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Parents’ Guide To

The ECCE Year (Information for Parents)

The Free Pre-school Year in Early Childhood Care and Education (The ECCE Year) The ECCE is a new scheme designed to give children access to a free Pre-school Year of appropriate programme-based activities in the year before they start primary school. Participation in a pre-school programme provides children with their first formal experience of early [...]

Parents’ Guide to Aistear

A Parental Guide to Aistear, the National Curriculum Framework for Early Childhood Care and Education in Ireland. Aistear is the Irish word for journey. It refers to the new national curriculum framework for the education and care of children from birth to six years in Ireland, published by the National Council for Curriculum and [...]

Parents’ Guide to Síolta

A Parents’ Guide to Síolta the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Care and Education in Ireland. Síolta (meaning seeds) is a quality framework for early childhood care and education services. Síolta’s quality framework can be used in different Early Childhood Care and Education services (ECCE) such as crèches, nurseries, preschools, play groups, child-minders [...]