Category Archives: Curriculum

Multi-class Planning Made Easy

With the Primary Planning Tool, you can easily create Long-term Plans, Short-term Plans and Cuntais Míosúla for your Multi-class setting. This feature ensures that you can take curriculum content and additional content from different class levels and add them to your plans for one combined class group. Multi-class Planning Made Easy We recognise the difficulties […]

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Getting started with the Primary Planning Tool

Case Study: Getting Started with the Primary Planning Tool

  We recently asked one of our newest community members to document the initial processes they used when implementing the Primary Planning Tool. Like many of you around the country, Our Lady’s Grove were looking to create a uniformed system which streamlined the planning process and allowed them to focus on the art of teaching.  […]

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Tech Week Theme - Primary Planning Tool

Integrate ICT Into Your Planning With Our Tech Week Theme

Tech Week is a nationwide festival of technology, made up of a range of classroom and community activities taking place across Ireland. These activities aim to give pupils a chance to develop an interest in technology subjects, learn new skills, be creative and have a lot of fun. We here, at the Primary Planning Tool, have […]

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A Guide To Creating Your Own Easter Theme

Spring is in the air and with Easter fast approaching, we at the Primary Planning Tool have created an Easter theme for fifth and sixth class and integrated it across all eleven curriculum subject areas. We have also added links to some useful websites where you will find helpful ideas and resources. The Primary Planning […]

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Christmas Theme

The Primary Planning Tool facilitates the effortless integration of Christmas activities into your curriculum planning. We have created this Christmas theme as an example of our thematic planning feature in the Primary Planning Tool.

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Science Week 2016

Science Week 2016

Science week is an annual event which is aimed at creating interest and excitement around the topic of science. Science week is all about showing students how science is all around us and how it plays a vital role in our daily lives.

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New Language Curriculum Added

New Language Curriculum Added

Language enables children to engage emotionally, socially, cognitively, imaginatively and aesthetically in relationships and cultural experiences. It empowers children to develop their thinking, expression, reflection, critique and empathy, and it supports the development of self-efficacy, identity and full participation in society.” –  NCCA, “Primary Language Curriculum”, p. 18.

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