Our Programs

Afterschool Club

Our Afterschool clubs service the Sacred Heart of Jesus Primary School, Huntstown, and St. Ciaran’s Primary School, Hartstown. Children attending Afterschool club are school going age.

The objective of the Afterschool programme is to provide a safe, exciting, relaxing environment that is reinforced with love, encouragement and praise.

Our teaching is based around the ideas of Aistear and upon the principles of Síolta. Verbal communication regarding the Afterschoolers’ well-being and progress is given daily and formal meetings can be arranged, and are encouraged, between parents and your child’s key teacher.

We provide Half-day care, Part-time ECCE and Summer camp

Drop off & collection for Afterschool Children

Children attending for Breakfast Club begin to arrive from 7.30 am. Children serve themselves porridge, Weetabix, other cereals and toast with a choice of toppings. They also help themselves to drinks. Afterschoolers will then chose an activity, a book, or to sit and chat until it is time for them to leave for school.

Both Tír na nÓg Huntstown and Tír na nÓg Hartstown are located within a safe walking route of the primary schools. We believe that walking to and from school is beneficial to your child’s well-being.

Younger children are collected from outside their classrooms, while older children will be meet at an agreed location within the school grounds.

Homework Time

HOMEWORK TIME

Homework is supervised by qualified staff. Our goal is to ensure that homework is completed during ‘homework time’ at the creche, however we do implement a cut off time of 50 minutes for the older children.

Parents are informed if your child has not finished their homework. Junior and Senior infants are given one to one supervision, for their homework, while older children are supervised in a group setting. We advise parents to check your child’s homework in order to stay abreast of your child’s progress. We do not sign homework sheets; this is the parents responsibility.

Afterschool Club at Tír na nÓg

The goal for the Afterschool Club programme is to provide a safe, comfortable and interesting environment for school age children. We endeavour to support children in completing their homework so that when you collect your child after a busy day in work, there is more time for the fun stuff. Our aim is to provide fun filled activity in a relaxed yet stimulating environment, to promote independence, support friendships and to help school age children to continue to develop social-emotional skills, confidence, self-awareness and self-care.

Fun Activities

Once homework is complete children part-take in a range of fun activities including outdoor games and free-play, art & crafts, construction, board games, quizzes, baking, imaginative and role play. Activities are child lead and our aim is to ensure that after a busy day in school, where there are lots of rules and regulations, that Afterschoolers feel relaxed, comfortable, at ease and that they have plenty of choices while in the Afterschool Club.

Dinner Time

Dinner is served at approximately 2.45pm and is a well -balanced, nutritious hot meal, containing fresh wholesome ingredients, while also being appealing to children’s tastes.

Children serve themselves, choosing their own portion size. There are options for children to suit their cultural and dietary needs and individual tastes.

Tea- Time

At 4.45pm children serve themselves to a variety of sandwiches, which they make themselves, or crackers with a range of toppings. They can also choose fruit and berries with yogurt. Once each week they will bake cakes, biscuits or buns, some of which will be eaten at tea time.

What happens during school closures?

During school closures (non-term time) parents will be invited to book a morning place for your child. We make these non-term time days as fun as possible for the Afterschool children, with outings to the local community centre, Millennium Park playground, Hartstown park, the cinema and playcentres. The extra charge for the morning place covers the cost of these activities, and there is not further cost to parents. Parents are asked to pre-sign an Outings Permission Form, and we ensure that we adhere to staff/child outings ratios.

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