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Love that bug – don’t swat it!
Experts are forecasting a record summer for bugs thanks to the mild and warm conditions but before you reach for the bug spray or swatter stop and think; what would our world look like without bugs? |
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Implementing the ‘Whole-School’ Approach
In 2000, the Department of Education issued ‘Learning Support Guidelines’ and ‘The Inclusion of Students with Special Educational Needs’ (2006), which support the learning of children in mainstream schools.
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Montessori
Montessori is a holistic approach to education that encourages children to learn through their own actions, at their own pace. |
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Carol’s got ‘The Maths Factor’!
‘Countdown’ the years to when Carol Vorderman was a young child and you will find a bright, gifted, vivacious girl who came from very humble beginnings. |
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Body Image In The Primary School
Children as young as eight are battling eating disorders and six year-old girls are complaining they look too fat. Three quarters of seven to eleven year olds would like to change something about their appearance.
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Why parents should do their homework on school trips
School trips offer opportunities for your child to learn about a subject in a whole new environment and bring learning to life in a way that can’t be recreated in the classroom. It’s also a valuable time to bond with classmates and can create some of their most treasured school memories |
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The Guide to Surviving Yesteryear
As much as homework can be a pain and the occasional curfew is unheralded, we should still be grateful that we aren’t waking up in the 12th Century, as Robin Hood did! |
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Internet better than private tuition?
Nearly half of Brits say a fast internet connection offers better value for money for children’s learning than a personal tutor, according to new research out today. |
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High Cost of Dirty Hands
Almost one in three children, (30%), are missing up to a fortnight of school due to illness that could be prevented by good hygiene practice, says a new study. |
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HELP YOUR CHILD TO STAR
Recent research has shown what parents already know, that sharing educational activities themselves with their child at home can improve academic performance (up to 25% in one school year). |
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Assessment Gap for Deaf Children
Deaf children who use British Sign Language (BSL) are slipping through the net when it comes to assessing their language development. |
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UKCES Demands Food Labelling For University Courses
UK Commission For Employment and Skills releases report urging government to be less bureaucratic and more transparent by giving students more information on course drop-out rates, graduate earnings and course relevance to chosen career path. |
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New Service Makes Setting up Out of School Clubs Simple
With the start of the new school year, many parents are looking for after school care for their children. Despite the Government’s target that all primary schools should offer some form of care for children from 8.00am to 6.00pm by 2010, a large number of schools have yet to do so. |
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Homework - IT = Panic
The majority of British parents believe that technology such as home computers and printers are so ingrained in the everyday task of homework that their kids would fail without it. |
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Do your bit for your school
At some point or other most people feel a need to make a difference in their community and want to support a good cause. And the charity work that often tightly tugs at the heartstrings of many people is connected to their child’s school. |
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Peer Mentors adopt a creative approach to tackling bullying!
Hundreds of young people (aged from 5-19) from schools across England are taking part in this unique national community art project where they will convey some hard-hitting anti-bullying messages through stunning, colourful images, words and patterns designed onto giant elephant sculptures (that stand as tall as some of the children!). |
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Keeping children on track at homework time
Do you struggle to keep your 5-12 year olds on task at homework time? Help is now at hand with the launch of The Learning Bubble, a powerful piece of software featuring a special learning desktop that creates an interruption-free environment in which children can learn - similar to a quiet study at home. |
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Discover Engineering
Discover Engineering, a new website for young people aged 10 - 19, has been launched
today. The site is a not-for-profit venture which has been developed and funded by
Gradcracker - the careers website for engineering graduates - and its purpose is to showcase
the best online resources for young engineers. |
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Compulsory Learning Age Raised
Teenagers will continue in education or training until the age of 18 as part of a new law passed this week. The new Education and Skills Act will raise the education leaving age to 17 in 2013 and to 18 from 2015. |
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Whizz.Com
Whizz.com research shows children make their own minds up about their maths ability before they reach the age of nine. This is why placing the blame on weak assessment of pupils by their teachers fails to get to the crux of the problem of why our children are failing at maths early in their academic careers, says Richard Marett, CEO of Whizz.com. |
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What's Cooking Kids?
What’s Cooking, Kids? develops the learning of children aged 8 to 11 around healthy food, diet and nutrition and is creating the first-ever network of Community and Young Food Leaders across the North East of England, this scheme offers endless possibilities to engage the local community and to learn skills that will be practical throughout the daily lives of children, while having fun! |
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UK students Overcharged By Tuition Agencies
Students in the UK are being overcharged for private tuition, according to research carried out by thetutorpages.com, a tutor comparison website based in London. ‘Although the private tuition industry is in fact unregulated by government, tuition agencies act as quasi-regulators, and convince parents and students to pay over the odds for their lessons,’ the website states. |
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PARENTS WANT SCHOOLS TO TEXT ABOUT CHILD'S PROGRESS
Parents would like more feedback from schools about how their children are performing in the classroom. According to a survey by Becta, the Government's education technology agency, over two-thirds of parents would like schools to use technologies such as text messaging and the internet to communicate with them more frequently. Currently, only eight per cent of parents surveyed are kept informed using these methods. |
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Rockford’s Rock Opera
Rockford’s Rock Opera is a unique free audio book – an ecological musical story with songs, clear narration, animated videos and FREE teaching resources. What’s more, it’s now being used by over 4,000 primary schools around the world and is gathering thousands evangelical fans. |
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Dogs Trust
Meet the gang - Rex, Rosie, Zippy, Flick, Muffin and Digger - they all live in Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre, which takes care of them until they find a new home. There you can play ‘Pup Idol’ or create your own unique dog in ‘Muffin’s mix-up.’ And the fun doesn’t stop there! |
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Helping your child through exam time
Children aren’t known for coming forward about their problems. Sometimes it can feel as though they don’t want to talk to you about anything. There are lot of reasons why your child might be bottling things up but a new poll shows that the main reason young people don’t share their worries is embarrassment. |
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Children missing out on Practical Skills at School
British children could be missing out on practical skills they need to make it in the real world. 85% of Brits think kids should be taught more about cooking and baking at school rather than purely focusing on intellectual study |
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Making science fun
For centuries, Britain has dominated the world of science – particularly medical science. Some of the world’s greatest scientists have been British – think Issac Newton, Alexander Fleming, Joseph Lister, or James Watt. |
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THE CHILDREN OF THE PLAYGROUND REVOLUTION
Award winning artists Snug & Outdoor and Sutcliffe Play, one of the leading designers and manufacturers of children’s play equipment, have announced the arrival of ‘Snug’, a revolutionary new concept for school playgrounds. |
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What has made these poems especially useful to children and also to ESL students, is the fact that Josie has added her own clear English voice recording to each of the poems, as children pointed out how useful this was as a tool to help them with reading. |
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Some parent’s wonder why schools set homework – after all, the reason children go to school is to learn isn’t it? Yet, out-of-school-hours learning is considered to be an essential part of a good education. In fact, it’s now regarded as a vital ingredient for academic success |
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People are peering round the smart, ash-veneered door, wide-eyed and curious. In ones and twos they warily sidle into the large room to be greeted by the smartly dressed Caroline and Jane - the two bubbly representatives from the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations |
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Helping your child succeed at school
For some children the start of a new school year gives a sense of familiarity and stability, however for others it can be a daunting time, which can bring anxiety. This is particularly true if it is the start of a year that culminates in important exams. Many pupils will feel nervous and pressurised as demands on them increase. |
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Out of School Clubs
With limited options, many parents opt to work part time or take shifts to accommodate the school calendar, but invariably this still means working some of the long school holidays or on the occasional teacher-training day that can throw the family's schedule off balance. Even with this finely tuned juggling act, many parents find that at some stage or other, childcare will need to be sought. |
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Tuition Tips
First, you need to look realistically at your child's potential. There may be a discrepancy between the effort that they put into their work and what they achieve. This may prove frustrating and at this point, they need your support and reassurance. Your efforts will not be in vain though, as with this sympathetic input your child will gain a set of skills and qualifications that they will take with them into adulthood. There are many ways to help your son or daughter focus more on that schoolwork. |
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Making Maths Fun in the Home
The interpretation of fun varies enormously depending on age, sex and intelligence but generally speaking the term “Maths” sends many parents fleeing regardless of age, gender, class or race.
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Ireland-specific articles
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A total of 78 school inspection reports were published today on the Department of Education and Skills' website. |
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National charity, the Meningitis Trust, is warning students of the symptoms of meningitis as they start their new year at university. |
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As hundreds of thousands of students prepare to go back to school, the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, T.D., today announced a range of measures he is seeking from education book publishers to reduce the costs of school books for parents |
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Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life – the National Strategy to Improve Literacy and Numeracy among Children and Young People 2011-2020 is published |
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The Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Ciarán Cannon, has welcomed confirmation from Bus Eireann this afternoon that it is significantly reducing the administrative costs |
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Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn T.D. announced today that the Government had approved a revised reconfiguration of the Vocational Education Committees system. |
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Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn T.D., has today directed all schools to employ only appropriately qualified registered teachers. |
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I want to start by thanking you for your invitation to join you in Cork at your annual convention and for your warm welcome.... |
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Creative Writing Ink is an online writing community, which also offers creative writing classes and critique and editorial services |
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My name is Rosemary Clancy; I work with the Leadership, Innovation, and Knowledge Research Centre (LInK)at Dublin City University. We are conducting research on the administrative burden relating to the collection and processing of payments within schools. |
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The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, today published the Education (Amendment) Bill which provides for a legislative framework to allow Vocational Education Committees to become involved in primary education provision |
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Seán Haughey TD, Minister for Lifelong Learning today launched Celebrating Lifelong Guidance for the Adult Education Guidance Initiative – AEGI |
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The primary school curriculum in its present format won’t lay the necessary foundations for the smart economy that the government sees as fundamental towards preserving our competitiveness and enabling us to climb out of recession. |
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Official figures show that 60 children between the ages of 5 and 14 years have taken their own lives in the last 20 years. |
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Conradh na Gaeilge is making the organisation’s two main buildings in Dublin and Galway available to the Irish-speaking community to use as centres for meetings, conferences, classes and more in an effort to develop the buildings belonging to the Conradh as cultural centres of Irish in the heart of the two cities. |
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These tips are designed to help parents develop a positive
attitude towards numeracy for their primary school children. |
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The achievements of the Government in the area of special education over the past 10 years have demonstrated a real desire to deliver an appropriate education for children with special educational needs. |
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A complete swimming skills scheme certified by the national statutory body, Irish Water Safety |
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What children are taught should be relevant to their lives and their futures, but does the Revised Curriculum in its present format meet the actual needs of children in 2010?’. |
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The Department and Education and Science provides funding for thirty eight projects in Local Drugs Task Force areas. These projects, through a variety of programmes and activities, seek, in the main, to encourage young people not to engage in drug-taking. |
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At some point or other most people feel a need to make a difference in their community and want to support a good cause. And the charity work that often tightly tugs at the heartstrings of many people is connected to their child’s school. |
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Imagine that there was a quick and easy way to improve children’s capacity for learning and reduce their stress levels at the same time. Well, numerous studies on the importance of touch have concluded that giving and receiving massage can do just this |
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Ensuring that children in hospital had an opportunity to take part in the Science Week celebrations the RDS Science Live series ran an interactive ‘Bright Sparks’ workshop in Our Lady’s Hospital School located in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. |
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Lifetime Lab at the Old Cork Waterworks has become the first tourist attraction in Ireland to receive the globally recognised ISO 14001 accreditation. The visitor centre located on Lee Road was presented with the award by Minister for Trade and Commerce Mr. Billy Kelleher TD at a recent ceremony. |
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The Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’ Keeffe TD, today [Sunday] announced the membership of the committee that will oversee the erection of a memorial for victims of institutional abuse. |
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Ireland is the first EU Member State to link its national qualifications to the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF). This new system will make it easier for people to study or work in another EU country and have their qualifications recognised. |
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The NCTE has provided recommendations to Primary schools to assist schools in the purchase of ICT equipment. The NCTE believes that the technology configuration it is recommending will provide schools with greater possibilities for ICT integration in learning and teaching. The installation of a teaching computer/laptop digital projector and visualiser in the classroom will enable the teacher to present rich and stimulating learning materials to the whole class while also facilitating group work and collaborative learning. |
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The Primary School Curriculum is ten years old today. To mark the occasion, the NCCA has collected photographs and stories from schools across the country that show and tell how teachers and children are bringing the curriculum to life, even in challenging times! |
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It’s a long way from Brussels to Wexford, Sligo, Donegal and West Cork, but that’s exactly where some senior Irish officials in the EU headed this week to visit their old schools. For instance, Richard Bates, who works as a policy officer for the fisheries department of the European Commission, went to the Model County to talk to students about his job. |
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The Lámha Suas Education Resource Packs provide a primary school curriculum support framework in the subject areas of History, Geography, SPHE (Social, Personal & Health Education) and Irish through illustrated worksheets and teacher friendly notes. |
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Four schools in Cork are to get high-speed wireless broadband connectivity as part of the Government's pilot plan to give students instant internet access anywhere in the school, according to the Minister for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe TD. |
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The Jack & Jill Foundation, through its partner Promethean, a global leader in interactive technology for education, is giving all schools in Ireland the opportunity to swap old mobile phones for new Promethean interactive whiteboards. |
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Block IT - Mobile Bullying Solution |
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O2 announced details of a new service to combat bullying on mobile phones. The service, which is free of charge, allows you to block unwanted messages from other mobile phone numbers.
http://www.webwise.ie/article.aspx?id=10819 |
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Educate Together is the representative organisation of the Educate Together schools and associations throughout the Republic of Ireland. It owes its origins to the movement to establish new multi-denominational primary schools, which emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s |
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Ryan Tubridy launched Think a new book by Fr. Cathal O’ Brolcháin, published by Original Writing, yesterday evening at Willow Park School. Published by Original Writing, Think is a short book which considers the effect of school days in relation to our children
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Second year students at the Presentation Secondary School, Waterford got to grips with ‘The Outdoor Classroom’ at the Marine Educational Facility at Oceanics Surf School in Tramore for their curriculum based Ecology and Biology programmes |
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The Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) today highlighted the frustration experienced by many Principals at the lack of adequate response from the HSE locally when they report their concerns about children at risk. |
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Since 1987, EdAlive has been helping teachers and parents instill the love of learning in children through computer-based numeracy and literacy interactive software. |
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The NCCA has put together a set of fact sheets which give information about the different subjects available in junior cycle. They could be useful for school information evenings and open days. Visit their website>> http://www.ncca.ie/eng/index.asp?docID=370 |
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Sport Against Racism Ireland |
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Can you spare one day from time to time to take part in a variety of fund raising campaigns to support SARI's valuable work in the community this year? If you think you fit the profile and want to give it a go, call Fanel on 086 373 5818, email info@sari.ie with your details or visit www.sari.ie |
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Most family homes in Ireland now have access to an internet connection. The internet is a great resource for many fun and interesting things, from instant messaging to researching a history project for school. However, with so many people having access to the internet is it important that you use it wisely in order to avoid putting yourself in dangerous situations |
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Make a difference and contribute to a sustainable future!
'Energy is our Future' is a school programme that is jointly managed by European Schoolnet and PlasticsEurope, the association of plastics manufacturers. The programme is intended to help students learn to make a difference in using energy and find out more about the role of advanced materials, such as plastics, in saving energy and therefore contributing to a sustainable future. The website has many resources, much news and a competitions and debates section, and there is an area where you can join an online chat with an expert in energy at : http://www.futurenergia.org |
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A progressive primary school which teaches all of its 600 pupils sign language as part of the daily curriculum says new technology it initially began using with its 20 deaf pupils two years ago has totally revolutionised the way the entire school learns. |
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Check out the latest science news, videos, quizzes, friends, polls, skins, calendar and other recent additions on our "I Love Science". Bebo page link. |
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In the beginning… there was blackboard and chalk. Then along came whiteboards with marker pens, same idea but neater, and without all that pesky chalk dust. These days, teachers can teach using interactive whiteboards, which as their name suggests, work interactively with a computer and multimedia projector |
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Newly founded Irish publishing house Special Stories Publishing has just released their exciting and unique collection of children’s books, The Special Stories Series. The series, launched in Temple St. Children’s Hospital, comprises 7 full colour picture books for children, parents, teachers and healthcare professionals that address a range of childhood health and social issues; namely Foster Care, Adoption, Limited Mobility/Wheelchair Users, Cleft Palate and Speech Difficulties, Diabetes, Asthma and Childhood Cancer. |
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A new survey of internet usage in Ireland has given a high rating to the Learning Ireland network – a national courses database featuring evening classes, postgraduate, third-level and corporate training courses available around the country.
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What started fifty years ago with a father’s simple desire to help his son with his maths homework, has today developed into a global network of students. Every hour worldwide, someone somewhere is studying Kumon. |
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Webwise has created practical demonstrations on how to use the web applications that our children our using. Recent additions to www.webwise.ie give demos and step-by-step guide-sheets showing how to configure Bebo and MSN profiles. For more information, visit http://www.webwise.ie/article.aspx?id=7902 |
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This site provides real learning activities for young children. Lessons include letter recognition and letter building, on upper and lower case letters. The number activities include matching both the number and the name of the number with objects. It provides activities not only in English, but also in Spanish, French and German which means it could be used with children beginning to study those languages. For more information, visit http://www.scoilnet.com/article.aspx?id=8385 |
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Through drama, students learn many things- to work in a group, to work alone, to listen, to follow instructions and to use their creativity and imagination, to communicate through thought, action and words. They learn to explore their feelings in a safe and controlled environment. |
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The new publication, Assessment in the Primary School Curriculum: Guidelines for Schools, produced by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), will be distributed to all teachers in the coming weeks. Minister Hanafin launched the publication at a special event at St Clare’s National School in Harold’s Cross, Dublin. |
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Books and reading is one of life’s greatest pleasures. We in CBI believe that books are central to childhood. With so many high profile books for young readers in recent years, particularly Harry Potter, it is easy to forget that reading does not come easily to everyone |
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Homework is the most regular and the most important link between home and school. It allows a parent/guardian to become involved in children’s school work and see on a daily basis how they are doing in school. |
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A report on child road user casualties produced by the Road Safety Authority and co-funded by Elverys Sports shows that a total of 141 children under 14 years of age died and 5,732 suffered serious and minor injuries on our roads between 1998 and 2005
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There are nearly half a million pupils in our primary schools. The INTO is demanding reductions in class size in order to improve the quality of their education, the quality of their future lives and indeed, the quality of this country's social and economic futures. Primary school must give all children a fair start in life
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No doubt one of the most important decisions you will make for your child will be the choice of the right second-level school. Many factors affect that decision and it is crucial that parents find out as much as possible to figure out the best options.
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Support your local school. Every school needs more funds than there is in its budget. With a little help from parents, thousands of extra euros can be gathered by fundraising. |
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Carrying a schoolbag is frequently associated with pain or discomfort and can often lead to poor posture. This is a topic of worldwide concern for parents and children. |
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Oh why do good things come to an end? Those long weeks off from school add up to pure heaven for youngsters. |
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Implementing the ‘Whole-School’ Approach
In 2000, the Department of Education issued ‘Learning Support Guidelines’ and ‘The Inclusion of Students with Special Educational Needs’ (2006), which support the learning of children in mainstream schools.
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