Support Materials for Primary School Aistear SÃolta Practice Guide The Practice Guide includes a range of resources to help teachers of infant classes to critically reflect on their practice and to identify what works well. Play pedagogy Play in primary school with a subject based curriculum Helping young children to develop positive learning dispostions tipsheet Talking and thinking together tipsheet Describing progression in play for children aged 4-8 years Childrens schema's tipsheet Appropriate learning experiences for children age 4-8 years Supporting children to become bilingual tipsheet Enhancing language tipsheet Key messages for teachers of children aged 4-8 years Planning an appropriate curriculum for 4-8 year olds A good national curriculum for children aged 4-8 years Using open ended materials tipsheet Suggested picturebook tipsheet Supporting learning and development of children aged 4-8 years: Key messages for parents Messages from the infant classroom Ensuring children have regular breaks in junior infants Providing opportunties for meaningful art experiences in junior infants Using play-based pedagogies Using more play-based pedagogies in a special school Using experiential learning in junior infants A principals experience of using Aistear and play-based pedagogies Learning experiences Wellbeing Identity and Belonging Communicating Exploring and Thinking Age 3-6 years Setting Infants classes in primary school
