First Steps Academy

🌈 A week full of emotions at St Francis Afterschool! 💛

This week, we explored Emotions with the help of The Colour Monster 🎨👹. We learned to recognise, name and talk about our feelings through lots of fun and creative activities! 😊🥰😡😢😨

We also made our very own anti-stress squishy balls 👐🫧, enjoyed different emotion-themed activities 🎨✨, and of course, we made time for our homework 📚✏️.

After all that learning, we had lots of fun playing board games and card games, including Connect 4! 🔴🟡

A wonderful week full of learning, creativity, play and lots of smiles! 🌟💖

🎨🧸 This week at Hermitage, we stepped into the wonderful world of toys and creativity! 🚗✨

Our little explorers enjoyed discovering and sorting different types of toys, from cars and animals to kitchen toys and teddy bears. 🧸🚗🐻 They had lots of fun grouping, matching, and exploring the different objects through hands-on activities. 🌈

We also got creative with painting and sensory play, using different colours, textures, and materials to decorate our own toy-themed artwork. 🎨🖌️ The children enjoyed experimenting, making marks, and working together while developing their fine motor skills and coordination. 👐✨

Through these playful activities, we encouraged curiosity, imagination, communication, and teamwork, while learning new vocabulary and sharing our favourite toys with our friends. 💛😊

It has been a fun-filled week of playing, creating, exploring, and learning together! 🧸🎨🚗🌈✨

🍂✨ Our little ones have been exploring the wonderful world of autumn! 🍁🍃

Through fun and playful activities, they discovered the colours, textures and little changes that autumn brings. 🧡

We also had lots of fun learning about the importance of washing our hands 🧼👐 — turning healthy habits into a playful learning experience! 💦😊

Learning, exploring and having fun together! 🍂💛

🍂✨ Autumn has arrived at our creche! 🍁

Our little learners have been busy decorating their classrooms, playing, exploring and learning all about this beautiful season. 🌳🍂

They discovered the wonderful colours of autumn, watched how the leaves change and fall from the trees, and enjoyed lots of fun autumn-themed activities along the way. 🧡💛🤎

So much learning, exploring and fun together! 🍁✨

🎃👻 NEW LOCATION ADDED! 👻🎃

Our Halloween Camp is now available at TWO locations this October! 🧙‍♀️🎃

📍 Churchwell Gardens, Belmayne
📍 St. Edmund’s, Lucan

📅 27th–30th October
⏰ 9am–1pm
💰 €79 for all 4 days

📧 To book your place, email:
[email protected]

Spaces are limited, so get in touch to secure your child’s place! 🧡

What a fun-filled week! 🌟

The children have been busy exploring, creating and learning through lots of engaging activities. 🎨✨ We enjoyed getting creative with different materials while developing our hand-eye coordination, and our sensory tuff trays provided lots of opportunities to explore, touch, manipulate and discover. 😊

Outdoor play was another highlight of the week! 🌤️ The children enjoyed exploring the weather and having fun with our new outdoor toys. 🛝

We also ended the week with lots of music, dancing and smiles using our Centre piano. 🎶🎹 The children had a wonderful time moving to the music and developing their gross motor skills as they danced and expressed themselves. 💃🕺

This week, we discovered that we all have a little superhero inside us! 💥🦸

We let our imaginations run wild as we created our own superpowers and transformed into real-life heroes: 🦸‍♀️ personalised capes, 🛡️ superhero shields, 😎 masks, and even our very own superhero characters, each one full of creativity and personality!

And to finish off an amazing week of adventures… 📚⭐ each child created a bookmark featuring their favourite superhero!
A week full of creativity, imagination, fun and LOTS of superpowers! 💫

✨ This week at our After School, we enjoyed a fun-filled Dinosaur Adventure! 🦖

The children had lots of fun creating dinosaur eggs, building a dinosaur skeleton, painting a Jurassic World mural, making colourful paper dinosaurs, and creating their own dinosaurs with modelling dough.

Our older students also enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities, sports, schoolwork and dance performances.

A wonderful week full of creativity, teamwork, learning and fun! ✨

🎃👻 HALLOWEEN CAMP IS BACK! 👻🎃

Looking for something fun for the kids over midterm? Our Halloween Camp is running from 27th–30th October at Churchwell Gardens, Belmayne! 🕷️🧙‍♀️🎃

🕘 9am–1pm
💰 €79 for the 4 days
📍 Churchwell Gardens, Belmayne

Expect lots of Halloween-themed fun, games, activities, crafts and plenty of spooky surprises! 👻🕸️

To register, email: [email protected]

Spaces are limited, so secure your child’s place today! 🎃🧡

🎨🌈 This week at Hermitage, we got creative and explored the world of colours, shapes, and art! 🖍️✨

Our little artists enjoyed a variety of hands-on activities, using different materials and colours to create their own beautiful artwork. 🎨🖌️ They had lots of fun exploring textures, making marks, and expressing their creativity in their own unique ways. 💛

We also worked on our fine motor skills and coordination through painting, sticking, drawing, and other sensory activities. ✂️👐 These activities encouraged the children to explore, experiment, and learn while having lots of fun together. 😊

It has been a wonderful week full of creativity, discovery, teamwork, and lots of colourful moments! 🌈💙✨