Our Services

General Information regarding our service,

“Just Kids” Creche & Montessori school currently employs 14 women,

• Yvonne Carr, Owner manager
• Louise Mc Allister, Duty Manager and Kitchen staff
• Noella Flannagan & Rachel Bissette, Playgroup leaders
• Emma Kavanagh & Norma Reilly, Montessori leaders and Sarah Bissett Montessori assistant in Montessori room 1
• Helen Govern & Mairead Toomey, Montessori leaders in room 2
• Cathy Mc Cleanaghan After school leader
• Carol Hodgins & Jill Back- Herke & Catherine Norris Toddler room leaders
• Shirley Coleman, Floater

We have 4 rooms in operation throughout the day, 1 toddler room, 1 Playgroup room, and 2 Montessori rooms, in the afternoon one of our Montessori rooms is used as our afterschool room.

Currently we have 115 children accessing our service on a weekly basis. We offer full time, Part time, sessional Montessori on the ECCE Scheme only and also afterschool care.

We are open Monday to Friday from 7.45 am to 6.00 pm, and we are open 50.5 weeks per year closing on Good Friday, bank holidays and 1 week at Christmas time.

Here in “Just Kids” we provide full and part time childcare and Montessori places, our full time place is available from 7.45 am-6.00 pm, our part time places are either from 7.45 am to 1.00 pm or from 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

We offer places 2 full or half days, 3 full or half days or 5 full or half days.

We take children from 1 year old up to 5 years old and we will also do after school for children 5 years to 8 years of age.

We have separate areas for children aged 1-2 years which can facilitate 10 children at any time, playgroup for children aged 2-3 years which can facilitate 14 children at any given time, and 2 separate rooms for Montessori children aged 3-4 years and 4-5 years each room can facilitate 20 sessional children at any given time.

Our curriculum is Play based and Montessori, and we are currently engaged in a formal Siolta Assurance program .Our curriculum follows the principals of Aistear and the Siolta standards.

We do have on site car parking, and we do all our own cooking on the premises every day. A daily menu is on display in the main hall and is visible on entrance to the main hall, the children aged 1-3 years all have their own note book which tells parents exactly what their child ate, slept and how their general form was throughout the day.

We also have 2 large out door play areas which are now accessible throughout the year as we have child specific play mats on our Garden area.

Details of Ratios

Maximum number of children that we can cater for at any one time is 64

We are open from 7.45am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday. Half day session is available from 7.45am to 1.00pm includes breakfast and hot dinner or from 1.00pm to 6.00pm which includes afternoon snack and tea.

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