Little Pals Integrated Preschool
Little Pals Preschool is an inclusive preschool setting, located in Enable Ireland in Sandymount. The children who attend our preschool are both from the community and from the Children's Disability Network Teams.
Little Pals provides an inclusive, safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment. It’s a place where children, regardless of their diverse abilities, can learn, play, grow, and flourish.
The benefits of an environment like Little Pals are that inclusion becomes natural to the children who attend.
We are dedicated to fostering a love of learning and promoting social-emotional development. We build strong partnerships with families and celebrate the unique strengths of each child.
Our Play-based curriculum aligns with the National Early Childhood Curriculum Framework, Aistear, and the quality standards, Siolta. It is inspired by the Montessori Methodology, fostering each child's unique potential through active and hands-on learning experiences. Together, these frameworks guide our planning, interactions, and environments. It ensures that play remains meaningful, inclusive, and responsive to each child’s individual strengths and needs.
Two morning ECCE (Playgroup & Montessori) sessions: 9:30 am – 12:30 am
Children must be 2years and 8 months and in line with the ECCE age regulations.
There are 12 spaces in each group, with 6 spaces available for the community children and 6 spaces available for the children from the Children's Disability Network Teams.
Afternoon Play sessions Monday: Thursdays, 2 pm – 4 pm
This is a group for children aged 2 years. It is a group for children to separate from their parents and have time to explore and play with their peers.
Our calendar year runs from September to June in line with the ECCE guidelines.
Your children will benefit from:
- Spacious Classrooms
- Sensory room
- Enclosed outdoor area
- High staff ratios
- Highly trained staff
Little Pals is a child-led environment. We encourage children to be creative, curious and share their interests. They inform our daily planning so we can shape their play and learning with them.
Art Time
Offers the children different materials and textures to explore and define. It gives them a chance to express themselves creatively. It develops fine motor and gross motor skills of the child depending on the activity. It assists in the learning of language. It develops the child’s imagination and promotes individuality.
Free Play
Free play helps to develop your child’s imagination. It plays a great part in helping them to socialise among their peers and encourages them to work independently and in a group, which promotes active learning. It helps to develop language and verbal skills. It encourages turn-taking and the development of patience.
Table Top activities
This includes activities such as jigsaws, puzzles, threading activities, colouring, and worksheets. Fine motor skills, hand/eye co-ordination and memory skills are all enhanced through table top activities.
Outdoor Activities
We have a large outdoor area for the children to play and explore in a safe and enclosed environment. There is a broad range of activities such as a water area, sand play, mud garden, sensory tables, along with play houses, swings and gross motor play.
Little Pals Integrated Preschool
Sandymount Avenue,
Sandymount
Dublin 4
D04 XH22
