Early Years Hub News

When you consider the service you provide to children and their families, there are many different aspects to running a quality service. You need to provide opportunities for children to…

We’ve just added a bunch of great new activities to our Halloween Curriculum Plans! The entire pack comprises about 40 pages of printables and activities, all correlated to Aistear themes…

Having both formal and informal opportunities for communication and information sharing will greatly enhance the quality of your service. Both the Department of Education and Science (DES) and Tusla will…

Ceol ‘Step into Music’, the Award-Winning Music Programme for the Early Years Step into Music is a great introductory course for preschool children to learn to listen and respond to…

  Early in the school year, it’s a good idea to review your documentation and paperwork. There are two very important aspects to this: One, that your service is ready…

As you know, under regulation, you are required to risk assess ANY Garda Vetting disclosure where there was a conviction, however minor. This risk assessment should be kept confidentially on…

September can be such a busy time for early years educators all over the country making sure the learning environment is inviting, children are settled and your paperwork is up…

One Finger One Thumb is a Curriculum Plan with lots of great games and activities on the theme of building fine motor skills. Easy-to-set-up play spaces and games for a…

Many Early Years providers have been asking us for help with the paperwork relating to the government-funded Access and Inclusion Model (AIM). Most of the queries we’ve gotten have been…