Naíscoil an Chaistil

Public benefits

Naíscoil an Chaistil is established to advance education and to promote the arts and culture. What is the benefit? We have established and maintain a parent and toddler group and a playgroup for the parents in our local community. The benefits of our parent and toddler and our playgroup include helping children to socialise within their own age

group; learning to share, take turns and interact with each other. Benefits include helping develop their fine and gross motor skills as they learn how to colour in, use scissors and also use bigger pieces of equipment including climbing frames, slides and balance beams. Our children participate in dressing up and in role plays and this helps them develop their interpersonal skills and take on various roles within their play. Through the work we do with children and parents, we also look at our linguistic and cultural heritage and we teach about and preserve these aspects of our heritage within our local community. Benefits from this work include an increased understanding of our linguistic and cultural heritage and the importance of preserving these aspects of our heritage within our local community. Local people who take up training and/or employment with us are able to enhance their skills by learning on the job and by accessing relevant training. They then in turn help us as we continue to provide activities for early years children and their parents. How is it demonstrated? These benefits are demonstrated through feedback from the annual inspection from the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. These benefits are also demonstrated by the demand for the continuation of the service provided in this local area seen through places being filled on an annual basis. The benefits are evidenced through the children’s developmental progress, parental feedback at our parent meetings and during informal daily chats with staff. Feedback from the Education and Training Inspectorate from November 2015 stated ‘the children are well settled and engage in concentrated purposeful play. They are developing well their independence and self-management skills and engage readily in play with others.’ ‘The staff know the children very well and respond effectively to their learning and pastoral needs.’ They stated that the organization has ‘a high level of capacity for sustained improvement in the interest of all the learners.’ Is there any harm? There is no harm. All staff are vetted; our premises are regularly inspected by Health and Social Services to ensure that they are safe and are fully fit for purpose. Who are the beneficiaries? Our primary beneficiaries are the children who attend our childcare groups and the parents of those children. Other beneficiaries are local people who take up training and/or employment with us Is there any private benefit? There is no private benefit.

What your organisation does

We maintain, manage and co-operate with both local authority and statutory bodies in the maintenance of a property for activities promoted by the company. We promote the common heritage and historical links between the main area of benefit and the rest of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.