ABOUT OUR CENTRES
Dolphins Early Education and Childcare Centre was established in 2012, initially as a sessional service offering only Montessori and Preschool. Since then we have grown into a full day care service offering a range of services for your children. We open from 07.30 am to 6/6.30 pm and have a breakfast club, afterschool club, toddler/wobbler room and preschool rooms as well as full-time daycare. All children aged 1-12 are welcome at Dolphins Early Education and Childcare Centre regardless of their abilities, race, gender, religion, cultural background. We embrace diversity, equality and inclusion.
Your children will be nurtured, cared for and have their development stimulated by our highly trained, caring and enthusiastic team members. Our team members are passionate and creative and this is evident when you see them working with the children.
Our services pride themselves on offering a high standard of care for our children. As Childcare is constantly evolving, we know our team must evolve with it, that’s why we are continuously training and upskilling. We strive to offer a “home from home” approach to our service for families and have an open door policy with parents where they are welcome to come in at any time. We encourage parental involvement in our creche and we welcome any feedback from parents that would help us improve our service. We acknowledge how stressful parenting can be in our ever demanding society and we aim to be as flexible as we can be to help.
Our team members have specific training in areas such as Meath Tiny Talk, Smart Start and Better Start. Tiny talk is an innovative pilot project that aims to improve the language and learning skills of children in the 3-6 age group. Smart Start is a programme to ensure children in the pre-school settings are supported to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviours in early childhood. Better Start is an initiative of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, in collaboration with the Early Years Education Policy Unit of the Department of Education and Skills and Pobal to establish a single, cohesive approach to quality across the Early Childhood Care and Education sector in Ireland.
Jennifer Healy
Managing Director
MANAGEMENT STAFF
MISSION STATEMENT
Dolphins Early Education and Childcare Centre provide care and education for children aged from 1 year to 12 years of age. Our professional staff provide a safe, stimulating and caring environment where children can learn and play together, ensuring they are happy and protected at all times.
Every child is welcome at our service regardless of race, religion, culture, gender and ability. We offer support to each individual child to help them reach their full potential by providing high levels of care and education taking into account the holistic development of each child.
CURRICULUM STATEMENT
Our Aim at Dolphins Early Education and Childcare Centre is to provide a quality service where all children will be offered a high standard of care and education. We will work closely with the families and communities to ensure this is available to all children. We aim to offer a Home from Home approach to our full daycare children and we aim to ensure they are given the highest standard of care from our trained staff. Each child will have their own key childcare worker and they will liaise with parents/carers on a daily basis to ensure you are fully informed of your child’s daily routine. We also aim to help each child develop to the best of their ability and to reach the milestones for their age.
In our Preschool and Montessori, we aim to provide a high standard of education and care for each child. Our staff will support each child to become independent learners and encourages children to think for themselves and develop confidence and self-esteem to help them become active members of our childcare service.
We aim to embrace equality and diversity at Dolphins Early Education and Childcare Centre. Our service is open to all children. We encourage parents/carers to express their culture and celebrate any special days with everyone in the setting. Any comments or suggestions are very welcome from parents and the community.
CHECK OUT OUR REVIEWS
Highly recommend Dolphins, the staff are amazing with my little man, he is almost reluctant to come home at the end of the day 😅 they are all so friendly, and keep me updated on him which gives me huge peace of mind. They have taken all the stress out of going back to work for me.
Business Address: 2 The Walk, Inse Bay, Laytown, Co Meath, A92HY59
Business Number: 516880
Phone: 01 4305687
Email: enquiries@dolphinsearlyed.ie
