Congratulations to all our colleagues in Froebel Department and Maynooth University on the opening today of the International Froebel Society Conference. niamhfortune #IntFroebel2023

#IntFroebel2023 Head of Department, Niamh Fortune welcomes our international and local delegates to the 10th Biennial, IFS Conference

Seeds of Inspiration: Using an Image as foundation to design process #IntFroebel2023 Froebel Department

Dr Yukiyo Nishida presenting on 'what is childhood?' & asking us pertinent questions #IntFroebel2023

Obair bhaile déanta (homework complete)! Great first day of conference. Looking forward to day 2 and 3 and to continuing interesting conversations. #IntFroebel2023 Froebel Department niamhfortune

Thank you Aline - beautiful venue of Queen's University Belfast 🎓 to talk about our work in practice with babies, toddlers and children and to read about your work with the under 3s (and you still have to tell us the one thing from EECERA last year!!)

Maynooth University Wonderful to see Froebel BEd and PMEd students back this week and enjoying learning in the outdoors. Looking forward to welcoming our BA students this Saturday and next week. Froebel MU Early Childhood Degrees Froebel Trust IrishFroebelNetwork

This is my Mam & Dad. They are the reason I can work. In their retirement, they still mind my children on a daily basis so that I can work. I spent 18 years working in Early Childhood Education & Care #Childcare never earning much above minimum wage 1/6 #PurpleforPublic

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜

1⃣ To conclude her opening statement to the Committee, Teresa Heeney says that significantly more investment is needed to provide an #EarlyYears & #SchoolAgeCare sector that is of high quality, adequate capacity, & inclusive of all children.

Very excited to be presenting at the OMEP Ireland conference with Dr Leah O'Toole and Tracy McElheron this Saturday.

Co-operation Ireland Kildare County Council Fingal County Council Wicklow County Council IPB Insurance Congratulations Maynooth Access 🎉

Congratulations Maynooth Access Group on this amazing achievement. Very well deserved. You make a phenomenal impact on the sector.

Our starters have arrived here at the TY pop up restaurant ‘The Secret Garden’ #CPCLife #TY #Yum CW_foodschool

10 services this week announce closure all busy services! Roderic O’Gorman TD you were told this would happen! Any response??? Green Party Ireland Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Aontú The Labour Party Social Democrats #UNITEDWESTANDFECP #saveourservices

Very interesting symposium on the publicness of education. Maynooth University Dr Leah O'Toole Tracy McElheron

A wonderful symposium exploring the future of the Early Years Sector. Tracy McElheron Dr Leah O'Toole

Looking forward to the last workshop for the All-means-All Erasmus funded project collaborating with another 100+ researchers and self-advocates across Europe for our open access book on inclusive education . all-means-all.education All_Institute Maynooth University