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***WE’RE RECRUITING*** We’re currently looking for a full-time Outdoor Childcare Practitioner and bank staff applicants to join our fledgling FossoPLAY family.
We’re not looking for just anyone though... We’re looking for someone special! Someone who has that little bit extra, who just gets ‘it’ and if that’s you then you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about...! 😉
If you have a genuine love of the outdoors and know the difference between your Birch and your Elm, or, more importantly, the difference between leading play and supporting it then we want to here from you 😊
You must be qualified in a related discipline for early learning / early child development practice and have experience of practice in the outdoor environment.
Full details and person specification are available on our website
https://fossoplay.org/join-the-team/
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🌧🌧🌧Wet weather planning 😊🌧🌧🌧 For those parents and little play experts coming to visit us tomorrow morning, for our enrolment session, we will be using our indoor space due to the extreme flooding in the Fossoway area. Our main site is still accessible by ‘wellie’, so anyone who’s keen can brave a tour but we’ll be based in our large brick built barn for the session 🏠 ☕️ Teas and coffee available to keep warm and the barn is full of straw bales, pallets, den building materials and other loose parts 👍🏻 #notbadweatherjustscottishweather 😊
Time to start up the stove pour a hot drink ahead of a busy day! 🔥
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Bit of a different look to the site today and the snow brings with it lots of unique ways to explore, develop and learn ... ⛄️ walking in snow, it like walking on sand ... there’s a little more resistance and doing it helps develop muscular strength and gross motor skills ✔️ ⛄️ it can be a little slippy under foot so when little legs take their time to navigate the terrain they develop coordination and balance ✔️ ⛄️ big snow is like covering your garden in the ultimate modelling clay and giving the kids an opportunity to design, build and create anything they can dream of! ✔️ ⛄️ snow provides a fantastic canvass for animals to leave their prints and tracks ... can we identify who’s been to visit the site? I wonder where they went? Let’s follow their track .... ✔️ ⛄️ there’s lots to learn about snow - what’s the difference between water, ice and snow? At what temperature will the snow melt? How does the weather change? ✔️ ⛄️ snow gives us all the opportunity to think strategically when moving it to create paths ... where do we want to move the snow to? Why not over there? Let’s all get our shovels and work as a team ... ✔️ ⛄️ snow is sensory ... it sounds different, it feels different, it looks different ... let’s experience and chat about that ✔️ What are some of the ways you and your children like to experience the snow?
The FossoPLAY Team 🍃
New day, new week and we’ve got lots on here at FossoPLAY.
As we’re getting closer to opening now, we’ll be contacting those of you who have noted interest in spaces for your children to start the enrolment process.
It’s happening 🍃
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We’re often asked how kids will cope in the cold & the wet and we completely appreciate your concerns. Here are a few ways your child is protected from the not so pleasant weather that passes over us ... 🍃 First, appropriate clothing is a must and we have a comprehensive kit guide to help you select the right items for your child’s wardrobe. 🍃 All you have to do is watch young children for a few minutes to see how much more active they are than we are. Their natural curiosity ignites activity which keeps them warm too. 🍃 Our site is located within mature woodland so the canopy of the trees provides an amazing amount of protection in itself. It can sound horrid outside from inside the house, but we’re just fine up within the wood. 🍃 Log fires throughout the site offer a toasty spot to warm up should anyone feel a little cold ... as well as the perfect location for stories! 🍃 Then, of course we have our hand-built, oak-framed yurt complete with wood-burning stove, sofas, cushions and blankets which is a cozy space to curl up for a rest and some quiet time.
Preparation is everything when it comes to staying warm in the winter months and we’ve designed the site in such a way that we have plenty ways to stay warm on even the coldest of days.
The FossoPLAY Team 🍃
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