Our Noticeboard is your one-stop hub for all the latest updates and essential information about life at our nursery. Here, families can stay connected and informed about what’s happening day to day. Whether you’re a new parent or a long-time member of our nursery family, the Bulletin Board helps you stay informed and connected to our community.
Road Safety
We would kindly ask all our families to arrive to the nursery safely and leave the nursery safely. The new road outside means we all need to be aware of the passing cars outside. Can you please:
- Hold your child’s hands arriving in and leaving the nursery.
- Do not let your child run out of nursery in front of you.
- Use the traffic lights to cross the road safely.
- Please do not park on the pavements outside the nursery.
- Do not park on the road as this is causing the road to be blocked and is dangerous.
- Please park in the spaces provided on the road.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Circle of Security
Circle of Security is a parenting program. It is an attachment based reflective parenting class that is designed to draw out parent’s own intuitive knowledge and help caregivers follow their own children’s needs. Circle of Security parenting aims to help caregivers /parents nurture their child’s attachment, emotional resilience, and freedom to explore.
It really is such a beneficial resource to be able to offer parents especially in terms of parents who may be struggling or having difficulties it provides them with a safe, supportive group, with learning objectives such as:
- Understanding their child’s emotional world by learning to read their emotional needs.
- Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions.
- Enhance the development of their child’s self-esteem.
If you have any questions about the program, please have a chat with your child’s keyworker.
If you are interested in signing up please pop into the office / reception to sign up.
Family Meetings
In June/ July your child’s keyworker will organise a meeting with all our parents to talk with you about your child’s year and progress. Family meetings are an opportunity to sit with your child’s keyworker and share information about your child’s progress and development.
Photographs
This year Our Nursery will take your child’s picture and print them. Please check in with your room for more details.
Our Lending Library
At Our Nursery, we love sharing stories, and now you can, too!
Our Lending Library is a special place where children and families can borrow and share books to enjoy at home.
Here’s how it works:
- Choose a book you’d like to take home and enjoy together.
- Read, explore, and have fun! Maybe your child will want to tell us all about it at nursery.
- Bring it back when you’re ready and feel free to leave a book for another family to enjoy.
Our Nursery has a lending library at reception. We would encourage all parents and children to borrow a book to bring home. Reading is a lovely way of sharing time with your child while learning together.
AIM
The goal of AIM is to create a more inclusive environment in pre-schools, so all children, regardless of ability, can benefit from quality early learning and care. The model achieves this by providing universal support to pre-school settings, and targeted support, which focus on the needs of the individual child, without requiring a diagnosis of disability.
Angela Gahan is the Inclusion coordinator.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Melissa, Michelle, Sharon and our student Leila on completing the Circle of Security classroom
Congratulations to Michele, Melisssa, Sharon McDonagh and Sharon Trimble on completing the introduction to the preschool HighScope implementation
TOY (Together Old and Young)
You may have heard your children talking about visiting St. Pappin’s Nursing Home and Marewood Court. The nursery has begun visits, and we plan to do this on a continuous basis so the children and old people can build up relationships and plan activities together. We also link with the Ballymun comp school, with a group of teenagers who visit the nursery for a few week. The two groups complete a project based on their interests.
The TOY project was initiated and is promoted by International Child Development Initiatives. The purpose of the TOY Programme is to promote intergenerational learning and create new possibilities for senior citizens and young children to learn together and benefit from each other’s company. We believe that this is more important than ever before across the world. People are living longer but older adults and young children are having less and less contact with each other.
Our Mud Kitchens
Feeling the textures of mud helps children connect and interact with the natural world around them. When children play with mud, they are not only growing a knowledge of the natural world they are also building a relationship with it. Mud is a material which stimulates creativity and imagination in children as it facilitates open-ended play, communication, collaboration and physical activity. Water is obviously the other vital ingredient required for mud making. If there is no water source outside the children will need to carry the liquid themselves – this should form a fun part of the activity. The children are going to be exploring and consolidating a range of skills like:
| Filling | Pouring | Emptying | Transferring |
| Sorting | Whisking | Mixing | Splatting |
| Counting | Handling | Mashing | Sharing |
| Scooping | Gathering | Estimating | Decanting |
| Adding | Stirring | Sieving | Foraging |
| Serving | Lading | Squashing | Grinding |
| Moulding | Smoothing | Splashing | Picking |
| Selecting | Collecting | Crushing | Squashing |
| Measuring | Brewing | Separating | Creating |