We are delighted to announce that the Early Years 60th Anniversary Conference will be taking place on Friday 6th June 2025.
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The Chair updated on a number of announcements from the Education Minister including; the increased funding for part-time non-statutory pre-school education providers participating in the Department’s Pre-School Education Programme…
Read MoreThe All Party Group on Early Education & Childcare held its AGM on Thursday 27 February 2025 via Teams. Nicola Brogan MLA, outgoing APG Chair, welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked all APG members, in particular the office bearers, for their contributions over the last year.
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The project aims to improve the capacity of the education sector by providing high quality environmental education and teaching algorithmic thinking through educational robotics at preschool level in all partner countries.
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While Councils have secured additional funding to support people affected, NICVA has stressed the vital role we can all play in identifying those most in need and accessing this additional support.
Read MoreThe final meeting of 2024 for the All Party Group on Early Education and Childcare was held on the 12th December, with Early Years Organisation taking over the reins as Secretariat to the Group for the first time.
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A Trusted Framework for Early Years Excellence. Access the 2024-2025 HighScope training calendar. Available to Highscope and non-Highscope Settings!
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The Pathway Fund is delighted to announce the opening of three funding streams.
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The GREENCODE project partners met in Rijeka (Croatia) to discuss the first developed project results in a two-day working meeting - Higher Education Curriculum for Pre-primary Education Units and Digital Handbook on Inquiry-based learning) as an eco-friendly learning practice using simple coding and educational robotics activities in pre-primary education.
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ASPIRE application deadline has been extended to 27th November 5pm
Read MoreEarly Years is delighted that the Pathway Fund will open for applications on Monday 25th November for 2025/2026 and provisionally 2026/2027.
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Early Years - the organisation for young children are delighted to be offering this course for all practitioners who work with children and their families.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the launch of ASPIRE project application for Pre-Schools.
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Early Years has been attending the 2024 ISSA - International Step by Step Association conference in Sofia, Bulgaria this week.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Early Years - the organisation for young children took place on 17th October.
Read MoreASPIRE, a shared education initiative funded through PEACEPLUS, is designed to foster direct and sustained contact between children from all backgrounds across Northern Ireland and the six border counties of Ireland.
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Welcome to the first newsletter of our Erasmus+ project "Building an Eco-Friendly Future with Robots"! In this issue, we want to update you on how the project has progressed over the past year, what results have been achieved and what more is planned!
Read MoreInvitation to attend Childcare Question Time. All members of early years are invited to the next meeting of Belfast Branch which will be a special question time with local political representatives.
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