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News, Etc.
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News, recipes, links and articles related to the playgroup
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Christmas Party Dec 21st
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Our Christmas party is on Dec 21st, usual time and place. Special visitor with pressies for all the children.
more details to follow
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National Breastfeeding Week Oct 1st 2011
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We will be celebrating National Breastfeeding Week from Oct 1st 2011 with a special breastfeeding group on Tues 27th of Sept. in the Parish Hall, 10:30am.
This is planned as a one-off celebration, but if there is interest it may become a regular thing.
Come along for a coffee and a chat. All your under 5s welcome, we will have toys and treats for them too.
Check out our facebook page for more details.
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Community Art at Community Playground Opening.
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When you visit the playground on Saturday June 18th, while it has its Grand Opening, take a moment to look at some of the bunting hanging from the fences. You may find some of it familiar.
At the River Festival 2010 the Kilcullen Carer and Toddler Group asked the children, and carers, of the town to participate in a community art project. The goal was to express anticipation and gratitude to the playground committee. During the course of the day over 120 children, of all ages, completed little works on art on the bunting flags.
Can you find yours? Send us a photo of you standing with your little gem to info@kilcullentoddlergroup.com.
As they are so delightful we think you may want to take some of them home, so we will be offering them for sale, in smaller strings, in the near future. All funds will be used for the Kilcullen Community Playgroup campaign.
Please feel free to contact the Kilcullen Carer and Toddler Group if you have any queries or a particular section has caught you eye. Www.kilcullentoddlergroup.com
More of the Kilcullen Community Playgroup campaign http://www.kilcullencommunityplaygroup.com
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Jan 2011
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Letter to The Bridge re the Community Playgroup.
We
were extremely disappointed as parents to read that the grant for a
new Community Childcare Centre for Kilcullen has been lost due to
difficulties securing the lease on time, despite numberous extensions
and deadlines being clearly identified. Needless to say, this Centre
would have provided parents and children with an expanded high
quality, affordable Childcare and Early Education facility within our
community. The proposed location, beside the Astroturf pitch at the
Community Center, would have been ideal, especially given the amount
of ground works carried out in the area over the past few years.
We
are grateful to all involved for pushing this project as far as it
went. However, as a group of parents, we are left with many questions
regarding the loss of the grant funding of €600,000, which had been
allocated. The overriding question is why? Why was the lease not
provided on time? Why was this huge investment that would have
provided a great community-based service for the children of
Kilcullen and increased employment in our community during the
construction and on an ongoing basis, allowed to evaporate?
Further
questions are who is responsible for not providing this lease on
time? And will they answer to the parents of Kilcullen as to their
reasons?
We
would like to take this opportunity to express our solidarity with
the Community Playgroup and commend them on their sterling work for
the community over the past 30 years.
We
believe that these questions need to be considered on a
community-wide level so that any future issues may be addressed for
the benefit of all members of our community.
Yours
etc.
Lyn B.
Worrall
Chairperson,
Kilcullen Community Carer and Toddler Group
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October 2010
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As you will know we have supported the Kilcullen Playground Committee as much as we can for the past year and their efforts are at the point of completion now. The payground design has been published, here, and your comments are welcome.
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Summer Update
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The toddler group had a very busy couple of months. The playgroup has gone from strength to strength, with a consistent level of numbers - approx 20 families each week, with a mixture of moms, dads, carers, grans and even grandads coming along with the little ones.
Many of the babes-in arms last summer are now walking and new babies have replaced them.
We produced our first guide for parents in Kilcullen, ' It takes a village..' as a supplement to The Bridge in June and hope to add this to the website in the coming weeks.
A very successful 'Introduction to First Aid' course was held in June and it was food for thought and helpful for all. More to follow, please email if you are interested in attending.
Links to some articles:
The Guide Launch
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Christmas Party
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Click on the the calendar for details of the the Toddler and Carers Christmas Parties.
Toddler party at the usual time and place on Wednesday 16th.
Carers party in The Riverside (formerly Paul's), 8:30pm Monday 14th.
All welcome
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Halloween Arts and Crafts
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Our creative activities this month included mask making and spooky picture drawing – from the photos you can see that it was loads of fun.
Halloween Arts and Crafts
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