Welcoming Newly-Arrived Learners and Their Families - Resources for the Education Sector 

The Department of Education has compiled a document of guidance pointers and resources for school staff and a document of guidance pointers and resources for parents/guardians, available here.

Education Support Centres Ireland (ESCI) will provide two webinars as part of a new English as an Additional Language (EAL) Webinar Series this Autumn 2023. The first webinar in the series, EAL and Assessment, will take place on Tuesday 5^th September 2023 at 7p.m., while the second webinar in the series, EAL and Academic Language, will take place on Tuesday 17^th October 2023 at 7p.m.

This full day seminar, taking place in various Education Support Centres in September and October 2023, will seek to provide language support to teachers of English as an Additional Language (EAL), EAL Co-Ordinators and Additional Educational Needs (AEN) Co-Ordinators. The seminar will take place face-to-face in Kilkenny Education Centre on Wednesday 27^th September 2023. Booking for this face-to-face seminar is online only via the Oide Online Booking System.

The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), in collaboration with ESCI, will deliver two Supporting Ukraine - Welcome to Our School webinars this October 2023. The webinar for Primary schools will take place on Thursday 5^th October 2023 at 3.15p.m., while the webinar for Post Primary schools will take place on Thursday 12^th October 2023 at 4.15p.m.