Sunbeams Playschool
Sunbeams Playschool is housed in a purpose built facility with a large outdoor area. The room is bright, airy and well equipped. We use the outdoor area as often as possible with children often free to choose whether they are indoors or outside. We meet or exceed all building, fire and HSE childcare regulations for preschool services.
We cater for children aged from 2 1/2 to 5 years.
We offer the ECCE scheme which provides a FREE year of preschool for qualifying children. Children born between 02/02/08 and 30/06/09 will qualify for the ECCE for September 2012, those born between 02/02/09 and 30/06/10 will qualify in September 2013. There are no extras or top ups whatsoever for ECCE children.
We offer competitive fees and flexible payment schedules for non-ECCE children with 2,3,4 and 5 day places available. There is no charge for when the preschool is closed for holidays such as Mid Terms, Christmas and Easter.
Sunbeams Playschool runs a planned, play based and child led programme which is flexible to take into account each child's individual learning needs and interests.
Themes we have explored with the children currently attending include (among many others) Outdoors, Animals, Seasons, Water, Colours, Shapes, Numbers, Early Literacy, Community, Health including personal care, exercise and nutrition, Festivals, All About Me and Families.
We aim to provide activities that help children's Physical, Cognitive, Language, Emotional and Social development and link with the 4 themes of Aistear, Well-Being, Identity and Belonging, Communicating and Exploring and Thinking.
We also emphasise the importance of supporting the development of children's social skills in the form of interacting with other children and adults, sharing, taking turns, self care and responsibility as a preparation for Primary School.