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Category Archives: Childcare
A Big Welcome Back to Our Childcare Children
We finally got to welcome back the Children from the Childcare Centre last week and it was fantastic. It was a testament to the amazing work all our Childcare Centre staff have put in over the last few months during this difficult time. Also, all our staff in Ozanam House have put in place and adhered to new measures aimed at keeping the staff, volunteers, service users, members and visitors safe during their time in Ozanam House. Here we have the Koalas have a great time.
Dot-to-Dot Activity for Pre-Schoolers
Our Pre-schoolers have been busy with the many activities they have been provided with. Why not try the dot-to-dot exercise below?
After-School Activities
Our After-Schoolers have been focusing on June-related activities like those below. Feel free to use these and any other activities we post up on the site.
Our Pre-Schoolers Have Been Looking at Bugs this Week
This week, the pre-schoolers have been having loads of fun with bugs. You can, too. Check out our bug facts, how to build a 3-D Ladybird and the insect Scavenger Hunt below.
Activities for the Children
If the children are bored at the moment, why not try these puzzles and a Pokémon word search.
Our Childcare Centre Has Also Been Very Busy
Childcare
- Story videos: This week we started making story videos to be sent to the children and their families. The children have absolutely loved receiving these. We are currently sending 2 videos per week but hope to increase that.
- Online classroom chats: This week they also started hosting classroom chats with preschool and afterschool classes which have also been really successful, the children were delighted to see each other and their teacher.
- Facebook videos: We have started making activity videos for our Facebook page ‘SVPOzanamHouseChildcare’ for the children to access and follow activities with their teachers. So far they have been reached by many people on our page.
- Resource packs: We are continuing to send out resource packs to every child every week. Our preschoolers feel very important getting their school homework and the afterschoolers are enjoying getting a fun activity pack that is NOT school work.
Find Out What Our Pre-Schoolers Have Been Up to This Week
Our pre-schoolers have been busy this week learning about elephants. All of these facts and activities can be found in the document below. This is part of the remote support structure our amazing Childcare Centre have been working on recently.
Ozanam House, as always, is here for all our service users and the wider community of the north inner city.
Stay in Touch
As we are all aware, many measures have been brought in to stop the spread of COVID-19 and protect some of the most vulnerable people in terms of health in our society. It may be a scary time and it probably feels like everything has stopped. However, these are temporary precautions. And, as always, Ozanam House is here to support the community of the north east inner city. All our programmes are still available online and our programme coordinators are still available to answer your questions or talk about any queries you may have.
Active Retirement
Jenna
activeretirement@ozanamhouse.ie or by phone at 087 6047103
Adult Education
Kim
admin@ozanamhouse.ie or calling 087 1836978
Youth Groups
Nino
youth@ozanamhouse.ie or by phone at 085 1621742
Childcare Centre
Debbie
childcare@ozanamhouse.ie or by phone at 085 2350312
Men’s Group
Glenn
What Our Childcare Centre Has Been Doing During the COVID-19 Measures
We’ve been researching and sending out resource packs each week. One for preschool and one for after-school. We’ve tried to have an educational element to the preschool packs and have been operating from a weekly theme such as Easter for the most recent one. Because the schools are sending work for the Afterschool groups we’re trying to make these ones more fun. Both packs include colouring pages, things to make and do, mindfulness activities, exercises and other activities.
We’ve been trying really hard to make sure that the families should have the things they’ll need at home and are sending what they’d be missing in the packs. For example, the preschool children all received a child’s scissors in one pack for cutting activities.
We’ve also been making direct contact with parents on the phone to check in on them and see if there are any supports they need that we could provide or where we may need to link them into other community supports. I’m sure that they’ll all be happy to know that we’re busy planning for when we reopen too!!
Some of our Easter activities can be found here: