Darling Buds Pre-School

This second webinar in the five part series Exploring and Understanding the Updated Aistear focuses on Aistear’s view of the early years educator as agentic, competent, confident, and reflective. It supports early years educators to explore how this image informs their everyday practice through relationships, interactions, routines and curriculum decision-making.
Using real life experiences and reflective prompts from the Aistear Síolta Practice Guide, the webinar invites participants to reflect on their own view of themselves as educators and consider how Aistear’s image is actively brought to life in daily practice.
The session begins with a brief over on the image of the educator as set out in the updated Aistear by Mary Daly. We will then hear from Orlagh Doyle and Chloe Hickey from Carrig Briste and Killegney Early Years Service on how they bring the image of the educator to life in practice, both from a management and an educator perspective. They will explain how their image of the educator is visible across the setting where educators work collaboratively, reflect on their practice and respond with warmth and sensitivity to babies, toddlers and young children’s rights and agency.

Lorraine Farrell, National Aistear Development Officer will conclude the session with a short input on the resources available to support educators to reflect on their professional role in practice.

The webinar is suitable for early years educators working with babies, toddlers and young children across a range of early years settings.

Speakers
Mary Daly, Education Officer, NCCA
Orlagh Doyle, Carraig Briste and Killegney Early Years, Co Wexford
Lorraine Farrell, National Aistear Development Officer

Registration Link:
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🎉🎉🎉 Huge Congratulations to our wonderful teacher, Islem! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

We are bursting with pride today as we celebrate Islem, who has just successfully completed her Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Early Learning and Care with Distinction no less!💘💘

Islem’s dedication, hard work, and passion for her role shine through every single day. She puts so much effort into creating engaging, nurturing experiences for the children, and her commitment to their learning and wellbeing is truly inspiring.

We feel incredibly lucky to have such a talented and caring educator as part of our team. Thank you, Islem, for everything you do, the children adore you, and so do we. 🥰

We had an incredible morning at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Little Island. Sian Horn guided us through an incredibly unifying and deeply relaxing self care experience ✨✨✨

We began with the thought provoking Self Care Wheel and gentle reflection, such a powerful way to tune in to every part of ourselves. From there, we moved into energising Pilates, followed by calming breathwork, and setting meaningful goals and intentions, all while soaking up the supportive, nurturing energy in the room. It left everyone feeling grounded, connected, and truly recharged 🌼🌼💐
We wrapped it up with a gorgeous brunch.

Moments like these remind us how essential it is to pause, breathe, move, and nourish together. Huge thanks to Sian for creating such a magical space! 🩵🩵🩵

Cork City Childcare – INCO Network
For the attention of all services with an INclusion COordinator/LINC Graduate!
INclusion Coordinator's/LINC Graduates are invited to attend our upcoming INCO Network session. This session will include Guest Speaker Aoife O’Shea from Happy Talk, Coordinator and Senior Speech & Language Therapist with the HSE.

This session will focus on universal strategies, highlighting the three key Happy Talk approaches — Modelling, Expanding and Balancing Questions — providing practical, relevant guidance that can be easily applied within Early Years settings.

To mark Safer Internet Day an important change to share.

Delighted to meet the author of the Tony the Turtle series at the ILSA Irish Learning Support Association conference in Cork! Now available at Outside the Box - www.otb.ie/tony-the-turtle

Conor Holmes

Keep an eye our for the sea of Green on Wednesday ...fingers crossed for some sunshine!

We attended part two of a training session on the updated Aistear Framework, Ireland's national framework guiding early learning and development for children from birth to six years. Aistear was launched in 2009, Aistear, meaning "journey" in Irish, was updated in 2024 to reflect changes in policy shifts, research advancements, and the lived experiences of young children today. The updated version places stronger emphasis on children's rights, relational pedagogy, diversity and inclusion, outdoor learning, wellbeing, sustainability, creativity, arts, emergent literacy and numeracy, STEM, and the meaningful integration of the Irish language in everyday interactions.
We are always learning 😀

This webinar focuses on Aistear’s image of the baby, toddler and young child as agentic, competent and confident. It supports early years educators to explore how this image informs everyday practice across relationships, interactions, routines and curriculum decision-making.
Using examples and reflective prompts from the Aistear Síolta Practice Guide, the webinar invites participants to reflect on their own views of babies, toddlers and young children and to consider how Aistear’s image is actively brought to life in daily practice.
We will hear from Lorraine Cash from Tir na nOg Early years service on the work that she has done in her practice.
The webinar is suitable for early years educators working with babies, toddlers and young children across a range of early years settings.
Speakers:
Dr Mary Daly, Education Officer, NCCA
Lorraine Farrell, National Aistear Development Officer
Lorraine Cash Owner/Manager Tir na nÓg

Registration Link: Click here
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We are so proud of Teacher Elvira. Best of luck with your show this weekend ❤️