Our Team

We are members of Early Childhood Ireland and have been since Noeleen Tynan opened in 1993, our management and staff attend monthly sessions with an “Aistear” co-ordinator in the Early childhood Ireland centre. This is too ensure we keep up to date with the Curriculum in Ireland.

We believe that it is our priority here in Sundrive Nursery and Montessori School that our staff are valued as educators and are provided with ongoing training to ensure that they may provide the best for your children’s education and ongoing care.

Our Staff

Here in Sundrive Nursery and Montessori School we have a cook who is HAACP trained and provides hot nutritious meals made fresh daily for our children, we abide by the HSE allergen regulations and cater for your child’s dietary needs. Our Menu is set out and based on a four week menu, this is on display in our centre.

Each staff member is full qualified with accredited awards from our Fetac/QQI awards system. All management and staff are vetted and references are followed up on, to ensure your child’s safety and educational needs are met daily.

Our staff hold Awards in:

• Fetac/QQI level 5
• Fetac/QQI level 6
• Fetac level 8
• Montessori Diploma
• First Aid
• Child Protection
• Fire Safety

Our management and staff members continue to educate and attend ongoing training to ensure the utmost care and education is provided here in Sundrive Nursery and Montessori School.

We believe that the Partnership with the parents of our children here in Sundrive Nursery and Montessori School is key in the learning and developing of each child as we recognise that they are their primary educators.

Definition of Partnership

“Partnership involves parents, families, and practitioners working together to benefit children. Each recognises, respects and values what the other does and says. Partnership involves responsibility on both sides.”Aistear, The Early Childhood Curriculum Framework