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Business of the Week: Bluebells Preschool and Afterschool
Bluebells Preschool and Afterschool is a part-time Early Years’ service located within Loreto National School.
The service opened its doors for the first time in September 2021. Bluebells offers the free preschool scheme and an option of additional hours from 9.00am – 1.50pm. The preschool is a play-based preschool which follows a child led emergent programme of care.
It also offers an afterschool service within the school for primary school age children attending Loreto School. Currently the afterschool service runs from 1.50pm – 2.50pm with plans to eventually extend these hours until 5pm in the coming months.
The owners of this service are Rosemary Falvey and Alison Maher and both work in the service. Rosemary and Alison both have 16 years of experience working in the Early Years sector and most recently were managing a very well known creche in Killarney before branching out with their own preschool in Loreto National School.
Both Rosemary and Alison are local to Killarney and parents themselves with children both in attendance in Loreto National School and Bluebells Preschool.
Rosemary attended Loreto National School as a child and her daughter, Lily, is carrying on the family tradition, being the fourth generation from their family to attend Loreto National School.
Within Bluebells, Rosemary and Alison have created a home away from home environment for the children where they can make friends and have quality, fun learning experiences in a safe and secure environment.
“Our main goal in Bluebells is to provide a quality early learning experience through an environment that encourages and respects individuality and to maximize the development of children through the provision of professional care and developmentally appropriate educational activities,” said Rosemary.
Killarney breaks national May temperature record
Killarney became one of the hottest spots in the country this week as Ireland’s nationalmaximum air temperature record for the month of May was officially broken.
According to data issued by Met Éireann on Tuesday, the weather station at Muckross House recorded a blistering 29.1°C on Tuesday afternoon.
The extraordinary reading comfortably surpassed the previous county May record of 28.4°C, which had stood for nearly three decades after being set in Liscahane Ardfert, on May 31 1997.
The historic warmth came as Northwest Europe was trapped under an intense high-pressure system, frequently referred to as a heat dome.
The unseasonable weather pattern began pushing temperatures toward record levels on Monday when provisional records were initially breached across several nationwide monitoring stations.
Among Met Éireann’s 25 primary synoptic stations, Shannon Airport in County Clare also surpassed the 1997 milestone by reaching 28.6°C.
The Climate and Automatic Monitoring Program (CAMP) network captured the peak of the heatwave, with three independent stations eclipsing the old record on Tuesday and Wednesday, led by the historic high at Muckross House.
Pauline Healy-Reen and her sister Frances at the Gap of Dunloe on Tuesday,
Cars & Coffee for Jack & Jill Foundation
Ballymac Vintage Club will host a Cars & Coffee morning on Bank Holiday Monday, June 1, at Glenduff Manor (V92 YH32).
The event runs from 10:30am to midday, with all proceeds raised on the day going directly to the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation.
An optional short local road run will take place immediately after the meetup, with participants returning to Glenduff Manor afterward. All vintage, classic, and modern interest vehicles are welcome to attend.
Ballymac Vintage Club members launching the upcoming Cars & Coffee morning at Glenduff Manor. Left to right: Tom Glover, Kian O’Connor, George Glover, Joan Glover, Brian Glover, Paul Ahern, Mary Lynch, Ivan Groves, Michael Horan, Trish Horan, and Philip Blennerhassett.
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