These sample long term plans will save you countless hours as the content is already pre-populated, so instead of typing everything from scratch, you can simple edit it to suit. Suggested content to cover each month is provided for teachers who are new to a class level or for those who would like some new ideas, but you can easily change this to suit your own circumstances if you desire. Hyperlinks to useful resources such as poems and books are provided.

The sample plans are based solely on the Irish Primary School Curriculum and not on publishers’ schemes (The SPHE plan includes the Stay Safe and RSE programmes for Junior Infants in the suggested content section.). If you are following a particular scheme/ textbook and wish to include the content from it in the plan, most publishers have a document with a monthly breakdown of their content as part of their online resources that you can simply include instead of the table suggesting when to cover material that is provided. This can be done easily and quickly and the rest of the plan would remain largely unchanged and just needs to be tweaked to suit.

Also included in the bundle is a 24-page Aistear long-term plan for the year! The Aistear Yearly Plan gives you a theme for each week, lists 5 stations for that theme, says which subjects are covered at the station, gives a brief description of the station, and lists resources needed.

The themes that are covered are as follows:

• Myself and my family
• Myself and my house/ home
• School
• Autumn
• Halloween
• Colours and shapes
• Winter
• Christmas/ toys and games
• Food
• The dentist
• China
• Chinese New Year
• The doctor
• The post office
• Spring – animals
• Spring – plants
• Ireland
• St. Patrick’s Day
• Easter
• Space
• Environmental Awareness – Spring Clean Month
• Summer
• The vet
• Clothes
• Day and night
• The jungle

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At the moment all of the downloads are available in Microsoft Word versions only.

Can you post me printed copies of my order?

All products are available as digital downloads only as they are designed to be edited by you to suit your individual class and students.

Do you offer returns?

As you will receive your download immediately, unfortunately returns/ refunds are not possible unless there is a problem with the product. All of the products have a detailed description as well as preview pictures, so you can be sure that the product is suitable for you before you purchase. If you have any questions about products, please feel free to email info@teachingplans.ie

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Can I purchase plans with another teacher in my school who is teaching the same class level?/ Can we split the cost if we are both using them?

The cost of a product cannot be split amongst 2 teachers at the same class level. All downloads from teachingplans.ie constitute copyrighted material that and each purchase gives an individual licence for one teacher to use the resources. Where multiple teachers in a school are at the same class level and would like to use the same resource, an individual purchase is necessary for each teacher.

Can you create bespoke plans to suit our school/ my booklist/ the schemes I am using?

The short answer is no, and there are a number of reasons for this. The time it would take to create customised plans for every booklist and scheme out there would make it impossible, and the cost to reflect this would be too restrictive. There could also be issues with copyright if using publishers’ content.

Furthermore, our intention is to provide editable sample planning documents that you can easily and quickly customise for your individual class and whatever scheme you are using for different subjects. Much of the plans will remain the same regardless of whatever scheme you are using, and editing it to suit takes a fraction of the time that it would take to type everything from scratch. Editing the plans to suit is an important step for teachers to take in order to ensure they are familiar with the plans’ content as well as their suitability for their individual students.

We do provide suggested content and activities for teachers who are new to a class level or for those who would like some new ideas or who don’t rely on publisher’s schemes, but this section can be edited and you can take some or none of the ideas as desired. Also many publishers now have an outline of their scheme’s content as part of their digital resources, so if you wish, you can delete the suggested content provided and include the publisher’s outline with your planning documents instead.