Gillian Laird
@glaird.bsky.social
Proud Head of Centre of Kinnaird Waters ELCC within Falkirk Council.
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Gillian Laird
@glaird.bsky.social
· May 13
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We are thrilled to announce that we have received the…
Digital Early Years Award!🥳📱🖥️📸
We are proud how effectively we equip our children with real life digital experiences during their play.🌟⌚️🔦📽️
The 1️⃣st in @fcqiteam.bsky.social !🆕🎉
@digital-schools.bsky.social @kabercrombie.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that we have received the…
Digital Early Years Award!🥳📱🖥️📸
We are proud how effectively we equip our children with real life digital experiences during their play.🌟⌚️🔦📽️
The 1️⃣st in @fcqiteam.bsky.social !🆕🎉
@digital-schools.bsky.social @kabercrombie.bsky.social
Wow!!!! Super proud of the team for providing fabulous digital experiences for our children. Our inquisitive, curious children love all these new experiences and also teach us a thing or two 😍 #LearningTogether #RealLifeExperiences
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We are delighted for our colleagues at @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social who were the ELC winners of Maths Week Scotland: Finn’s Wild Maths Adventure. Huge congrats to all the children, staff and families for this fantastic achievement. Click on the link to find out more mathsweek.scot/news/finns-w...
Finn's Wild Maths Adventure Winners - Maths Week Scotland
We are delighted to also announce the winners of our Finn's Wild Maths Adventure Contest! Well done to everyone who entered, we really enjoyed going through all the different creative submissions.
mathsweek.scot
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We are delighted for our colleagues at @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social who were the ELC winners of Maths Week Scotland: Finn’s Wild Maths Adventure. Huge congrats to all the children, staff and families for this fantastic achievement. Click on the link to find out more mathsweek.scot/news/finns-w...
Huge thanks to the team and @karenweir.bsky.social for her amazing ideas and filming skills 🎄🎅🏻
Merry Christmas everyone 🥰
Merry Christmas everyone 🥰
This Christmas, @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social is not Home Alone!🎄🎬 We’re excited to share our annual Christmas video, inspired by the festive favourite Home Alone. Created with lots of laughter, creativity and Christmas cheer.🎊
Wishing everyone a joyful festive season!🎄🎅🏼🎉
youtu.be/E_aWRcJtEFM?...
Wishing everyone a joyful festive season!🎄🎅🏼🎉
youtu.be/E_aWRcJtEFM?...
2025 Kinnaird Waters ELCC Christmas Video - Home Alone🎄🎉
YouTube video by Kinnaird Waters ELCC
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December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Huge thanks to the team and @karenweir.bsky.social for her amazing ideas and filming skills 🎄🎅🏻
Merry Christmas everyone 🥰
Merry Christmas everyone 🥰
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Another opportunity to start the New year with a new position - we are looking for an experienced EYO @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social
closing date 4th January 2026 - don't miss out
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/fal...
closing date 4th January 2026 - don't miss out
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/fal...
Early Years Officer - FLK13550 | Falkirk Council | myjobscotland
View details and apply for this early years practitioner / child care / nursery role in with Falkirk Council on myjobscotland
myjobscotland.gov.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Another opportunity to start the New year with a new position - we are looking for an experienced EYO @kinnairdwaters.bsky.social
closing date 4th January 2026 - don't miss out
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/fal...
closing date 4th January 2026 - don't miss out
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/fal...
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In the quiet room learners have continued their interest in flags. As well as making their own interpretations of their favourite flag, educators provided flag puzzles to complete. Lots of problem solving, perseverence, matching and sorting. 🏴 🏴 🇮🇳 🇦🇺
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In the quiet room learners have continued their interest in flags. As well as making their own interpretations of their favourite flag, educators provided flag puzzles to complete. Lots of problem solving, perseverence, matching and sorting. 🏴 🏴 🇮🇳 🇦🇺
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Thank you for joining us at our Scottish themed Bookbug. We enjoyed a Hairy Maclary story and sang some Scottish songs. 🎶 📕
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thank you for joining us at our Scottish themed Bookbug. We enjoyed a Hairy Maclary story and sang some Scottish songs. 🎶 📕
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In the Quiet Room we have began exploring flags of the world. Learners have been identifying different colours, shapes and patterns that make each flag special. They have been drawing their own interpretations of their favourite flag. 🇮🇳 🇫🇷 🏴
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In the Quiet Room we have began exploring flags of the world. Learners have been identifying different colours, shapes and patterns that make each flag special. They have been drawing their own interpretations of their favourite flag. 🇮🇳 🇫🇷 🏴
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In the music room learners have been exploring the nursery rhyme 5 little monkeys, singing songs, role play and mark making their own monkeys 🐒🎵🎤
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In the music room learners have been exploring the nursery rhyme 5 little monkeys, singing songs, role play and mark making their own monkeys 🐒🎵🎤
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At the block side learners have continued their interest in forces. Using blankets learners noticed their hair standing up. Educators provided balloons for learners to rub on their hair. We then experimented with tissue paper to see how many we could lift up with the balloon.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
At the block side learners have continued their interest in forces. Using blankets learners noticed their hair standing up. Educators provided balloons for learners to rub on their hair. We then experimented with tissue paper to see how many we could lift up with the balloon.
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Outdoors this week our learners have been exploring the forces push and pull. Describing how each different force feels using mathematical language. Our learners have also noticed the change in weather and have been predicting how ice is made. ❄️🥶
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Outdoors this week our learners have been exploring the forces push and pull. Describing how each different force feels using mathematical language. Our learners have also noticed the change in weather and have been predicting how ice is made. ❄️🥶
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As learners continue to explore Room on the Broom, they wanted to make the witches spell. Educators provided ingredients for learners to choose from. We made lots of colourful, smelly, fizzing potions with learners recalling the magic words ‘iggety, ziggety, zaggety, ZOOM 🪄
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
As learners continue to explore Room on the Broom, they wanted to make the witches spell. Educators provided ingredients for learners to choose from. We made lots of colourful, smelly, fizzing potions with learners recalling the magic words ‘iggety, ziggety, zaggety, ZOOM 🪄
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In the big room block side the learners have been exploring forces through using magnets and predicting what might happen. The educators provided materials and the learners have been using their problem solving and curiosity skills to decide what was magnetic and what wasn’t. 🧲😊 #forces
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
In the big room block side the learners have been exploring forces through using magnets and predicting what might happen. The educators provided materials and the learners have been using their problem solving and curiosity skills to decide what was magnetic and what wasn’t. 🧲😊 #forces
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Thank you for joining us at our water/rain themed bookbug today. We enjoyed the story Tip Tap Crab and heard some lovely singing. 🦀 ☔️
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thank you for joining us at our water/rain themed bookbug today. We enjoyed the story Tip Tap Crab and heard some lovely singing. 🦀 ☔️
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The learners in the music room have continued to explore the song 1,2,3,4,5 through making their own fish to act out the song as well as exploring their left and right 🐟🐠🎣
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The learners in the music room have continued to explore the song 1,2,3,4,5 through making their own fish to act out the song as well as exploring their left and right 🐟🐠🎣
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In the big room children have been developing their interest in patterns and sequencing. Children have also been using different resources to create their own space ships and participating in discussions about space.🪐☄️🔭🛸
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In the big room children have been developing their interest in patterns and sequencing. Children have also been using different resources to create their own space ships and participating in discussions about space.🪐☄️🔭🛸
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In the Big Playroom children have been developing their interest in patterns and sequencing. Using various resources, children are predicting what will come next in a range of two and three colour pattern sequences with some beginning to create their own.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In the Big Playroom children have been developing their interest in patterns and sequencing. Using various resources, children are predicting what will come next in a range of two and three colour pattern sequences with some beginning to create their own.
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Thank you to everyone who came today to join in with our Bookbug session all about being kind to ourselves and each other. 📚🐛☺️
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Thank you to everyone who came today to join in with our Bookbug session all about being kind to ourselves and each other. 📚🐛☺️
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Learners continue to explore stories in the quiet room. We have been enjoying experiences focussing on Room on the Broom. Learners have been using props to act out the story and even made their own broom 🧹 📕🧙♀️
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Learners continue to explore stories in the quiet room. We have been enjoying experiences focussing on Room on the Broom. Learners have been using props to act out the story and even made their own broom 🧹 📕🧙♀️
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We had a Spooktacular Bookbug today singing lots of Halloween songs rhymes and a story all about trick or treating monsters. 🎃🧛🏼👻
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We had a Spooktacular Bookbug today singing lots of Halloween songs rhymes and a story all about trick or treating monsters. 🎃🧛🏼👻
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In the music room the learners have been exploring the song “1,2,3,4,5” the learners have been focusing on number sequences through fishing as well as using their hands to represent numbers 🐟🎣
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In the music room the learners have been exploring the song “1,2,3,4,5” the learners have been focusing on number sequences through fishing as well as using their hands to represent numbers 🐟🎣
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In the music room children have enjoyed doing YMI, children have also used there creativity to make a giant clock and using there bodies to show the correct time, also enjoying using different animals to re enact the rhyme.
October 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
In the music room children have enjoyed doing YMI, children have also used there creativity to make a giant clock and using there bodies to show the correct time, also enjoying using different animals to re enact the rhyme.
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In the quiet room we have been exploring The Leaf Man, where the learners have created their own interpretation using a storyboard format 🍂🍃🌿🍁🧡
October 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In the quiet room we have been exploring The Leaf Man, where the learners have created their own interpretation using a storyboard format 🍂🍃🌿🍁🧡
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In the garden we have explored forces by flying our kites, finding autumnal objects, using mathematical language to explore measuring and making lots of yummy treats in the mud kitchen.
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In the garden we have explored forces by flying our kites, finding autumnal objects, using mathematical language to explore measuring and making lots of yummy treats in the mud kitchen.
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In the main playroom (door side) the learners continued to further develop their directional language by using beebots. We have researched maps and town planning, creating their own interpretations
October 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In the main playroom (door side) the learners continued to further develop their directional language by using beebots. We have researched maps and town planning, creating their own interpretations
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In the garden this week our learners have been continuing to explore mathematic language using transient art and Big and Small! Our leaners have been exploring their forces using their bodies and objects. We have also been developing our self help skills when putting on suits, wellies and jackets☔️😁
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
In the garden this week our learners have been continuing to explore mathematic language using transient art and Big and Small! Our leaners have been exploring their forces using their bodies and objects. We have also been developing our self help skills when putting on suits, wellies and jackets☔️😁
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In the big room blockside we have investigated other ways to measure ourselves and objects. We have baked delicious blueberry and apple pies in our home corner.
October 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In the big room blockside we have investigated other ways to measure ourselves and objects. We have baked delicious blueberry and apple pies in our home corner.