Farmyard Kindergarten

Our aim is to provide ‘educare’ of the highest standard of quality.
Working mainly with the standards of the Steiner Waldorf Early Years Curriculum, we do utilise the principles of the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education ‘Siolta’ as quality guidelines and the Themes of the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework ‘Aistear’ as curriculum guidelines.

In our Kindergarten the natural learning strategies of children are valued, such as learning through multi-sensory activities, play, social interaction and individual investigation.

We recognise Play is a central vehicle for such learning, allowing children to imitate adult behaviours, practice motor skills, process emotional events, and develop understandings about their worlds.

We practice a pedagogic that starts from the interests, experiences and choices of young children within their individual social contexts.

We particularly place emphasis on outdoor learning, as it presents a never-ending richness of learning opportunities.

Our Kindergarten is a so called sessional playschool, catering for only 15 children at any one time, for 5 days a week, 38 weeks every year and is registered for the ECCE scheme.

Our morning Kindergarten operates from 9.00am to 12.30pm every day.
We also run a second Kindergarten session in the afternoon from 1.30pm to 5.30pm.


The morning Kindergarten:
Carol Brogan, who has a degree in early childhood studies from UCC, is the supervisor of the KIndergarten. She is the main teacher of the morning Kindergarten with the assistance of Ellen Odonnell, who also has a degree in early childhood studies from UCC.
Ellen runs the afternoon Kindergarten as room leader with the help of our UCC and German students.










Owner and Manager: Ulli Falcini
Contact details:

Address: The Farmyard Kindergarten
Quaker Meeting House
Summerhill South
Cork City

E-mail: falcini.ulrike@gmail.com

Mobile: 087/2765693