Curriculum
At Kells Early Years we are committed to developing a curriculum that creates a child centred environment in line with the Aistear Framework. Read more… https://www.curriculumonline.ie/Early-Childhood/
We are a play-based facility offering aspects of Steiner, Froebelian and High Scope, that enables young children to actively pursue their own learning.
Planning Programmes
The curriculum of Kells Early Years is holistic and play based inspired by the inquiring minds and emergent interests of each individual child, which is underpinned by Aistear. We believe that children will actively learn best when they are given ample opportunities to Play. Outdoor play is encouraged on a daily basis. The playrooms have allocated areas which include:
Jigsaws, Construction & Manipulative Toys
In this area children’s early numeracy and literacy skills, pre-reading, pre-writing, and hand eye co-ordination are developed..........
Play Dough / Cloud Dough / Gloop
These are not only fun activities for children, they can also help strengthen muscles in their hands and develop hand/eye coordination.......
Home Area
The children learn to play together, to take turns, to use their imagination and to expand their vocabulary. The play/home area gives .........
Book Corner
Acting out or reading stories and describing incidents from their own experiences also, this helps to develop their language skills and vocabulary. .........
Music Activities
The children enjoy singing songs, using percussion instruments, and listening to a wide variety of music from rhymes to classical and pop music..........
Messy & Creative Play Area
In this area, activities such as Art and Craft, painting, colouring, mark making, cutting and sticking takes place, these encourage children to be creative, .........
Sand & Water Play
When using sand and water children have fun, but also manipulative and pre-maths skills are developing through......
Arts & Crafts
The children paint, draw, print, use scissors and glue. This allows children to develop their creative, numeracy and literacy skills......
