The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has published a guide for parents whose children are starting primary school for the first time. The free resource, linked below, includes information on transitioning from home to school, preparing children for learning and primary school life, the primary curriculum, and special education.

It also includes sections on managing your first day and a typical school day, and contains guidance on attendance, uniforms, books, healthy eating, interculturalism, homework and much more.

Prepared by teachers for parents with pupils entering primary education for the first time, it is also available in Ukrainian and Russian translation to help parents of the large number of Ukrainian pupils now enrolling in primary and special schools.

The guides are available here:

English

Irish

Ukrainian 

Russian