Child Health and Well Being
Aim:
The objective of the ECCE programme is to make early learning in a formal setting available to eligible children in the year before they commence primary school. To achieve this, services participating in the pre-school year are required to provide age-appropriate activities and programmes to children within a particular age group.
Well-being - a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
Aistear: Aistear is the early childhood curriculum framework for all children from birth to six years in Ireland.
Exploring & Thinking: Children will learn about their environment around them.
They will develop skills that will help with observing, understanding and problem solving.
Explore ways in how to express their feelings.
Positive attitudes towards their learning and development
Well-Being: To be strong psychologically and socially.
To be healthy and fit and have a positive outlook on learning
Communicating: Non-verbal-through body language
Uses of body language express themselves through verbal talking.
Have a creative imagination
Identity and Belonging: Feels like he belongs in a group.
Express their rights and show identity of others in his/hers rights.
Factors contributing to well-being of children
An ECCE worker can provide a healthy and safe environment for children by Promote their well-being and help them to develop their unique potential. These include the right: To be safe. To be protected and live free from violence, abuse or harm (this includes witnessing violence and abuse). To express their views and to have them taken into account in matters that affect them. To have decisions that will affect them made in their best interests. To be treated with dignity, respect and fairness. To be free from discrimination, bullying and harassment of any kind. To offer praise and encouragement
Roles and responsibilities of ECCE worker in health of children:
It is the policy ECCE workers to
The objective of the ECCE programme is to make early learning in a formal setting available to eligible children in the year before they commence primary school. To achieve this, services participating in the pre-school year are required to provide age-appropriate activities and programmes to children within a particular age group.
Well-being - a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
Aistear: Aistear is the early childhood curriculum framework for all children from birth to six years in Ireland.
Exploring & Thinking: Children will learn about their environment around them.
They will develop skills that will help with observing, understanding and problem solving.
Explore ways in how to express their feelings.
Positive attitudes towards their learning and development
Well-Being: To be strong psychologically and socially.
To be healthy and fit and have a positive outlook on learning
Communicating: Non-verbal-through body language
Uses of body language express themselves through verbal talking.
Have a creative imagination
Identity and Belonging: Feels like he belongs in a group.
Express their rights and show identity of others in his/hers rights.
Factors contributing to well-being of children
An ECCE worker can provide a healthy and safe environment for children by Promote their well-being and help them to develop their unique potential. These include the right: To be safe. To be protected and live free from violence, abuse or harm (this includes witnessing violence and abuse). To express their views and to have them taken into account in matters that affect them. To have decisions that will affect them made in their best interests. To be treated with dignity, respect and fairness. To be free from discrimination, bullying and harassment of any kind. To offer praise and encouragement
Roles and responsibilities of ECCE worker in health of children:
It is the policy ECCE workers to
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