THe Children’s Book Festival 2011. Are you a Librarian?

September 28th, 2011

ImaginationGYM® are running a number of workshops in October2011 as part of The Children’s Book Festival. If you are interested in a workshop for the Festival please contact us for more information. Workshops can be run in the English language and in the Irish language.

ImaginationGYM helps with children with Story Telling

The Enchnated Forest can help develop storytelling skills

 

Last year ImaginationGYM workshops were run in libraries throughout the country from Waterford to Corofin and Crossmolina to Tallaght. They evolve around the story of an Enchanted Forest and interact with a childs own imagination so that they can develop their own stroytelling skills and creativity.

International Seminar on Holistic Education

September 15th, 2011

ImaginationGYM will shortly be announcing details of a very exciting seminar on Holistic Education titled ‘Preparing Children for Life’. The one day seminar will feature speakers from the UK, Finland and Ireland and will be divided into four workshops. It will provided educationalists and child care professionals with practical and fresh ideas to approaching the well being Hoistic Education Seminardevelopment and education of children. It will also address the needs of these professionals which can sometimes be overlooked in the contemporary workplace.

Tickets will be limited and cost €100 for the day. The seminar will take place in the Mater Dei Primary School in Dublin 8 which has hosted a very successful early intervention programme for the last 5 years.

The school that rewrites the rules
Irish Independent
“Within the Early Focus room therapeutic play, art work, talk and dialogue, cookery classes, imagination gym, primary movement, mindfulness and breath-work

 

The workshop topics are based on themes of: Early intervention work, self-esteem, behaviour, and importance of play, imagination and creativity, identification of co-ordination and sensory development problems in children, and latest developments in the Finnish pre-school system.

 

Date: Sat Nov 19th 2011

Time: 10am -4pm

More details and booking arrangements will follow shortly


 

ImaginationGYM Interactive Workshop in Laragh

July 18th, 2011

ImaginationGYM® are running the second in the series of interactive workshops for children 6-12yrs at The Brockagh Resource Centre, Laragh, Co. Wicklow on this coming Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:00am – 12:30pm.

In this one and a half hour workshop children will access their own creativity and imagination through storytelling and artistic activities in a relaxed and fun environment.

The workshop assists children with whole brain learning, emotional intelligence, listening skills, concentration, decision-making skills, self-esteem, nature awareness, and balances over-use of TV and computer games.

For booking and enquiries please contact Rosaleen Durkin on 087-6168460 or at rdurkin@imaginationgym.com

Cost: €12 per child or €10 for group of 3 children (family or friends)

Limited places available so book early to avoid disapointment!

Roscommon Library Summer Workshops

July 8th, 2011

A full list of the Summer Workshops taking place in the Libraries throughout Roscommon from the 12th fo the 29th of July was published in the Roscommon People this week and the pdf version of this is available by clicking on the highlighted link.

We are really looking forward to the workshops and working with the library staff once again.