History
Eivers Lane Childcare Centre opened its doors on November 2nd 2009.
It consists of a full day care service catering for children 5 months up to 12 years. It is a not for profit limited company managed by a Voluntary Committee. The service has charitable status, receives Government funding and relies heavily on local fundraising throughout the year.
The service provides care for a maximum of 3 babies, 10 wobblers, 12 toddlers, 16 play schools, 66 pre-school and 30 after school children per session.
The service is available 50 weeks per year. It closes for approximately 1 week at Christmas and 1 week in August.
The service participates all Department funding programs and is notified to Tusla.
Objectives
- Our ethos and practice values diversity and promotes equality.
- We aim to select friendly, dependable, mature and professional staff through our rigorous recruitment and selection policy.
- To ensure that the developmental, educational, emotional and social needs of each child are met daily.
- The voice of the child is heard, respected and contributes to our programme.
- We aim to deliver a quality curriculum which addresses children’s well-being, identity and belonging, communication and exploring and thinking, along the principles of Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework.
- We aim to make the service accessible to all members of the community, regardless of race, gender, family status, age, disability, or religious belief.
- We aim to work with ‘Síolta’ The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education, by following its 12 principles of quality and the 16 standards within its framework.
- We operate within the Childcare Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016 and The National Standards for Preschools.
- The environment is planned and well-organised in a way that suits the different needs of individual children, while keeping in mind the importance of Safety and Hygiene
- Parents/guardians are actively welcomed at the service at all times. We endeavour to share information and communicate with parents/guardians directly, in order to give feedback at the end of each day and to ensure that they are made aware of on-going developments in policies and procedures.
- The service wishes to promote a positive atmosphere where children, staff and parents/guardians are treated with respect
Structure of Service
Structure:
| Management Committee | 8 Board members |
| Manager | 1 Manager |
| Leaders | Each room has one leader |
| Assistants | Each room has one assistant |
| Auxiliary staff | Housekeeping, Tus and CE employees |
| Students | From time to time we have students/volunteers |
Roles:
| Caroline Kearney | Manager |
| Paraic Kiernan | Finance Director |
| Janice Daly | Wobbler Room Leader |
| Claire Quinn | Baby Room Leader |
| Geraldine Beirne | Wobbler Room Assistant |
| Sandra Bourke O’Shea | Toddler Room Leader |
| Natasha Sweeney | Toddler Room Assistant |
| Sharon O’Carolan | Pre-school 2 Leader |
| Alice McTeague | After School Leader/ Pre-school 2 Assistant/Cook |
| Ursula Beirne | Play School Leader |
| Cecelia McCabe | Play School/After school Assistant/Relief Cook |
| Mary Faughnan | Pre-school 1/Full day care 1 Leader |
| Andrea McCrann | Pre-school 2 Leader |
| Imelda McGovern | Pre-school 2/Full Day Care 2 Leader |
| Sean Reynolds | After school Assistant |
| Ewelina Pajak | Cook |
| Lorraine Dorrigan | Housekeeping |
N.B. Community Employment, Tus Employees and Students change on a yearly basis.
Phone
Address
Eivers Lane Childcare Centre
Main Street Upper
Mohill
Co. Leitrim
N41 RX25
Centre Hours
| Mon | 8am | - | 6pm |
| Tue | 8am | - | 6pm |
| Wed | 8am | - | 6pm |
| Thu | 8am | - | 6pm |
| Fri | 8am | - | 6pm |
| Sat | Closed | ||
| Sun | Closed |