High Hopes Pre-school and Afterschool

16/10/2026

Autumn time in full swing with lovely support from some our afterschool kids this week 🍁🍂
Well done to Édaein on leading this weeks cooking challenge 🍫🥮

16/10/2026

🍂🦊 Our Autumn Adventures! 🍁🍃

We had a lovely time going on our autumn walk, collecting beautiful leaves and exploring all the wonderful colours of the season! 🍂🍁

We brought our autumn treasures back to preschool and got creative, making beautiful autumn trees, little foxes and lots of other autumn-inspired creations. 🦊🌳🍃

The children had so much fun exploring nature, using their imaginations and getting creative with all the lovely things we collected along the way! ❤️

A lovely day week of exploring, learning and autumn magic at High Hopes Pre School! 🍂✨

15/10/2026

10/10/2026

Road safety, celebrating beep beep day🛑⚠️
Writing our names ✍️
Finding ladybugs 🐞
Starting our Autumn 🍂 learning!
Baking cupcakes with our head chef Isla 👩‍🍳🧁

09/10/2026

🌈 🍂 Our Junior Preschoolers have been busy learning through play!
From mixing colours and exploring shapes, to creating our autumn display, enjoying farm play and learning about road safety. We have been following the children’s interests and having lots of fun learning together! ❤️

04/10/2026

🤗 We are hiring 🤗

We are looking for a kind, caring individual who is passionate about their role in caring for children and has a genuine interest in early years and school age childcare!

Responsibilities will include:

- Primarily work as a School Age Practitioner supporting children in our after-school programme.
- Provide cover within our Early Years setting when required.
- Support the delivery of engaging, age-appropriate activities and a safe, nurturing environment.
- Work collaboratively with the wider childcare team to ensure high-quality care across all services.
- Be available to work during school holiday camp programmes on non-term weeks.
A minimum qualification in Early Years Education is required.

To discuss the role further please contact Barbara on 087-2129808 or forward your CV to [email protected]

02/10/2026

Following our areas of interest this week we explored:
How to make patterns.
Becoming Bakers in our cake making role play area.
Making maps and searching for treasure!
Our emotions and where we feel them in our body.
Vehicles, car makes and becoming mechanics.
Solar power, energy sources and electricity.
🌈👩‍🍳👨‍🍳😊😢🚗👩‍🔧👨‍🔧☀️💡🔌
Daithi was our head chef this week and the Rice Krispie buns went down a treat 😊

01/10/2026

Autumn fun 🍂
Our junior pre school group have been exploring the colours and signs of Autumn through creative art, play-doh and lots of hands on learning 🍁

25/09/2026

Another fun filled week with our junior pre school group 🙌🏼😊

24/09/2026

Of course when life gave us lemons we had to make lemonade 🍋🍋🍋