Support Materials Primary School

• Play in primary school with a subject based curriculum 

Helping young children to develop positive learning dispostions tipsheet

Talking and thinking together tipsheet

• Describing progression in play for children aged 4-8 years

Childrens schema's tipsheet

• Appropriate learning experiences for children age 4-8 years 

Supporting children to become bilingual tipsheet

Enhancing language tipsheet

• Key messages for teachers of children aged 4-8 years 

• Planning an appropriate curriculum for 4-8 year olds 
  
• A good national curriculum for children aged 4-8 years 

Using open ended materials tipsheet

Suggested picturebook tipsheet

• Ensuring children have regular breaks in junior infants 

• Providing opportunties for meaningful art experiences in junior infants 

• Using play-based pedagogies 

• Using more play-based pedagogies in a special school 

• Using experiential learning in junior infants 

• A principals experience of using Aistear and play-based pedagogies 

Wellbeing

Identity and Belonging

Communicating

Exploring and Thinking

Age

Young Children

Setting

Infants classes in primary school

A number of tipsheets have been produced in 8 different languages to support parents/guardians in their childrens play. They are available here 

Helping your child to read and write tipsheet

Helping your child with Maths tipsheet

Learning about measure tipsheet

Introducing Irish tipsheet

• Supporting learning and development of children aged 4-8 years. Key messages for parents 

Key research that led to Aistear