# primary-school - Thursday 2 December, 2021
# Masks In School
# Masks In School
Mask users lose visual information, but there are lots of things you can do to help them, writes speech and language therapist Kate Beckett.
# primary-school - Wednesday 8 September, 2021
# Positive Cases
# Positive Cases
More than 100 Department of Education staff have been working with public health teams, Norma Foley said.
# primary-school - Thursday 15 July, 2021
# Back To School
# Back To School
The average debt parents find themselves in is €336.
# primary-school - Monday 14 June, 2021
# Reduced Earnings
# Reduced Earnings
Ireland could experience a loss in GDP of as much as 1.5% over the next century.
# primary-school - Tuesday 23 February, 2021
# Living With Covid
# Living With Covid
Cabinet agreed to the phased re-opening of schools today.
# primary-school - Friday 11 December, 2020
# Primary School
# Primary School
The school board and principal were told it did not have the authority to close the school without public-health experts’ approval.
# primary-school - Monday 27 January, 2020
# Basic Skills
# Basic Skills
Half of children studied were found to be unable to kick a ball properly.
# primary-school - Thursday 3 October, 2019
# WRC
# WRC
The WRC said the school had discriminated against her in the interview process for a principal post.
# primary-school - Sunday 1 September, 2019
# Let's Get Quizzical
# Let's Get Quizzical
Primary schools opened up across the country this week for a new school year.
# primary-school - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
# Your Say
# Your Say
Making primary school books free every year would “significantly reduce financial stress” on parents, SVP has argued.
# primary-school - Thursday 1 August, 2019
# Back To School
# Back To School
That’s according to the Barnardos School Costs Survey, published today.
# primary-school - Tuesday 16 July, 2019
# Irish League Of Credit Unions
# Irish League Of Credit Unions
Parents of primary school students are paying €50 less than last year, while parents of secondary school students are paying €20 more.
# primary-school - Thursday 27 December, 2018
# Education
# Education
Education Minister Joe McHugh said the figures reflect the changes taking place in the patronage of Irish schools.
# primary-school - Thursday 15 November, 2018
# Space To Play
# Space To Play
Parents and children of Naomh Fionnbarra GAA Club are calling for the restoration of their all-weather pitch.
# primary-school - Wednesday 3 October, 2018
# Baptism Barrier
# Baptism Barrier
The so-called ‘baptism barrier’ is set to be removed by the Minister for Education today.
# primary-school - Thursday 2 August, 2018
# Back To School
# Back To School
Average back-to-school costs have risen at all levels since last year.
# primary-school - Saturday 2 June, 2018
# Investigation
# Investigation
The Busy Bodies DVD was viewed by a teacher who reported it to the HSE.
# primary-school - Monday 21 May, 2018
# Half Truths
From The Daily Edge
# Half Truths
Sunny Delight was both a delicious and terrifying prospect.
# primary-school - Thursday 3 May, 2018
# Holistic Education
# Holistic Education
Learning support teachers are more than capable of screening and diagnosing learning difficulties, writes Peter Gunning.
# primary-school - Tuesday 23 January, 2018
# Old School Pals
From The Daily Edge
# Old School Pals
So that’s what it’s like to have an Oscar-nominated classmate.
# primary-school - Sunday 3 December, 2017
# Tip-pex
From The Daily Edge
# Tip-pex
To paraphrase Bryan Adams, were those the best days of your life?
# primary-school - Monday 30 October, 2017
# Quiz
From The Daily Edge
# Quiz
Playground games hold the truth.
# primary-school - Thursday 19 October, 2017
# Growing Up In Ireland
# Growing Up In Ireland
A new report looks at how children experiencing transitioning between school levels.
# primary-school - Tuesday 6 June, 2017
# School Tours
From The Daily Edge
# School Tours
The highlight of the school year.
# primary-school - Wednesday 17 May, 2017
# One Word: Crutches
From The Daily Edge
# One Word: Crutches
If this list was written by a child in primary school today, every point would be fidget spinner related.
# primary-school - Saturday 6 May, 2017
# Patronage
# Patronage
The four new schools will be able to cater for up to 1,728 pupils.
# primary-school - Saturday 29 April, 2017
# Primary School
From The Daily Edge
# Primary School
Who else remembers writing postcards to Tony Blair begging him not to kill us?
# primary-school - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
# Head Lice
From The Daily Edge
# Head Lice
Isn’t it weird how our mams never got nits off us?
# primary-school - Monday 16 January, 2017
# Scotland
# Scotland
“Police officers are at the school and there is no threat to children or staff,” police said.
# primary-school - Friday 30 December, 2016
# Nature Table Day
From The Daily Edge
# Nature Table Day
“Can I use your colours?”.
# primary-school - Wednesday 14 December, 2016
# Away In A Manger
From The Daily Edge
# Away In A Manger
Are you a Mary, or more of a Distracted Shepherd #2? We can tell you.
# primary-school - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
# Best Wishes
From The Daily Edge
# Best Wishes
More politics than a Dáil full of TDs.
# primary-school - Wednesday 16 November, 2016
# Haka Gaelach
From The42
# Haka Gaelach
This is absolutely brilliant.
# primary-school - Tuesday 15 November, 2016
# Haka Gaelach
From The Daily Edge
# primary-school - Sunday 13 November, 2016
# The Mála
From The Daily Edge
# The Mála
Ah, Zacchaeus.
# primary-school - Saturday 22 October, 2016
# Discrimination
# Discrimination
The boy suffers from severe allergic reactions after ingestion of wheat-based foods followed by physical exercise.
# primary-school - Monday 10 October, 2016
# In The Classroom
# In The Classroom
New figures show that Ireland has one of the widest gender gaps among teachers at primary and post-primary level in Europe
# primary-school - Monday 12 September, 2016
# Connected
From The Daily Edge
# Connected
Put those Religion classes to use, 90s kids.
# primary-school - Monday 1 August, 2016
# Constitutional Law
# Constitutional Law
‘You can discriminate, including favouring one group in particular circumstances, if it is to enable the practice of that religion.”
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