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Inspiring Quality Conference Dublin – Exhibtors
A big Thank You is due to the Dublin City Childcare Committee for holding the Inspiring Quality event last Saturday in Croke Park. It was inspirational, great for networking and a fantastic opportunity...
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Queries
We are lucky to have a great group of people interacting with our Facebook page who constantly share their knowledge and experience helping others through sticky patches or through a drought of ideas....
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Animals Needs
With the weather getting colder…at least it is in Ireland. This morning we woke up to a wintery white frost covering everything so this bird feeder idea shared by Ramona on our Facebook page might be a...
View ArticleQuery via our Facebook Page
Our Facebook page is a fantastic forum for discussion and allows childhood professionals the opportunity to provide and receive support from their peers. This post from Jayne has proven to be quite a...
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How do I encourage ….?
One of our readers needs some suggestions: ‘Hey just wondering have you any advice for me. I have a lot of children in the class who don’t have english as their first language & have very little...
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Correct Pencil Grip
We asked our readers how they would encourage children to have a correct pencil grip when children first start to write. As Bernie from Twinklers Montessori said, ‘practice, practice, practice!! There...
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Solar System
It seems January is the time when people start to introduce the Solar System to the children in their setting. It probably coincides with the tendency for the sky to be clear at night showing off the...
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Spring 2013 Newsletter
The dark days of Winter are hopefully behind us & ever optimistic, we look forward to a warm sunny summer. Okay, it may only be a week long but we could all do with a little bit of heat and light....
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Outrage
The economic climate in Ireland is dire, we have people who are struggling to come to terms with the cutbacks and curtailments to their personal lives they are constantly having to make. Prices are...
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Meeting parents and updating them
It’s the time of year when you start to plan for the first Parent/Teacher meetings. Even seasoned professionals find these meeting difficult so when we got a request for advice via our Facebook Page...
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Report Template
Last week we received the following query from a reader – ‘Does anyone have any templates for end of year reports to parents for Montessori preschools they would be willing to share?’ Knowing how...
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Can you help?
We’d like to compile a short article for people who are looking for a Montessori school to send their child to but as they may not have gone to a Montessori school themselves won’t know what they...
View ArticleGarda Vetting for person under 18 years of age?
Ciara has the following query and would like to tap into your collective knowledge ‘I was just wondering if anyone had an guidelines on HSE requirements needed for the preschool to accept a 17 year old...
View ArticleGetting Started
Our Facebook page is a fantastic resource, no one person knows all the answers so having a place where we can post a question and get helpful advice is brilliant. This we e’ve had a query from a...
View ArticleFall out and Knee Jerk reactions
A post from Bernie we thought we’d post to the main page on our Facebook page so as many people as possible could see it and comment. ‘Just reading on RTE.ie that Gordan Jeyes who will be heading up...
View ArticleAn inspiring video – Prairie Flower Montessori School
Prairie Flower Montessori School is someone we’ve connected with via Facebook as they too have their own business page where they generously share tips, ideas and pictures of their setting. Recently...
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Time to Recharge
Summer has well and truly arrived in Ireland! We’re even having a heat wave and have to water the plants and put water out for the birds. It’s unheard of in Ireland to have such an unbroken run of...
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What we’ve been doing – Part 1
It’s fitting that at the end of the academic year we take time to look back and evaluate our performance. There are somethings we didn’t achieve, some we started doing and then realised they weren’t...
View ArticleRate of Pay for Childhood Professionals in Ireland Sept 2013
We conducted an online survey which we asked people who were currently working in the childhood sector in Ireland to complete. We used Survey Monkey to construct the survey and used social media and...
View ArticleDealing with difficulties
One of our readers is looking from advice and really needs your help – Lyn ‘Hello Everyone, I have been teaching for about 6 years and have never come across this situation. I need some teaching...
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