Dear Parents,
If you are preparing for Christmas, and are moving things out of the house, please know that the Aistear room (Integrated Learning Through Play) would be delighted to receive certain items. We explore different themes throughout the year, for example, we have just finished the Post Office. Many resources are required to implement Aistear correctly. We would like to collect a variety of toys and other resources so if you have any of the following items at home, that you no longer require, we would be extremely grateful if you could donate them to the school. As they will be used as teaching resources please only send in items that are still functional and in good working order. Please note that we are not asking for new toys but items that you may have at home that are no longer required. Many thanks.
Examples of items /resources we are looking for include:
Dress up clothes: costumes, aprons, shirts, dresses, jackets, scarves, glasses, gloves, handbags, shoes, unbreakable mirrors, small clothes rail and hangers etc.
Doctors/dentists/hairdresser etc : dress up clothing, toy equipment.
Shops: Toy shopping trolley, shopping baskets, pretend money, purses, pretend food, cash register, market stall
Animals: toy animals, teddy animals, vets clothes and equipment, farm sets
Home corner: toy kitchen, dolls and clothes, cots, changing unit/mat, play buggy, dolls blankets, bottles, cushions, duvet, small plastic/soft seating, beanbags, old phones, toy irons and ironing boards, toy hoover, mops, brushes, tea towels, clock, doorbell etc
Toy kitchen equipment: toy kitchens, toy cooker, toy fridge, toy dinner set, toy tea set, plastic plates, cups, cutlery, pots, pans etc, toy food, toy washing machine, toy microwave, toy dishwasher, basin
Restaurant/Café: chef’s hats, menus, food magazines, plastic tablecloth. Plastic plates, glasses, cups cutlery, pretend food
Architects/ builders: Lego, building blocks, stickle bricks, plastic tool boxes, hard hats, high visibility jackets, old torches, toy tools, toy workshop etc,
Garden: children’s gardening equipment: wheelbarrow, spades, shovel, watering can etc
Small World: Dolls houses and other buildings, Dolls house furniture, Little toy people, Lego people animals, dinosaurs, cars, trains, planes, boats, farm machinery, diggers etc
Holidays: travel brochures, toy passports, suitcases, toy planes etc.
Writing corner: unused diaries, cards, fancy paper, envelopes, stampers,
Play dough tools Stencils Water/sand play toys
Play mats, Puppets , Mini pop up tents, Beanbags
Plastic storage boxes with lids