February 4, 2020
Homework is back in the news again. In late 2019, Loreto Primary School in Rathfarnham in Dublin stopped giving written homework to all classes, except for […]
January 21, 2020
Classroom-Based Assessments (CBA) are probably the most misunderstood part of the New Junior Cycle. Despite a call for many years to move away from the pressures […]
January 7, 2020
Back to School 2020 – sounds like a title from a science fiction movie. I remember thinking that Prince’s song 1999 was a million miles away […]
December 17, 2019
CAO 2019/2020 is now open for Leaving Cert students. Completing the application at this time of year serves two functions: it completes the registration process and […]
December 3, 2019
If your child is a struggling reader, it is important to find out why. In my experience, there are four main reasons — they haven’t found […]
November 11, 2019
Dyspraxia, or Developmental Co-ordination Disorder, is a disability that affects movement and co-ordination. When you are dressing a child, you don’t put on their coat first, […]