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WELCOME ALFIE

Our School Therapy Dog DON’T FORGET

As you know we are a mainstream primary school community and that is an SCHOOL
school with 3 classes for autistic children absolutely fabulous feeling! We just CLOSES AT
and we have just received our School cannot wait! 2:30pm ON
Therapy Dog, Alfie, from My Canine Training for Alfie and our school team will FRIDAY for
Mid-Term!
Companion- Autism and Therapy Service span 2 years with regular classes for puppy
and his first day at school was Monday, training, constant access to group chats
September 20th, 2021! It’s was a BIG with dog training experts, and meet ups VOLUME 2021/22
surprise for all our boys! with other schools involved in the ISSUE 1

He is our puppy programme. 22nd CTOBER 2021

in training and is We, as a school truly believe in the
part of the benefits of school therapy dogs and that WATCH OUT FOR:
charity’s new Alfie is going to be of massive support and ☺ PARENTS’
ASSOCIATION
therapy dogs in assist to our school team throughout the NEWS
school school. ☺ SPACE WEEK
programme. We ☺ MONSTERS on the
believe he is the Listed below are just some of the positives MOVE!
to be gained:
first therapy dog ☺ SCHOOL DISPLAYS
in a mainstream • Lower people's blood pressure and stress ☺ SCHOOL
primary school levels. CALENDAR
in Cork and we • Increase levels of dopamine and
feel very privileged to have been chosen to serotonin.
be part of the programme. We are • Improve physical well-being.
especially delighted now given the impact Inside this issue:
of Covid-19 and school closures on • Decrease anxiety.
children across the country. Having Alfie in • Dramatically increase positive mood. • 1ST CLASS PG 6
our school is going to cause a huge ripple • Ease social isolation and help children • 2ND CLASS PG 7
effect of positivity across all areas of learn social skills.
school life from social and emotional skill •Help young readers gain confidence. • 3RD CLASS PG 8
development, anxiety management, • 4TH CLASS PG 9
behavioural support and so much more. It You can follow Alfie’s adventures on his
own Facebook and Instagram page: • 5TH CLASS PG 10
truly will have a holistic impact on
everyone with benefits that will far exceed Paws A While With Alfie • 6TH CLASS PG 11
anything we can imagine. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pa • YELLOW CORRIDOR
Up until now dogs from My Canine wsawhilewithalfie PG 12/13
Companion have gone directly to families
and the benefits to the specific child who Instagram: @pawsawhilewithalfie
receives the dog and their families have
been amazing. Now we have the potential We cannot wait to start the next part of
to see and effect that level of change our journey!
across more than 200 families in our
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