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Aistear and Síolta
Aistear and Síolta
We support children’s learning with
Aistear.
Young children learn in many different ways, through their senses, through observing life around them, through watching people who are important to them and through participating and having a go. Pre-schools now use Aistear to support young children’s learning. Aistear focuses on children from birth to six years old and it describes the learning that is important for babies, toddlers and young children. It helps us as parents and as pre-school practitioners to support children’s sense of wellbeing, identity and belonging, communicating and exploring and thinking. In helping children make the transition to pre-school we are helping them have a sense of wellbeing (I am happy in this place), identity (this is my pre-school) and belonging (I fit in here and feel easy with the new people in this place.
We promote quality in early learning with
Síolta.
Pre-school provides a great opportunity for children to learn and develop at an early stage and the quality of pre-school provision makes a real difference. Síolta is the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and it is designed to support the development and delivery of high quality services for children from birth to six years of age. Síolta is used by pre-school services to review and improve the ways in which they work with children and families. Síolta advises that in thinking about transitions, services should have an admission policy and should share information with parents. Services should meet and begin to build meaningful relationships with parents and children and encourage parents to settle their children in the best way possible.