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You don't need to have it all figured out.

Start with a clear idea, a rough thought or simply no idea at all. Scoilsy helps you explore useful directions, uncover relevant curriculum connections and shape a plan that feels right for your class.

Planning Companion Start with an idea · SEE · My locality · 3rd Class

Here's where that could go. Which feels closest?

Caring for our river

Explore the wildlife that depends on the river and what the class can do to protect it.

Mapping our river

Trace the river's route through the locality and mark its natural features on a class map.

The river at work

How the river's water is used and managed in the locality, from farms to the tap.

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However you begin, Scoilsy helps you find the next step.

A helping hand, not an autopilot.

Scoilsy can help at each step of the process, but you decide what goes into your plan.

Focus of new learning

Find your focus

Shaped by your idea and pitched at the age and stage you teach.

Planning Companion Caring for our river · 3rd Class

Here are some possible focus areas. Choose as many as you'd like.

Naming the plants and animals that live in and along the river, and how they depend on it.
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Recognising signs of pollution and how people's actions affect river life.
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Recording what they notice on a river walk using sketches, photos and short notes.
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Learning outcomes

Match the right outcomes

Matched naturally to your plan, without digging through curriculum documents.

Planning Companion Caring for our river · 3rd Class

These outcomes match closely with your plan.

Environment and sustainable livingInvestigate, name and describe physical features of the local, natural environment such as rivers, mountains, lakes, seas, islands, biodiversity, etc., identifying opportunities to become involved in enhancing and protecting them.
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Environment and sustainable livingAnalyse how resources such as water, land, food and transport are used and managed in the locality.
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Learning experiences

Bring it to life

Explore a few ideas, shape them to suit your class, and add whatever feels right.

Planning Companion Caring for our river · 3rd Class

These learning experiences should bring your lesson to life.

River detectivesIn small groups, children survey a stretch of the riverbank with picture ID sheets, tallying the birds, plants and minibeasts they find.
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Protect our riverEach group chooses one thing the school could do to keep the river clean, then makes a poster and a short talk for assembly.
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River food chain gameEach child gets a card for a river plant or animal and finds their place in the food chain. Then take one card away and talk about what happens to the rest.
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Keep the whole planning cycle connected.

Scoilsy keeps everything connected from one week to the next. Review what you actually covered, carry unfinished learning forward, build your Cúntas Míosúil and see how your curriculum coverage develops over time.

  1. Plan

    Build your weekly or fortnightly plan.

  2. Teach

    Use your plan in the classroom.

  3. Review

    Record what was actually covered.

  4. Carry forward

    Bring unfinished learning into the next plan.

  5. Cúntas Míosúil

    Build it from the work you've actually done.

What you teach today helps shape what comes next.

Because it knows what you've planned and reviewed, Scoilsy can suggest a sensible next step for your class.

What you've covered

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My locality 2 of 6
The island of Ireland 0 of 5
Europe and the wider world 0 of 6

Curriculum insight

Last time, your class explored the wildlife along the river and started a campaign to protect it.

A natural next step could be how water is used and managed in your locality, which hasn't come up yet this year.

Follow on from last time Plan the next fortnight from here

Built for the way primary teachers actually plan.

Weekly and fortnightly plans

Plan a week or a fortnight at a time, in one clear, consistent format.

Planning Companion

Get help finding your focus, matching outcomes and shaping learning experiences whenever you need it.

Curriculum insights

Useful next-step suggestions based on what your class has already covered.

Connections

Make natural links between subjects through shared topics, skills and activities.

Cúntas Míosúil

Build it from the planning and review work you've already done.

Curriculum coverage

See what you've covered over time, based on the lessons you've taught.

And the practical things are covered too.

1999 and 2025 redeveloped curricula

Work confidently through the curriculum transition, one subject at a time.

Every class, every subject

From Junior Infants to 6th Class, across every curriculum subject.

Multi-grade classes

Plan for more than one class level at once, without duplicating the work.

Gaeilge support

Suggestions in An Caighdeán Oifigiúil, with English translations a click away.

School calendar awareness

Term dates and holidays built in, so plans fit the rhythm of the year.

Editable Word documents

Download plans and your Cúntas Míosúil as fully editable Word documents.

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