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.
Charlie, our Head Chef has shared a recipe in this newsletter with you all for his Chicken Broccoli Pasta dish, which is a big hit with all our children, and which is on our Summer / Autumn dinner menu. As the children love it so much, we thought it would be nice for you to make it at home too for your little ones. We hope you all enjoy.
Best Wishes,
Lisa
Lis McCabe—Creche Manager
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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.
Wobbler Room News
The Wobbler Room had a busy time creating their baby shark pod using their feet to paint. We have plenty of fun in the garden with bubbles and waterplay and sinking baby shark and reading the book as this is a huge interest with the children now. All the children have really settled into their room.
Toddler Room News
The toddlers have had a very busy week creating brilliant art pieces. We made the big bad wolf from the favourite story of the week little red riding hood. We made Tigger hats and named our pod the Hoppers as we love to run and hop around. We have had so much fun the garden and being very active playing garden games. The favourite seems to be “What time is it Mr Wolf” and as you can guess all the children love being the wolf.
Preschool Room & Camp News
What a great month back we have had.
We were very creative and made our very own fairy houses, and spoon monsters, rainbow stars.
Garden time was spent bringing our music out and doing our favourite Spanish action songs with Irene. The children are doing so well with their writing skills it is a huge interest in the room at the moment.
We also explored lots of fascinating science experiments too.
