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📢Today marks the launch of Report 10 in the Children’s School Lives (CSL) study:

🏫Primary School Matters: Everyday Living and Learning in Children’s School Lives.

🔢The CSL study, involving almost 4,000 children across 184 primary schools, provides a unique insight into children’s everyday experiences of schooling.

📊CSL Report 10 brings together findings from across Reports 1-9 to identify the factors that influence children’s learning most in school. It draws on findings from the five years of the study, examining children’s learning outcomes, and what shapes them.

👧👦The report looks at what schools and classrooms are like, and at the everyday ways learning and teaching happen within them.

CSL Report 10 findings show:
🟣Children from more well-off families report higher wellbeing than those who experience poverty.
🟣Wider societal structures, school composition and local context actively shape classroom learning cultures.
🟣A strong link between wealth/poverty and how well children do with reading and mathematics. For example, children in DEIS schools and those experiencing poverty achieve lower results in Standardised Tests (Mathematics and Reading).

🔗The report is available at https://cslstudy.pulse.ly/jpl8y7ez6i

The Primary Arts Education team were delighted to spend the day in the Institute of Education, DCU, discussing all things related to the redeveloped Arts Education specification.

We were joined by colleagues in Higher Education Institutes and engaged in rich discussions on how best to support pre- and in-service teachers in enacting the curriculum. Thank you to those working in Initial Teacher Education, as well as colleagues from Oide and NCSE, for sharing insights into their role in supporting teachers in the months and years ahead.

Bhí áthas ar fhoireann an Oideachais Ealaíon Bunscoile an lá a chaitheamh in Institiúid an Oideachais, OCBÁC, ag plé le gach rud a bhaineann leis an sonraíocht athfhorbartha don Oideachas Ealaíon.

Bhí comhghleacaithe ó Institiúidí Ardoideachais linn agus ghlacamar páirt i bplé saibhir faoi na bealaí is fearr chun tacú le múinteoirí réamhsheirbhíse agus inseirbhíse agus iad ag cur an churaclaim i bhfeidhm. Gabhaimid buíochas leo siúd atá ag obair san Oideachas Tosaigh Múinteoirí, chomh maith le comhghleacaithe ó Oide agus NCSE, as a gcuid léargais a roinnt maidir lena ról i dtacú le múinteoirí sna míonna agus sna blianta atá romhainn.

DCU Mary Immaculate College, Ireland Marino Institute of Education Hibernia College Maynooth University National Council for Special Education - NCSE