Dundalk Incredible Years - St. Nicholas' Monastery NS

The Incredible Years is a behavioural management programme designed to prevent and treat emotional and behavioural issues in children aged 3 to 10 years.The aim of the Incredible Years programme is to strengthen teacher and parent management skills so as to reduce challenging behaviour in our children and to increase their social and self-control skills. Our school has been part of Dundalk Incredible Years since 2009.

Our school is using three elements from the Incredible Years suite of programmes:

• The Teacher Classroom Management Programme
  

• The Dina Programme
  

• The Parent Programme
  

Dina Dinosaur is the main character in the Dina School Programme. This programme is a whole class initiative geared towards teaching pupils problem solving and behavioural strategies to deal with day to day life. This programme is deisgned to be used with pupils from Junior Infants to 2nd Class.