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Feeder Schools: What factors should you consider before deciding on a school for your child?

Feeder schools data is just one of many sources of information that can be used to assess schools

  As teachers take part in another round of remote teaching, many are using the lessons they learned during the previous lockdown to inform their work. We spoke to educators on what works and what doesn’t based on their experiences last year. ‘Try and keep it as interactive and positive as you can’ Evin Devenney teaches Science and Coding in a post-primary school in Raphoe in Donegal. He is also a Google certified educator and trainer. Devenney surveyed his students last year t...

Education Correspondent Irelands eight and nine-year-olds would seem to have their priorities straight, if what they told researchers in a study commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment is anything to go by.  Of all aspects of their school life it is play, and friends, that they value the most. Art and PE are the subjects they love best. And up to three quarters of them reckon these are two subjects that they are "extremely" good at no less. Our eight an...