CONGRATULATIONS  to our  2012 WINNERS

We wish to thank all the practitioners, children, and families who have shared their stories with us and demonstrated the meaningful learning experiences your young children are having on a daily basis.

We feel our winning stories demonstrate how children’s interests have been observed, developed, extended, and shared. 

They also provide practical examples of  Aistear and Síolta in action.

Each year we will nominate 12 winning Learning Stories to go forward for our Overall Award.

This year our Conference took place in April 2012 and we were in a position to select

• 4 winnersin January,

• 3 winners in February

• 5 winners (7 stories) in March

Please have a look at the end of this page to see the Highly Commended entries.

These winners were then put forward for the  Overall Learning Story Award. The winner of this award in 2012 was Little Folk Preschool in Ballinteer, for their story “The Yoghurt Tubs“.

Anne Baker from Little Folk Preschool, Ballinteer - winner of the Overall Learning Stories Award, with Mary Doyle who presented the award at the Early Childhood Ireland Conference 2012

Please visit the Early Childhood Ireland Awards page to see the full list of 2012 winners, as well as the photos from the awards ceremony.