Dear Parents & Guardians ,

We would like to give a warm welcome to you all, as we returned back to crèche this month.

It has been so wonderful seeing all our Links children again, and it has been great to see that they have settled back so well after being apart from us for the past few months.

We understand that it must be difficult for you as parents to now be restricted when it comes to entering the crèches during drop off and collections, due to the current HSE Covid 19 guidelines. But we hope that, through the photos we share here in our monthly newsletter, the weekly updates and through our social media pages, that you can see what fun the children are all having together in their Pods. They are very engaged in the daily activities we set out for them, and equally we are guided by them when it comes to interests and learning.

Our Educarers listen to the children and with any emerging interests, we will build on a theme based on the children’s interests.  For example, during our Summer theme this month, we spoke about summer holidays, beach days and various items of clothing that one might wear on a hot sunny day. One child then told us that he went camping during his time at home with his family in his back garden. Within an hour, a tent was created, a pretend fire pit “lit”, and camping songs were sung, as we enjoyed a lovely role play all about going camping.

We continue to practice all our safety measures to help keep viruses at bay. Regular hand washing is done, with our children singing their hand washing song whilst doing it. We have included our Hand Washing Song here too, if you wish to practice it at home to with your child.

All our chefs are so happy to see our children back too and they are delighted to be back cooking healthy, homemade and super tasty food for all our children.

Best Wishes,

Sarah

Claire McCann

Crèche Managers

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Extra safety measures have been put in place throughout the creche to help keep the spread of Covid 19 at bay.

Toys & all surfaces and items are cleaned regularly and we have hand

sanitisers and wash basins for children, at their height levels, that they can access easily. All our rooms are organised into Pods & our children are settling in nicely into them.

Baby Room News

This month welcomed Caoimhe, Ben, Tadhgh and Molly to the baby room and welcomed Heidi, Danny and Solange back.

The babies took part in our Christmas in July Day and Green Day.

The babies have spent lots of time exploring in the garden and getting very creative doing lots of arts and crafts.

They love exploring ice-play and also our sensory bottles.

 

Wobbler Room News

Green Day and Christmas in July was celebrated with our Wobblers this month.

We enjoyed lots of arts and crafts:

  • Fingerprint caterpillar
  • Handprint butterflies
  • Made mini beasts
  • Made instruments
  • A beautiful handprint crab

For Sensory play, we loved our Pom pom play, shredded paper and leaves.

The children had a dancing disco party and we loved our balancing game in the garden also.

Toddler Room News

Our toddlers did lots of dancing to Disney music and races in the garden. We loved our finger and hand painting and for our Green Day, we dressed up in green colours and played football and did lots of soccer artwork.

We love reading the Hungry Caterpillar book and made caterpillars and butterflies to display on our walls.

Preschool Room News

We loved reuniting with all our friends again. Our children enjoyed lots of role play, imitating people in our community that have helped us so much, such as medical staff, fire fighters, shop keepers, teachers and community service people.

For our We are Family theme, we talked about our families and what we enjoyed during our time away from creche.

We discussed about what makes a good friend and made some arts and craft activities with this.

For our sports and active activities, we enjoyed football and basketball games and practised our catching and throwing. We had a team Frisbee game and loved working as a team.

We are always talking about our gentle hands and being kind and including all our friends. We went on a kindness camping trip in our rooms and had such an adventure.

 

Afterschool Room News

GAA day, Yoga, Rugby, Basketball was all enjoyed by our Afterschool Camp children, as they were reunited with their friends again.
We loved our musical statues and Zombie games, and even did a drama class and a play.

Our creative children made some cool masks, exploding volcano and snow experiments and we even made our own fortune teller play.