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Ready-to-teach units for Dublin primary and post-primary classes, from characterisation and Orwell's 1984 to European integration, how the internet works and probability with tree diagrams.
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Irish schools are in a period of steady curriculum change at both primary and post-primary level. These are the facts we plan around when we pick resources for Dublin teachers.
| Curriculum framework | Primary Curriculum Framework (2023) for primary; Framework for Junior Cycle for 1st to 3rd Year; Senior Cycle redevelopment under way |
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| Curriculum and exam bodies | National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA); State Examinations Commission (SEC); Department of Education and Youth (renamed in 2025) |
| Class and year names | Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st to 6th Class; 1st to 3rd Year (Junior Cycle), optional Transition Year, 5th and 6th Year (Senior Cycle) |
| Key assessments | Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement, including the Junior Cycle final exams at the end of 3rd Year; Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied and LCVP at the end of 6th Year |
| School system | Patron-based: most schools are state-funded but owned and managed by patrons such as the Catholic Church, Educate Together or an ETB |
| What changes in 2026–27 | Primary schools begin enacting one curriculum area per year from 2026/27; Senior Cycle Tranche 2 subjects start in September 2026, with English and Accounting delayed by at least a year |
| Local teaching hook | Dublin has been a UNESCO City of Literature since July 2010 |
These eight units cover the subjects Dublin teachers ask us about most often. Each one arrives as an instant download with worksheets and answer keys, so you can print it or teach it on screen.
Students trace European cooperation from the post-war years through the ECSC, EEC and Maastricht to today's EU institutions. Includes source tasks, map work, an EU summit simulation, glossary, answer keys and rubrics.
Students move from plot, setting and point of view to direct and indirect characterisation, then write their own supported character analysis. Five differentiated worksheets, answer keys, a 7-slide presentation and a lesson plan.
Students study the features of dystopian fiction, then work through Orwell's 1984 and its key ideas: Big Brother, surveillance, Newspeak and doublethink. Five worksheets, answer keys, slides and a step-by-step lesson plan.
Students follow a message across a network, learning about data packets and how the web uses HTTP and HTTPS. Worksheets come at four levels (Basic, Standard, Plus, Project) with a reading text and slides.
Students look at the data traces they leave online, build strong passwords, learn how two-factor authentication works and discuss data protection as a right. Four-level worksheets, reading text and slides.
Older students learn why personal data are protected, which principles and rights the GDPR sets out, and how to act correctly at work. Five worksheets, answer keys, 7 slides and a lesson plan.
Children plan and write their own stories using story starters, planning templates and sentence frames on everyday life, fantasy, nature, emotions and adventure. Includes pages for drafting, illustrating and editing.
Students start with dice and coins, define outcomes, events and sample space, then calculate probabilities as favourable over possible results and draw tree diagrams. Five worksheets, answer keys, slides and a lesson plan.
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Use these suggestions to extend your planning. Local examples and activities below are teaching ideas to add, rather than a list of files included in every product.
Dublin has been a UNESCO City of Literature since 2010. After the characterisation unit, ask each student to choose a character from a Dublin-set novel or short story on your course and write a one-page profile using the direct and indirect characterisation evidence they practised in class.
Use the European Integration unit's timeline and add an Irish strand of your own: when Ireland joined, key referendums, and what EU membership means for a Dublin student today. The unit's EU summit simulation works well with each group representing a member state, including Ireland.
Many international technology companies run offices in Dublin, and students see their logos every day. After the data protection unit, have 1st or 2nd Year students map the apps they use in a week and list what personal data each app asks for, then decide which permissions they would switch off.
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They help students build the knowledge and skills those exams test, but they are not exam papers. Use the English units to practise close reading and extended answers, and the probability unit for the statistics and probability content of Leaving Certificate Maths. Always check the current SEC papers and specifications for exam format.
Use the content, not the label, as your guide. Grades 3 to 4 match roughly 3rd to 4th Class, Grades 7 to 9 roughly 1st to 3rd Year, and Grades 10 to 12 roughly Transition Year to 6th Year. Most units are differentiated, so one set covers a wide range in a mixed class.
Every resource is an instant digital download. You can print the worksheets or project them and share them digitally, and most units include editable files so you can change names, examples and spellings to suit your class. Answer keys come in the same download.
Each unit leaves room for local material. Add a Dublin-set text to the characterisation work, an Irish strand to the European Integration timeline, or local survey data to the probability lessons. The ideas above give three worked examples you can adapt in a single lesson.
With the Primary Curriculum Framework moving into schools from 2026/27 and new Senior Cycle subjects arriving in stages, planning time is tight. Pick one unit that fills a gap in this term's scheme of work, adapt the examples to your class, and keep the rest for when the next change reaches your subject.