Tomorrow's Child Montessori School

Places available for September 2026.

All enquiries welcome.

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Enjoy the celebrations tomorrow ☘️☘️☘️

May your day be filled with joy, laughter and a little bit of Irish luck ☘️☘️☘️

Choosing the right early years setting means choosing quality, care, and expertise.

At Tomorrow’s Child Montessori School, we provide an authentic Montessori education delivered by qualified Montessori teachers in a fully Tusla-compliant early years service.

We are proud to be accredited by the All-Ireland Business Foundation and to have received the Business All-Star Award, recognising excellence and best practice in our sector.

Our Montessori practice is firmly grounded in recognised Montessori principles and delivered within a calm, carefully prepared environment that supports each child’s individual academic, social, and emotional development.

✔ Fully Tusla-compliant early years service
✔ Qualified Montessori teachers
✔ Accredited by the All-Ireland Business Foundation
✔ Recipient of the Business All-Star Award
✔ Child-centred learning guided by Montessori principles
✔ Calm, prepared environment fostering independence and confidence

September 2026 enrolment:

Places are limited and are filling quickly. Early enquiries are encouraged to secure a place and provide peace of mind for families.

📩 Contact us:
📧 Email: [email protected]
📞 Phone: 061 713529

Call now to connect with business.

September 2026 Montessori Places – Limited Availability Remaining

Choosing the right early years setting means choosing quality, care, and expertise.

Our Montessori is fully Tusla-compliant and led by qualified Montessori teachers, ensuring your child experiences an authentic Montessori education grounded in recognised Montessori principles.

✔ Tusla-compliant early years service
✔ Qualified Montessori teachers
✔ Child-centred learning following Montessori principles
✔ Calm, prepared environment supporting independence and confidence

(January to June 2026: 3 places currently available in our Afternoon Class - 12.30pm to 3.30pm)

Remaining places for September 2026 are limited and are filling up.
Early enquiries are encouraged to secure a place and provide peace of mind.

📩 Contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 061 713529

From HSE Mid-West:
Free Flu Vaccine Clinics for Children in Limerick & Ennis this Friday 9th January 2026

No appointment needed for HSE Mid West vaccination clinics

No injection needed: vaccine is given as a spray up the nose - quick, painless, and easy to have

HSE Mid West is holding two free walk-in clinics this Friday afternoon in Limerick and Ennis, where parents can bring children (aged 2-17 years) for the nasal spray flu vaccine to ensure they are protected against flu as they return to school and childcare for the New Year.

These clinics are taking place as follows:

Friday Jan 9th ¦ 1400-1800 ¦ Dooradoyle Health Centre, Limerick V94 A6RX

Friday Jan 9th ¦ 1400-1800 ¦ Primary Care Centre, Station Road, Ennis V95 TY4E

Dr Breda Cosgrove, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, HSE Mid West, described the vaccine for children as a “quick, easy, pain-free spray up the nose” and encouraged all parents of children who are not yet vaccinated to bring them to the clinics this Friday.

Dr Cosgrove said: “It’s important to be aware of the risks of flu, particularly for children, who can spread flu easily, and are returning to school this week. This simple nasal spray vaccine will protect not only your child, but also other members of your family who are vulnerable to flu, such as grandparents, babies and pregnant women.”

If you cannot attend these clinics, your child can also get the nasal spray flu vaccine free at participating pharmacies and GP surgeries. For more information, visit this page.

The children’s flu vaccine is one part of a broad HSE flu vaccination programme for all ages. For details, visit the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programme 2025/2026 here

Dr. Breda Cosgrove MPH MRCPI MFPHMI | Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Public Health HSE Mid-West

Mount Kennett House, Henry Street, Limerick V94 KN3N

Tel: 061- 463800 | Fax: 061- 405928 | [email protected] | MRN: 326702

From all of us at Tomorrow’s Child Montessori School.

To our wonderful parents and children, may your holiday season be filled with warmth, laughter, and love.

Thank you for entrusting us with your children’s wonderful beginnings.

Wishing you peace, happiness, and hearfelt moments this Chistmas and the New Year!

Best Wishes

All the team at Tomorrow’s Child Montessori School.

Federation of Early Childhood Providers - Early Years is at a breaking point and pretending otherwise helps no one.

Today’s events have again pushed our sector into public view. When that happens, it brings a familiar mix of hope, frustration, and deep exhaustion for those running services across the country.

Federation of Childhood Providers Ireland shared some of our views on RTÉ One News and this morning on Virgin Media Ireland Ireland AM to reflect a reality providers have been living with for years:

The pressures are real.

They are ongoing.

And they cannot be smoothed over with language that doesn’t match daily experience.

That moment mattered. Not because it fixes everything, but because it ensured reality was heard.

This is not about resilience. It’s about reality.

Across Ireland, those running early years services are carrying extraordinary responsibility.

They manage teams, care for children, support families, meet regulatory demands, and hold services together. Often while quietly worrying about whether their service can survive another year.

When so many providers feel stretched, anxious, or unsure about the future, that is not a personal failing.

It is a system under strain.

Here is the contradiction at the heart of the system:

Early Years is treated as:

• A public service, with heavy regulation and social responsibility

• A private business, without control over income or rising costs

This contradiction isn’t being resolved.

It’s being managed poorly year after year, by asking providers to absorb the pressure.

Providers are subject to fee freezes, while costs continue to rise.

Wages, insurance, utilities, food, materials, pensions, compliance costs and more are all increasing.

Core Funding increases, where they occur, are minimal and quickly swallowed by unavoidable costs, leaving little or no real relief at service level.

At the same time, providers are required to implement ERO wage increases while operating under capped income and not knowing the further costs and financially negative policies that are coming in the next wave. Funding does not cover the full cost of employment, including PRSI, pensions, sick pay, non-contact time, and more.

No amount of goodwill can make those numbers balance.

“Core Funding is unfortunately a choice without real choice” - Christopher Moran FECP Operations

Some services simply cannot afford to enter Core Funding without risking their viability. That is a financial reality, not a lack of commitment.

Yet services that have no option but to remain outside Core Funding are increasingly penalised year on year. Through reduced access to schemes, tighter restrictions, and growing disadvantage. While those in core funding pray that the next phase will have more funding than costs to bring some relief.

This issue with in and out of core funding has created an exclusionary system where:

• Participation is framed as optional,

• Non-participation carries escalating consequences.

• With those in core funding subject to fee freezes unable to leave now as they have made the huge financial investment into their service that’s now in the red, the list goes on.

That is not a level playing field.

It is not sustainable.

And it must stop.

On “partnership” and consultation

Meaningful consultation means access to drafts, timelines, and real opportunities to influence decisions before they are final.

Being informed after the fact is not consultation.

When lived experience doesn’t match official narratives, it is reasonable and necessary to question the process.

People don’t open childcare services to get rich.

But they also don’t open them to struggle.

There is a quiet grief in watching work you care deeply about become harder to sustain each year, and a quiet strength in continuing to show up despite that strain.

Children are not protected by exhausting and financially draining the people who nurture and care for them. Quality grows where those providing it feel respected, secure, and supported.

Progress matters, but it isn’t enough.

There are positive steps:

• Growing public recognition of early years professionalism

• Acknowledgement that this is skilled, meaningful work

• Some possible reduction in administrative burden

• Provider voices increasingly present in national discussion

These steps matter. They show that speaking up makes a difference.

But they do not replace the need for real, structural change.

What happens next matters

FECP has called a meeting on 7th January with sector representative bodies to present a clear, coordinated plan for collective action after an overwhelmingly strong appetite by members to do so focused on fairness, viability, and respect for providers and our sector as a whole.

This work is careful, deliberate, and rooted in lived experience.

Early Years cannot survive on goodwill alone.

Fee freezes alongside rising costs are damaging the sector.

Penalising providers for financial reality is not reform.

Silence is not consent.

Struggle should not be normalised.

This has to stop.

Elaine Dunne

FECP

Federation of Early Childhood Providers

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Places currently available in the Afternoon Class

Monday to Friday
12.30pm - 3.30pm

All enquiries welcome

Call now to connect with business.

A Poem for Parents: Nothing

When children come home at the end of the day,
the question they’re asked as they scurry to play is,
“What did you do at school today?”
and the answer they give
makes you sigh with dismay.
“Nothing, I did nothing today!”

Perhaps nothing means
that I played with blocks, counted to ten, or sorted some rocks.
Maybe I painted or learned to tie my shoe,
or learned what happens when you mix red and blue.
Maybe I learned to tuck in my chair and put my work away,
or maybe I learned to be kind to a friend while I was playing outside today.

Maybe my scissors followed a line and I learned to write my name.
Maybe I learned some sounds or numbers or learned to play a new game.
Maybe I made a craft or sang a song from beginning to end,
or maybe I learned to play with a special, brand new friend.

When you’re in Montessori
And your heart has wings,
“Nothing” can mean so many, many things.