The Aistear Síolta Practice Guide by NCCA has now gone live. The purpose of the Practice Guide is to support practitioners in using Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework and Síolta, The National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education together, to develop the quality of their curriculum and to better support children’s learning and development.
Síolta (meaning seeds) is a quality framework for early childhood care and education services.
Síolta’s quality framework can be used in different Early Childhood Care and Education services (ECCE) such as crèches, nurseries, preschools, play groups, child-minders and infant classes. All ECCE services can use this framework regardless of the curriculum approach they use e.g. whether they are play-based, Steiner, Froebel, Montessori or Primary school.
Aistear (the Irish word for journey) is the national curriculum framework for the early years sector.
Aistear is the national curriculum framework for the education and care of children from birth to six years in Ireland, published by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA).
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