Contact Details
Roscrea Community Childcare - Serving the community since 1998
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday, 7.15 am - 6pm
Phone: 0505-23379
Fax: 0505-23378
mmurphy@ntlp.ie
Mobile: 087 677 4609
Cúram Leanaí Pobal
Qualifications and Training
All our staff are fully qualified in the area of childcare including:
- FETAC Level four and five Child Development & Play
- Health & Safety
- Occupational and Paediatric First Aid
We have also undertaken training in:
- Managing Challenging Behaviour
- Children First Guidelines
Baby Room (1-3 years)
Toddler Room (18 Months to 2.5 years)
Happy Days Pre-School (3-4 Years)
Montessori Pre-School (3 years - Primary School age)
Baby Room (4-18 months)
Adult-Child Ratios 1-8
Jolly Tots caters for two different age groups: 4 months—1 year; 1 year—2 years.
Our aim is to develop all areas of child development: Physical, Intellectual, Language, Emotional, and Social.
We promote and provide stimulating educational and age appropriate toys and equipment such as:
Physical - Baby gym, mat area, balls, bikes, slides, outdoor play area.
Intellectual - jigsaws, shape sorters, stacking blocks, colouring pictures, rattlers, pop up toys.
Language - Story time, picture books, music, puppets.
Emotional /Social - play dough, painting, colouring, role play, tractors, etc
We are sufficiently staffed so that we can encourage each child to reach their full potential and we ensure that each child is treated as an individual with individual needs in a warm, safe and happy environment.
Toddler Room (18 Months to 2.5 years)
The Toddler room offers a wide range of activities for the 2– 3 year age group. We have a daily routine in place, which is flexible and play based. The routine incorporates all areas of each child's development. As follows is a brief overview of the room plan areas that are available.
Sand & Water play: For its therapeutic values and calming benefits.
Construction Area: Train sets, Trucks, Tractors, Farm Sets and other accessories.
Book Corner: We have an assortment of books to choose from to enhance language development and initiate conversation.
Jigsaw Area: we have a great selection of jigsaws, shape sorting exercises, threading exercises and floor jigsaws to choose from.
Home Corner: Imaginative play is brought to life in this area. The children have a huge variety of play materials to choose from, clothes, hats, shoes, dolls and cooking equipment just to mention a few.
Circle –time: Sing songs and nursery rhymes, we say hello to Penny puppet and his many friends. We also introduce sound games and Flashcards for variety. Exercise is very important so we introduce exercise when we are using climbing equipment, bicycles, and action song time.
We also go on nature walks and during the summer months we would spend a certain amount of time outdoors.
Each child is cared for by trained professional staff in a safe and stimulating environment.
Happy Days Pre - School (3-4 Years)
Adult Child Ratios 1 – 8
Here in Happy Days we cater for 3 years to school going provide a routine that develops the children's Physical, Intellectual, Language,
Emotional and social needs.
We provide a wide range of pre-school activities such as: Sand & water play, Matching, Threading, Gluing, Cutting, Colouring, Arts and crafts, various indoors games develop both Fine and Gross Motor Skills.
We provide a clean, hygienic, happy and physically safe environment at all times.
We follow a play based curriculum that allows the children a choice as to what activities they wish to do on a daily basis.
Montessori Pre School (3 years - Primary School age)
Child to Adult Ratios 1-8
Each session consists of number or sound work, pencil work, colour identification, language skills, listening skills, Montessori materials, jigsaws of varying abilities, threading, cutting, sorting etc.
Each child is encouraged to choose his/her own work and is directed to choose work for their ability and also to create a challenge for them. The children love a challenge and as a result, are always striving to reach for a more difficult exercise and therefore constantly being stimulated and encouraged.
Following work-time, we will have an arts & crafts activity which all the children enjoy. Quite often, we are following a particular theme on anything that is appropriate or cultural at that time of year. We then have fee-play where the children’s imagination is let loose as they choose to play in the kitchen, dress-up, garage, train-set, blocks etc.
Circle-time is next, where the register is called and there is the opportunity for chat, singing, stories, etc. At 12.20 Busy Bee Montessori joins with Happy Days, where they meet up with other friends and enjoy a hot dinner together.
We provide healthy and nutritious meals for the children attending the service.
Roscrea Community Childcare - Serving the community since 1998
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday, 7.15 am - 6pm
Phone: 0505-23379
Fax: 0505-23378
mmurphy@ntlp.ie
Mobile: 087 677 4609
