ECCE PRESCHOOL FULL DAY CARE ROOM
BUTTERFLY ROOM
Age: 3-5+ years
Age: 1:8 & 1:11
Age: 8.00am-6.00pm
Schemes offered: ECCE (subsidy applied for 38 weeks (183 days)) & NCS
Room Team Leader: Cindy Desmond
Butterfly room is a place that focuses on learning but never forgets the importance of fun.
We are play-based and encourage the children to reach their full potential with guidance, help, and thought-out, child-led activities from the early year’s practitioners. The butterfly room is a happy place for exploring and finding out new things every day, it is important for each child to learn social skills to cope in the new classroom environment and progress in their life skills. Children are active hands-on learners and they learn by doing, we implement this into all our planners which are child-led and focused. Through these planners and activities, we are helping to promote children’s language, physical, social, and emotional development. We incorporate these through free play, work time, circle time, and art activities. In turn, this helps them to prepare for their move to Primary School. When children complete their senior year, Primary school is next and we aim to have the children confident and competent learners, full of self-esteem, and ready to take on this totally new challenge in the next stage of their development.
Through observation, we have seen how important the outdoor environment is to the children’s learning and holistic development so a big part of our routine is getting out into the outdoors.
We aim in the Butterfly room to maintain a high-quality standard of care and education in the room for all children. All staff are qualified and get the opportunity to engage in Continuous Professional Development.
Each child has his/her own key worker who assesses the child’s learning, work, and growth.
An individual Aistear diary, observations, pictures, gems are done on an ongoing basis.
We encourage parents to review all the information uploaded on the Childpath app as they provide depth reflections on the learning and work of the children in the Butterfly room.
The room is attached to an enclosed garden with surrounding gardens. A favourite place for toddlers is the enclosed mud kitchen.
Each child has his/her own key worker who assesses the child’s learning, work, and growth.
An individual Aistear diary, observations, pictures, gems are done on an ongoing basis.
We encourage parents to review all the information uploaded on the Childpath app as they provide depth reflections on the learning and work of the children in the Bumblebee room.
Butterfly Room Team Leader
Hi, my name is Cindy Desmond. I am the Team Leader in the Butterfly Room. I joined the team in Childhood Matters in November 2023.
I have completed the Early Childhood Care and Education Bachelor of Arts in 2018. Since then I have completed a level 6 in Child Psychology and a level 6 in Therapeutic Play Skills. I have worked with children in a number of different settings, such as inside a crèche, summer camps, refuges, childminding, and as a classroom teacher in Dubai.
I think it is important to have a child-centered approach and listen to the children’s interests. In the Butterfly Room, we listen to the children and plan activities around their interests. As the adults in these children’s lives, it is our responsibility to nurture and care for them with a kind approach.
I have an interest in children’s mental health and wellbeing. I love to further develop my skill set to ensure that I can help children to the best of my ability who may need additional support.
