Internet safety websites

• Provides information on how to protect your child at home.  http://www.webwise.ie/category/parents/
• Link to download handbook from Zeeko.ie – our recent guest speakers on internet safety.  http://zeeko.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Zeeko-Internet-Safety-Guide.pdf

Mobile Phone Safety Tips

• Mobile phone safety tips for children and parents HERE
• Sample phone contract for parents and children HERE

Reading

• Stories to help children with English as a second language.  http://www.worldstories.org.uk/stories/stories?lang=english

General learning

• Educational Resources Website helpmykidlearn.ie has lots of ideas to support your child’s education. Just enter your child’s age and you will find lots of reading and maths activities you can do together.

What is Aistear

For more information on Aistear, please click HERE

Education Related

• A New System for Allocating Special Needs Assistants to Mainstream Schools

The Department of Education and Skills is changing the way it allocates Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) within mainstream schools. This is part of a wider range of changes to the way schools support students with special educational needs. The guide explains the changes to the way SNAs are allocated to schools and what this means for your child.  The guide is available HERE

• Department of Education and Science 
• Educate Together 
• INTO publication ‘Your child in primary school – Tips for parents’ is now available to download in several languages  http://www.into.ie/ROI/Publications/TipsforParents/
• A new antibullying website has been launched by the Department of Education http://www.tacklebullying.ie
• The NCCA are developing a new curriculum on Education about Religions and Beliefs (ERB) and ethics and are seeking consultations on the proposals http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Early_Childhood_and_Primary_Education/Primary-Education/Primary_Developments/ERB-and-E/Developments/Consultation/Consultation.html
• For further information on Primary Language Curriculum https://curriculumonline.ie/getmedia/78ac7ab5-0efc-4efb-9bd7-77d25d45bf9f/Primary-Language-Curriculum_Parents_2-pages.pdf

Revised model for allocation of Special Education resources

• https://www.education.ie/en/Circulars-and-Forms/Active-Circulars/cl0013_2017.pdf

Local Community

SDCC – Cycle South Dublin – A programme of work – draft for public consultation HERE