health Day - 10th October.

Wishing everyone a lovely October holiday 🍁🍂🍃💕

Such rich experiences have been happening in and with nature whilst offsite. Autumn is offering beautiful changes & opportunities to explore, discover & investigate. 🍁🍂🍃#OutdoorLearning

Many opportunities to explore ways to move, problem solve, increase skills and balance happening within the children’s nursery garden. 💕🍃

Want to learn more about slow pedagogy? Join the Edinburgh Froebel Network and Froebel Trust at the Gifts for Our Future 14: Being and Belonging conference. 📅 Saturday 8 November 📍 John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh (1/3)

Our free short online course, Learning for a Sustainable Future, is now live! 🌍💚🌱 This week, we'll be examining our own understanding of #Sustainability and considering different perspectives.​ ​ Enrol for free today: edin.ac/4ppht4G

There is still a space available for this Stay in Nature session if any Woodlands ELCC families would like to join in. 💕🍃#Wellbeing

Woodlands ELC Centre Families 🍃 Thank you for completing the family partnerships survey and sharing your views, we have taken all your ideas & collated a booklet of family events. Please click the link below to access the booklet: heyzine.com/flip-book/f2...

Great to meet up with some @falkirkfroebel.bsky.social leaders this week 🪴 Thank you to @wpsdonna.bsky.social providing the lovely cakes & to @woodlandselcc.bsky.social for hosting & sharing & to @inchlairelcc.bsky.social Gill @lvpsn.bsky.social Jacqueline for fab, views & contributions. 💕

I love how theses ‘Story Stones’ have ignited such interest in storytelling with many children this week. Great to see storytelling and story acting happening throughout the nursery #StoryoftheMoment 🦈📕💗⬇️

These look amazing👏👏👏

Thank you Donna. We are so lucky in Falkirk to be part of an extraordinary network of committed Froebelian inspired practitioners. It was amazing to hear the great work going on across Falkirk & make exciting plans for the future. Great to hear about the book launch too @falkirkfroebel.bsky.social

Happy World Smile Day to Everyone 😀

Through lots of natural reading opportunities the children have become familiar with the plot of our story of the moment “Shark in the Park”. We areable to sort the story into the correct sequence using our knowledge and understanding of story as well as visuals and props to support our play.

FREE to watch all this week! Our new short film on sustainability was received so well last week that we've made it FREE this week too. The film is ideal for staff training, curriculum planning or just some classroom inspiration. www.sirenfilms.co.uk/library/sustainability-in-the-early-years/

Harvesting some carrots and potatoes from our ‘Growing Garden’ 🥕🥔

‘Feel Good Friday’ saw many children & educators enjoying the Autumn sun whilst outdoors ☀️🍂🍁along with snack & singing round the campfire 🔥 🎶 #Wellbeing 🧡

Beautiful sewing experiences & creations have been an interest with many children. 💕🪡🧵

Our new ‘Story of the moment’ is creating lots of fun & engagement with many children. 📕🦈🔭 Do any of our families have this story at home? .. or Maybe you could borrow it from your local library? #LearningTogether #Storytelling #Literacy 💗

We invite all of our families to join Rhian in a family bookbug session on Tuesday 23rd of September @ 10am - please see the sign up sheet in the hall for availability ✨

Our Woodland experiences are enabling children to make connections to nature & creatures that live in the outdoor spaces,when returning to nursery their learning is traveling back as we continue to learn to foster a deeper understanding of nature & our interconnection with it🍃 #EngagingWithNature

Creating a paper cylinder inspired by the cylinder block. It then further developed “I’m making a speaker.” 💕

Exploring leaves has been an interest of most children. Many returning to the nursery with their Woodland findings (natural treasures) which has evolved & provoked sorting , matching, categorising along with exploring colour with paint & creating their own representation of leaves. 🍁 🌿🍃🍂

Shout out to EYs colleagues in this article. Other good advice too. #PlayOutside @pact-falkirk.bsky.social @donnagreenx.bsky.social @woodlandselcc.bsky.social

7 essential principles for outdoor learning in Scottish schools, from @creativestar.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Did you know? We offer hundreds of curriculum-led outdoor lesson ideas, available to download for free! Visit our website to browse activities by age and subject 👇

Wonderful to welcome Kirsty to the Woodlands family as she begins her interim Senior Early Years Officer post at Woodlands ELC Centre today. 💕🍃