Operating onsite at your school makes it very simple!
Operating onsite at your school makes it a very simple single drop off and pick up for your parents and pupils as they are with their peers in familiar surroundings.
Partnering with Sherpa Kids means there is no extra work for your school apart from some assitance at the very start helping us to make contact with your parents and helping us to decide where Sherpa Kids will be located on site.
After that, it is as if we are not there, as we look after everything from picking up your children, to billing parents and everything in between! There are huge benefits for your school and these are explained in the “Benefits to your School” section on our site.
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Sherpa Kids Ireland | Onsite Care & Services
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Loving To Learn
Well-Being
Free Play, Nutrition and Active Kids
A childs’ well being is the most imporatant aspect of their development and we believe this is the most important thing for us to embrace and nurture.
We have created a Sherpa Kids well-being philosophy which revolves around 3 distinct, yet connected areas of focus:
Free Play
Nurturing Ireland’s Teenagers Of Tomorrow
This really is a passion for us and one of the main drivers in our ambition to help nurture Ireland’s teenagers of tomorrow.
There is now significant research-based evidence demonstrating that undirected free play has profound benefits on your child’s development, growth and wellbeing.
It can boost their character and personality, promote their physical development, develop their brain and mind, teach them emotional and social skills and improve their academic performance. From the cognitive to the physical, research shows that undirected free play can allow children to gain greater self-confidence, promote neurological development, and even enhance their fine motor skills.
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Healthy Snacks Are A Key Part Of All Sherpa Kids Days
Nutrition
Nutritious Snacks
Nutrition plays an equally important part in supporting your child’s well-being.
Sherpa Kids supports this by providing daily nutritious snacks for your child as well as educating them on the benefits of eating the right foods to ensure a healthy and happy life.
Active Kids
Active Kids Are Happy Kids
At Sherpa Kids we don’t rely on technology to entertain your child in our care.
It’s not that we are “anti-technology”, it’s more we believe it has its place and time.
We believe there are so many more ways to have fun and we want “our” kids to have fun, for fun’s sake.
Active Kids are happy kids and we try our very best at every opportunity to bring your child outdoors so they can enjoy the benefits of active play.
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Kids Having Fun
Sherpa Kids looks after over 9000 primary school children in their local community EVERY day!
We have over 265 schools worldwide including over 50 local schools in Ireland
We offer globally over 500 programmes DAILY!
Our teams deliver over 1,300 hours of FUN delivered every day across our network.
our services
A service that YOU WILL BE PROUD to say is part of your school’s offering.
We understand that in allowing Sherpa Kids to operate in your school that you are putting your established reputation in our hands and that is something we value hugely.
The Sherpa Kids brand is based on a genuine passion to deliver, through collaboration, a high quality and safe service, built on a solid business platform. It can also create financial value for your school, as well as social value.
Our health, safety and compliance processes and procedures and regulations are second to none and indeed more stringent and detailed than the current regulation introduced in February 2019 by the DCYA and Tusla®.
We regularly review our businesses documentation and at least once a year physically inspect our services to ensure they are achieving the maximum standards we expect at Sherpa Kids. We set the bar extremely high.
With regulation increasing in the school age childcare sector we benefit from already operating in highly regulated markets such as the UK and Australia. You can safely rely on Sherpa Kids to be vigilant in maintaining these standards through the ongoing training of our colleagues and school operating partners.
Sherpa Kids is a school age childcare solution you can trust to have in your school as we:
20 YEARS
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE
TULSA
FLEXIBLE MODEL
FINANCIAL BENEFITS
TOTAL SOLUTION
EQUIPMENT
SUPERVISED HOMEWORK
ADDED VALUE
EXTRA-CURRICULAR
WE HELP
REPORTING
PRIDE
LOW-INCOME FAMILIES
SHERPA KIDS IRELAND HEAD OFFICE TEAM
Supporting our local communities
![John Miles](https://www.sherpakids.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/SherpaKids_Staff_JohnMiles_O.jpg)
John Miles
*John is pictured with his grandson Ruaidhri.
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Anne Marie Hegarty
*Anne Marie is pictured with Ava & Liam.
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Charlene O’ Toole
*Charlene is pictured with Nathan & Madison.
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Karen Deasy
*Karen is pictured with her nephew Cathal.
Find Out More
Some frequently asked questions from schools
What qualifications do Sherpa Kids colleagues have
We don’t have the time, resources or money to invest in a School Aged Childcare service
The insurance cost will be too much
We just do not have the space for the service
We have other after school activities – we don’t want to displace them
Join the list of school principals who have partnered with Sherpa Kids.
We have global partnerships with over 260 schools and growing, with 50 schools here in Ireland. Complete the form below or more information on how we can assist your local school community or feel free to get in touch with one of the Sherpa Kids Team:
- John Miles | Managing Director – johnmiles@sherpakids.ie
- Anne Marie Hegarty | Director of Operations – annemarie.hegarty@sherpakids.ie
- Charlene O’Toole | Operations Manager – charleneotoole@sherpakids.ie
- Karen Deasy | General Manager, Support Office Services – karendeasy@sherpakids.ie