Age: 12-24+ Months
LADYBIRDS ROOM
Ratio: 1:5
Opening Times: Full day care: 8.00am-6.00pm
Part time care: 9am-1pm & 2pm-6pm
Optional: Breakfast hour 8am-9am (additional charge applies)
Schemes offered: NCS (National Childcare scheme)
Team Leader: Mary Hickey
The routine in the Ladybird Room (Wobbler Room) is a little more structured than in the Caterpillar Room (Baby Room).
Appropriate activities are introduced to your child aiding all areas of development and in particular their intrinsic sense of independence and exploration. This is provided through short structured play programmes. Every day is action packed with exciting activities designed to nurture their physical development, language skills, and intellectual progress through storytelling, singing, dancing, mini me yoga, messy play and outdoor activities.
Arts, crafts, music, books, puzzles, table top toys, construction boxes, home play, water play, and sand play are just some of the fun activities on offer. Clean-up time is naturally integrated into the cycle at the end of Playtime.
We are very fortunate to have a vast amount of wonderful land with beautiful trees, flowers and wild life. We bring the children in their six seat buggies for walks around the wonderful grounds; we also have an enclosed garden attached to the room for the children to enjoy in a safe environment.
Therefore, a little rain, hail wind, or snow will not stop us from getting out and exploring our different gardens.
We supply wet pants to help protect your child’s clothing. Risky Play is a big part of Ladybird’s adventures and it’s an important part of every child’s development. Therefore, we will encourage each child to take risks while playing indoors and outdoors. Risky play is supervised at all times.
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 Ladybird room.
Ladybird Room Team Leader (Wobbler Room)
Hi! I’m Mary, the Team Leader of the Ladybird room.
I have been part of the wonderful Childhood Matters team since 2013.
Through my hard work, commitment, and further education by going back to college and taking relevant courses, I’ve successfully achieved the position of Team Leader.
I strongly believe in allowing children to explore their environment through risky play, messy play, and outdoor activities.
My goal is to ensure that every child in my care, as well as my team’s, creates beautiful memories during their time with us. I focus on working with each child individually through child-led play experiences, helping them develop their skills and qualities so they can grow into strong, independent, successful, and caring individuals.
