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A u g u s t 2009
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Texts & PicturesTESCO kids club
ProducerGarry Irvine
Editor in ChiefTimo Airisto
Art DirectorAnn Marie Irvine
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Welcome to the TESCO kids club magazine. Lisa and her team have done a great job of taking some great pictures; and we have the job of presenting them to you. From all of us at ConnectedDay we hope you enjoy it.
The Busy Bees team at the TESCO kids club creche really enjoy their work and have also been very busy raising money for good causes such as the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Please do your best to support them.
We are busy working away at improving the ConnectedDay service so please keep you feedback coming as we really value your feedback.
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Tesco Kids Club Glasgow has been opened since 2001 and since then we have seen many children come through our doors.
Our service provides fun and stimulating activities for children aged 2 to 8 for a maximum period of 2 hours. Naturally the creche has a number of policies and procedures in place to ensure the safety and welfare of all children that use the facility. The creche is Care Commission registered and has to work to the guidelines that they set. Ever since the creche has opened, the creche has passed every inspection with flying colours and copies of the latest inspection can be found in the creche or online on the Care Commission website.
The creche is managed by Busy Bees and we have won the Busy Bee title of Creche of the Year for the past 3 years! This is due to our excellent Care Com-mission reports helped by many parents leaving us positive comments in our comments book. Of course, it also helps to have a great team who work well together and are never too busy to help each other.
During the week we plan activities using Birth to Three and Curriculum for Ex-cellence, these run throughout the week during the playgroup session which runs from 9.30 to 2.30 during term time. At the weekends and during the holi-days we also plan activities for the children. These are available for all children throughout the day. When planning activities, the staff make sure that they can be adapted to meet the needs of all children while encouraging the children to have fun and explore. This all helps with their overall development and learn-ing.
This magazine will let you see what we’ve been up to this year since we re-opened after the refurbishments. Lots of activities such as visits by the children to our local Fire Brigade. We’ve tried to bring you a flavour of the fun we have. Do let us know if you wish to see more news like this. Your feedback is always welcomed.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the staff have lots of fun together supporting a num-ber of charities. Our next event is to support the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and for that we are abseiling down the Forth Rail Bridge! Yes, we are all very excited about that and of course just a wee bit ‘scared’!
Lisa
Welcome to our new magazine - we hope you enjoy reading it and seeing your children in print!
in this issue
4 JAnuARY & FebRuARY6 MARCh & APRiL
8 ChARitY WORK9 GReen FinGeRs10 FiRe bRiGADe Visit12 eVACuAtiOn PROCeDuRe14 hOW it WORKs
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January 2009 ActivitiesHealthy Eating is this month’s theme - but junk modeling is always fun, as is using platacine & playing with bricks
As we are doing the Seven Wonders of the World one of our activities was creating the Pyramids of Giza with sugar
cubes
Kady has created Bob using tissue paper,
crepe paper and pens.
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February 2009 Activities“What is history” is the theme this month. We explored acient Eygpt and made our own valcano!
The children that created this wall were very knowledgable about
the subject and taught the ladies a few things!!
Kady created the picture in the middle which had several Egyptian symbols and places
like the River Nile and a
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March 2009 Activities
Heart rate....
Temperature...
Blood pressure....
The theme here was health & safety - our new Doctor’s Trolley & IV Drip toy!
The “Doctor”
Our IV drip - we like to watch the
bubbles
This is the doctor he gives us advice. De-pending on your test results - we can check your blood pressure, temperature and even
heart beat!
We always wash our hands - and
fill in the chart for a reward sticker!
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April 2009 ActivitiesThis month we did lots of arts and crafts and of course played lots and lots!
Great job!!
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Nursery: Jonnie playing in the sandpitMum: It’s nice to see him wearing his new sun hat.
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The whole team enjoys Charity Work even if it means them jumping of bridges!
Lisa C and Linsey are so looking forward to the abseil!!!
Lisa M and Louise will be first to the bridge!
The Abseil Challenge at the Forth Rail Bridge in
August.
Louise Moffitt: A cant wait, it will be scary but
fun!! Bring it on!!
Audrey Proctor: All the best for your challenge
girls. I will be thinking of your Abseil in august
Lisa, Louise, Eilidh and Audrey(unpictured) completed the
5K Run in 40 minutes for charity!!! In September all the ladies will be doing an Abseil off the Forth Rail Bridge or
running in the 10K Great Scottish Run - so good luck!
Here is our Tombola and Bring & Buy tables which was held at our Openday on Saturday the 11th of July. This was very popular with the
parents and children and everyone enjoyed looking at the different toys that we had on offer. Again all the money that we raised from this will be going to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. What a great day!! Everyone enjoyed
participating and had lots of fun!!
Audrey and Kerri ann raising funds for the Cystic Fibrosis trust.
Aren’t they so cute - but what went wrong!!! Only kidding - all the ladies brought in pictures
of themselves when they were little to raise funds for the Cystic
Fibrosis Trust!
There will be plenty of pictures - before and after - to show how brave Lisa C, Louise , Linsey and
Lisa M were!!!
Bringing attention to Curriculum for Excellence for parents.
Lisa Muir: bring on the absail i am soo scared but its all for a gd cause. c’mon tesco kids club
we can do it lol !
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Greenfingers from here ----------> to here!
in 15 weeks.
Audrey, Heather, Lisa & Mathews bulbs
Mathew’s
Audrey’s
Lisa’s ?
Heather’s?
This was us making sure that we had everything we needed before we got
busy!
The four bulbs over a period of 15 weeks grew into 4 beautiful flowers!
We had to empty out a cupboard to put our bulbs safely in and to keep in
the dark.
We had a mixture of colours so we could watch them grow!!
Each week the children would look and see how the flowers were grow-ing and if they needed any water.
As the flowers grew so tall, we had to give them a little bit of assistance to stay in an upright position. Very nice
colour of purple and white!!
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emergency evacuations
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Look out for our sign - this is our primary meet-ing point where you can meet us.
Safely inside we wait until the Fire Marshall tells us it is safe to return to the building. Because we have priority we will return to the store be-fore any customers and we immeadiately re-
turn to the creche.
We then carefully cross over the zebra crossing and walk up the pavement to the first trolley bay
on the left.
When the alarm goes off we leave via the fire exit door in the creche and we then walk over to the zebra crossing keeping all the children
safe.
teamwork!
The ladies had to earn marshmallows and spaghetti to create a tower - i said
earn not eat!!
The winner is....Tower 1........... or Tower 2?
They could create their own design and the tallest tower would win them a prize!!
By the end of the time limit they
had to let go and the tower had to stand by itself - I
said let go!
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some activities we get up to....We kids like it here in the tesCO kids club.it’s fun and we learn lots!
Quiet please - artist at work!
Quiet please...
I’m concentrating!
Your turn...
King Arthur?!
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Anna and Lilly on guard!
Can we have a go too?
Officer Daniel
Fire brigade Visit - April
Kady and Katie on the lookout for any hazards!
Our Engine.
Office Katie kooks gd with the hat on
Officer kady the officer in charge giving out her orders.
Officer CraegOfficer Anna
Daniel’s the driver!?!?! Seat belts on please!!
What a great day we all had,the sun was out and the children
We work with the local community to promote positive attitudes and ways of keeping safe.Here are our local fire officers who came out to visit and let us explore and try out the fire engine and uniforms!
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Daniel’s the driver!?!?! Seat belts on please!!
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Picture comments...
LisaCurrie: Thank you to the fab officers who came out to visit - we had lots of fun!
Louise Moffitt: A great day.
Amanda Kerrigan: From looking at these photographs, I can see that both children and staff had a fantastic time.
Julie Leonard: what a fab day the kids had loads of fun and the fire officers were really good with them
I can wash the creche windows from here!
Hey where’s the water?
Watch out here comes the splash!.
Officer Lilly
Watch out i’ll get you camera and all wet!
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I am going to get you!!
Officer Skye
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