Glenbrae Children's Centre opens its doors for Maths Week

The Greenock nursery have organised several numeracy-related 'stay and play' sessions this week to tie in with a national week-long focus on mathematics. 

Youngsters and their parents learned about measurements as they baked banana bread and enjoyed some outdoor fun by playing games such as 'What's the Time, Mr Wolf?'.

Baking banana bread for Maths Week at Glenbrae Children's Centre. (Image: George Munro) Staff also recorded videos of themselves reading stories for the children to watch at home. 

Jaclyn Sweeney, Glenbrae's excellence and equity lead, told the Tele the events had been well received. 

She said: “We’ve got a variety of different activities for the children which are all maths-related.

“They‘re making banana bread with their families to take home and we’ll give them the recipes so that it’s something they can continue at home.

“The other room will be lots of numeracy games and stories and they’ll be making play dough as well which is another activity they can do at home. 

“Outdoors they’re doing hopscotch and 'What’s the Time, Mr Wolf?'.

“It’s really just to let the parents see how we include them in the nursery  and how they can do things at home.

Baking banana bread for Maths Week at Glenbrae Children's Centre. (Image: George Munro) “They don’t have to go out and buy lots of stuff, because a lot of this can be done with things you’ve got in your house or things you just need to use your imagination for. 

“They’ll all get a wee leaflet home with all the learning they’ve done today on it.

“This is about letting the parents come in and see what we do.

"You can tell them but when they actually get to come in and spend time with their children hands on it makes a difference.”