We joined the Save Gillies Hill campaigners this week to help support their cause.

Cambusbarron Playgroup is in phase 2 of Stirling Council’s roll out of the Early Years Expansion. We are collecting views on how we should deliver the increased entitlement. Please give us your opinions at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/V3HRM89

Our children have been enjoying making pizza out of all sorts of things this week so we decided to end the week with the real thing. The children decided that pizza needed to have tomatoes and cheese (although there was a debate on whether it should be orange or white cheese) and some of the children were adamant that pepperoni was a must.

They enjoyed kneading and rolling the dough then spreading it with tomatoes. We grated the orange (cheddar) cheese and sliced the white (mozzarella) cheese and added to the pizza before sprinkling a little pepperoni – to taste – on the top.

We were very impressed with the results – “it tastes amazing” so we will need to make pizza again, perhaps trying some different toppings next time.

The new sand area in our garden gets a big thumbs up from the children. They love digging, building and moving it around. There have been some very messy children leaving playgroup this week.