Supporting your Child At School

As a parent, you play a key role in your child's education. The NCCA has developed a number of resources to help you to support your child's learning in primary school. Click the sections below to find suitable resources.

HELP MY KID LEARN

The national strategy ‘Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life’ (Department of Education and Skills 2011), includes a range of actions to enable parents and communities to support children’s learning. 

​

To achieve this, NALA has developed Help My Kid Learn - a simple website that brings together relevant information for parents and the wider community to support children’s literacy and numeracy development.

​

WEBWISE

Webwise Parents offers information, support and advice on talking to your child about online safety.

Gaeilge Resources

http://irishforparents.ie/ 

http://www.cula4.com/ga/baile/ 

Cula Caint is an Irish language learning website as part of TG4. 

​

Pota Focal – Foclóir Gaeilge/Béarla, Béarla/Gaeilge

​

http://songsinirish.com/

English Resources

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/82

 103 Things to do before and after reading

​

http://www.storylineonline.net/

Children’s books read aloud by famous actors

​

http://www.storybird.com/ 

Make your own story book

http://www.spellingcity.com/ 

Tools to help with spellings

​

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/what-is-letters-and-sounds.html 

Improve your letters and phonics

​

http://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/index.php

 Great poetry for primary school children

​

http://www.bogglesworldesl.com/cloze_activities.htm 

Cloze Activities to build vocabulary

​

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Make your very own comic book with this comic maker

​

http://pbskids.org/games/

Literacy Games for younger children

​

http://www.funbrain.com/

 Brain training games for children

MATHS Resources

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/math.html Maths Games for all classes

​

http://www.mangahigh.com/en-gb/games – Manga High Maths Games (Fun Maths)

​

https://www.khanacademy.org/ – Khan Academy Maths Games (Fun Maths)

​

http://www.sums.co.uk/ – Maths games (Fun Maths)

​

http://www.mathsmaster.org/ - Excellent Maths videos explaining each topic

​

http://www.mathsisfun.com/ – Maths games covering each topic

​

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/ – Maths games covering each topic

​

http://ie.ixl.com/math/ - Maths link to the Irish curriculum from infants to secondary school

​

​

http://www.digitaldialects.com/math_games.htm – For younger classes, basic maths games for addition and subtraction.

​

​

SESE (History/Geography/Science)

​

http://www.primaryscience.ie/ – Primary science in Ireland

​

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ – National Geographic Kids 

​

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/ – History and environmental site for Ireland

​

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ – San Francisco Museum (Fun Science)

​

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/ – BBC History resources

​

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html – Interactive resources for most strands divided into younger and older age groups.

​

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ – National Archives website.

​

http://www.nli.ie/digital-photographs.aspx – National Library digital photographs of the past

​

http://www.kbears.com/ks1.html – Website with everything from countries, animals, the sea and dinosaurs. Aimed at younger classes but good for older classes too. Interactive and well animated.

​

http://www.timeforkids.com/ – Covers most major countries and continents with fact sheets, quizzes and worksheets at all age levels.

​

https://maps.google.com/maps/about/treks/#/grid Explore the World with Google Treks 

​

Arts Education Resources

http://www.kinderart.com/ – Great art ideas for kids

​

http://www.iamanartist.ie/ – Art ideas linked to the Irish curriculum

​

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/art.html Visual Arts websites 

​

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/music.html Fun and Interactive Music Websites 

​

​

​