Guide for Gaeltacht Primary Schools: Strengthening links between primary schools and early-learning and care (ELC) settings

The Policy on Gaeltacht Education recognises ‘the role that schools and early-learning and care settings (naíonraí) play in providing high quality Irish-medium education and in fostering language proficiency and use of Irish in the wider Gaeltacht community’. In the case of early-learning and care (ELC) settings in the Gaeltacht, the development of fundamental language, literacy and numeracy skills is of particular importance when socialising children in the Irish language.