Acorns Academy Manulla Castlebar
Learning to Learn Every Day.To you its play, to them it is learningIn their first three years and onward your child will take their first steps, make their first friends and begin to develop skills that will form the foundation of a lifetime.
At Acorns Academy childcare, we are dedicated to promoting each child’s individual emotional, social and physical development during this important period in their development.
Every morning, experienced and positive carers present your child with a range of age appropriate indoor and garden activities to engage and promote their development and independence.
At Acorns Academy we believe in learning through play and provide a stimulating and safe environment where your child will have fun as they learn to learn.
Treating children as individuals, we delight in helping children develop emotionally, socially and physically in stimulating enabling environments with a rich curriculum delivered by caring staff who support the children warmly and sensitively to grow up as confident, inquisitive individuals who love learning.
We value and promote play as a meaningful method of learning. Every day is different! Throughout the morning, the children will be engrossed in a variety of activities, both adult-led and child-initiated using both the indoors and our outdoor play areas as their learning environment.
At Acorn Academy we provide a full day care services, free ECCE pre-school year,CETS scheme also an after school homework club available
The Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Scheme provides a free year of early childhood care and education for children of pre-school age. In general, children are eligible for the ECCE scheme if they are aged over 2 yrs 8 months of age and continue until they transfer to primary school (provided that they are not older than 5 years and 6 months at the end of the pre-school year). There will be only one entry point to the ECCE scheme from September 2018. Children must be 2 years 8 months by September to start on the ECCE scheme. The entry points of January and April will remain for 2018.
All children are entitled to 2 full academic years or 76 weeks from September 2018.
The State pays a capitation fee to participating playschools and daycare services. In return, they provide a pre-school service free of charge to all children within the qualifying age range for a set number of hours over a set period of weeks (see ‘How the ECCE scheme is provided’ below).
In general, children only qualify for ECCE in one school year. However, a child who has been assessed as having a disability may be able to spread their free pre-school year over 2 years
All children are entitled to 2 full academic years or 76 weeks from September 2018.
The State pays a capitation fee to participating playschools and daycare services. In return, they provide a pre-school service free of charge to all children within the qualifying age range for a set number of hours over a set period of weeks (see ‘How the ECCE scheme is provided’ below).
In general, children only qualify for ECCE in one school year. However, a child who has been assessed as having a disability may be able to spread their free pre-school year over 2 years
