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...
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...
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...
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...
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. Creating thematic plans...
Science Week Theme
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. The theme for Science Week 2016 is...