Preparation for Teaching and Learning

Detailed advice on curriculum, organisational and classroom planning is offered for each subject area in the teacher guidelines found on www.curriculumonline.ie. A collaborative approach is advocated, and schools are encouraged to involve parents, the board of management and the wider school community in the planning process, where it is appropriate.

• Further advice and support material can be found on the webpages of the Professional Development Service for Teachers (www.pdst.ie).
• For guidance on planning for teaching students with general learning disabilities you can visit our online resource here.

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Primary: SESE - Science

Primary: SESE - History

Primary: SESE - Geography

Primary: Music

Primary: Mathematics

Primary: Gaeilge

Primary: Drama

Primary: Communication and Language

Primary: Visual Art

Here you will find re-presented curriculum materials useful for planning. These developmental materials re-present the curriculum content objectives in a more user-friendly way.

The materials are available for English, Gaeilge, Mathematics, Science and Physical Education.

Please ensure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader installed to download and read this interactive file offline.

• Represented Primary School Curriculum

You can also download a curriculum overview wall-chart that presents the strands and strand units/elements for all subjects here.

• Curriculum overview wall-chart

NCCA would like to acknowledge the work of the Primary Curriculum Support Programme (PCSP) and the School Development Planning Support (SDPS) who developed similar resources for curriculum support in the past. These documents, developed by NCCA, draw on the original work of the Primary Professional Development Service (PPDS). The PPDS designed and developed[Image Placeholder}
'glance cards' which highlight key curriculum content and the progression in objectives from infants to 6th class. We would like to thank them for their work on the early stages of our work in re-presenting the curriculum.

Download the PPDS cards from here

The following IILT publications for Primary Language Support Teachers are available to download in Adobe PDF format. 

Primary Schools Assessment Kit (2007)

Up and Away: a resource book for English language support in primary schools

Education for Sustainable Development: A study of the opportunities and linkages in the early childhood, primary and post-primary curriculum

This audit considers:

• the place of Traveller culture and history in the existing curriculum, from early childhood to senior cycle
• the current intercultural education guidelines and other resources for schools in relation to Travellers
• the opportunities for teaching about Traveller culture and history and how it is incorporated into existing curricular subjects.

Traveller culture and history in the curriculum: a curriculum audit - Executive Summary.

Traveller culture and history in the curriculum: a curriculum audit.