You can now also find us and see information and photos on www.MyChildcare.ie here:
http://tinyurl.com/y3uwm7g
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Our brand new website is now up and running
Our brand new website is now up and running! We have included lots of useful information like our services, photos of each of our centres as well as location maps, a sample menu, some history of Mother Hubbards Childcare and much more!
Have a look at http://www.motherhubbardschildcare.ie to see it!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Countdown to our brand new website....
Our brand new web site is just days away!! Check back for more details...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Flowerhill Newsletter March 2010
Flowerhill Mother Hubbards Newsletter March 2010
This month we would like to say Happy Birthday to:
• Joshua in the Montessori room who was 4 years old on the 3rd.
• Alanna in the playschool room who was 3 years old on the 9th.
• Iggy in the Montessori room who was 5 years old on the 17th.
• Adrian in the Montessori room who turned 4 years old on the 17th.
• Ryan in the afterschool room who was 9 years old on the 21st.
• Nina in the playschool room who will be 3 years old on the 24th.
Unwanted Clothing???
We are making a clothes collection to aid funding the fight against Cancer at St. Luke’s Hospital in Dublin. If you have any unwanted clothes at home, clean ladies, gents, children’s clothing, shoes, bed lined and towels also accepted please bring them into us before 9.30 am on Friday 26th March. You can put them in a black bag or contact Sharon in the office for an umbra clothing bag. For every 10kg bag filled and collected Umbra will donate money to St. Luke’s and also to Mother Hubbards. For more information look up www.friendsofstlukes.ie or www.umbraclothingcollections.com.
Reminders
Montessori and playschool sessionals will finish on Friday 26th March at 12.15pm and return on Monday 12th April at 9.15am for their Easter break.
For all the other children the centre will be closed on Friday 2nd April for Good Friday and Monday 5th April for Easter Monday.
National pyjama day is on this Friday 26th March. Don’t forget to wear in your pj’s and bring in your favourite teddy and blanket on the day!
Website
We are in the process of getting our website updated. The children got their photos taken this week and had great fun so look out for them coming soon!
Usborne Books
We would like to thank all parents who purchased books from Usborne books on World Book Day. We made our target of €575 between 3 of our services, raising over €160 for here and received over €100 worth of free books. The children also really enjoyed story time with Sinead on the day and taking home their free bookmark!
Tesco for Schools and Clubs
We are collecting for the Tesco for Schools and Clubs campaign, we ask all parents to bring in as many purple voucher as possible as we are hoping to get more fun toys and games this year.
New Medicine forms
Parents please note that we have a new medicine form in place with the addition of a column for parents to sign to confirm that they know what time/ times medicine has been administered to their child at the end of each day. This is to ensure that parents are aware when their child is due this medicine again. Thank You!
Look what we’ve been up to this month in the:
Playschool Room
This month we have been having great fun singing our nursery rhymes on our new Dora mat. We have been doing action songs - three little monkeys, wheels on the bus and head, shoulders, knees and toes. We also made lovely cards for Mother’s day and badges for St. Patrick’s Day. We are getting ready for Pyjama day, painting pictures of stars and reading bed-time poems.
Montessori Room
This month we are learning about the life cycle of the flower. We made Ireland flags for St. Patrick’s Day and are currently doing activities for Easter. We are learning the letters “K” and “L” and the number 6. We also painted some lovely yellow stars to display for pyjama day.
Afterschool Room
This month we are making Easter egg collages and learning about the story behind the Easter egg. We are also making Easter masks. We planted sunflower and pumpkin seeds too so now we need to look after them and watch them grow!
Sleepy Bunny
Hide this cute sleepy Easter bunny inside your kids Easter eggs. Shhh, don’t wake him - he needs his strength to deliver those goodies.
What you'll need:
• ½ egg shell
• Wooden doll stand
• 2 large white pom poms
• 4 medium white pom poms
• 1 miniature pink pom pom
• Scrap of black felt
• Pink and white acrylic paint
• White felt
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Thin white ribbon
How to make it:
1. Be sure egg shell is clean and dry. Paint outside of egg shell pink.
2. Paint the doll stand with a mixture of white and pink paint. Let dry.
3. Glue the egg shell to the doll stand.
4. Add some glue to the inside of the egg shell. Place one of the large white pom poms inside the egg shell. Glue the other large white pom pom on top of the first one.
5. Glue two medium white pom poms to the inside of the egg shell so that they show at the top of the shell (paws).
6. Glue the other two medium white pom poms to the head for the cheeks.
7. Glue the miniature pink pom pom in between the two cheeks.
8. Cut two long ears from the white felt and glue to the top of the head at the sides. Fold them downward and glue the ends to the egg shell.
9. Cut two small crescent shaped slits from the black felt and glue on to head for sleepy eyes.
10. Tie ribbon around the bottom of the egg shell and form a bow, trim the ends.
Tips:
• Pom poms can be purchased in large value packs with different colors and sizes.
• Be sure to check the craft stores following each holiday for major clearance priced items.
• You could get even more creative and add a sleeping cap to the project by cutting a piece of pastel colored felt and rolling into a cone. Glue it to the top of the head and bend the end downward and glue to bunny’s back.
151 Blackcastle Lodge Phone: 046-9070558
Flowerhill Fax: 046-9070670
Navan EMail: Flowerhill@motherhubbardschildcare.ie
This month we would like to say Happy Birthday to:
• Joshua in the Montessori room who was 4 years old on the 3rd.
• Alanna in the playschool room who was 3 years old on the 9th.
• Iggy in the Montessori room who was 5 years old on the 17th.
• Adrian in the Montessori room who turned 4 years old on the 17th.
• Ryan in the afterschool room who was 9 years old on the 21st.
• Nina in the playschool room who will be 3 years old on the 24th.
Unwanted Clothing???
We are making a clothes collection to aid funding the fight against Cancer at St. Luke’s Hospital in Dublin. If you have any unwanted clothes at home, clean ladies, gents, children’s clothing, shoes, bed lined and towels also accepted please bring them into us before 9.30 am on Friday 26th March. You can put them in a black bag or contact Sharon in the office for an umbra clothing bag. For every 10kg bag filled and collected Umbra will donate money to St. Luke’s and also to Mother Hubbards. For more information look up www.friendsofstlukes.ie or www.umbraclothingcollections.com.
Reminders
Montessori and playschool sessionals will finish on Friday 26th March at 12.15pm and return on Monday 12th April at 9.15am for their Easter break.
For all the other children the centre will be closed on Friday 2nd April for Good Friday and Monday 5th April for Easter Monday.
National pyjama day is on this Friday 26th March. Don’t forget to wear in your pj’s and bring in your favourite teddy and blanket on the day!
Website
We are in the process of getting our website updated. The children got their photos taken this week and had great fun so look out for them coming soon!
Usborne Books
We would like to thank all parents who purchased books from Usborne books on World Book Day. We made our target of €575 between 3 of our services, raising over €160 for here and received over €100 worth of free books. The children also really enjoyed story time with Sinead on the day and taking home their free bookmark!
Tesco for Schools and Clubs
We are collecting for the Tesco for Schools and Clubs campaign, we ask all parents to bring in as many purple voucher as possible as we are hoping to get more fun toys and games this year.
New Medicine forms
Parents please note that we have a new medicine form in place with the addition of a column for parents to sign to confirm that they know what time/ times medicine has been administered to their child at the end of each day. This is to ensure that parents are aware when their child is due this medicine again. Thank You!
Look what we’ve been up to this month in the:
Playschool Room
This month we have been having great fun singing our nursery rhymes on our new Dora mat. We have been doing action songs - three little monkeys, wheels on the bus and head, shoulders, knees and toes. We also made lovely cards for Mother’s day and badges for St. Patrick’s Day. We are getting ready for Pyjama day, painting pictures of stars and reading bed-time poems.
Montessori Room
This month we are learning about the life cycle of the flower. We made Ireland flags for St. Patrick’s Day and are currently doing activities for Easter. We are learning the letters “K” and “L” and the number 6. We also painted some lovely yellow stars to display for pyjama day.
Afterschool Room
This month we are making Easter egg collages and learning about the story behind the Easter egg. We are also making Easter masks. We planted sunflower and pumpkin seeds too so now we need to look after them and watch them grow!
Sleepy Bunny
Hide this cute sleepy Easter bunny inside your kids Easter eggs. Shhh, don’t wake him - he needs his strength to deliver those goodies.
What you'll need:
• ½ egg shell
• Wooden doll stand
• 2 large white pom poms
• 4 medium white pom poms
• 1 miniature pink pom pom
• Scrap of black felt
• Pink and white acrylic paint
• White felt
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Thin white ribbon
How to make it:
1. Be sure egg shell is clean and dry. Paint outside of egg shell pink.
2. Paint the doll stand with a mixture of white and pink paint. Let dry.
3. Glue the egg shell to the doll stand.
4. Add some glue to the inside of the egg shell. Place one of the large white pom poms inside the egg shell. Glue the other large white pom pom on top of the first one.
5. Glue two medium white pom poms to the inside of the egg shell so that they show at the top of the shell (paws).
6. Glue the other two medium white pom poms to the head for the cheeks.
7. Glue the miniature pink pom pom in between the two cheeks.
8. Cut two long ears from the white felt and glue to the top of the head at the sides. Fold them downward and glue the ends to the egg shell.
9. Cut two small crescent shaped slits from the black felt and glue on to head for sleepy eyes.
10. Tie ribbon around the bottom of the egg shell and form a bow, trim the ends.
Tips:
• Pom poms can be purchased in large value packs with different colors and sizes.
• Be sure to check the craft stores following each holiday for major clearance priced items.
• You could get even more creative and add a sleeping cap to the project by cutting a piece of pastel colored felt and rolling into a cone. Glue it to the top of the head and bend the end downward and glue to bunny’s back.
151 Blackcastle Lodge Phone: 046-9070558
Flowerhill Fax: 046-9070670
Navan EMail: Flowerhill@motherhubbardschildcare.ie
Slane Road Newsletter March 2010
Mother Hubbards Childcare Newsletter March 2010
A big happy birthday ……
- To Corey Lynch who is 2 on the 31st
- To Niamh Mc Nulty who was 4 on the 19th
- To Philip Smith who was 4 on the 22nd
- To Elizabeth Newman who was 4 on the 22nd
- To Chloe Berigan who will be 4 on the 27th
Usborne free books!
Thanks to all parents who purchased books from Usborne Books on National Book Day here in the centre, we reached our target and have received over €150 worth of free books!! Here’s the list of the books we received;
The Tractor
The Beach
Polish Flash cards
Portuguese Flash cards
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly
The naughty Sheep
The boy who cried wolf
Number lotto
Junior Reading Programme (12 books)
Planet Earth
First words in Irish
Reminder to all sessional Montessori parents
The Montessori finished for the Easter mid term from this Friday the 26th of March at 12.15 and 4.30 and re opens Monday the 12th at 9.15 and 1.30.
The centre will close for Good Friday the 2nd of April and Bank Holiday Monday the 5th of April!
Notice to parents
This is just a reminder to parents that we have a direct debit option for payment of fees. If any parent is interested in this payment option please call to the office for the direct debit details.
Congratulations to Karen and Peter Mc Govern on the birth of baby Ethan and to Krystian and Anna Lodziewski on the birth of baby Claudia!
Pyjama Day
Mother Hubbard’s are holding their pyjama day on the 26th March 2010. On this day children can wear in their pyjamas, each child or family will receive a sponsorship card to fill as best they can! The NCNA pyjama day raises funds for the Make a Wish Foundation. We hope everyone has a really fun day!!
Tesco for Schools and Clubs
We are collecting for the Tesco for Schools and Clubs campaign, we ask all parents to bring in as many purple voucher as possible as we are hoping to get The Music and Movement Grab n Go set and The Dark Den and accessories, there is pictures of these two items in the hall above the sign for the Tesco voucher collection. We need 6,280 so start collecting!!!
New Medicine forms
Parents please note that we have a new medicine form in place with the addition of a column for parents to sign to confirm that they know what time/ times medicine has been administered to their child at the end of each day. This is to ensure that parents are aware when their child is due this medicine again. Thank You!
The Montessori’s will be having an Easter Party and Egg hunt on Thursday the 25th March!! The remainder of the centre will have theirs the following Thursday the 1st of April!
Topic of the month Easter
Here’s a cheap and easy way to make your own Easter eggs!!
Easter Recipes
How to make cream filled Easter eggs!
Ingredients
1 cup soft butter
2 tsp salt
4 tsp vanilla
1 can condensed milk (Eagle Brand)
10 cups icing sugar
1 tsp. yellow food colouring
1 lb. semisweet chocolate
MethodBeat butter, salt and vanilla until fluffy. Add milk, beat in sugar. Blend until stiff. Dust with brown sugar. Knead til smooth.
Set aside more then 2/3 of mixture. To the remaining mixture add yellow food colouring. Blend in well. Divide yellow and white into 16 or 24 pieces. Shape yellow into ball, mould white around yellow to form an egg shape. Dry at room temperature on paper towels for 24 hours.
Melt chocolate in microwave until smooth. Dip eggs in chocolate. Once dipped cool at room temperature. Refrigerate after cool.
When sliced these eggs will have a white cream filling with a yellow filling that appears to be the yolk.
Happy Easter to Everyone from all at Mother Hubbards!!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Navan Crèche is Awarded Quality Award for Second Time.
Navan Crèche is Awarded Quality Award for Second Time.
Mother Hubbard’s Childcare, Slane rd. have been awarded the All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award. This is the second time that Mother Hubbard’s have received this award. The first time was 2006 - 2008 and this time it is 2009 – 2011.
The All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award acknowledges the NCNA, National Children’s Nursery Association members who are providing excellent standards of care for children in Ireland.The NCNA/NIPPA All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award demonstrates to parents, visitors and members of the public that there is a commitment to quality and success in implementing and maintaining consistently high standards of excellence.NCNA members have always recognised and promoted the value of providing quality daycare for each individual child in their care. Quality childcare positively influences children’s earliest experiences in daycare and plays a vital role in their future development. It has long been accepted among childcare providers and parents that NCNA members deliver quality daycare. (http://www.ncna.ie/)This year only 30 (approx) childcare centres in Ireland applied for the award.Mother Hubbard’s and all their staff worked extremely hard to achieving this award. The centre had to complete a self evaluation profile and assess the centre under the following headings:
1. Activities and Programmes for Children2. Relationships in the Nursery3. Partnership with Families4. Health, Safety & Hygiene5. Staff Conditions & Professional Development6. Physical Environment7. Food & Nutrition8. Management & Administration9. Implementation of Policies & Procedures10. Evaluation & Review of Nursery
On Monday 16th November ‘09, Mother Hubbard’s had a validation team from the NCNA spend the day assessing the centre. The validation team spent time in each room with the staff and children and also spent time in the office ensuring all the correct paperwork was in place. They assessed everything in the centre from staff interaction to health and hygiene.
Mother Hubbard’s staff and parents were delighted when on the 1st of December they got notification the award. The presentation will be done in February ’10, which all the staff are looking forward to.
Mother Hubbard’s has also sent off their contracts for the new ECCE scheme which starts in January ’10. This is a new scheme which was brought in by the government last year and entitles children to a free pre-school year before attending school. Bookings are currently being taken for this scheme. For more information on this scheme call the manager of the centre Stephanie. Telephone 046 9059967 or navan@motherhubbardschildcare.ie
You can visit our website at http://www.motherhubbardschildcare.ie/
Mother Hubbard’s Childcare, Slane rd. have been awarded the All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award. This is the second time that Mother Hubbard’s have received this award. The first time was 2006 - 2008 and this time it is 2009 – 2011.
The All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award acknowledges the NCNA, National Children’s Nursery Association members who are providing excellent standards of care for children in Ireland.The NCNA/NIPPA All Ireland Centre of Excellence Award demonstrates to parents, visitors and members of the public that there is a commitment to quality and success in implementing and maintaining consistently high standards of excellence.NCNA members have always recognised and promoted the value of providing quality daycare for each individual child in their care. Quality childcare positively influences children’s earliest experiences in daycare and plays a vital role in their future development. It has long been accepted among childcare providers and parents that NCNA members deliver quality daycare. (http://www.ncna.ie/)This year only 30 (approx) childcare centres in Ireland applied for the award.Mother Hubbard’s and all their staff worked extremely hard to achieving this award. The centre had to complete a self evaluation profile and assess the centre under the following headings:
1. Activities and Programmes for Children2. Relationships in the Nursery3. Partnership with Families4. Health, Safety & Hygiene5. Staff Conditions & Professional Development6. Physical Environment7. Food & Nutrition8. Management & Administration9. Implementation of Policies & Procedures10. Evaluation & Review of Nursery
On Monday 16th November ‘09, Mother Hubbard’s had a validation team from the NCNA spend the day assessing the centre. The validation team spent time in each room with the staff and children and also spent time in the office ensuring all the correct paperwork was in place. They assessed everything in the centre from staff interaction to health and hygiene.
Mother Hubbard’s staff and parents were delighted when on the 1st of December they got notification the award. The presentation will be done in February ’10, which all the staff are looking forward to.
Mother Hubbard’s has also sent off their contracts for the new ECCE scheme which starts in January ’10. This is a new scheme which was brought in by the government last year and entitles children to a free pre-school year before attending school. Bookings are currently being taken for this scheme. For more information on this scheme call the manager of the centre Stephanie. Telephone 046 9059967 or navan@motherhubbardschildcare.ie
You can visit our website at http://www.motherhubbardschildcare.ie/
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Our new website will be coming soon!
Hi there,
We are in the middle of developing our new website and it will be online very soon! Check back for regular updates.
Mother Hubbards Childcare
We are in the middle of developing our new website and it will be online very soon! Check back for regular updates.
Mother Hubbards Childcare
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