Welcome to Scoil na n-Óg 

​“We at Scoil na n-Óg provide a caring, nurturing and stimulating environment for all children attending the various Montessori sessions at our school. We strive to create a peaceful environment and each person is treated with unconditional positive regard and acceptance. Within this environment each Child’s development will be encouraged and supported, intellectually, emotionally, physically and socially.

This in turn fosters a climate that allows children to unfold their potential as whole and unique persons.

​Our promise to you is that your child will be cherished as an individual and provided with all he needs to develop his/her own intellect at his/her own pace.

ETHOS

Ethos of Scoil na n-Óg.

​We strive to create a peaceful environment where each person is treated with unconditional regard and acceptance.

​We encourage and strive towards this by always showing respect for one another, listening to one another and working together towards enriching every Child’s right to quality education. 

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Objectives

​Objectives of our  Montessori classroom.
Our objectives are as follows:    
*  Self confidence and self-esteem.
*  A sense of achievement and self-worth.
*  A sense of responsibility for themselves and their actions.
*  Independence and adaptability.
*  A sense of community respect for the rights and needs of others.
*  Concentration and persistence in completing a task/activity.
*  Initiative and self-motivation.

Accreditations

ACCREDITATIONS.

• Scoil na n-Óg Montessori School is registered with TUSLA, The child and family agency and is inspected by the Preschool Officers. 
• Scoil na n-Óg Montessori School is a member of St. Nicholas Montessori Society, Ireland and also A.M.I. Association of Montessori International Montessori.
• Scoil na n-Óg Montessori School is a member of the ECI, Early Childhood Ireland Organisation for Preschools and Playgroups. 
• Accreditation has been awarded to Scoil na n-Óg Montessori School by the St. Nicholas Accreditation board.
• Scoil na n-Óg is involved in the ‘Meath Tiny Talk Project’ which is a community approach to early language development. As part of this project Scoil na n-Óg will be visited by a speech and language therapist and the project supports teachers to help promote language development within the school. All staff have attended the necessary training associated with this course and continue with their professional practice on a regular basis. 

Sessions & Times

Scoil na n-Óg opens at 8.00a.m. and closes at 4.30p.m therefore ‘Early drop off’s’ and ‘Late pick up’s’ can be arranged to facilitate busy schedules. 

The school provides a variety of Montessori sessions. 
Morning session is 9.00-12.00  ~   Monday to Friday.
Afternoon session is 12.30-3.30 ~ Monday to Friday.

We also provide a part time day care session from 8.00a.m/9.00a.m. until 2p.m. (where children avail of the Montessori in the morning and enjoy some extra activities from 12.00 until 2p.m.). 

Additional hours can be provided for outside of the Montessori hours or part-time day care hours which can be discussed on a needs basis.

All of the sessions run from Monday to Friday. Scoil na n-Óg runs from September to June, summer camp in July (for those interested!) and closes for the month of August.

Parent Involvement

​Parental Involvement.
“Parents are the primary educators of their child and have a pre-eminent role in promoting his/her well-being, learning and development”. (Siolta,2006).
There are many ways to provide parents the opportunity to be involved.  

Parent involvement may be as simple as a parent providing classroom supplies or assisting on outings or charity events.
Regardless of the type of involvement, the relationship between parents and teachers should be one of mutual support and learning. At Scoil na n-Óg, we value and involve parents and families in a pro-active and partnership approach to their child’s learning experiences.  

This includes:

• Speaking daily to parents as they pick their child up from school, explaining what sort of day they had and what type of activities they became involved with.
• Parent/Teacher interactions where parents meet with the teachers and have a chat and look at their children’s work. 
• Key worker system where each teacher is responsible for a certain group of children and that teacher talks to her/his particular parents.
• Learning journals with photographs and captions of activities the child has been doing.
• Parent notice board, flyers, e-mails, texts, suggestion box and photographs of any upcoming events that take place in the school.
• Suggestion box for any ideas that parents wish to share with us for our curriculum planning.
• Parents are invited to our farm day and they are also welcome to come in and chat about their Culture, Traditions and/or Occupation if they so wish.
• Parents are free to come into school at any time and as often as they want and watch their child at work (open door policy). 
• Monthly newsletters explaining to parents what activities were done in that previous month. 
• E-mails of the coming month’s activities to parents and if they wish to send in/offer ideas about a certain topic they are free to do so.

Our Aims are: 

• To create a caring, nurturing and stimulating environment:
• To treat each other with respect.
• To have appropriate Montessori equipment to support and stimulate children of various ages and stages of development.
• To encourage individuality.

​We use the Montessori Method and principles of teaching which encourages and develops each child’s innate “curiosity about the world” 

​In our Montessori environment we aim to tell the truth to children, answering questions simply and with as much information as we feel a child can absorb and showing that we are open to any further questions they may have. Young children are better with stories and books which relate to the real world within their direct experiences as they are still at an age where they can confuse fact with fantasy.

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