This week at The Children’s House we’re partaking in College Awareness Week as well as celebrating Thanksgiving – another busy week after all the excitement of Science Week last week!! For College Awareness Week, we’re aiming to develop the children’s understanding of their own learning, and to recognise that learning is limitless and lifelong. To illustrate this, we will be starting the week by asking the children what they would like to be when they grow up, and how they might achieve that. Then the staff will talk about what they wanted to be when they were a similar age, and how their journey of education has taken them on different paths. We will be bringing in photos of graduations and the certificates/diplomas/degrees/higher diplomas etc we have attained over the years, and also ask family members to send in theirs in order to relate all our learning to the children’s environments. In addition to this, we are asking if parents can give children photos of siblings/relations who have graduated from school/college/training to add to a timeline of education that we are making together as a group project which will visually illustrate the journey of education from preschool to third level settings, and the fact that it is a never ending journey!! We are very lucky to be having a visit from some representatives from Maynooth University on Thursday morning to present all the children with certificates of completion of College Awareness Week; it should be a lovely occasion.

As it is Thanksgiving on Thursday, we will be linking in to this by talking about all the things we have that we can be grateful for – family, homes, food, friends – and of course education!

Let’s Be Thankful

Let’s be thankful for this day,
For our friends and for our play.
Let’s be thankful, let’s be glad,
For the food and things we have.
Let’s give thanks for you and me,
And our home and family!