Treetops Nursery

🌦 It might not be the sunny summer we're hoping for, but there are always plenty of fun activities for the rainy days.

🙋‍♀️ Let us know what your favourite rainy-day activity is in the comments below.

Thank you to Collin Care Nurseries who raised an incredible £6,170 fundraising for Cash for Kids Day! We loved going out to visit them 🥰

Well done everyone at Treetops Too Nursery, Cabbage Patch Nursery, Kiddieshack, Cardonald Nursery, Rivendale Nursery, Treetops Nursery, Glencoats Lodge Nursery and Mayfield Nursery 👏

Watch Now: 'It's All About The Children'

Collin Care Nurseries are a member of a for the sector by the sector membership association called 2020 Together (We Can) (2020twc).

2020twc was established in 2017 to represent owners and directors of nurseries in the Private Voluntary and Independent (PVI) sector, with a focus on the 1140hrs funding proposals.

Back in 2017, 2020twc highlighted to government all the issues we as a sector would face because of such a rapid expansion, particularly of the Public Sector.

Unfortunately, the warnings went unchecked and the inequities we see today set in.

We have ended up with a funding model that favours public sector nurseries over PVI settings. Funding was supposed to follow the child, it doesn’t.

We’ve ended up with massive churn in staffing in the PVI as there is a huge pay gap between what we are funded to pay our staff in the PVI compared to what an equivalently qualified member of staff in the public sector is paid. PVI are funded to Real Living Wage – currently £12 per hour, whilst public nursery jobs start at £16 per hour, rates agreed with COSLA and the public sector unions.

The funding and pay gaps have led to all of our children in PVI nurseries being treated inequitably.

To address these three issues the members of 2020twc have self-funded a video to tell our story.

You may now be asking what you can do to help?

It’s simple, view the video, read the manifesto and if you agree with our collective aims, please tell us so. Parent, staff and other stakeholder have the power to effect policy change and to help us deliver on our simple aims. You can get in touch by emailing [email protected].

Please support our campaign and make our voice heard.

20 20 Final Master 1 2020 Together (We Can) launch their campaign to ensure every PVI nursery child in Scotland is funded fairly, that all staff are paid equally and children ar...

We were so pleased for one of our Nurseries to present the Cash for Kids Mascot with a cheque for the amazing amount of £6,170.00 raised by all our staff, children and their families.
Thanks again to everyone who donated to this very worthy cause 😁😁

The children have been exploring all the parts of a flower including leaves, the stem and the petals. We created a little science experiment by seeing how the plant drinks the water to help it grow. We each picked a colour of food colouring to place into our jug of water to explore the changes happening in real time.

⭐️ Thank you to everyone who entered our April review competition!

👏 We've randomly selected the winner below who has won a £25 voucher.

🧸 Keep your eyes peeled for our next giveaway.

Big Cash for Kids day tomorrow!
Our final push to raise as much money as possible for this amazing and very worthwhile charity.
Please donate whatever you can no matter the amount, we are grateful for all donations

💚💖CASH FOR KIDS 💖💚

Weather isn’t great so we have set up inside.. bouncy castle will still be out doors and fingers crossed we don’t get too wet having some fun !

Here is just a couple of our raffles and prices up for grabs including a service from DRW services, family pass to Kelburn, entry to the kids village Saltcoats, tickets for the mcdougals space show, 1 free kilt hire from Clyde kilts, nail, hair and make up vouchers, and ovcourse our gorgeous hand knitted clown, which was kindly donated by one of our lovely grans...

Along with some lovely items to purchase…

Here’s to fun filled day raising money for a great charity 💖💚

Cash for Kids week has arrived!!

Our Danceathon will be underway on Thursday and our other activities throughout the week.

Please donate to this amazing charity which is close to all our hearts, doesn't matter the amount as everything helps.

Donate via the link or on our sponsor sheet
https://www.cashforkidsgive.co.uk/campaign/george-cassi-big-fundraising-challenge-businesses/fundraisers/treetops-nursery-/

💚💖 CASH FOR KIDS 💖💚

We have been patiently waiting to make sure we had the weather but we can now confirm our cash for kids open day will be on Tuesday 30th of April 10.30 am - 1.30pm

Parents and community are welcome to come along🥰

This will be held in our garden, we will have a bouncy castle, face painting, home baking, tombola and other chances to win some amazing prices such as hair vouchers, make up vouchers, tickets for a family for the mcdougals show, family pass to Kelburn and many more.

Raffle tickets are still availed to purchase from staff members at the nursery

All raffles will be announced on Wednesday 1st May

We can’t wait to have a fun filled week whilst raising money for an amazing charity

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One week until our big Cash for Kids Day 🥳

Remember if your child doesn’t attend nursery on a Thursday, there will be activities throughout the full week.

We are exciting to be supporting such an amazing charity, helping children and families in our community 🫶

Today we have been exploring different role play experiences within the garden and the children decided they would like to be robots. They used silver tin foil to create robot armour to protect their body and created their robot layer so they could recharge their batteries .

2 weeks till our big cash for kids week, we will be doing various activities throughout the week to allow all children to take part with our Danceathon on Thursday 2nd May
We are very pleased to be supporting this amazing charity and the way we have set up the pages means that any money you donate will go to children only in North Ayrshire. We have sponsor sheets in the nursery or you can donate via the link below.

We will have more information next week regarding the various activities during the week.

https://www.cashforkidsgive.co.uk/campaign/george-cassi-big-fundraising-challenge-businesses/fundraisers/treetops-nursery-/

The children were having lots of fun today making their own pizzas.
They were taking turns to make and mix the dough for the pizza base, they were then rolling out their own bases and adding sauce and cheese on top. The children were sharing resources and encouraging each other throughout.

The boys and girls had a fun morning visiting the library. The children were developing their road safety skills by walking to the library and stopping at the roads to wait on the green man showing to cross the road. The children had lots of fun joining in lots of different activities such as dressing up, reading stories and playing in the home corner.

🥳 We’re so excited to be sponsoring Cash for Kids again this year!

👉🏽Head over to our parents group for more information.

Just a little reminder we fill our community pantry on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please come and help yourself before it’s gone.

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⭐️ We're giving a £25 voucher away in April.

✍️ All you need to do is leave us a little review on this page.

Good luck everyone!

‼️The Scottish Government are changing the eligibility for parents to receive 1140 hrs of funding for 2 yr olds as of 1st April.
Check if you are eligible by clicking the link below..

Funded early learning and childcare Help you can get with paying for registered childcare. Includes funded early learning and childcare and Tax-Free Childcare.

Something to think about❤️

As a follow on to our previous post about taking part in the FAIRSHARE scheme and trying to help resolve the food wastage problem while also making connections in the community some of our children have been out a walk this morning and delivered a selection of our pantry food to some of our lovely neighbours. The children made these packs up themselves and chose where to deliver them to.

The children are really showing a keen interest in people who help us and how we can all help each other.

COMMUNITY PANTRY🍌🍊🥔🥖…

The nursery are now very pleased to share that we are part of the FARESHARE scheme…

This is for the community as a whole and not just the children and families who attend the nursery.

The wastage of food in Scotland is currently very poor and we are hoping by being part of this scheme we can help reduce the amount of wastage in our country.

Please feel free to take any of what may be of use to you and make the most of helping us prevent food wastage and even bag yourself a little treat from time to time. 🍩

All of the food we have out would be making its way to the bin, it’s much better if anyone could make use of this.

The children had a great time today as the staff from Domino’s paid us a visit and taught the children about making pizza’s Thank you Dominos👏🏻👏🏻

Happy !

Shining a spotlight on the incredible women who care for our children🩷🩷

This is National Apprenticeship week and we are featuring our amazing apprentices and recognising the contribution they make to the running of the Nursery.❤

Meet Eryn..

"Hi I am Eryn and I joined Treetops in May 2023. For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to work in early years. Being able to learn alongside the children has been so beneficial for my practice. Being able to see what the job role entails and being able to directly put my learning into practice is helping me understand child development"

This is National Apprenticeship week and we are featuring our amazing apprentices and recognising the contribution they make to the running of the Nursery.❤

Meet Sophie

" I am Sophie and I joined Treetops in November 2022. Learning whilst on the job has been important to me and I have become much more confident in leading the children's learning and development. Working alongside an experienced workforce has taught me valuable skills as part of my early years career"

📖 Happy World book day 📖 The children are having lots of fun today reading their favourite stories.

If your child turns 3 on or before 28th February 2025 and you wish to take your 1140 hrs of government funding at our nursery, you DO NOT need to apply online to North Ayrshire Council.

To apply, just give us a call or pop in and speak to the Nursery Manager.

Flexible sessions are available.

The boys and girls in the 3-5 room have been building their gross motor skills to make their own play dough. They were developing their communication and sharing skills