# Primary School

All time

# happy

This Irish primary school's Happy dance video is almost unbearably great

Prepare to strain a SQUEE muscle.

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Mar 20th 2014, 6:30 PM

# what ales you

Teacher causes uproar by giving non-alcoholic beer to primary school class

The beer was offered to students during a history lesson.

37.9k

Mar 19th 2014, 6:00 PM

# wagon wheels

13 Irish primary school lunchbox memories

Banana in the bottom of your schoolbag.

58.6k

Mar 11th 2014, 1:14 PM

# Prime Numbers

Paddy Power, obese kids, and identity cards: The week in numbers

Plus: How many candidates are running as ‘Independent Fine Gael’ in the local elections?

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Mar 8th 2014, 7:30 PM

# primary concern

One quarter of primary school children overweight (and 12 per cent saying 'no' to fruit)

Over 1,000 children were surveyed as part of a wide-ranging study carried out by UCC. Clear lifestyle differences were observed amongst children in the ‘overweight’ category.

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Mar 4th 2014, 9:02 AM

# having it off

7 very Irish sex education stories

“When a man and a woman love each other very much…”

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Feb 19th 2014, 12:58 PM

# pipe cleaners

These Brigid's Cross fails will make you feel better about your childhood attempts

Why couldn’t your cross be a bit more straightforward, Brigid?

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Feb 1st 2014, 3:26 PM

# smell ya later

The 8 smells of Irish primary school

Eau de Senior Infants.

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Jan 19th 2014, 8:15 PM

# Prime Numbers

Ariel Sharon, bankruptcy, and water meters: The week in numbers

Plus: How many people in the world are obese?

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Jan 4th 2014, 7:30 PM

# Education

Reading and maths grades continue to improve in DEIS schools — report

Gains throughout the lifetime of the program are ‘consistent’, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn said.

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Dec 16th 2013, 5:01 PM

# aww

Little girl signs her school concert as a surprise for her deaf parents

We want her to replace Jean O’Reilly.

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Dec 12th 2013, 7:30 PM

# School Around the Corner

Teacher creates adorable Twitter account for her class

The 4th and 5th class boys from a school in Dublin have been tweeting about their lessons. Cute.

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Dec 4th 2013, 2:32 PM

# Balbriggan

Parents 'horrified' after van mounts school pavement pursued by men with baseball bats

Children had to run and take shelter in gardens as the van driver steered around a corner to escape his attackers.

21.0k

Nov 14th 2013, 11:28 AM

# that's us told

Are you smarter than a ten-year-old? Primary school students explain science

“Seed Dispersal and Germination”, “Germ Busters” and “Five Senses”, they know it all…and they can sing too.

6.7k

Nov 12th 2013, 3:56 PM

# Ballyfermot

Parents call for clarity after learning of possible school closure through Facebook

A meeting was held with management of other primary schools in the area this week, where the practicalities of accommodating the De La Salle pupils were discussed.

21.1k

Nov 8th 2013, 4:23 PM

# PS I Love You

The most honest response to "will you be my girlfriend?" ever

If only all relationships were this straightforward.

10.9k

Nov 6th 2013, 9:19 AM

# Art Attack

8 reasons you're not a famous artist

Here’s a clue: it’s because of lollipop sticks. And PVA glue.

14.7k

Oct 28th 2013, 9:30 AM

# Detention

Construction to begin on new juvenile detention facility in Oberstown

Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald will turn sod on Monday at the site to mark the beginning of construction.

3.7k

Oct 12th 2013, 7:45 AM

# Iraq

Woman caught planting bomb near Iraqi primary school

The attempted bombing came a day after suicide bombers attacked a primary school and a nearby police station in northern Iraq, killing 18 people, including 10 children.

6.2k

Oct 7th 2013, 3:04 PM

# summerhill drive

Belfast primary school evacuated after partially exploded bomb found

Investigating officers are appealing to anyone who may have heard the device go off this morning to get in touch.

5.1k

Sep 11th 2013, 5:44 PM

# School Costs survey

Child missed 17 days of school because they had no lunch - Barnardos

Barnardos’ annual School Costs Survey has revealed that parents are continuing to struggle to meet the cost of sending their child to school.

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Aug 1st 2013, 7:00 AM

# India

20 children dead from school meal in India

Officials in Bihar – one of India’s poorest states – introduced a free midday meal scheme as a way to increase school attendance.

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Jul 17th 2013, 8:11 AM

# water safety

Water safety course 'should be compulsory in primary schools'

Irish Water Safety has emphasised the need for some water safety education to be made compulsory in schools – and a pool isn’t needed.

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Jul 13th 2013, 8:30 PM

# Bank to school

Politicians want generic uniforms and rented books for every school

The Oireachtas education committee has been looking at ways of trying to cut the cost of sending children to school.

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Jun 25th 2013, 5:38 PM

# Education

Irish children less likely to feel they belong in primary schools

A new report also found that teachers report pupils often coming to class too tired to concentrate.

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Jun 12th 2013, 10:45 AM

# Patronage

Applications open to determine patronage of four new primary schools

The four schools – due to open in September 2014 – are in Cork, Dublin Fingal, Dublin South, and Galway.

7.3k

Apr 22nd 2013, 4:42 PM

Voices

Column: ‘Over the past five years, I’ve seen the heart being torn from our schools’

Cuts to teachers’ salaries and increased taxation have left some of my colleagues just making ends meet, writes Carmel Hume.

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Apr 15th 2013, 1:00 PM

# Assault

Woman (22) due in court over Ennis stabbing

A woman was seriously injured during the incident in which she was stabbed on the grounds of a primary school in the town.

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Apr 15th 2013, 7:29 AM

# PE

Ireland bottom of European table for PE time in primary schools

The EU’s physical health body reveals that every other EU state spends more time on primary physical education than we do.

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Mar 31st 2013, 8:45 AM

# teacher appraisal

Schools inspector says formal teacher appraisals remain a foreign concept

Harold Hislop said that it was not unreasonable to ask why some form of formal teacher appraisal was not in place.

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Mar 22nd 2013, 10:56 AM

# Belfast

PSNI issue appeal after viable pipe bomb found beside primary school

The device was discovered in a laneway near the school at 3pm yesterday evening.

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Feb 15th 2013, 10:15 AM

# you told us

Top readers' comments of the week

Here’s our round-up of the best, the most popular and the most commented-on pieces from the past week. Did you make it in?

6.8k

Feb 2nd 2013, 11:00 AM

# school daze

16 brilliant School Sports Day memories

From students acting as basketball hoops and epic welly-throwing, to slow bikes races and tug-of-war shenanigans.

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Jan 31st 2013, 11:42 AM

# an bhfuil cead agam...

15 things that everyone did in primary school

The Trócaire box, the nature table, Zacchaeus… they’re all here.

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Jan 27th 2013, 8:15 PM

# Children

Calls for Ireland to (finally) outlaw corporal punishment in the home

Corporal punishment was banned in schools in 1982 but is still legal in homes – despite repeated calls for it to be stopped.

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Jan 27th 2013, 8:00 AM

# Poverty

Rising food poverty hinders students' ability to learn

The IPPN said primary school students are faced with new forms of disadvantages including losing their homes, cyber-bullying and early sexualisaton.

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Jan 24th 2013, 12:23 PM

# Patronage

Survey begins asking parents who should run primary schools

Ruairí Quinn said the survey is a historic opportunity to parents say whether schools should be denominational, multi-denominational, all-Irish or something else.

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Jan 14th 2013, 6:45 AM