| Today we learned about slugs in our gardens and their love for cabbage ... 🐛🐛🐛 We don’t want the slugs to eat all the leaves so therefore we use recycled ground coffee around the leaves to keep away the cheeky slugs. 🐛🐛🐛 The boys and girls were busy organising their own bags of coffee to bring home to their garden today. |  |
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Feeling very grateful here in Bright Sparks today on our 17th anniversary! Thanks a million to all our friends and families who have walked through the doors of Bright Sparks these past 17 years, you have been so supportive. 🐮 Last Friday, here we had two very special guests come to visit!! A big Thank You to our local Farmer, Kevin Flynn, for taking the time out of his busy day to bring down his two little calves, to visit the boys and girls! Everyone had great fun feeding and looking after the animals 🐮 Our Green Schools Committee are busy bees learning all about growing their own plants and vegetables! Here we have some of our committee members in our outdoor classroom, checking out how much their plants have grown 🦋  Wishing all our Boys, Girls and Families too a very special Happy Easter! We Hope it is full of fun, sun and LOTS of chocolate! Stay safe and see you soon 🐣 It takes a village to raise a child. Come together with other parents and learn, talk and share.25/3/2021
See below a listing of upcoming events and where to find further information.
Supporting Parents of Children with Anxiety, Wednesday evening from 7pm to 9.30pm .30 starting 31st of March to the 2nd of June. Zoom On-line course The public health situation over the last year has been very challenging for everyone. For families, with all the anxieties, uncertainties and upheavals, there have been additional demands on parents, challenges to usual routines and stretched coping skills. Topics: Amongst other topics the course will explore
ECCE classes returning.... All our ECCE classes will resume on Monday 8th March...we can't wait to welcome all our children back to Bright Sparks...any queries please contact the office on brightsparkschildcare@hotmail.com.... See you all Monday....  Easter Competition !!! Easter competition open to everyone !! Draw a nice Easter picture and please drop to Bright Sparks to be in with a chance to win yourself an Easter Egg !!! Draw takes place on Wednesday 31st March.....  We do hope you are all well. Following on from Tuesday's government announcement, the Minister has informed us that our ECCE programme will return for all children as from Monday 8th March. Until then we will provide childcare for parents of both essential and front line work. If you are within these categories and need childcare from next Monday 1st March please email us at brightsparkschildcare@hotmail.com asap. If you have any questions regarding return to creche / ECCE / essential or frontline workers etc please email us and we will answer your queries.. We will do a covid return to creche check via email also prior to return so it is important that you inform us of your childcare intentions. We are really looking forward to seeing you all in the near future. Please continue to adhere to all guidelines and stay safe.  Hi Everyone, we miss you all so much here in Bright Sparks. We hope you are all keeping well and staying safe. We miss meeting you guys but when its safe to return to creche we will be back to meeting our friends and having fun again together. At the moment we are open for Front line and Essentials workers, so if you fall under this category and need childcare please get in contact through email on brightsparkschildcare@hotmail.com. We are all looking forward to our midterm break..enjoy it and hopefully the weather will be nice and we can get out and exercise and enjoy some fresh air. Take care xxxx  A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends and families from everyone in Bright Sparks Childcare Centre. Have a lovely break and stay safe! See ye all in the New Year x Letter upon letter, email upon email, Our long awaited set down area is finally ready for parents, dropping off and collecting at Bright Sparks. A huge thank you to Cork County Council for developing this set down area outside of Bright sparks which will hopefully make life much easier in the mornings and evenings for busy Moms and Dads. We would also like to express our gratitude to surrounding residents and road users for their patience and cooperation.  Yesterday was a magical day for all our children and staff in Bright Sparks, as we created our very own Christmas movie. Inlight of these challenging times it is unfortunate that we are unable to allow our families and friends come into our school to share the christmas spirit. This year we had to comprise and to do this we created a movie that would allow our friends and families get an insight into our school lives as we prepare for Christmas. Each class shared their very own special performance which they had been rehearsing for weeks, we had lots music, singing and dancing to spread the christmas cheer. We hope our families and friends loved our Christmas Movie just as much as we did. After long awaited months of drilling and banging the new nursery wing at Bright Sparks finally opened its doors and welcomed all its eager babies. The nursery team got a well needed and deserved, complete makeover of the nursery in Bright Sparks, with a newly constructed extension to the rear of the school flooded with natural light and lots of space for roaming and crawling. The babies now have the luxury of their own equipped Astro Turf courtyard to enjoy the fresh air and outdoor space everyday. The wing also includes a nappy changing room, a bottle station and kitchen as well as their very own sleeping room. Two weeks into the big move our babies and nursery team are still beaming with all their space and light. We would like to say a huge thank you to our family builders, Kelly Carpentry, and all else involved in getting our new wing ready, you did a super job! Delighted to have our first week with all our children back in Bright Sparks. My goodness the week flew and for some it was like they were never away. Lots of funny stories so no secrets when they come to Bright Sparks guys !! We hear it all and keeps us entertained .... thank you so much for the co operation of dropping children and collecting. It is working well for the moment, As you know we are starting our " new room ". Unfortunately it was delayed starting due to Covid Restrictions but we are now on track and fingers crossed we will get cracking on. Kelly Carpentry are onsite and will be working away for the duration of the summer. It wont affect our day to day running of Bright Sparks as our nursery for the summer weeks has moved to another room. We will have an area out the back not available to us for the summer but thankfully its fenced off and does not affect us too much, as we are all in our own play areas. The reopening of childcare has been incredible and a huge team commitment at all times. Our staff are super and as you can imagine constant cleaning and sterilising of different equipment is necessary to ensure the readiness of the play areas each day. We ask that children are collected each day by 5.30pm. For a lot of the children after their first week back they may be extra tired from the routine and being back at creche again. Certainly parents are finding the sleep patterns are returning this week too. We are monitoring closely all activities of daily living for children and reporting back as necessary to our officials. If you need to contact us please do so via the childpaths or by email. We will be sorting the school uniforms over the next week for ECCE Classes for September. We will confirm details next week. Uniforms are not compulsory but are available. They will be comfy for the children and easy for toileting ! They are like the ONeill tracksuits so very quick to dry after washing. All tracksuits will have the childs name on them too so no gear will be mixed up ! So more details on price and colour next week. Again we thank you for your co operation at all times.
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