Greetings to all principals, school leaders and teachers. This is the first in a series of blogs that we plan to post over the coming weeks and which we hope will contribute to,and perhaps help, even in some small way, to inform your deliberations and...
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New Primary Language Curriculum
You're probably aware that for the past number of years the NCCA have been working on updates to the Primary Language Curriculum (PLC), available on the Curriculum Online website. The new Primary Language Curriculum has now been completed with the publication of...
New Primary Language Curriculum Overview
With the new Primary Language Curriculum in the implementation stage, we decided to take a look at the overall structure of the new language curriculum and try to clarify how the various elements are presented and how you should interact with them. Structure,...
Make a copy of your Short-term Plans
You can now avoid having to re-populate the various additional content sections every time you create a new Short-term Plan. We recommend that you create a Short-term Plan with all of your fixed content (Methodologies, Resources, etc) in place. You can then copy the...
Thematic Planning: Science Week 2017
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. We have created a Science Week...
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...
Collaborative Planning Made Easy
Want to be able to collaborate on one Long-term Plan with colleagues from the same class level? With the Primary Planning Tool, multiple teachers can now contribute to one collective Long-term Plan. Each contributor will then be able to create individual Short-term...
Creating a new Long-term Plan
With the Primary Planning Tool, all of your Long-term Plans, Short-term Plans and Cuntais Míosúla are archived for reference and reuse. This saves you valuable time and ensures that you can continually refine your lesson plans to create a more holistic learning...
Long-term Plan Templates
With the Primary Planning Tool, you can now collaborate on Long-term Plan templates with colleagues from the same class level. With this feature, multiple teachers can create one Long-term Plan template for a class level. Each teacher can then create...
Primary Planning Tool Archive
With the Primary Planning Tool Archive, all of your lesson plans will be saved for future reference or reuse. Archived plans can be reviewed, turned into templates, or reused with updated academic dates. This feature ensures that you have the time and resources to...