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Hello! Goodbye! Tips for passing on your class to a new teacher

As we head for the final stretch in the school year, here’s a helping hand with what to have a think about as you pass your class on to their next teacher.

School Leader Thoughts

Our school leader authors share their plans, projects and approaches.

Play and Playful Learning

Children learn best when they are having fun. We have been working with teachers and play based learning experts to unpick the opportunities for playful learning experiences in the new curriculum.

Using playful Story Starters to foster creativity and imagination

In the world of education, fostering creativity and imagination is just as important as teaching facts and figures. One of the most effective ways I have found to achieve this is through the use of playful story starters in the classroom. These tools not only stimulate children’s creativity but also enhance their writing skills, language and vocabulary, critical thinking and overall engagement.

Play and Learning: Research insights into a powerful connection

The research into play and learning consistently highlights the profound role of play in fostering cognitive, social, emotional and physical development in young children. Assistant Principal and Play and Learning Specialist, Gillian Corbally, outlines what we know, and what she learned in her own older classes, about this powerful connection.

Special Education Teaching

Our guest school leaders and SENCO principals share their ideas for effective SET

What's The Math-er?

A series of superb interviews with the leading minds in Irish mathematics education. Get ready for a deep dive into all things New Maths Curriculum!

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Spring into Art… Some seasonal ideas!

Finally we have some Spring in our steps and are, hopefully, getting rid of grey skies and storms! There’s always plenty of discussion of when Spring begins - does it begin with St. Brigid on February 1st, when as the song goes ‘Brigid brings the spring’ or does it begin as we approach March when the days get longer and the time changes? You choose your own interpretation of it! Either way, here’s a few ways to bring it to life with your class this year.

Play: Encouraging choice and agency in infant classes

There has been plenty of chatter and change around play and its re-examined place in our classrooms recently. As teachers, we’re constantly evolving and adapting our classrooms and our delivery of teaching to improve practice but it can be difficult to keep up to date with changes while keeping an eye on everything else. Here is how Roisin has been coping.