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News Fledglings January 2015 Issue No.2 National Early Years Access Initative Promoting Better Outcomes for Children & Families An Cosán, Kiltalown Village Centre, Jobstown, Tallaght, Dublin 24 t: 01 462 8488 e: [email protected] w: www.ancosan.com Warm welcome to all our new Fledglings EYEs & Managers: • Geraldine Cray - EYE – Fledglings Whitehall • Susan Brennan - EYE – St Anne’s • Daiva Baltramonaiene – Manager - Brookfield • Dani Brazel - Manager – Youthreach - Cabra • Eimear Furlong - Manager – Coáliste Éanna - Cabra • Emma Baker - Manager – ITT Dublin • Agi Piti - Manager – Whitehall FLEDGLINGS TRAINING: • 12 Fledglings EYEs (St Annes, Brookfield and Kiltipper) completed First Aid Training on 21st January • Occupational First Aid training for Managers and SEYEs organised for 11th / 16th / 25th February • Excel training for Managers -18th February / 4th and 18th March • It is very important for all staff to attend all High scope cluster sessions to ensure our commitment and progression towards a quality Early Years’ service • St Anne’s and Kiltipper are taking part in the 12 weeks of Language Land Programme. Language Land aims to establish collaborative working between Speech and Language Therapists and Early Years Educators. It is a package of training and language teaching resources which promotes the development of oral language. Nicola O Kelly and Donna Smyth from St Anne’s and also Amanda Whelan and Laura Kennedy from Kiltipper attended the training and will continue to run this interesting programme with mentoring from the Speech and Language Therapist. What is Language Land about? Language Land is set around an imaginary journey to a place called Language land. Children learn good listening and talking skills. The children responded with great enthusiasm and the Lan- guage Land puppet Jack the owl is very happy in his new homes. We look forward to more enjoyable weeks with Jack and his magic carpet, songs and many more activities. PARENTS PLUS PROGRAMME IN FLEDGLINGS KILTIPPER TO START IN FEBRUARY All parents welcome! – if interested call Bernie on 086 035 3791 Course duration: every Thursday (9.30 - 11.30) for 6 weeks Course covers: Positive parenting topics – Positive discipline topics – Help to build on what is already working-Parent-child relationship Bernie (PSC)is also planning to start Parent & Toddler group which will operate twice a month in Kiltipper. This Project is partially funded by SDCC and we are thankful for their grand towards our equipment / toys. PARENT EVENTS AT ST ANNE’S (TRACY- PARENT SUPPORT COORDINATOR) The local dental health nurse Sheila visited the service to speak with the children about looking after their teeth. We invited parents in for coffee and an information session about ways to protect their children’s dental health and Sheila addressed individual concerns from some of the parents. Parents were also invited into the service to speak with our Speech & Language therapist Caitriona, who gave an interesting talk on how to promote speech development at home. Both St Anne’s and Brookfield hosted wonderful Christmas celebrations for all the families – we had visits from Santa, songs and lots of goodies which we hope everyone enjoyed. Learning Stories in Fledglings Youthreach: Amy, our student from Marino has been doing work on our Learning Stories. She gathers all information from a particular activity or event that has happened within the pre-school including photos and presents them in a way for parents to see how their child’s learning occurs and where ideas for activities come from. This has been a great resource for us as our time is so limited. Now that we are up and running we plan to continue updating our learning stories after Amy leaves us at the end of January. We thank her for all her hard work!
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NewsFledglingsJanuary 2015 Issue No.2
National Early YearsAccess Initative
Promoting Better Outcomes for Children & Families
An Cosán, Kiltalown Village Centre, Jobstown, Tallaght, Dublin 24t: 01 462 8488 e: [email protected] w: www.ancosan.com
Warm welcome to all our new Fledglings EYEs & Managers:•Geraldine Cray - EYE – Fledglings Whitehall
•Susan Brennan - EYE – St Anne’s
•Daiva Baltramonaiene – Manager - Brookfield
•Dani Brazel - Manager – Youthreach - Cabra
•Eimear Furlong - Manager – Coáliste Éanna - Cabra
•Emma Baker - Manager – ITT Dublin
•Agi Piti - Manager – Whitehall
FLEDGLINGS TRAINING:•12 Fledglings EYEs (St Annes, Brookfield and Kiltipper) completed First
Aid Training on 21st January
•Occupational First Aid training for Managers and SEYEs organised for 11th / 16th / 25th February
•Excel training for Managers -18th February / 4th and 18th March
• It is very important for all staff to attend all High scope cluster sessions to ensure our commitment and progression towards a quality Early Years’ service
•St Anne’s and Kiltipper are taking part in the 12 weeks of Language Land Programme. Language Land aims to establish collaborative working between Speech and Language Therapists and Early Years Educators. It is a package of training and language teaching resources which promotes the development of oral language. Nicola O Kelly and Donna Smyth from St Anne’s and also Amanda Whelan and Laura Kennedy from Kiltipper attended the training and will continue to run this interesting programme with mentoring from the Speech and Language Therapist.
What is Language Land about?Language Land is set around an imaginary journey to a place called Language land. Children learn good listening and talking skills. The children responded with great enthusiasm and the Lan-guage Land puppet Jack the owl is very happy in
his new homes. We look forward to more enjoyable weeks with Jack and his magic carpet, songs and many more activities.
PARENTS PLUS PROGRAMME IN FLEDGLINGS KILTIPPER TO START IN FEBRUARYAll parents welcome! – if interested call Bernie on 086 035 3791
Course duration: every Thursday (9.30 - 11.30) for 6 weeks
Course covers: Positive parenting topics – Positive discipline topics – Help to build on what is already working-Parent-child relationship
Bernie (PSC)is also planning to start Parent & Toddler group which will operate twice a month in Kiltipper. This Project is partially funded by SDCC and we are thankful for their grand towards our equipment / toys.
PARENT EVENTS AT ST ANNE’S (TRACY- PARENT SUPPORT COORDINATOR)The local dental health nurse Sheila visited the service to speak with the children about looking after their teeth. We invited parents in for coffee and an information session about ways to protect their children’s dental health and Sheila addressed individual concerns from some of the parents.
Parents were also invited into the service to speak with our Speech & Language therapist Caitriona, who gave an interesting talk on how to promote speech development at home.
Both St Anne’s and Brookfield hosted wonderful Christmas celebrations for all the families – we had visits from Santa, songs and lots of goodies which we hope everyone enjoyed.
Learning Stories in Fledglings Youthreach:Amy, our student from Marino has been doing work on our Learning Stories. She gathers all information from a particular activity or event that has happened within the pre-school including photos and presents them in a way for parents to see how their child’s learning occurs and where ideas for activities come from. This has been a great resource for us as our time is so limited. Now that we are up and running we plan to continue updating our learning stories after Amy leaves us at the end of January. We thank her for all her hard work!
