It’s hard to believe that we’re in the final stretch of the 2022/23 school year. This brings the summer issue of [email protected] which is packed full.
 
March saw Minister Foley launch Ireland’s first curriculum framework for primary education. A special thank you to the schools and preschools which helped to develop this framework and its key ideas. Work now focuses on the detail of the curriculum areas, and you can read more on this below. 
 
Feedback from schools and early childhood settings, including young people, is central to NCCA’s work. Below you’ll find several examples of this feedback shaping NCCA’s work, such as in Junior Cycle Irish, Leaving Certificate Irish and the Aistear framework. You’ll also find details of how you can share your thoughts on Junior Cycle short courses as we learn about schools’ experience of working with these courses.  
 
If you teach English or perhaps have a particular interest in the literature studied by young people in post-primary schools, you might like to read two recently-published reports on English literature in the curriculum and the selection of prescribed texts.
 
Thank you for your continued interest in NCCA’s work. We wish you a lovely break over the summer and a chance to relax and have fun. We’ll be back in the autumn with more updates and news.