Resources for teachers on ‘Curriculum Support’
| Title | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Activities and Books to Support Exploring the Environment during Spring | Activities and books for learning at home and in the outdoors focussed on art, sensory play, SESE, fine and gross motor skills and literacy skills. (Parents and Teachers; Primary) | English |
| Storybooks about Spring Animals | This resource gives lots of suggestions and ideas for using picture books and audio links to explore spring animals across the curricula. (Parents and Teachers; Early Years and Primary) | English |
| Telling Stories about Spring Time - Developing Language Skills | Strategies and ideas to develop storytelling skills using key question words. (Parents and Teachers; Early Years and Primary) | English |
| Springtime Vocabulary and Spelling Activities | Three activities to practise word recognition and spelling : word matching; word to picture matching; close activity (Parents and Teachers; Primary) | English |
| Literacy ideas based on 'The Thing About Spring' storybook | Comprehension strategies and suggestions, phonological awareness and phonics activities and a choice board based on a picture book for junior end of Primary school. (Parents and Teachers; Early Years, Primary) | English |
| Creative Writing Activities at Home | Activities to develop creative writing during this home schooling period and a list of age appropriate webites. (Parents and Teachers; Primary) | English |
| SPRING in your Step | Activities and fun ideas to encourage students to move more. (Parents and Teachers; Primary and Post Primary) | English |
| A Spring Nature Walk - Out and About | Suggestions for activities to do on a spring walk. (Parents and Teachers; Primary School) | English |
| Outdoor Classroom in Spring | 12 outdoor activities incorporating many elements of learning in a fun and adventerous way. (Parents and Teachers; Early Years and Primary) | English |
| Meg's Veg - A Spring Sensory Story | This story uses all of the senses and can be used with students who learn best through doing (Parents and Teachers; Early Years and Primary) | English |
| Birdsong in Spring - Lesson Plan for Students with Low Vision | This resource focuses on developing aural awareness of five birds common to Ireland. Tailored to students with low vision. (Parents and Teachers; Primary) | English |
| Birdsong in Spring - Lesson Plan | This resource focuses on developing aural awareness of five birds common to Ireland. (Parents and Teachers; Primary) | English |
| Birdsong in Spring - Resource Handout | This resource handout is to accompany the Birdsong in Spring Lesson (Parents and Teachers; Primary) | English Irish |
| How to Draw a Cartoon Frog | A fun step by step drawing activity for 3rd-6th class, that develops vocabulary,listening and attention skills, ability to follow directions and builds self esteem. (Teachers; Primary) | English |
| Growing Seeds Experiments | This experiment gives detailed instructions and ideas to engage students in growing seeds. It links with the primary science curriculum. (Teachers; Primary) | English |
| Spring Farming Processes | Supporting student learning in the area of geography and primary economic activities. This resource focuses on seasonal farming processes. (Teachers; Post Primary) | English |
| Spring in Early Christian Ireland | Activities, resources and ideas to develop understanding of spring in Early Christian Ireland. This resource considers the historical significance of Christianity on the island of Ireland, including its contribution to the culture and society in the Early Christian period. (Parents and Teachers; Post Primary) | English |
| Weather Data in Spring | This resource is intended to support students in learning key terminology and instruments used when gathering and using weather data. Linked to Junior Cycle Geography learning outcomes. (Teachers; Post Primary) | English |
| Supporting Students with Autism | An overview of web resources to support students with Autism during Covid 19. | English |
| Fruit Salad | This activity is a fun one to try at home - the visual supports will appeal to many students with SEN including children with Autism | English Irish |
| Game Playing over the Summer | This document outlines some strategies for language and pragmatics. | View/Download |
| Leaf Hunt | Leaf hunt is an activity you can complete at home, in your local park or while you are out on a nature walk. | View/Download |
| Summer is here - Picture Books | An overview of books and activities relating to summer to help with home learning. | View/Download |
| Summer is Here - Wordsearch | Wordsearch to aid visual tracking and targets word identification skills. | View/Download |
| Summertime Boom Chicka Boom | Summer Boom chicka boom is a resource adapted from a youtube song that introduces summer vocabulary and objects of reference. | View/Download |
| Summertime with Chatterpix | A guide to using the Chatterpix app to support the theme of Summertime! | View/Download |
| Assistive Technology: 3D-Printing for Special Schools - Possibilities with linking to Transition Year Projects or community organisations | AT is evolving and diverging rapidly, and the benefits of 3D printing in/for special education environments is growing. With the advent of consumer 3D printing and adaptive open-source designs, switches can be printed on 3D printers for little money and some have very high recommendations. | View/Download |
| Growing and Changing | Ways we are changing as we grow older and bigger. | View/Download |
| Supporting Students with Dyspraxia | “The Next Adventure" Transitioning from Primary to Secondary School is an invaluable guide for students, parents and educators | View/Download |
| Transition Activities: Tips for parents/guardians | All children, and particularly those with special educational needs need a sense of predictability during periods of transition. Being prepared with transition strategies is key. These strategies may take place before, during, or after the transition. | View/Download |
| Transition from Primary to Post-Primary for Children with Special Educational Needs: Parent/Guardian Booklet | This resource is packed with activities to help your child with the transition from primary to post-primary. This document is in word format to allow editing. | View/Download |
| Seasonal Change | We see changes every year with our four seasons | View/Download |
| Time Capsule | Transition from primary to post-primary school time capsule. | View/Download |
| What Time is it Mr Wolf? | Yard game for children which develops counting skills. | English Irish |
| Creating a Summary using Microsoft Word | These steps can be used as a shortcut to create a summary of a document, by selecting all the lines of text in the document that you have deemed important and collating them in a new document in four easy steps. | View/Download |
| Exceptionally Able Students and PLC Resources | The Primary Language Curriculum’s Progression Continua describe aspects of the Learning Outcomes in more detail and provide information to support teaching with children of a wide range of abilities including the exceptionally able child. Here we discuss the Progression Continus and how they are used. As well as links to resources to aid working with exceptionally able children you to take on the challenge of teaching to solve the Rubik’s Cube and linking it to the PLC. | View/Download |
| Conventions of Print and Sentence Structure: Punctuation | A PLC Support Document in relation to Conventions of Print and Sentence Structure: Punctuation | View/Download |
| Literacy Experiences At Home | “Reading and writing are built on a sea of talk”. The following is a list of suggested examples of everyday literacy experiences to try at home | View/Download |
| Communication and Links to L1LP and L2LP | Communication and Junior Cycle: This document for teachers was preprared in collaboration with JCT. | English Irish |
| Communication and Keeping in Touch: Suggestions for Students with Complex Needs | Some ideas for keeping in touch with others for students with Complex Needs. Practical activities to support communication development. | English Irish |
| Computational Thinking | Introducing Computational Thinking and making links with coding and with the Primary Language Curriculum. | English Irish |
| Family Tree for Younger Learners | Make a simple family tree with pictures of family | English Irish |
| Games and Activities to Develop Communication Skills | Games that can be played together at home. | English Irish |
| Humour | Joking Around! Using Humour as a tool to learn! | English Irish |
| Animating Science Project | A fun experiment to create a moving image with three basic items from home. | English Irish |
| Be an Astronomer | A science experiment to try at home exploring the planets size and distance from the sun. | English Irish |
| Creating your own Wormery | A guide with visuals to creating your own wormery | English Irish |
| Everyday science picture books | An overview of books and activities relating to science to help with home learning. | English Irish |
| Immune System Word Search | Word Search and Solution relating to the Immune system | View/Download |
| Let’s make a Lava Lamp | This is an interesting science activity to try at home. The visuals will support students with ASD and other SEN. | English Irish |
| Linking Science to JCT L1LP and L2LP | Science and Junior Cycle: This document for teachers was preprared in collaboration with JCT | English Irish |
| Literacy and Science at Home | Literacy Activities linked to the theme of Science | English Irish |
| Making Magic Colours | Science experiment for young children with ASD. | English Irish |
| Numeracy and Science | Numeracy Activities linked to the theme of science. | English Irish |
| Rocket Science | A fun science experiment involving mentos and diet coke with visual Supports to support all learners. | English Irish |
| Science Ideas | Links to online activities relating to science to support home learning. | English Irish |
| Science Jokes | Some fun science jokes to make you smile! | View/Download |
| Walking on Air | A fun science experiment to try at home, with clear visuals to support all learners. | English Irish |
| The Water Cycle | Learn about the Water Cycle | English Irish |
| Vaccination Nation | Science Comprehension. | English Irish |
| Baking at Junior Cycle | Baking and Junior Cycle: This document for teachers was preprared in collaboration with JCT | View/Download |
| Visual Recipe Interactive Demonstrations | Interactive Tool for parents and teachers of students with GLD / ASD | View |
| Baking for the Coeliac Diet | A recipe with step by step visuals to support baking for the coeliac diet. | English Irish |
| Activities for Vocabulary Development based around Baking | Lot's of ideas to develop language at home around the theme of baking. | English Irish |
| Cake-making Techniques | Resource to support home learning in relation to making cakes | English Irish |
| A recipe of Me | Creative Writing Activity to develop children’s self-esteem and vocabulary | English Irish |
| Baking and Literacy | Literacy Activities linked to the theme of baking | English Irish |
| Baking and Numeracy | Numeracy Activities linked to the theme of baking | English Irish |
| Baking and Social Development | Baking gives us an excellent opportunity to develop social skills. | English Irish |
| Baking and The Sock Puppet App | A guide to using the Sock Puppets App and linking it to Baking | English Irish |
| Baking Wordsearch | Wordsearch to aid visual tracking and targets word identification skills | View/Download |
| Baking: Digital and Printable Resources | Some useful Digital resources linked to the theme of Baking | View/Download |
| Books and Activities Linked to Baking | An overview of books and activities relating to gardening to help with home learning. | View/Download |
| Cookers | Understanding the parts and functions of the cooker | English Irish |
| Cookers - Primary | Understanding the parts and functions of the cooker | English Irish |
| Decorating Buns | This activity is a fun one to try at home with younger children - the visual supports will appeal to many children with SEN including children with Autism | English |
| Hot Chocolate | This activity is broken down into a task analysis - the visual supports will appeal to many children with SEN including students with Autism | English Irish |
| Kitchen Safety | Tips for Kitchen Safety with activity | English Irish |
| Kitchen Hygiene | Tips for Kitchen Hygiene | View/Download |
| Making Pancakes | This activity is broken down into a task analysis - the visual supports will appeal to many children with SEN including students with Autism | View/Download |
| Marshmallow lollipops | This activity is a fun one to try at home with younger children - the visual supports will appeal to many children with SEN including children with Autism | View/Download |
| Poppy’s Pancake Day | Poppy’s Pancake Day is a great story, full of rhyme and fun - this resource will help home learning with an online video link and word search. | View/Download |
| Raising Agents | An overview of raising agents to aid the understanding of how baking actually works | English Irish |
| Collaboration Platforms that Support Live Video Communication: Tips | Tips for Teachers on on Video Conferencing Lessons to support Remote Teaching | View/Download |
| Compilation of Websites supporting Teachers in their support of students and parents during COVID -19 | This document gives a review of websites that are currently offering links to online resources for Teachers, Students and Parents in supporting students in the Academic, Social, Emotional Learning (SEL) and mental health areas. | View/Download |
| Sesame Street School Closure Resources | An overview of the resouces developed by Sesame Street to support home learning during COVID 19 | View/Download |
| Books and Activities Linked to Gardening | An overview of books and activities relating to gardening to help with home learning. | View/Download |
| In the Garden Bird Identification and Aids | Tips for activities in the garden around Bird Species - activity sheet to support home learning | View/Download |
| Gardening for Post-Primary Students | Links to L1 and L2 for Teachers of PP Students | View/Download |
| Using the “Our Story” app to Support Home Learning with Gardening | A guide to using Our Story App for making a story relating to gardening | English Irish |
| Gardening Cutting and pasting sorting activity | This resource is one that could be printed at home and involves cutting and sorting images into weeds and flowers. | English |
| Gardening Treasure Hunt | This resource is one that could be done at home in the garden or in a local park with images of things to find relating to the theme of gardening. | English Irish |
| Gardening Wordsearch & answer sheet | This is a wordsearch about gardening | English |
| Weeds and Plants comprehension, dictionary work, cloze procedure & answer sheets | This resource contains actvities and answers in relation to gardening | English |
| Sorting activities for gardening | Sorting is a very important skill for children and lots of time is spent developing this skill in school. Here are two simple sorting ideas to try at home which relate to the theme of gardening | English Irish |
| Gardening - Considerations for Students with Complex Needs | This resource contains adaptations that can be made to suit students with complex needs | English Irish |
| Gardening Nature Trail | This trail could be used in the garden or local park | English |
| Planning for Remote Teaching and Learning - Linking Gardening to the Primary School Curriculum | Teaching remotely can be challenging and and this resource aims to support Primary School teachers make curricular links to the theme of gardening | English |
| Tips on Green Screen use for Remote Teaching | This is a simple how to guide for using a green screen. Teachers an read step by step instructions and see a video from a teacher using this approach to reach out to his students during this time. | English Irish |
| Teachers Supporting Students with Autism | Students with Autism may have many questions and concerns around the Covid-19 pandemic. This document outlines online websites, resources and apps to help teachers to support their students. Many have been developed specifically in response to Covid-19 while others may be useful for study at home as well as for self-regulation and wellbeing. | View/Download |
| Special Schools are going…on a Virtual Tour | This overview of virtual tours lists useful online websites that some special school teachers have used. Many students, particularly those with ASD, often enjoy engaging with virtual tours, which can be used to support a variety of curricular areas. | English Irish |
| Special Schools are using - Online resources for students with Moderate, Severe or Profound GLD | This is an overview of online resources that Special Schools have found to be of benefit for students with Moderate, Severe or Profound GLD at primary and post-primary level across a range of curricular areas. | English Irish |
| Special Schools are using - Online resources for students with mild GLD | This is an overview of online resources that Special Schools have found to be of benefit for students with mild GLD at primary and post-primary level across a range of curricular areas. | English Irish |
| Special Schools are using - Online resources for students with SEN (General - Curricular) | This is an overview of online resources that Special Schools have found to be of benefit for students with SEN at primary and post-primary level across a range of curricular areas. | English Irish |
| Suggested Apps for Students with Moderate, Severe or Profound GLD | An overview of apps that are useful for supporting students with moderate, severe or profound GLD. Teachers can use this list to find apps that may be suitable for their students and can communciate this to parents. | View/Download |
| Activities and ideas for learning at home for children with Severe and Profound Needs | This document is designed to support teachers who are teachers of students with severe and profound GLD. | English Irish |
| NCSE Student Study and Learning Skills | To achieve at second level all students need a repertoire of learning and study strategies that they can apply across all subjects. This resource introduces students to different strategies that can help them when studying. All study skills resources can be adapted for different groups. | English Irish |
| OK5R Student Booklet Copy | Effective study and test preparation skills are essential for all students. The OK 5R Method is a study strategy that helps students tackle textbook material in a strategic manner. Students who use a study system read with greater comprehension and remember more. Teachers may find this a useful resource to share with students studying at home. | English Irish |
| Overview of online supports for Post Primary Teachers | This document gives an overview of some of the key supports that are available to Post primary Teachers in order to ensure they can support all their students to the best of their ability during this time of uncertainty and to support teachers to access materials in relation to online learning. | View/Download |
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