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Home School Hub returns from next week Updated / Friday, 8 Jan 2021 17:27 Curriculum-based learning and complementary content will increase from next week RTÉ has announced that it is expanding its educational programmes and resources from next week to help support students, parents and educators. From Monday 11 January, the Home School Hub (10am) and After School Hub (3.20pm) will return to RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player for three hours daily. ISL versions of Home School Hub will air on RTÉjr ...

Updated / Friday, 8 Jan 2021 17:30 With children of all ages studying from home once again, our friends at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum decided to pull together some of the free educational resources available from Irelands top museums. And because they are so keen to spread the word on all the great things to see and learn online they sent it on to RTÉ to celebrate the wonderful work still going on even in these tough times. Unsurprisingly, there’s lots of materials covering art and...

As this term draws to a close, 6th year students are already thinking ahead to January. Always a busy month, challenges include completing the CAO, submitting UCAS applications and preparing for mock exams. While CAO and UCAS processes will go ahead as normal, in many schools there is a lot of uncertainty about when, how and if the ‘mocks’ will go ahead. The ‘mocks’ are not a formal part of the Leaving Cert programme, however, every school chooses to hold them, often in February. They a...