Little Apples - Creche & Montessori

Our Junior Wobbler Room at Little Apples is a safe and stimulating environment where your child is free to explore

under the watchful supervision of our highly trained staff.

As there are many different stages that your child will go through

during the early years of his/her life it is important to remember

that their progress is individual. In the junior wobbler room

we have adapted this approach so that children have the

freedom and support to go through different stages

with maximum support from our Childcare workers and

also through the layout of the room.

There are many different areas in the room to help

promote the development of your child such as soft

play area, block area, musical instruments, heuristic play,

activity areas, soft mat & reading areas. A sleep room is also

located beside the junior wobbler room which has 9 beds: all children

have their own bed, sheet and blanket which is supplied, cleaned and stored in the Creche.

Little Apples has a range of buggies-triple, double and single and the children are taken for regular walks around the

local area.

Our Wobbler rooms are bright and airy with stimulating environments such as

photographs of the children at play and samples of their work for Mams/Dads and

Carers to see.

All areas in the rooms encourage independence so that the children can take

some responsibility for themselves. Presentation of activities and the way

that they are set up are essential, each day the Careworkers in the room

spend time carefully planning and preparing for each activity. The

curriculum followed by the children is enjoyable and allows for

spontaneity whilst at the same time supporting every childs individual

learning needs and stage of development.

All children have their own bed, sheet and blanket which is supplied, cleaned and stored

in the Creche.

The Toddler rooms have a variety of layouts to include home corners, construction

areas, sands, book corners and tabletop areas.

These are very busy rooms as the children get to grips with the theme

that they are learning about that week. Here the children start learning

about basic concepts such as colours, numbers, letters as well as

continuing the theme based learning which they started in the Wobbler

room such as animals, nature, the world around us, peoples jobs etc.

At this stage of the childs development he/she is becoming more creative in

their activities and their language skills are really beginning to emerge. Our childcare

workers deal with toddlers in a sympathetic manner, handling their early social & emotional development very

carefully, guiding their cognitive awareness and stimulating their physical accomplishments.

As well as following a Pre-school curriculum, the children also do a

Montessori session every day. The combination of these learning

strategies has proved to be an excellent combination both for the

childs development and the enjoyment that they experience in the

group. Each week a different letter, colour, shape and theme is

covered with children as well as a wide variety of arts & crafts,

music & movement and outdoor play.

Other areas covered are personal and social development,

language, pre-reading skills, maths, art & creativity, computers,

Irish, nature studies, the world around them and their physical development.